1. Amazon Shopping Application - According to the company, that app was designed in response to the popularity of a similar program for the iPhone.

Users can take pictures with their Blackberry and upload them to Amazon.com–the app will then attempt to find similar products in the store. Amazon App for BlackBerry also features one click purchasing with Amazon Prime, package tracking, personalized recommendations, Wish List, and more.

2. Pandora for BlackBerry – Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized radio now available to stream music on your BlackBerry. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it.

3. BBNotePad - BBNotePad is a free text file editor/creator application for BlackBerry. It simply lets you save, edit, & create text files on your BlackBerry SD card or memory. The developer also added some more functionality in this release.

4. Palringo – Multiplatform instant messaging software. With this you can chat to all your friends on Facebook, iChat and QQ. Plus with location you can see where your friends or colleagues are in real-time making it really easy to arrange to meet up.

5. BBScreenShooter – BBScreenShooter is a small tool to capture the current screen of Blackberry. This is useful to e.g. create documentation.

6. Tellme – With Tellme on your mobile phone, you can find the nearest businesses based on your GPS location and also get maps, directions, and traffic information right on your screen! Just say it and see it. Click here to see if your mobile phone is ready for Tellme. Also, you can always call Tellme from any phone. Say what you want and hear the results.

7. BeeTag – Multitag barcode reader for BlackBerry smartphones, supporting the most popular 2D Codes. After scanning the app displays product information, text and URL info for the products.

8. Google Apps – Experience the benefits of Google Apps with the BlackBerry experience you’re already accustomed to. Integrate the Google Apps messaging suite with BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), letting employees use built-in BlackBerry applications for access to their Google Apps email, calendar, and contacts.

9. Beyond 411 – Beyond411 provides free and convenient mobile search, including yellow pages, maps, driving directions, white pages, web search, and more.

10. BlackBerry Messenger – BlackBerry Messenger is a proprietary Instant Messenger application included on newer model BlackBerry devices. This app allows you to stay in contact with your BlackBerry-using friends without getting charged for text messaging by your cell phone provider. It uses the BlackBerry OS’s PIN to send messages back and forth.

11.Bolt Browser - If you find the default BlackBerry Web browser too slow, Bolt is offering a faster alternative. This browser loads fast and utilizes similar shortcuts as the Opera Mini to scroll, zoom, and navigate through Web pages.

12. Opera Mini – RIM bundles a halfway-decent Web browser with its latest handsets. But for real speed and desktop page rendering power, install Opera Mini 4.2. It offers RSS feed support, an easy-to-use zoom box, a switchable mobile view, and flexible bookmark management. Opera Mini lacks comprehensive Adobe Flash support, but so does every other phone browser on the market.

13. Caffeine Finder Freeware – If you’re a coffee fanatic like me, you’d find this app very useful. It lets you search for the nearest coffee shops or cafes from more than 45,000 locations. Like Fast Food Finder, the app also features directional map and addresses of the coffee shops.

14. CellFire – This application sends virtual coupons to your cell phone, and each has a unique five-digit code, which you can show to store clerks. Sign up by visiting www.cellfire.com on your BlackBerry or notebook and selecting your BlackBerry and carrier. To update your coupons, simply open the CellFire software and select “Update Coupons.” The list of available offers appears with each company’s logo. The latest version lets you find and store coupons online and automatically sync them to your BlackBerry. While still in its budding stages, the company has deals with Domino’s Pizza, McDonald’s, Sears, and more than a dozen other companies. However, you won’t find coupons from local businesses yet.

15. Capture It – This helps you to capture images of your BlackBerry’s screen and saves them as .jpg file.

16. Google Maps Mobile – Many of today’s BlackBerry handsets come with built-in GPS. Even control freak Verizon Wireless is beginning to loosen its restrictions on which applications can make use of it. One of the best is Google Maps for Mobile, which offers most of what you love about the desktop version—including satellite views, turn-by-turn directions, and local business searching—and adds a GPS-enabled, location-based search component for use with your BlackBerry.

