One of the biggest drawbacks to having a cameraphone is that most of the pictures that you take rarely ever make it beyond your mobile. This is the case even with the BlackBerry Pearl and BlackBerry Curve.
Fortunately, iTookThisOnMyPhone, a free BlackBerry application that will automatically upload pictures that you take on your BlackBerry Pearl or BlackBerry Curve to the iTookThisOnMyPhone photo sharing site. Simply take a picture with your CameraBerry and iTookThisOnMyPhone will handle the rest.
I am still waiting for Verizon to release their BlackBerry Pearl 8130 so I cannot really test iTookThisOnMyPhone out. If you, however, decide to give it a go., leave us a comment and tell us what you think.
You can download iTookThisOnMyPhone here…
After almost a year after the release of the first CameraBerry, the BlackBerry Pearl, it is still unavailable to most BlackBerry users in the United States unless they are willing to switch carriers. I wonder just how much RIM has to do with that?
The BlackBerry Pearl is arguably one of the best selling BlackBerry devices to date, however, almost a year after it first debuted on T-Mobile, it, or any other CameraBerry for that matter, still has yet to be released on a CDMA carrier in the United States. Most device manufacturers, Research in Motion included, are very quick to say that all the power and decision making around device release dates lies with the the wireless carriers. The Apple iPhone release, however, tells me that this is not necessarily the case.
Could RIM exert a little bit more control than they do? I am guessing that they can.
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BGR has uncovered some of the specs on the upcoming BlackBerry Pearl 2, code named the Komet, and one things that stands out is the 3.2 megapixel camera. With an improved flash and a 6X digital zoom the BlackBerry Pearl 2 will take awfully nice pictures.
You still see the occasional digital camera in Best Buy or Target that is still only 3.2 megapixels and truth be told, most people never need to use a resolution higher than that as most home printers don’t even come close to printing at that resolution.
I hope these things come to Verizon sooner rather than later because I cannot wait to get my hands on one.
BlackBerry Pearl 2, BlackBerry Komet
CTIA Wireless 2007, the wireless industries largest convention of the year, just ened yesterday. Although Verizon unveiled several new mobile devices soon coming out on their network, a BlackBerry with a digital camera, didn’t make the list.
If T-Mobile or AT&T gets a second CameraBerry before Verizon gets their first, I am switching to whomever gets the 8300.
Can you hear me now?
Dear Verizon,
It has been 6 months since the BlackBerry Pearl was first released on T-Mobile. We know that you generally take about a year or so for your CDMA versions of BlackBerry devices to come out after they first appear on your GSM competitors, however, I don’t know how much longer you can afford to play this game.
I call it a game because, according to RIM President and co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis, the java based nature of the BlackBerry allows it to be “quickly ported over” to CDMA hardware. If it is easy to do, the only reason I can see that you don’t is because you are trying to gage the amount of time you can make your subscriber base wait without bolting along with the decreasing licensing fees you pay to RIM for new devices the farther you get away from their initial launch.
I understand that this is smart business in the corporate world. It won’t, however, work in the consumer world.
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You are looking at a picture of a BlackBerry 8300, code name “Daytona”. This could quite possibly be the most perfectly designed BlackBerry to date. We will get to the features in second, but first, take a look at the design of this puppy. It has the BlackBerry 8800 form factor, however, the keyboard is absolutely beautiful. One of my biggest gripes about the BlackBerry 8800 is that the keys are too close together but the 8300 has a country mile in between each key in comparison.
We’ve got more BlackBerry 8300 pictures and it’s features after the jump.
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by Robb Dunewood on February 23, 2007 · 2 comments
I was just thinking about what RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said about the BlackBerry soon becoming the MP3 player of choice for consumers and even though I think that this is a bit unrealistic, Research in Motion could make some legitimate noise if they are smart about things.
We all know that Apple and Cingular will release the first version of the iPhone sometime around the June time frame. Even with the extravagantly high price tag the iPhone will be a big hit for Cingular and Apple. It will probably crush whatever estimates Apple is putting out there for sales and will undoubtedly be one of if not the big story this year in the mobile phone industry, at least in the United States. Research in Motion, however, if they are smart about things, can capitalize on all of the hoopla that has and will continue to surround the iPhone.
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Hey Verizon,
We know that it takes you a year to get the CDMA version of BlackBerry devices after everyone else gets the GPRS ones, so I make this request on behalf of the all the BlackBerry 7250 and 8703e users that would like to go to a CameraBerry with a full QWERTY keyboard but don’t want to wait until 2008 to get one.
Can we skip the BlackBerry Pearl and go straight to the BlackBerry 8800 Crimson?
We know that you have a lot of BlackBerry 7130e customers that are happy with SureType. Heck, I am one of them, however, it is more about the size of the 7130e and not so much the SureType keyboard that attracts people to it. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have a problem with SureType and actually think it is kind of cool. I, however, don’t have a problem with full QWERTY keyboards either so long as the device that I am using it on isn’t the size of pocket calculator from 1984.
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As you have probably heard the rumors by now, Research in Motion will soon come out with it’s next-generation, full QWERTY keyboard, MP3 playing, Wi-Fi enabled, Razr thin smartphone called the BlackBerry 8800. There will actually be two versions (at least two) of the 8800, one without a digital camera code named “Indigo” rumored to come out late this year, and one with a digital camera code named “Crimson” rumored to come out Q2 of 07.
The question of the day is will the BlackBerry 8800 be even more popular than the BlackBerry Pearl? As you can see from a poll over on BlackBerry Forums, almost 60% of the poll takers say that they are 100% sure that they will get a BlackBerry 8800. Based on this I would have to say that the 8800, at least with existing BlackBerry users, could be more popular than the Pearl.
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