Most companies who are BlackBerry-centric have a BlackBerry Enterprise Server. It’s the ultimate solution for sync’ing your device with your contacts, calendars and events wirelessly with your desktop/laptop. But what about that growing consumer market? The average consumer is clearly not going to spend the cash or energy to set up their own BES, but they still need to sync their device. One option available to you is Nexthaus.
Among the many benefits of having a sync’ed lifestyle is that your life stays organized. Having all your calendars and contacts sync’ed wirelessly means you can effectively manage your life and stay mobile. Take for example the following situation:
You’re at a dinner party and one of the guests just so happens to work for that store you’ve been meaning to go to. The guest offers his contact info and tells you to come by the store Monday morning. When the conversation is done, you log the contact info into your phone and set a calendar event for the date, time and location of the store. Sync’ing this info will mean you’ll instantly know of schedule conflicts and you’ll be reminded when the time comes. Being sync’ed means more effective networking.
Nexthaus is a company we’ve been working with recently and they have great software to sync your device wirelessly. The first thing you need to do is get a copy of the software. Go to their homepage and select SyncJe for BlackBerry. Now follow these simple instructions and you’re set.
If you know of other companies that offer similar software, we’d love to hear about them. Leave a comment and we’ll follow up.
Are you on Rogers or Fido? Well you may want to save your upgrade because the device roadmap for Rogers and Fido has been leaked. HoFo’s clearskies08 posted the upcoming smartphones for 2009 as well as slides from a corporate presentation. The presentation is a complete snooze but here are the upcoming devices:
* Blackberry 82XX Pearl Flip (3G version of 8220 Pearl Flip but with GPS, WiFi, and video calling)
* Blackberry 9520 Storm (North American 3G GSM bands and 802.11 b/g WiFi)
* HTC Touch 3G
* HTC Touch Pro
* HTC Touch Viva
* Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5
* Motorola Q11
* Motorola VE66
* Nokia N79
* Nokia N85
* Nokia N96
* Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
* Samsung M8800 Pixon
* Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a
* Sony Ericsson C905
Bplay has launched a gift card program. The cards are digital and can be sent and redeemed at your desktop or right from your device. With multiple denominations ($5, $10 etc), you can send someone enough Bplay money to get your loved one or friend’s BlackBerry totally tricked out.
How to Redeem Your Gift Card:
Visit bplay.com either on a desktop computer or on your BlackBerry device.
Choose your desired products and add them to your shopping cart by clicking on the “Buy It Now” or “Add to Cart” options. Please note that subscription products and other products may not be eligible for purchase with Gift Cards. Also, Gift Cards may not be used for direct billing (”Bill to Phone”) purchases.
Proceed to “Checkout.”
If you are a new user, you must establish an account. If you already have an account, login with your password.
At Payment Options, choose “Cash in a Gift Card.”
Enter your Gift Card code in the field provided and click “Go”.
Your Account Balance will be updated with the amount of the redeemed Gift Card.
Complete your purchase with the “My Account Balance” option.
Cruise lost his BlackBerry after an hour-long interview with Entertainment Tonight Canada. His reps have frantically called around but nobody can find the device. Clearly someone in the studio has found it and is hoarding it for the plethora of info that is on the device. Whoever it is will make a killing selling off bits of dirt to the press.
Man alive, can you imagine the glory you would find if you found Tom Cruises BlackBerry? The emails filled with long Scientology rants, the correspondence between him and Katie Holmes about their sex life, the ridiculous parenting gobbledygook that is probably on his To Do lists. It’s all going to come spewing out in the press any day now.
Making a good iPhone app is fairly simple once you realize that people are looking for quick fun and they’re motivated by conspicuous consumption. It’s a totally different purchasing system than for a device such as BlackBerry, where you are buying an app out of a specific need. The fact that the iPhone cannot run apps in the background is the main proponent of this purchasing system. Their are a plethora of apps out there for other devices that become useless on the iPhone. For example, one of my favorite apps is an IM aggregator. Why bother with one on the iPhone? If it can’t stay running while I’m browsing the internet and let me know if a message comes through, I’m not spending a penny on it. With every other smartphone on the market, this isn’t the case.
The iPhone turntable app is a great example of something that would sell well on the App Store. It is a fun little app that you can show your friends, get a few minutes of fun out of, and you’re done with it. The app features a dynamic turntable that you can backspin, scratch and pause. You can even pick up the needle and drop it on a different track while the record is spinning. So if you’re an iPhone app developer, I think you would bode well to think small, fast and simple. Save your expensive app development projects for a different smartphone.
Every BlackBerry user has a special love for their BlackBerry theme of choice. As one of the few ways users can personalize their BlackBerry, it’s a pretty significant statement: do you choose something trendy like an iBerry theme, or relive your youth with a Super Mario Bros theme?
We were recently contacted by DreamTheme, a company that is looking to evolve BlackBerry personalization beyond simple themes with LiveScreens. LiveScreens are essentially animated homescreen applications, but there’s more to them than meets the eye. Hit the jump and come check out one of the coolest new things you can put on your BlackBerry.
If you’ve been following QB, you know we’re one piece of a media network puzzle. Our company does a BlackBerry industry site called BlackBerry Cool, as well as a Windows Mobile site called Windows Mobile Cool. The two sites combined with this smorgasbord of mobile entertainment, we’ve got all your mobile needs covered. The editor in chiefs of the other 2 blogs have chosen their 3 favorite articles from this week which I would like to share with you. Click through for more some great linkage from the past week
Kyle Kemper, director of marketing for Vayyoo, shows us Vayyoo’s cool new vPost application for BlackBerry. We’ve covered the application before but this is a good video for showing you the latest updates to the application and how easy it is to vPost something.
The application is simple. You open it, attach a picture, video, audio and/or text to a vPost, update the GPS, and send it to the website. Currently, the site is only available to those with a Vayyoo login but soon the company will be selling the service white labeled as well as offering regular consumers the opportunity to vPost on their own. Here are some examples of things you can vPost:
Restaurant review (take a pic of the food, record an audio clip of the review and GPS the location)
Fishing (take a video of the catch and GPS the location)
Partying (take a pic, write a message and GPS the location for your friends to come party)
The applications are limitless. If you want to try out vPost from Vayyoo, send me an email and I’ll hook you up. Send your request to try the BETA at kyle [at] quicklybored [dawt] com.
Myspace Mobile now offers streaming video, bother user-gen and branded, to mobile. The service will be available for the BlackBerry Bold, Palm, Motorola Voyager, Nokia N95 and the Samsung Instinct. Notice no iPhone? That’s because the iPhone uses a different downloading method that MySpace opted out of in favor of a mobile ubiquitous downloading method.
I am a definition gadget whore. I will sell out king and country for the latest in gizmos; I guess that makes me more of a gadget traitor.
Last summer around the iPhone craze I upgraded my high-end Sony Ericsson camera phone to the glorious Nokia N95 8GB. I wanted a device that was a real powerhouse feature-wise without making me look like an obvious iPhone turbo-nerd. Things have been going well for the device but I was starting to long for something with better text entry than the hardly-predictive T9. Who has ever used “shiv” in a text message, I don’t think I’ll ever know. Continue reading this simple guide to getting your BlackBerry Bold carrier subsidized
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