17. Facebook – Facebook for BlackBerry isn’t perfect—it’s still essentially the same app it was when it was released over a year ago. As a result, it doesn’t handle comments, hidden feed items, or any other recent Facebook changes on the desktop. But the native mobile app is still the fastest way to check your friends’ status updates, send messages, and upload photos right

18. Fast Food Finder Freeware – Looking for a place to grab a bite or get a drink? This app will help you find the closest fast food chain using your phone’s GPS. It provides maps, address and directions to the fast food where you want to go.

19. Gmail Client - Gmail client is the next most useful and must-have Google app for your BlackBerry. This app gives you almost the same functionality as the Web-based Gmail by giving you access to your contact list, sent and archived mail as well as the labels functionality.

20. Google Latitude – Latitude allows a mobile phone user to allow certain other people on his or her Gmail contact list to track where he or she is. These people can track the user (or more accurately, his or her phone) onGoogle Maps via their own iGoogle accounts. The user can control the accuracy and details of what each of the other users can see — an exact location can be allowed, or it can be limited to identifying the city only.

21. Google Maps – This is not as powerful as the Web-based Google Maps app and the iPhone apps, but it manages to bring Google Maps service effectively to your BlackBerry.

22. Google Mobile - Helps you to get the whole Google experience right on your BlackBerry mobile. It has Gmail, Google Maps and Google Sync plus links to Google’s mobile-optimized Web services such as Web search, Google Reader, Google Docs and Picasa.

23. Google Talk – You also need to communicate with your non-BlackBerry using friends. This app sports an interface similar to the BlackBerry Messenger and is as robust as other paid IM client for the BlackBerry.

24. ShoZu - ShoZu makes sending your BlackBerry pictures to your favorite social networking sites—including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, WordPress, and YouTube—easy. Once you’ve installed the application and chosen your destinations, each time you take a picture or record video, you’ll be able to upload that media to them. We like that on a Symbian S60 ShoZu automatically asks to upload a new photo to your site of choice; on a BlackBerry, however, you have select whichsocial networking sites to use for each upload. You can also use ShoZu for BlackBerry to add descriptions and titles to your photos before uploading them, but we weren’t able to read comments on the photos or geotag them from our BlackBerry—two features we were able to use on the S60 version and we hope will be added before ShoZu leaves beta.

25. GridMagic Community Edition -GridMagic (formerly MiniExcel) is an advanced spreadsheet application that is optimized and designed specially for BlackBerry smartphones. Lets you run complex calculations and organize some information into tables. It also lets you do the usual spreadsheet functions like freeze pane, select row or column, and copy-and-paste.

26. iSkoot – With iSkoot for Skype, you can make & receive Skype calls, chat, and use SkypeOut to call regular numbers anywhere in the world. And with our newly enhanced feature set, now you can easily place SkypeOut calls to anyone in your general address book, and enjoy cool new Skype chat features like emoticons and multi-party chat. What’s really great about iSkoot: unlike other mobile Skype apps, iSkoot is a thin client – so it won’t take up loads of memory or eat up your battery power.

27. Where for BlackBerry - WHERE is the easiest and fastest way to get the GPS content you want on your phone. Download WHERE to get a library of FREE widgets that find the hottest events, the best prices, where to get a good sandwich or even your local weather report.

28. WorldMate Live - A useful app specifically for the road warriors, WorldMate Live delivers content and services to your BlackBerry device including itineraries, flights, hotel information, meetings, public transportation and car rental information.

29. Jaikuberry – JaikuBerry is a small blackberry software application which allows you to blog about your real life through your blackberry. From now on you will always be able to share your life with your friends, even when you are at the other side of the world

30. JapbLite BlackBerry Personal Money Manager – The idea behind JabpLite has been to write a sophisticated personal finance program in Java MIDP which will work on a range of devices including Symbian phones and the Blackberry. This is a robust personal finance app for your BlackBerry. This app features multiple accounts, investment tracking, future balance calculations, net worth calculation, foreign currency accounts with automatic revaluation, regular transactions, standing orders, and default and user-defined categories.

