by Robb Dunewood on November 16, 2009 · 0 comments
We knew that the T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9700 was going to be released today, however, we didn’t know that AT&T was going to make the BlackBerry Bold 9700 available to business customers as well. The device is now available on the AT&T Premier site.
If you aren’t an AT&T business customer you only have to wait about a week as the BlackBerry Bold 9700 will be generally available on AT&T November 22nd.
by Robb Dunewood on November 16, 2009 · 1 comment
For those of you that haven’t already heard, Craigslist Mobile for BlackBerry is soon to be released.The $5 app created by Movela and Pyxis Mobile will allow users to browse and search through Craigslist postings across different categories, reply to them and save searches. The app supports all categories and countries available on the Craigslist website.
The big news for RIM is that the Craigslist Mobile application is the only officially licensed Craigslist mobile app.
Check out the video after the jump…
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by Robb Dunewood on November 16, 2009 · 1 comment
The T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9700 is now available. It costs $199.99 after an instant $250 rebate with a 2-year activation of $50 or more per month.
Somehow, T-Mobile has managed to put up a picture of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 on the product information page for the Bold 9700.
Check out the T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9700 here…
by Robb Dunewood on November 13, 2009 · 2 comments
FierceMobileIT has put together a list of the Top 10 BlackBerry Apps for the Mobile Worker. It is a good mashup of both free and premium apps and we thought we should share.
- Call Time Tracker — Call Time Tracker is a completely free app designed to help business professionals who account for their time to bill more hours, recover costs, and save valuable time. [Free]
- Nice Office — Nice Office turns your BlackBerry into a virtual mobile office. Manage your email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. Store forms and documents online and send them directly to your customers. Track sales and lead activity by workflows and status levels. Create custom sales fields and record sales activity. Manage all of the information needed to keep on top of your business. [Free]
- Exgis Expense Tracker — Exgis Expense Tracker is an easy-to-use productivity tool that lets you track your expenses from your BlackBerry® smartphone as soon as they are incurred. Further, track your expense entries against clients, projects, locations, and for international travelers, even foreign currencies. Export your expenses from your BlackBerry smartphone to a spreadsheet and send it as an email attachment to your office or save it to your computer for future reporting. [$4.99]
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by Robb Dunewood on November 12, 2009 · 8 comments
As many of you may already know, memory has been a point of contention for BlackBerry users for quite some time. To get straight to the point, there simply isn’t enough of it. Sure, the newest devices have 16 gig media cards and 2 gigs of internal memory, but, you really only have 256 MB of application space. Once you factor in the OS you are probably only talking about a 100 MB or so from which to install and run applications and if you don’t have a BlackBerry Storm2 or better, the problem is dramatically worse.
The big hit at the BlackBerry Developer’s Conference this week was OpenGL ES which brings 3D graphics support to BlackBerry applications. Starting with the BlackBerry Storm2 and the BlackBerry Curve 8530, developers are going to deliver applications and games that rival what you see on the the iPhone. The problem for RIM, however, is that 3D graphics take up space. They take up a lot of space and the BlackBerrys antiquated way of handling memory is going to be a huge bottleneck.
BlackBerry App World’s ability to archive rarely used applications and store them on your media card allowing you to reclaim that precious application memory is great feature, but, it gets really old really quick when you have do it with apps you use regularly simply because you are out of memory.
RIM needs to fix this…
by Robb Dunewood on November 11, 2009 · 1 comment
We don’t expect that it will be too long before the Verizon BlackBerry Curve 8530 gets officially announced seeing how accessories for the device are already starting to appear in Verizon stores.
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by Robb Dunewood on November 11, 2009 · 9 comments
The hottest device coming out of Research in Motion right now is the BlackBerry Bold 9700. The hottest news coming out of Research in Motion is OpenGL (3D graphics) support. The BlackBerry Bold 970o, unfortunately, doesn’t support OpenGL.
The question to you is does the Bold 9700 still sound just as hot?
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by Robb Dunewood on November 10, 2009 · 2 comments
Adam Nash, Vice President, Search & Platform Products at LinkedIn, announced yesterday at the BlackBerry Developer’s Conference that LinkedIn for BlackBerry is coming soon.
Why it has taken the popular business social media and networking site so long to come out with a LinkedIn for BlackBerry mobile app is beyond me, however, better late than never definitely applies to what I think is going to a hugely popular BlackBerry application.

We’ve worked hard to develop an application that takes advantage of the unique capabilities of the BlackBerry platform. LinkedIn for BlackBerry will also include deep integration with the native Messages, Contacts & Calendar applications on the BlackBerry platform.
An exact release date for LinkedIn for BlackBerry is still not clear but it is expected that it will be released before the end of the year. I personally can’t wait for this one.
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