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The BlackBerry Storm 2 Review

blackberry — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:54:17 +0000

The BlackBerry Storm 2 is the new and improved BlackBerry Storm that has made a major impact on users even though the changes are minor. It is still the same 112 x 62 x 14mm; however the buttons have been upgraded to touch screen buttons and the battery lid and joints have been smoothed to make it more user-friendly. An obvious change is the absence of the “physically moving” screen which has been replaced by an innovative button that displays your choice by using the advanced software technology.

The producers, RIM, kept the SurePress techniques of double-pressing a button to register your choice even though they did away with buttons. There is no change to the screen which remains a 3.25 inch size with 480 x 320 pixel resolution. Even though the changes are minor, the Storm 2 is obviously an improvement on the older model and brings the device on par with their competitors. Much thought was put into making it user-friendly and an ideal business partner for the individual who likes to be current and up-to-date with modern technology

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Press Release: Origin8’s Poker Buddy comes to the BlackBerry

blackberry — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:42:09 +0000

Origin8 Technologies are pleased to announce the release of Poker Buddy, a rich, fully featured tournament manager and poker timer for the BlackBerry. Poker Buddy can be purchased from the Origin8 website at http://origin8.com/pokerbuddy/index_bb.php and the new BlackBerry App World at the price of $4.99/£3.95/€4.29.

Poker Buddy provides all the functions you need to keep your home poker tournament running smoothly, whichever major rules variant is in play. The clock will keep track of your tournament and blind levels while the extensive player list will make it easy to track knockouts, re-buys and add-ons. Email your players with automatic tournament reports after the game!

Features:

* Clear clock display and crisp tournament sounds.
* Fully configurable blinds, structures, prizes and players.
* Save and load your games. Your current game is automatically saved if you are interrupted.
* Manage multiple tournament profiles for quick and easy game setups.
* Statistics reports can be automatically e-mailed to the players after the game.
* The tournament can continue even while the app is inactive.
* Post your tournament online so anyone with a browser can check on the progress.

More information and screenshots can be found at http://origin8.com/pokerbuddy/index_bb.php. Further enquiries are welcome, please contact pr@origin8.com. Poker Buddy is also available for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch: http://www.itunes.com/app/pokerbuddy.

About us:

Origin8 is an innovative new developer specialising in Apple iPhone/iPod Touch and Blackberry products. Founded by industry veterans Jez San & Foo Katan, Origin8’s vibrant team is based in Camden, London, UK. For more information see http://www.origin8.com.

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Blackberry Bold

blackberry — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:15:33 +0000

Below some reviews from Blackberry Bold

From CNET editors’ review Blackberry Bold:

It’s been a good six months since Research in Motion first announced the RIM BlackBerry Bold (aka RIM BlackBerry 9000). Originally slated for a summer release on AT&T, the launch date kept getting pushed back…and back. Frustrated with the delays and wooed by other new smartphone releases, we moved on (and so did many of you) and nearly gave up on the Bold. However, now that we finally have it hand, the love affair has begun all over again.

The BlackBerry Bold delivers on a number of fronts. Its half-VGA display is one of the sharpest screens we’ve seen on a smartphone, which, combined with the stereo speakers, really boosts the multimedia experience. The Bold also ships with the latest BlackBerry operating system, new productivity applications, and support for HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. This is on top of all the great messaging capabilities. Of course, it’s not perfect. The smartphone isn’t the sleekest device on the block, and the Web browser could use more work. It’s also not going to have the mass appeal of an Apple iPhone 3G, nor would we recommend it to the general consumer. With its feature set and strong e-mailing capabilities, the BlackBerry Bold is very much a business-centric smartphone, but what is offers mobile professionals is a premium device that can handle work and play. The RIM BlackBerry Bold will be available November 4 for a slightly pricey $299.99 with a two-year contract and after rebates and discounts.

From Gizmodo about Blackberry Bold:

This is RIM’s best phone ever. Does that mean it’s the phone for you? If you’re a BlackBerry fanatic, yes—it really is the phone you’ve been waiting for, if you’re not hoping RIM radically changed the recipe. Because they didn’t. It’s cleaner and brighter, but it’s not an overhaul by any means. It’s a more powerful and beautiful distillation of the same experience.