31. Mobipocket Reader - Given the fact that BlackBerry devices are not the best for eBook reading, this app fully utilizes the devices display to bring you a decent reading experience. And since it supports the .mobi format, you are assured that you’ll have plenty of eBook titles to chose from and download on your BlackBerry devices. You can also convert PDFs or Word files on your PC and transfer them to your BlackBerry device.

32. TwitterBerry - Twitter addicts know that a key purpose of the service is to stay in touch with your friends and colleagues on the go. While you can do that with SMS messages or Twitter’s WAP page, TwitterBerry is a far better way. The app aggregates status updates and offers simple, one-click delivery of your all-important 140-character missives—perfect for that inspired existential insight that pops into your head while you’re waiting in line at the bank.

33. PocketMac for BlackBerry - Sync your Mac & BlackBerry device for Free. PocketMac is a robust app that synchronizes your address book, calendar, tasks, notes, and email between your BlackBerry and Mac.

34. Slacker Radio To listen to music on the go, you have two options. You can set up playlists, transfer music via memory cards, get bored and do it all again next week. Or you can listen to Slacker, which hooks into your desktop Web account and gives you an unlimited supply of new tunes. Get all of the surprise of a veteran DJ’s picks with very few of the commercials. And you can cache channels to play later when you don’t have a signal.

35. Ka-Glom! - Definitely a time killer, this Tetris-type game is one of BlackBerry’s finest.

36. Poynt – Poynt for BlackBerry is a free local search utility that rivals Beyond 411. Poynt pretty much gives you the same information but is a lot prettier. It lets you browse by genre and even review the current top 10 movies. The app also supports GPS location search and integrates with BlackBerry Maps.

37. Quick Pull – If you don’t have the patience to manually pull out the battery to give your BlackBerry a rest from time to time, Quick Pull will do it for you. It offers the same functionality as pulling your battery.

38. Stock Viewer - This BlackBerry app lets you continuously retrieve stock quotes coming from NYSE and NASDAQ. It also gives you some headline news. The app is designed to work with BlackBerry 7xxx, 8xxx, 9xxx models.

39. WorldMate Live - You might never miss a flight again with WorldMate Live. The free version provides you with itineraries for your hotel and flight, world clocks, a currency converter, weather forecasts, and more.
If you’re a frequent traveler, the Gold Membership ($99 per year) lets you view up-to-the-minute flight status to find out whether your departure is on time. If your flight is a no-go, you can use the flight schedules feature paired with the travel directory to find a new flight and call the airline in a snap. A free Outlook add-on automatically syncs your travel plans once they arrive in your inbox.

40. Talklock - This app locks up your BlackBerry device when making a call and unlocks it when your call is finished. This prevents you from touching the screen and activating another application while making your call.

41. Tiny Tweeter - Another Twitter app for your BlackBerry devices, Tiny Tweeter lets you tweet throughout the day and keep updated with the people you are following. You can customize your Twitter interface as well by setting font settings, sync settings, UI settings and more.

42. Viigo - Viigo is one of the best mobile RSS reader applications we’ve ever used. You can add any Web site with an RSS feed, or choose from a host of recommended feeds in various Viigo categories, ranging from “Popular Blogs” like BoingBoing.com to lifestyle or finance feeds such as MarketWatch.com. Stories are updated automatically every 30 minutes, sometimes more infrequently, but you can choose to refresh a channel manually to reel in the latest news.

43. AOL Instant Messenger - AOL Instant Messenger™ for BlackBerry® smartphones can combine the fun and functionality of instant messaging (IM) with powerful BlackBerry smartphones to deliver on-the-go IM with many of the desktop features you love

44. Vlingo - Vlingo, the world’s most popular voice application, lets you control your BlackBerry with the power of voice. With Vlingo, you can simply speak to your phone to send a text or email message, call a friend, search the mobile web, update your social status, and more.

45. WebMessenger - This will helps you to chat with friends whether they are on AOL, Google, ICQ, Jabber, Skype, Yahoo and MSN. It imports your contact list from those IM clients and allows you to set your status, see who’s online and of course chat with them for as long as you want.

