What you must know about Blackberry smartphones
While many are familiar with BlackBerry's legendary email service, not many will think of BlackBerry smartphones as being capable of delivering "fun" - yet you could say that they are quite functional smarties! BlackBerry smartphones were originally designed to be powerful communication devices that pushed your email to you, while keeping all your contact and calendar information synchronised between your office and your cellphone.
They have since become much more powerful, delivering push email, full internet browsing, GPS navigation and multimedia functionality. The latest models go much further, bringing many experiences to your BlackBerry, CNN, Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Flickr are just a few of the applications that now keep you connected to online social networks, using your BlackBerry:
You can now take Facebook with you, wherever you go, on your BlackBerry smartphone. You can: - Send and receive messages, wall posts, and pokes, plus accept new friend requests;
- Update your Facebook status and view the status of your friends;
- Snap a photo with your BlackBerry srnartphone's camera, then post, tag and comment on it;
- Enjoy the familiar Facebook environment optimised for your BlackBerry smartphone. - Facebook for BlackBerry can be downloaded from: blackberry.com/facebook.
GOOGLE TALK
- Send and receive instant messages with friends, family and colleagues in the Google Talk community while you're on the go;
- Google Talk for BlackBerry smartphones can be downloaded from blackberry.com/googletalk.
YAHOO! FOR BLACKBERRY SMARTPHONES
Yahoo! Go for mobile on your BlackBerry smartphone offers an integrated, full range of Yahoo!'s products in a single easy-to-use experience for BlackBerry users, including
- Yahoo! Mail;
- Yahoo! Search;
- Yahoo! Messenger;
- Yahoo! for BlackBerry can be downloaded from: mobile.yahoo.com/blackberry.
FLICKR
- Flickr Photo Uploader for BlackBerry smartphones lets you share your world. This handy new software application runs on BlackBerry smartphones and provides a great mobile experience to users of the popular Flickr social utility.
- You can snap a pic with your BlackBerry smartphone and instantly share it using the Flickr photo management and sharing application.
- This mobile photo uploader is designed to offer the same features and functions you're used to using on your computer. And, because of the familiar BlackBerry smartphone keyboard, menus and prompts, it's easy to learn, fun to use and it's free. - Uploading photos is easy snap a picture, put in the right album, tag it, and even adjust its size. Then post it wit quick clicks.
- If you're using a smartphone with GPS you can even geotag images so that people who look at your pictures can tell where you uploaded them.
WIKIMOBILE ON BLACKBERRY
Become a walking encyclopaedia. Win bets, settle arguments and dazzle people practically any time, anywhere. With WikiMobile on your BlackBerry smartphone, you'll have access to all two million Wikipedia articles, including pictures and quick facts. Visit wapedia.mobi/en to download.