For other people who were eyeing it as the time to switch to BlackBerry, the issue is less straightforward. As I said in the intro, it’s coming into a complicated world, where it has more consumer crossover appeal than a flagship RIM device—currently, the 8800—ever has before. (No doubt, even more people are looking at it in light of 3G problems on other handsets, either suit-and-ties who were considering the jump, or people looking for their first high-end smartphone, though more of the former.) At its heart, this thing is a corporate workhouse. It will play movies, music, browse the internet and all of the things consumers usually want—and do it well—but it is coming from a different mindset than the iPhone, something to keep in mind if you’re torn between these two phones.

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Ticket Service for U.S. and Canadian BlackBerry

blackberry — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:01:16 +0000

This is a great story that Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Tickets.com Inc. are launching services to let customers buy tickets directly from their mobile phones, in an ambitious attempt to extend Internet commerce to cellphone screens. Starting this month, U.S. and Canadian BlackBerry users will be able to search Ticketmaster’s inventory and purchase tickets on their handsets. Tickets.com will let baseball fans buy and receive tickets via cellphone from 13 Major League Baseball teams starting with the April 10 opening home game of the Oakland A’s. Tickets.com is a subsidiary of MLB Advanced Media, LP, the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball.

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BlackBerry App World launched by RIM

blackberry — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:18:49 +0000

Co-CEO of RIM, Mike Lazaridis is scheduled for today’s stage in Las Vegas at the CTIA show and all eyes focused on RIM’s answer to Apple App Store. While expressing his wish that RIM has held off on launching BlackBerry App Lazaridis world “to speak, nothing could have prevented the stroke of midnight announcement. So, ladies and germs, I present to you BlackBerry App world. S ‘ Please make sure you have a PayPal account, OS 4.2 or higher and a trackball or touch screen SurePress (aka Storm) BlackBerry before proceeding.

I must say that BAW is much better than the first screen that RIM has released many months. But before diving into it, you should download the BAW store. Can be found here and there from your BlackBerry and experience the awesomeness that is navigation BAW. A circle logo with the BlackBerry icon on your desktop.

The BAW Homescreen has four icons at the bottom and “articles”, which can be accessed by navigation on the left or right. The first - a folder with a blue tab - is to record your classes where you can search by genre, for applications such as games, music and video, or the staff of the health and well-being. Next to the icon of the category is the Top Downloads section - a folder identified by a star - which tells you of BAW applications that are very popular. You can also search for applications by clicking on the magnifying glass icon, for research in the categories.

The download process is simple and direct, but still hate the fact that RIM has not been able to launch a fund to pay its own structure. I do not trust PayPal, and I know that many people (besides myself) who have had problems with them over the years. In any case, click on any application that tickles your fancy you the following options: Download, comments or images. I do not think it was necessary to go into detail or describe what each of these entail, but I must tell you that when you purchase a free application you’ll be taken directly to my world (we do in a second), but if it is a paid application will be asked to log in to PayPal before proceeding.

Now that we have sought through requests to purchase a couple or download all the free applications, you’ll want to hit the icon in the outline of a person or my world. My world can not follow all the tabs on the applications you’ve downloaded, write articles, recommend or uninstall applications. A nice feature about My World is that it can accommodate almost applications you use can not be any time, without the application downloaded to the device. If you want to install an application previously deleted, you simply log into PayPal and go.

We will update this post once BAW is living with a complete list of applications that might not happen later today.
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Health and Diet Manager app for BlackBerry

blackberry — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:18:07 +0000

Take Charge of your Eating and Exercising Habits!

The solution to maintaining a healthy balanced diet and active lifestyle lies in your BlackBerry. testimony your daily calorie intake, set a affect influence goal for yourself, therefore give rise to Health and Diet administrator relieve you develop a sure fire sketch to achieve so as to goal. In addition to nutritional values, monitor, graph, and export other wellbeing related data such as resting pulse rate, hours slept, and diabetes-related information. constant evaluate BMI and Target middle Rate by the built-in calculators. Discover a new life with shape and Diet supervisor today.