46. Yahoo Go – Get access to work, home and your personal life, with the best of Yahoo!, designed to work on your BlackBerry. Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, and get seamless access to friends, family and your life on your phone. Snap a photo and post it from wherever you are with the Flickr® uploader. Find what you need with Yahoo! oneSearch™, and Yahoo! oneSearch with voice—giving you fast access to the answers you want when you’re mobile. Bring together everything that matters to you with Yahoo! Go™, offering you up-to-the minute news, weather, sports—and more—on your BlackBerry.

47. Yahoo Messenger Client – Not wanting to be outdone by Google, Yahoo also released its own free BlackBerry IM client. And it works and function similarly as the Gmail client. This app is a must have for YM fans.

48. Ticketmaster – Out with the guys making plans to hit the next Yankees home game? Lots of mobile sites let you get concert and sports event info on the go, but few make it as easy to buy tickets on the spot as Ticketmaster for BlackBerry. Within moments, I was able to bring up plenty of events and check available seating for different ticket configurations—that is, once I scrolled past pages and pages of legalese. (Man, what a buzzkill!)

49. Bloomberg – This isn’t your garden-variety Web shortcut. Bloomberg offers a condensed version of the classic black Bloomberg terminal screen, with detailed indices, graphs, and moving currency data, along with an up-to-date index of top worldwide financial news stories. As useful as it is, you may want to limit your exposure given the depressing state of today’s

50. MySpace – Facebook may be winning the buzz race these days, but MySpace is still pulling in well over 50 million unique visitors each month. It’s similar to the Facebook app; users can send messages, update mood and status, view or send bulletins, and post photos. It’s also faster and easier to navigate than the site’s WAP page.

via blackberrybonanza.com

Turn your BlackBerry into a Wired or Wireless Mouse and Keyboard with MobiMouse!

MobiMouse supports USB, Bluetooth, WiFi and Mobile connections.

Mobimouse allows you to control the Windows cursor with your BlackBerry trackball or the touchpad on your BlackBerry Storm.

NEW! Version 1.5 has “Motion Control” which lets you control the cursor by tilting your BlackBerry Storm!

Press the trackball for left click and the escape key for right click.

You can even adjust the Windows volume control using the volume keys on your BlackBerry or press the mute key on your BlackBerry to mute the sound.

Mobimouse supports full use of the BlackBerry keyboard. You can type on your Blackberry it will show up in whatever Windows application your are currently using.

MobiMouse allows you to assign Windows Applications & Shortcuts to BlackBerry convenience keys. For example, you can launch Windows Media Player, iTunes, PowerPoint, or even a DVR application right from your BlackBerry! You can also assign shortcuts to close an application, open the default Browser, Task Manger, and many more!

Use the “Arrow Mode” in the menu to simulate pressing the arrow keys on the Keyboard. This is great for controlling a program guide on your Media PC or navigating a spreadsheet or menu that typically use the arrow keys.

Version 1.3 of MobiMouse has password support for IP Networks and supports connections via most mobile networks.

MobiMouse is great for a Windows Media PC or for giving presentations with PowerPoint.

Don’t carry a mouse around with your notebook – use MobiMouse!

Features:

• NEW! Motion Control using Accelerometer (Storm only)
• Tap touchscreen to show/hide keyboard (storm only)
• Access Scroll & Drag Mode from the Menu
• Click & Hold Trackball or Touchscreen for Drag Mode
• Assign Apps & Shortcuts to the BlackBerry Escape Key
• Simulate Scroll Wheel with Alt+Trackball (Trackball devices only)
• Full Screen Portrait & Landscape mode on Storm
• Connect using the mobile network
• Use Arrow Mode to simulate pressing Arrow Keys
• Adjust the Backlight Brightness and Timeout
• Options to Hibernate, Suspend or Logoff the PC
• Assign Windows Apps & Shortcuts to Convenience Keys
• Remotely Control a Windows PC
• Wired or Wireless Control
• Move the cursor with the trackball or touch screen
• Control Windows Master Volume
• Escape key to right click
• Works with USB, Bluetooth, WiFi & Mobile
• Support most Windows Bluetooth Stacks
• Works with Windows 32 & 64 bit systems
• No need to carry extra mouse with laptop
• Use MobiMouse with your Media PC
• Use MobiMouse for PowerPoint Presentations
• Use MobiMouse to type on the keyboard

