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Blackberry Tour 9630
Today I finally got a chance to get my hands on the new Blackberry Tour from Verizon. I must admit after using my Storm for so long, I forgot how nice it is to have a device that responds quickly, and the Tour does not disappoint.
This really is an all in one device for anyone who wants a fully featured Blackberry. Out of the box the Tour comes with a data cable, foreign outlet plug-in attachments (as it is a global phone with pre-installed SIM), and 2GB micro-SD memory card.
On board comes a 3.2mp camera with video. The brilliant 480 by 360 resolution screen made me sigh an “I’m in love with phone” sigh. The Tour has streaming video support without the need to download any application. And of course it comes stock with the Blackberry media player that we’re familiar with.
MyPhone for Blackberry
So, are you ready to change your Berry’s interface? Lets say to something more along the lines of an Iphone interface? Then allow me to introduce you to the MyPhone app for Blackberry. Notice I said “app”, not theme. This application actually changes your entire phones user interface, rather than just changing the look of your icons. Now I am not a Blackberry user with Iphone envy, but this is a pretty neat addition to your phone if you ask me.
Pandora Interface
For those of you that are already familiar with Pandora for Blackberry, I’m sure you are aware of how sweet of an application it is! Please skip to part two of this blog for information on the newly released update that you can Download for Pandora as I will be discussing general information on the program in part one for those who are new to Pandora for Blackberry.
PART ONE: If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I wish I could totally and completely personalize the radio and music I listen to”, well good news! Enter Pandora for Blackberry. Pandora is available OTA and allows you to create up to 100 customizable live streaming radio stations right on your phone. On top that you can create one Quick Mix station that allows you to choose as many as you want from your 100 to get a wider variety of music with the touch of one button.(Rather than having to switch back and forth.)
When looking for premium stuff you can find a whole online shopping cartel at the Blackberry app world. Personally I don't favor handset brands making money off their customer's by selling them software that could have been included in the deal at the time of purchasing your handset. But since Blackberry's app world seems to be largely about third party software, I'm sure they're ahead of the other handset brands in terms of goodwill.
What I do like is the variety of ways the store offers you to get to your desired software. You can either sit back at the comfort of your computer and browse through the complete catalog until you have found what your looking for, or else you can use the custom made app for your Blackberry to browse, review, purchase and download the software you want.
We have just received news that the app store is busy undergoing an upgrade and that by the end of the month, Blackberry App World will be launched in 10 additional countries, namely Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Luxemburg, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium. In addition it will support more languages, including French, Italian, Spanish and German. We will keep you updated on any news, but in the mean time I definitely recommend that you head over to Blackberry app world and have a look for yourself.
For those days when you're wishing your Blackberry Storm was actually running Apple you can now install the iBerry Theme made by Artem Cheban.
The iPhone and Blackberry storm share a common space on many people's wishlist. For those who's choice can't include both, but rather a case of either or and you went with the Blackberry (Good choice), you can now turn your Storm into the perfect iBerry - for free!
With it's clean lines, the iBerry theme is toted as the "Best iPhone-look-alike". You might even start to think that your Berry makes a better Apple than old Mac himself.
The iBerry theme is available for the Storm 9500, Storm 9530, Bold 9000, Curve 8900, Curve 83xx, 88xx and Pearl 81xx.
Online shopping has been around as long as the Internet itself and although it's not everybody's cup of tea there is a couple well used sites like E-bay and and also Amazon.
What this Amazon application can do for you:
- Fastest access - There is over 40 categories of products available to buy online and that's excluding the other available merchants.
- Convenience is the word - Using your Blackberry online you can know make use of all the existing features of your Amazon account: Use cart, wishlist, payment and shipping settings , order History, 1-click and all prime membership benefits.
- As Secure as possible -All purchases done through this application is handled by Amazon's secure servers.
- Ui is a pleasure to use - The User interface is made especially for you to use fast and easily on your Blackberry.
- Amazon remembers : Simply take a picture of what your looking for, upload it and Amazon will search for a similar product.
Three easy steps:
- Search: Searching for your desired product made fast and easy
- Shop : View Prices, details, pictures and reviews.
- BUY! with 1-click and prime options.
For those of you that don't know, Blackberry is the official sponsor for the new U2 360° Tour, which kicked off on 30 June in Barcelona.
RIM released a Blackberry loves U2 ad earlier this week, sampling U2's 'I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight' which is the third single off their new album, No line on the Horizon.
RIM will also be releasing a 'Mobile Album' app, which is reported to allow you to listen to the new album, watch music videos, read U2 news, and check out dates of the current 360 tour. A unique feature included in the app is a function in which you'll be able to locate the band members and other blackberry users at each concert.
Most of us are familiar with push-to-talk apps like the ones native to some symbian brands or even the brilliant Palringo service. Berry2berry is push-to-talk made easy for a range of Blackberry models. When it comes to mobile phones Push-to-talk entails the following:
- Gives you the ability to send voice messages to another mobile running the app, using only data connection.
- You would not be charged normal service provider call rates but only data charges and because the amount of data being sent with voice messaging is so small your charges should range from mere cents to being totally free depending on your specific data package.
- This technology gives you the ability to communicate in a way similar to conventional push-to-talk or walkie-talkie devices. The difference being that with mobile push-to-talk it doesn't matter how far you are from one another as long as you have access to the data network, you can send and receive voice messages.
- Good News is that until 9 July you can get berry2berry at a discounted price of $5 and more good news is that there is a Trial version available, So Try it out for Free.
Download Free Trial : Storm version Trackball version
Lemmings Tribes
If your are like me then were both tired of all the old school, poor graphics and no story line games that are out there for todays range of Blackberries. Our intentions are to show you games that make Blackberries proud by delivering the quality you expect of software made for Blackberries.
Todays game is Lemmings Tribes. This Blackberry game does carry a price tag of $9.99. Lemmings Tribes makes good on the heritage streaming down from the once popular Lemmings PC theme that was doing it's rounds not so long ago.The story rests a bit on the variety of game play brought about by the three different types of Lemming tribes which are Classic Lemmings possessing standard skills, and Space Lemmings and Medieval Lemmings who have enhanced skill factors. The game play tests your responses as you go about saving a certain amount of Lemmings in a predetermine time, by using logic and skill to solve puzzles and problems, mastering the number of levels that are filled with dubious "traps and gaps".
The Blackberry brand is known as the perfect business and work tool. As a matter of fact Blackberry's past reputation was significantly more as a workhorse and it is only recently that Rim has brought out models that focus on multimedia and Entertainment as much as on business savvy and communication. Thats why I think this is a very nice theme for the latest Blackberry generation bringing a combined feeling of productivity and relaxation while helping you to stay on top of things.
