Showing posts with label blackberry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blackberry. Show all posts

10.26.2009

Pre-Order the InPulse Blackberry SmartWatch Today


The InPulse Blackberry SmartWatch is up for pre-order now. The watch sells for $150 and connects to your Blackberry via Bluetooth. It allows you to check email, text messages and twitter feed without having to take your your phone. It also gives you an alert and vibrates when your phone receives a call. The watch can display partial messages on its OLED screen such as caller id, email titles, texts and calendar events.

8.04.2009

Preview of Blackberry Desktop Manager for Mac


Crackberry lists the functions that will be available on the new Blackberry Desktop Manager for Mac that comes out in September.
  • Integrated Media Sync for iTunes
  • Backup and Restore
  • Install/Remove 3rd party applications
  • Ability to automatically sync multiple iCal calendars
  • Ability to sync with Entourage
  • Ability to sync multiple devices on multiple Macs
  • Event settings for syncing (which device calendar to sync with, merge etc.)
  • Automatically detects new carrier released OS updgrades for devices
  • Abiltity to rename a device and view available free device memory

7.27.2009

Blackberry Curve 8520 to Have Out of the Box Mac Capability


RIM has introduced the new Blackberry Curve 8520 on their website showing off the brand spanking new out of the box Mac compatibility. We already know that Blackberry Desktop Manager is coming to Macs in September, but the 8520 is slated to come out on August 5. Not sure if that means that the release date is off by a month or if the new Mac software will be released early. The software will allow Mac users to sync contacts, calendars and notes to their favorite Blackberrys.

7.20.2009

RIM: Blackberry Desktop Manager Coming to Mac in September


Great, superduper, awesome, amazing news for Blackberry/Mac users. According to RIM, the Blackberry Desktop Manager will finally be coming to Macs this September. Go to blackberry.com/mac to sign up for updates on this including notification during it's release.

7.10.2009

NYC Exit Strategy App Gets You In and Out of the Subways Quick


The NYC Exit Strategy App for the iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Kindle makes finding the correct route to your destination very easy. All you have to do is choose your destination or what line you want to use and it will give you all the possible entrances and exits. It even has notices for handicap-accessible stations. Never have to look at a crappy, confusing, crowded subway map again! Not to mention, it tells you which subway car to sit in, so that you can get out at the stairs closest to your destination. It sells for $2, totally a fair price to pay for the time you'll save. [Gizmodo]

4.06.2009

Proof of Apple's Intelligence: U2 to Design Blackberrys


Apple and U2 were once a happy couple until earlier this year when RIM sponsored the new U2 tour. Turns out, the rock group and Blackberry maker are more than that. According to Bono:

I’m very excited about this. Research In Motion is going to give us what Apple wouldn’t — access to their labs and their people so we can do something really spectacular.

Good move by Apple for letting U2 go. Let them go and ruin the competition.

As the iPhone Blog says:

Memo to Bono: you are not a product engineer. While you may also have a pseudo-Britannic accent, you’re certainly not Jonathan Ive. You’re a singer; and just lucky enough to live in a time when singers make tons of money rather than getting spoiled fruit thrown at them. Let’s try putting this in a context you might better understand:

Steve Jobs said U2 is letting him do what John Mayer never would: go into the recording studio and solo on their new album…