Minimum Requirements:

• BlackBerry OS 4.5 or Greater (4.5.0.80 for WiFi)
• Windows 7, Vista, XP or 2K w/ .NET Framework 2.0+
• BlackBerry desktop software or USB drivers for USB
• Built in bluetooth or bluetooth Adapter for Bluetooth
• WiFi enabled PC & BlackBerry on a WLAN for WiFi
• Data plan & port forwarding for mobile connections
• How To Turn Off Word Completion (Storm w/ 5.0)
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• Home Screen > Options > Language and Text Input
• Change Input Style to “Auto Correction”
• You must enter your BlackBerry PIN on the order form when purchasing this product. The PIN is an 8 digit code used to identify your BlackBerry; it may contain letters as well as numbers. If you do not enter your PIN correctly on the order form, your registration code will not work.

Display Dimensions
160×160, 240×160, 240×240, 240×260, 240×320, 320×240, 480×320, 480×360
Operating System
4.5, 4.6, 4.7 Non-Touch, 4.7 Touch Screen, 5.0 Non-Touch, 5.0 Touch Screen

Price: $9.99
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Now that the BlackBerry Curve 8530 has made its way to the CDMA carriers, Sprint and Verizon, you might be wondering how it stacks up against the BlackBerry Tour. engadget mobile has a nice walk through of the devices and their features that is worth the read.

In general the BlackBerry Curve line is a lower end line when compared to the Bold and Tour. The Bold and Tour are more “professional” lines with nice rubber back and chrome accents.

If you’re a Sprint customer you might have a hard time choosing between the two as the Curve 8530 has WiFi while the Tour does not. The Curve also has the new optical trackpad while the Tour has the trackball. If they ever release a Tour 2 that includes WiFi and the optical trackpad the choice will be clear. Until then, some users may prefer the Curve 8530 – via blackberryblast.com

Datepedia is the ultimate BlackBerry calendar companion with hundreds of dates for national holidays, religious holidays, sporting events and more! Simply select dates and export them to your BlackBerry calendar at the click of a button.

Need to remember a birthday or anniversary? Now you can add your own dates at any time so you’ll never forget that important event! Not sure if Valentine’s Day is Saturday or Sunday this year? With Datepedia in your phone you’ll never have to wonder again!

• View dates for national holidays from multiple countries including US, UK, India, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and more
• View Christian, Jewish and Islamic religious holidays including descriptions of each holiday
• View dates for major sporting events including BCS Bowl Games, Golf Major Events, Tennis Grand Slam, Auto Racing, Olympics, World Cup Finals and more
• View dates for multiple years including 2009 and 2010
• Keep track of personal events such as birthdays and anniveraries while on the go
• Choose from multipe export options to save Datepedia events to your BlackBerry calendar
• View event dates in List View or Calendar Month View with day of week for each event
• Quickly search for any dates by category or name, and filter search by year for faster look-up
• Includes option for viewing all events or upcoming events only

via mobatech.com

When you’re in the market for a new BlackBerry is security your number one priority?  Probably not but if you’re one of those people who like to keep your data secure then you should already know about the BlackBerry firewall.  I am willing to bet there are lots of BlackBerry owners who don’t even know the firewall exists.  This is because RIM now ships their phones with the firewall disabled by default but this wasn’t always the case.
Older BlackBerry devices came with the firewall already enabled so at one point or another you knew it was there.  The new firewall settings are due in large part to the BlackBerry becoming more of an everyday smartphone as opposed to just a business one.  RIM has also beefed up the security software and there are now a bunch of new security features.  With that being said, is the BlackBerry firewall even necessary anymore?
As BlackBerry smartphones continue to evolve so will the hackers and they will not stop until they find a way to break into your phone.  The safest way to protect against them is keep your firewall enabled at all times.  This is a no brainer for those of you on the BES because one little intrusion could bring down the whole network.  For the rest of us it’s really a question of how secure you want your BlackBerry to be.
Most people think that the BlackBerry firewall only blocks incoming messages like SMS or MMS texts but in reality it does much more than that.  Even if you have those options turned off the firewall is still running in the background giving you that extra security.  One of the biggest threats to your BlackBerry is third party applications that could potentially inject unwanted spyware into your phone.  This is why the firewall will notify you when you launch a third party app to ask if it’s trusted or not.  It may not be huge deal right now but in the future the firewall will be the only way these attacks are prevented. By Justin , via berryreporter.com