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BlackBerry Niagara 9630 video

blackberry — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:12:20 +0000

Looks like the lads over at Boy Genius information is running a couple of in-depth reviews of the RIM BlackBerry Niagara 9630 smartphone. If fact they’ve passed away so far into the BlackBerry Niagara 9630 with the aim of they possess had to split the reassess hooked on 2 parts thus building absolutely no one sees gear with the intention of aren’t ultimate

In the basic part of the BlackBerry Niagara 9630 check they coat the hardware, the phone, the battery, the display, the keyboard, the size, the reception, the OS, the browser, the put together quality, and even declare a Q&A section. Makes one phenomenon I beg your pardon? division to will include, but for the full review all along with many of descriptions nip on top of to BGR
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RIM Building BlackBerry TV Service

blackberry — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:02:14 +0000

BlackBerry maker Research In gesticulation (RIMM) plans to publicize a mobile phone TV check for its smartphones as first as after that week, NewTeeVee reports, citing “multiple sources.” The gist: For a monthly fee, RIM will submit unlimited monthly full-episode downloads via wi-fi, and that “multiple show and cable networks” come up with approved happy for the service.

Well, okay. possibly RIM thinks this willpower type BlackBerry phones give the impression of being better next to Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone, which can play videos commencing the iTunes store. (And has numerous free or inferior cassette apps, such as CBS’s TV.com app or Major League Baseball’s At Bat app.)
But want anybody famine to pay for it?

charge determination be one factor. But mobile TV, whereas big on roughly other continents, is slightly flat-out unpopular in the U.S. definitely 2% of mobile subscribers in the U.S. spy on programmed itinerant TV on their phones, according to comScore M:Metrics.

And that’s not as it’s not available: various RIM phones can already entr?e MobiTV, a movable TV service, and carriers allow been marketing portable TV air force for years. (The difference: in its place of streaming the episodes in real-time, RIM’s assistance would download them to your phone, suggestive of you might watch them in the subway, for instance.)

One the makings problem: RIM’s wi-fi-only service valor not steady work on its would-be iPhone killer, the BlackBerry Storm — as RIM and Verizon Wireless determined to keep wi-fi off the device. If there’s any phone RIM must be building a mobile phone video consequence for, it’s the Storm — with a big, brilliant screen, and a as a rule consumer (non-enterprise) client base. But unless it’s really cheap and in fact awesome, we think this is a non-starter.

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My Location and Voice from Google App Now on Blackberry

blackberry — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:49:59 +0000

The most up-to-date variety of Google portable App is by now available for download for BlackBerry users. along with it, you’ll be capable to like all the goodies so as to have single been available to iPhone OS and robot users. The facial appearance to facilitate the new Google Mobile app introduces to the BlackBerry owners are proclaim search and My Location. The first of individuals allows you to initiate a Google search without interminably needing to touch the keyboard. All you could do with to do is speak the desired seek string little holding the telephone key - as down-to-earth as it gets.

The My Location item enables users to make searches based on their current location. This means with the intention of when you call for a place to eat close by you no longer have to capture “restaurant draw up to X”, you just mode “restaurant” and the cell phone App long for cause you a catalog of places in the vicinity.

The Google mobile app is offered to all policy running BlackBerry OS 4.1 or later with the rummage around by assert available on all versions ensuing to 4.2.

The bad news is with the intention of the BlackBerry Storm is not yet supported but this should be extra in the in front of future.

You can download the Google Mobile App from here

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SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry exits beta

blackberry — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:39:02 +0000

Get ready, BlackBerry users, because your days are officially re to turn into a smaller amount productive (or, at the extraordinarily least, your magnitude transit commutes). You too, iPhone types — not to say you didn’t previously come up with as much as necessary time-wasting apps cluttering to facilitate 8 to 16GB inhospitable surroundings you telephone call “storage” in your compartment — since SlingPlayer cell phone is destined for both of these platforms. BlackBerry’s by now had it since December in beta form, but they’re now at a lasting 1.0 release; and speaking of 1.0 releases, to iPhone version Sling’s been discussion up for a at the same time as now has now been submitted to Apple’s App amass for approval, so we plan perfectly be seeing that on the kick off sell shortly. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we retain several Dora to watch on the Bold.
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