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Most of the reviews of BlackBerry related products and services that we have done over the years here on RIMarkable are little more than a paragraph or two on what the product is, what it does, and link where you can download it and try it out for yourself. This is not the case when it comes to our review of SimulSays, a visual voicemail application for the BlackBerry from SimulScribe. We have totally put SimulSays through the paces and I have to report that I am thoroughly impressed.
What is SimulSays?
SimulSays is a visual voicemail application molded in the same vein as what you may have heard about the iPhone’s visual voicemail. Normally, when someone leaves a voicemail on your BlackBerry, you get a voicemail indicator icon that lets you know that there is new message waiting for you to listen to. SimulSays takes this a step farther by transcribing the voicemail message and sending it back to your BlackBerry as an email message. The SimulSays application running on your Blackberry recognizes the transcribed emails sent back to your device and allows you to scroll through and manage your transcribed messages in any order that you like.
What is really cool is that if SimulSays, via caller ID, can match the number of the person leaving a voicemail to a contact in your address book, you can easily reply to that contacts transcribed voicemail simply by hitting reply.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on March 28th, 2008 with 7 comments.
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As great a device that the BlackBerry is for sending and receiving email one thing I haven’t figured out is why RIM has yet to add HTML formatted email support to the BlackBerry. Fortunately, the folks over BlackBerrySmart have got you covered with BBSmart Email Viewer v2.3.
BBSmart Email Viewer, as its name implies, is a BlackBerry email viewing application that allows you to view HTML formated email with support for graphics. As I have found out over the last week, however, BBSmart Email Viewer v2.3 is much, much more.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on September 14th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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I had the chance to play around with a BlackBerry 8800 for a few hours over the weekend and here is a brief summary of my initial thoughts:
The BlackBerry 8800 for the corporate business user is not a bad upgrade if you are coming from a device older than the BlackBerry 8700 and are already a Cingular subscriber. Outside of the BlackBerry Media Player and GPS, the 8800 doesn’t do much more than the 8700, however, has that sleek design to it that QWERTY BlackBerrys have been lacking until now.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on February 26th, 2007 with 7 comments.
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I just read an article, or review depending on how you look at it, on ComputerWorld.com about the BlackBerry Pearl and why it is the ‘smart phone of the future‘.
The trackball will become the dominant navigational device for mobile devices within two years.
The size and sophistication of the Pearl are enough to set it apart from the pack, but the namesake trackball is the piece de resistance. Think of the trackball as a 2-D scrollwheel on crack.
This is a prediction made by the author, Mike Elgan, and I think he may be on to something.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on December 15th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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I recently had the opportunity to review UniquePhones, a remote mobile phone unlocking service that has generated over 2.9 million unlock codes to date.
UniquePhones has unlock codes for over 1500 handsets from most of the leading manufactures including LG, Siemens, Motorola, and many others, including my personal favorite, BlackBerry. The price range for unlock codes vary as greatly as the devices they support from as low as $1.99 all the way up to $25.99, which happens to be the price to unlock a BlackBerry.
I am being paid for this review, however, you will get my honest opinion as it is far from raving. It’s not a scathing review either, however, I do have a few concerns and maybe UniquePhones can take this review as a bit constructive criticism.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on December 2nd, 2006 with 49 comments.
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend I got together with my family and, as always, took a lot of pictures of and looked at a lot of pictures with the relatives. I don’t really carry photos in my wallet so I put pictures of the wife and kids on my BlackBerry.
I have a digital camera and take pictures of my kids all the time, however, one thing that I noticed about the pictures on my BlackBerry was that they were all pretty dated. When I think about why that was, it is because natively putting pictures onto your BlackBerry is a pain in the you know what.
Enter SplashPhoto for BlackBerry…
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Written by Robb Dunewood on November 29th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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Have you ever heard about something new and made your mind up about not liking it without even giving it the once over? That is exactly what Dale Vile, Research Director at Freeform Dynamics did when he first heard about the BlackBerry Pearl.
Fortunately, however, Dale has seen the error of his ways and as he puts it, has “Swallowed hard and admitted his mistake.”
You can read Dale’s updated review and see when he is now the proud owner of a BlackBerry Pearl here.
Written by Robb Dunewood on November 27th, 2006 with no comments.
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If you haven’t noticed, there are quite a few IM clients available for the BlackBerry including a fair amount of free BlackBerry IM clients as well.
Personally, I only use the free BlackBerry IM clients such as BlackBerry Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and Google Talk, however, I hear that some of the clients that allow you to use different networks from the same client are quite good.
Rumor has it that RIM is about to release a few more native BlackBerry IM clients and I am wondering if I should just wait until they come out or go ahead and get one of those integrated clients.
If anyone has any opinions on some of the integrated BlackBerry IM clients available, your comments would be much appreciated. I don’t want to shell out the cash for one before I know if it is worth it or not.
BlackBerry Software, BlackBerry IM Client, Instant Messaging
Written by Robb Dunewood on October 4th, 2006 with 9 comments.
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So, I downloaded the CanWest MediaWorks’ VideoPlayer for BlackBerry powered by SONA Mobile yesterday and have had a chance to play around with with it a bit. I know that it is currently in beta, however, my first thought is that VideoPlayer is quite horrible compared to what you get on Windows Mobile and Palm devices.
My first issue is with the quality of the video playback. It is quite grainy and difficult to see. Now, I am only running VideoPlayer on a BlackBerry 7130e and video quality may be better on the more powerful BlackBerry 8700, however, it is pretty darn bad on the 7130e. The sound quality is OK, however, I didn’t see a way to adjust the volume during playback.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on June 27th, 2006 with 14 comments.
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