Ever wonder how much time you spend    sending messages on your BlackBerry? How about the amount of time you play Word Mole? A handful of applications will provide you with a rough breakdown, but none I’ve seen are quite as elegant as SmrtMonitor. It’s from the makers of SmrtGuard, a wireless backup and remote tracking service for BIS users. The application tracks how much time you spend on each BlackBerry application and then presents it in a number of formats.

When you open the program you’ll see a list of your most used BlackBerry applications. This includes the amount of time you’ve spend on the application, plus a percentage breakdown. The user in the sample screen shot, you can see, spends about 45 percent of his BlackBerrying time in the messages app. He also likes to remind himself that he spends that much time on his Berry, apparently, because he spends 11 percent of his time on SmrtGuard.

The application provides further detailed information on each application, including the minimum, maximum, and average session times, dates of your first and last usage, and a breakdown by day of the week. You can also sort your master list by different categories, including most and least time, most and least frequent, and most and least recent. SmrtGuard allows you to reset the timer for each application at any time.

If you’re interested in your BlackBerry usage breakdown, you can get SmrtMonitor for $3.99 until December 31. If you aren’t interested, you can find out why I find the name SmrtMonitor so funny. By Joe, via bbgeeks.com

Business communication has taken a number of developments to reach the wider spectrum of customer base. The more instant data is transferred the more profit higher the stake value grows. Internet and smart phones have taken a key role in a business conversation. However, security is also a major concern in data transfer which can break down business secrets. Blackberry is one of the most preferred mobile phone to access internet using mobile broadband

There are a number of security features in a blackberry internet service.

1. A highly secured connection is established in a blackberry browser using SSL encryption. This helps us to protect data against identity theft and unauthorized usage of authentic data. SSL encryption is indicated by a closed lock icon in the upper right hand corner of the browser.

2. Email and instant messages sent using a blackberry use a wireless network encryption provided the messaging server also should support SSL encryption. Email attachments can be protected by turning on the content protection feature.

3. The built in firewall in your blackberry device can be configured to block unencrypted and PIN text messages.

4. Spam email messages can be either blocked using the anti-spam protector or by turning on the email message filter.

5. Login information for the blackberry internet service website is protected using a SSL encryption which protects the username, password and unauthorized access to the account.

6. Blackberry features a password keeper which can help to save all the passwords of the blackberry device. So it’s more than enough to remember just the password of the ‘password keeper.’

7. Content protection allows two types of protection levels: Stronger and Strongest. The first uses a 12 character device password for encryption while the second uses 21 characters.

8. All the data in the media card can be encrypted using the ‘encrypt media file’ option.

9. Locating the GPS information of the blackberry users can block the options like access to third party applications, all third party application, turn off GPS, or blackberry maps if not required.

10. All device applications have an inbuilt virus and spy ware protection which scans all files that is opened in the device to prevent spreading of the malicious codes.

The device is designed to overwrite and frequently clean the cache memory that can help remove unwanted programs. Moreover all data stored manually or automatically by the applications will be deleted permanently if the login password in typed incorrectly for more than 10 times. All these security features have made blackberry one of the preferred communication equipment in the market ofbroadband in UK

Tips And Tricks For New BlackBerry Storm Users
via storm-reviews.co.uk- How to information on highlighting and selecting,  scrolling, moving between items, zooming and panning, songs and videos, camera, menus and keys on the Blackberry Storm.
Highlighting And Selecting Text On The BlackBerry Storm
To highlight an item, touch the screen lightly. To select an item or to place the cursor, click
(press) the screen. To cut or copy text and paste it into an application, simultaneously touch the screen before and after the text that you want to copy. Click the cut or copy icon at the bottom of the screen. Place the cursor where you want to insert the cut or copied text. Press the Menu key. Click Paste.

