Kiwis rejoice, the BlackBerry 8830 is coming your way from Telecom New Zealand. Previously, Vodafone usually brought the BlackBerrys in, who’s currently carrying the Pearl and GPS Curve, but now New Zealanders will be able to enjoy a bit of variety in their BlackBerry options. On top of the device, Telecom will also be offering BES service to any corporate customers looking to get a BlackBerry rollout.
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BlackBerry 8830 coming to New Zealand
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RIM has recently settled on Irving, Texas as their American headquarters, and will be hiring upwards of 1,000 folks over the next few years while the expansion is underway. We might end up seeing some of those positions on BlackBerry Jobs, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled, job-hunters. The address for the HQ will be Las Colinas’ Riverside Commons, 5000 Riverside Drive, Brazos Building East, Irving, Texas 75039, if any local readers want to swing by and let us know how the new place is coming along. You can scope out the bird’s eye view here, or find more information about the area here.
Although RIM’s third quarter numbers aren’t being released for another 3 days, Canalys’ shipping data has revealed that the iPhone has already beaten Windows Mobile’s market share in North America, but BlackBerry still holds on to the top dog status. The iPhone’s 27% capture of the smartphone market is especially surprising considering it’s still not in Canada or Mexico, and is limited to only AT&T. While North America’s a huge market, it’s a big world, and if the numbers included international results, the picture would look just a little different. It’ll be interesting to see what Q4 looks like after the Christmas sales have all been tallied up…
Rumour has it that the BlackBerry 8120 is coming to T-Mobile on February 18th., after the standard Pearl stock gets purged from the holiday rush. The FCC filing last month for the Wi-Fi Pearl would suggest an upcoming release, and this very well could be it. It would be the first we see of it in North America, and would give GSM carriers a little something to compete against all those 8130s kicking around these days. Keep an eye out for this in gray.
Josep just spotted an outstanding new program called MiniMoni, which gives you a nice, detailed report about your BlackBerry data usage. As someone who’s been known to go over the limit a few times, I can definitely appreciate the usefulness of this app, even if it’s just in beta. If you’re in the same boat, you can download MiniMoni for free at www.ehnert.net/MiniMoni/MiniMoni.jad, or onto your desktop from here. I’d really like to see all the kinks in this one worked out to make this a fully-polished product, so report any bugs over at BlackBerry Forums.
This is too cool. Some folks right here in Ottawa have networked their Christmas lights together so that not only do they work together to make patterns, but they’ve made it web-accessible so that folks online can change the lighting scheme. The best part? They’ve designed it to work with the BlackBerry browser so you can change the lightning mode right from your handheld. On top of that, the software uses XML tags which allow anyone else in the world to sync up with the project. Effing amazing. We’re gonna swing by soon and get you guys some more footage of Calico Crescent in action.
Me Inc.’s postcard-sending service, Shout Postcard, launched its beta last month on the Curve, and is now available for Pearl. With Christmas right around the corner, this is great timing, since it allows you to send quick, personal, spur-of-the-moment postcards using sound recording and pictures taken with your BlackBerry. This way you could send thank you cards to distant relatives who might have shipped a present in, or last minute best wishes to folks you had forgotten in the all the holiday hubbub.
The comic strip Pearls Before Swine took a few potshots at BlackBerry users this weekend. If they weren’t so accurate, I might have taken offense.
Over the weekend Oman Mobile announced its first BlackBerrys, offering the 8100, 8700 and 8800 at launch. Emitac, RIM’s usual partner in the area, helped set up Oman Mobile with the release after bringing the 8800 to Kuwait and Uganda earlier this year. It’s interesting that the 8700 wasn’t shouldered out by the 8800; you’d think that the Curve would better round out the lineup, but having two tiers of business flavours does offer something for mass enterprise rollout as well as higher-end executive deployment.
Mentat is a lightweight task management system based on the growingly-popular Getting Things Done philosophy. BlackBerry software is paired up with a web client to help organize tasks into categories, assign them to particular people, update status, leave comments, and plenty more. It’s a solid step up from the built-in Tasks application primarily by virtue of sharing a daily agenda with others and being able to communicate about those projects. There are some basic things that Tasks has that would be really great to see in Mentat, but it’s still in beta and features are being added on an ongoing basis.
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