Archive for the 'News' Category
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Paula let me know about Twitxr and I was impressed. It has a client for most mobile devices other than the BlackBerry but it does have a simple email and mobile website front end that works just fine on my Berry. You can email it text and images along with your location and it [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
We mentioned Gym Technik a bit back as a free workout tracking application and service for your BlackBerry. Since then they have added a few features that Neil let us know about. They detailed them out in a forum thread on BBForums.
The upgrade includes:
Ability to track your cardio exercise stats
Ability to create and track your [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Arun at Pyxis Mobile let me know that they have a competition once a year to see what their teams can develop in one day with no additional code. They use their Application Studio product to develop the application. This year they have two competing ideas, QuickFlix and Mobile Casino. QuickFlix is a NetFlix account [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Now this makes me jealous of our friends across the pond. Tashanna let me know that according to the Times Online Vodafone UK will be offering the Storm free with a £35 tariff and an 18 month contract. Beat that Verizon!
Now if only the Vodafone Storm would have supported AT&T or T-Mobile 3G we would [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
I know that many BlackBerry toting realtors were happy when RIM finally added a camera to certain devices but another upcoming solution should entice even more to the BlackBerry fold. DavidB let me know about a post on BBNews highlighting a upcoming BlackBerry solution for retailers. We heard about eKey for BlackBerry back in [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The National Post managed to get an interview with Jim Balsillie and ask him a few questions about the Storm and how it measures up to the iPhone. They did not make it into the original mention but they did catch them in a follow up.
Jim stresses that a reliable network, battery life, & good [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Kary just let me know that Sprint has launched a sign up page for the upcoming 8350i NextelBerry. Looks pretty spiffy and it lets you sign up for notifications for when the device is released. Its funny I have signed up for quite a few of those and I have yet to get a [...]
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
I love learning about what technologies power each part of my gadgets and the upcoming Storm is no exception. I just got confirmation that the upcoming BlackBerry Storm is packing a Synaptics’ touchscreen. It turns out that the Storm is using Synaptics’ ClearPad custom module. This part is what enables multi touch input as [...]
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Tashanna let me know that Vodafone UK has a great little 360 degree flash demo of the BlackBerry Storm. I guess I missed it yesterday. Once again nothing ground breaking but just some more mouth watering Storm goodness since I know some people are biting at the bit.
Check it out at this link
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Nothing crazy new again but more eye candy! Thanks to RIM for putting this on their Mediaseed server.
Check out the 2 page PDF at this link
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