Scrolling On The BlackBerry Storm
To scroll down, slide your finger up. To scroll up, slide your finger down.

Moving Between Items On The BlackBerry Storm
To move to the next item, slide your finger to the left quickly. To move to the previous item, slide your finger to the right quickly.

Zooming And Panning On The BlackBerry Storm
To zoom into a picture or web page, click the screen. To zoom out from a picture or web page,
press the key. To pan a picture, slide your finger in any direction.

Playing Songs And Videos On The BlackBerry Storm
To pause or resume playing a song or video, press the Mute key. To increase or decrease the volume, press the Volume Up key or the Volume Down key. To play the next or previous song in a category, hold the Volume Up key or the Volume Down key.

How To Use The BlackBerry Storm Camera
To zoom in to or out from a subject, press the Volume Up key or the Volume Down key. To lock focus on a subject before you take a picture, press the Right Convenience key halfway. To take a picture, press the Right Convenience key.

How To Use The BlackBerry Storm Menus And Keys
To type a letter, click (press) the letter key. To hide the keyboard, slide your finger down.

To open a menu in any application to access options and available actions, press the key. To close a menu or move back a screen, press the key. To lock the screen or device, press the Lock key. To return to the Home screen, press the key.

Bell has officially rolled out their new HSPA network across Canada, and with that launch came two new BlackBerry smartphones. Bell has launched the classic BlackBerry Bold 9000, as well the new Bold 9700. Both should be available in stores starting today. Pricing starts $249 with three year term for the Bold 9000, and $229 with three year term for the Bold 9700. Something seems a little odd with the Bold 9000 pricing, as its listed higher than the new Bold. Stay tuned we’re looking into that. Meanwhile check out all the details and plans at Bell.ca.

By James, via blackberrysync.com

Celio Corp today announced that its REDFLY Mobile Companion is now compatible with select BlackBerry smartphones. The REDFLY for BlackBerry software driver is available to download today.

The REDFLY Mobile Companion is not a computer; it’s simply a large screen and full keyboard for a smartphone. With the REDFLY, BlackBerry smartphone customers now have the ability to increase their productivity typing long emails, editing documents, browsing web content and more using their existing smartphone applications and data plan.

Productivity is top of mind these days for mobile professionals, and according to the latest research by the technology economists at OMNI Consulting Group, this poses a key inflection point in the evolution of smartphone technology.

“Across the host of economic factors that matter most in selecting a technology such as REDFLY, the net improvement of productivity remains decisive in choosing a platform that enhances the ability to accomplish more work output with existing smartphone investments.” said Frank J. Bernhard, managing principal of the supply chain and telecommunications practice at OMNI Consulting Group. “Case data shows this trend to be positive in how users can actualize their fullest potential of the BlackBerry smartphone itself.”

“BlackBerry is a leader in the smartphone market and has an overwhelming acceptance among business users,” said Kirt Bailey, president and CEO of Celio Corp. “We’re confident that BlackBerry smartphone customers will enjoy the convenience of using REDFLY’s larger screen and keyboard to type emails, browse the Internet, and edit documents.”

The REDFLY Mobile Companion comes in two models – the C8N and C7 – and has a large screen, full QWERTY keyboard, touchpad, up to an 8-hour battery, and USB, VGA and media ports. The REDFLY has no OS, storage or processor, but uses the BlackBerry smartphone’s computing power to give users the ability to interact with the smartphone’s familiar user interface on an 800×480 resolution display. The REDFLY is currently also compatible with more than 60 Windows Mobile devices.

At launch, the REDFLY is supporting the BlackBerry Bold 9000, BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphones. The driver for BlackBerry smartphones is offered free-of-charge for existing and new REDFLY Mobile Companion C8N and C7 owners and can be downloaded at http://m.celiocorp.com/install.

via blackberryblast.com