You’ve spent time building up your Autotext entries to make it really easy to fire off a “thank you” or “you’re welcome.” You’ve invested time in building up your Password Keeper with entries for the Jonas Brothers Fan Club and you’ve got 50+ friends on your BlackBerry Messenger. Life is good, especially because you’re on a BES and your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes are being synced back to the server. Now, a new OS pops up and you want to update. You get IT’s blessing to do this, but then you remember those parts of your BlackBerry that are going to be wiped out. When you plug your phone into your computer, fire up Desktop Manager and try to back up certain parts of your device, you get this:
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 for Verizon has been announced! You’ll be able to pick it up for the low, low price $129.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate with a new two-year contract on June 19th. You can expect a 2.0 megapixel camera, SureType keyboard, and support for 16 GB memory cards. More details? It’s all here. Anyone gonna camp out for this?
Just in time for tonight’s party, our friends over at Slacker Radio let us know that the Slacker application for BlackBerry has had a full revision jump to version 2.0. According to them, with this version, performance has been significantly addressed, producing near instantaneous song transitions and skip times. Though there will still be some dependencies on your network, play performance will get a dramatic boost.
When playing a station, you’ll notice the “next up” album art appears as you listen. When the album art appears, your skip times to the next song will be nearly instant and most all song transitions during playback will happen immediately.
If all of this sounds great to you, hit http://www.slacker.com from your BlackBerry Browser for the download of the updated version. Be sure to reboot your phone when you’re done, so the new install can clean up the old version for you.
Thank you everyone for your entries into the Slacker Radio Plus contest! We here at BlackBerry Cool do have a sense of humor and Brian pulled the right string to make us laugh. Yes it is dark and no you shouldn’t do this at home.
Here was the winning comment:
Some people are like slinkies…they are not really good for anything, but they sure bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs. I prefer some Slacker music while I watch it.
Friends, Romans, BlackBerry Nation, lend me your ears. Our friends over at Slacker Radio have a sweet deal set up just for BlackBerry Cool – a free year of Slacker Radio Plus! Slacker Radio Plus features:
* Unlimited Skips
* Unlimited Song Requests
* No Audio or Banner Ads
* Complete Lyrics – NEW!
* Over 2 Million Songs
If you’re interested in winning, drop us a line in the comments by Monday at noon CDT with something witty (haiku, anyone?) on why you should win.
If you’re a terrestrial radio gal or guy, you might recognize Clear Channel – owners of the radio airwaves in the United States. If you’ve fallen in love with one of Clear Channel’s many stations from across the USA and find yourself unable to hear your favorite stations or on-air personality, don’t fret, I Heart Radio is here! You can still listen to your favorite station via your BlackBerry now. The I Heart Radio application is available for free via the BlackBerry App World.
Are you finding that you’re getting a little soft around the mid-section from reading too many blogs and eating more than your body intended? Lance Armstrong’s foundation, LIVESTRONG is here to save you from yourself. The BlackBerry LIVESTRONG application, available now for $2.99 from the BlackBerry App World, helps you set goals for your physical fitness, including caloric intake and exercise. Check out the video above for more details.
Pyxis Mobile, better known for delivering financial applications, created something a bit more fun. Movela Netflix Manager for BlackBerry allow you to control your queue of dvd and instant video streaming. The changes made on your BlackBerry typically take about 14 seconds to be applied to your Netflix account. Check out the video for more information on the Movela Netflix Manager and Pyxis. You can pick up the app on the BlackBerry App World for $2.99
With most standalone GPS devices being of the touch screen variety, it is no surprise that the BlackBerry Storm is the perfect platform for a GPS program. Historically, Verizon only offered VZ Navigator for it’s device, including the BlackBerry Storm. As you may have seen from the video I shot during CES, Telenav has entered the arena with it’s own GPS application for the Storm. We’ve decided that it would be a great idea to give you a quick comparison between VZ Nav vs Telenav on the Storm.
Our friends at Coveroo are presenting at DEMO 2009, a conference where companies launch in front of venture capital folks, bloggers and traditional media. In between the sessions, Coveroo was taking people’s phones and using their laser etching to customize attendees phones. Not one to pass up a cool deal, I handed over my Sprint BlackBerry Curve to go under the Coveroo (friggin’) laser (beams). About two minutes later, I had what you see above. Coveroo is now etching on about 60 new additional devices as of today as well as adding in finishes such as metal and glow in the dark. I’m quite pleased with the end product, check them out on their website and be sure to tell them that BlackBerry Cool sent you!
