Blackberry Battle – The Blackberry Pearl Vs. the Blackberry 8800

So you’re in the market for a smartphone, and you’ve finally decided to take the plunge, and you’re down to two fine offerings: the Blackberry Pearl, or the newer, slimmer, Blackberry 8800. Which one will suit your needs and personality best? A quick comparison will tell the tale.

The Blackberry Basics

First impressions are often the most important, and at a glance, these two Blackberries are quite similar. Both the Blackberry Pearl and the Blackberry 8800 feature the distinctive RIM Blackberry candy-bar design, with smooth, rounded edges and chrome accents. The Blackberry Pearl is slightly narrower than the 8800, although the Blackberry 8800 has a slightly slimmer profile. Both smartphones are outfitted with a keyboard, although the 8800’s is a full-sized QWERTY keyboard, compared to the Pearl’s truncated (but fully functional) SureType keyboard. Both feature a 240 x 260 pixel, 65,000 color display and the new Blackberry trackball navigation (as compared to the jog dial of older Blackberry models).

The Blackberry Pearl: Superior Messaging, Superior Style

Both the Blackberry 8800 and the Blackberry Pearl feature mobile web browsing, with full HTML and one-touch access, as well as multimedia messaging (with an optional add-on plan). Text / SMS messaging and email are also fully supported on both Blackberries. The Blackberry 8800 features RIM’s trademark “push” real-time email, and has the ability to integrate with up to ten POP, IMAP, or SMTP accounts. As far as instant messaging is concerned, the Blackberry 8800 comes with Blackberry Messenger, whereas the Pearl adds Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk pre-loaded with the smartphone. If you’re a heavy user of Google Talk or Yahoo! Messenger, this gives the Blackberry Pearl a definite edge. The Blackberry Pearl also wins on style points, as it comes in several distinctive colors, including black, white, and a vibrant red.

The GPS Advantage: Blackberry 8800

In terms of office capabilities, both the Blackberry Pearl and the Blackberry 8800 can open Word and Excel documents, PDFs, and PowerPoint presentations that are attached to emails. Both cell phones come with full Bluetooth hands-free support and are data-capable, meaning either cell phone can be used as a wireless modem.

Now that we’ve firmly established that these two Blackberries have plenty in common, let’s talk about where they part ways. The Blackberry Pearl’s most immediate advantage over the 8800 would have to be the built-in digital camera. The Pearl’s built-in camera phone is 1.3 megapixels, with a 1280 x 1040 maximum resolution, built-in flash, and 5x digital zoom.

However, the Pearl lacks a built-in GPS solution, which is where the Blackberry 8800 really shines. While the Blackberry Pearl can be made GPS-capable with a separate TeleNav GPS receiver, the Blackberry 8800 comes with integrated GPS built into the smartphone. The 8800 requires no extra equipment — only access to a location-based service like TeleNav GPS Navigator. The Blackberry 8800 also features color maps and text or voice-guided driving directions right on the cell phone, making it invaluable for travelers. (The service does cost extra, $9.99 a month or $5.99 for 10 trips.)

If you’re planning on using your Blackberry to listen to music, you’ll find either model will suit your needs. The Blackberry 8800 and the Blackberry Pearl both play music and video files, supporting MPEG4, H.263 video formats and MP3 and AAC (iTunes Music Store) formats. Note that while the 8800 will play video files, it can’t actually capture any; if you want to watch video on your Blackberry, you can use a MicroSD memory card or USB 2.0 to transfer files to it.

The Smart(phone) Choice

Plainly, both Blackberries have plenty to offer the business or casual user. The Blackberry Pearl’s inclusion of a digital camera does aim it slightly more towards everyday use, while the Blackberry 8800’s GPS capabilities make it the perfect choice for someone who’s on the road a great deal. The Blackberry 8800 is also ideal if your workplace prohibits the use of camera phones. With the rich features available on both models, however, both are excellent choices.

Blackberry Strom vs Smartphones

Nowadays, mobile phones have impacted extremely on the minds of the youth. The Latest Mobile Phones come enhanced with high end specifications such as music players, strong battery, video cameras and many more and that too at a very affordable price. As the technology is getting advanced gradually, numerous latest features are being added to enhance the mobile phones. A large number of popular mobile phone brands have entered into the competition to provide hi-tech handsets with attractive looks. The Nokia, Samsung, Blackberry, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG etc. are some of the manufacturers that are available in the mobile phone industry.

The BlackBerry is a brand that captures all attention with its stunning smart phones.. However, its handsets are gaining enormous popularity among users. Whereas, its easy to use features compliment all the latest mobiles of BlackBerry. The latest gadgets of BlackBerry are Curve 8900, Strom 9500, Pearl Flip 34 etc.

Here is some comparison of Blackberry Strom with Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Curve, and Blackberry Tour. Blackberry Strom models has been alluring the aspirants with a wide touch screen that displays with Half VGA resolution 480 x 320 pixel color display and all other models with High resolution 480 x 360 pixel color. The Blackberry Bold handset has a strong hold as it weighs 4.8 oz/136g whereas curve has 3.9 oz/109.9g and tour has 130g (including battery).

The camera enables users to capture pictures and record memorable moments flawlessly. The BlackBerry Storm 9500 comes in sophisticated black colour. The device allows high speed connectivity through Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE and USB, and internet facility with high speed browser like HTML and WAP2.0. The device has 128MB of internal memory with MicroSD card for further enhancement

Smart Phone- Blackberry

These days, having a mobile phone is not a big deal. These fantastic devices are everywhere and almost every individual is using these devices for different purposes. People are so crazy about these tiny gadgets that they cannot survive even a single day without their mobile phones. In the highly competitive market there are many brands that are releasing mobile phones. BlackBerry and LG are two of the prominent brands that are highly acclaimed by their users for its sophisticated business phones.

However, in the smartphones category, one name that immediately comes to mind is the BlackBerry. From the very beginning of its presence in the market, this leading brand is popular among the users for its high end smart phones. The BlackBerry Pearl 8110, BlackBerry Curve 8310 and BlackBerry Storm 9500 are some of the latest BlackBerry mobile phones that already created buzz among business professionals and youngsters. The BlackBerry Pearl 8110 is a trendy smart phone that comes embedded with highly efficient features like QWERTY keypad, A GPS, Document viewer and many more interesting applications. With the high-end features and compact design, the BlackBerry Storm 9500 is another 3G enabled touch screen phone that is filled with useful features like 3.2 mega pixel camera, Wireless Email and Quad Band technology. These small yet useful gadgets have completely changed our lives. Undoubtedly, in the present scenario mobile phones have eased the tasks of modern people.

Applications For Blackberry Phones

With the smart phone market heating up, if you’re agonizing over having to choose between an iPhone, a BlackBerry, or an Android, will make your life even more difficult. Palm has come back from the dead, and the Pre smart phone heralds that resurrection in style.

If you build applications for BlackBerry phones, you’ll want to know for some great information on debugging your mobile apps. Well No need to here and there, just look at the developers of Rapidsoft Technologies. They are expert in developing many Blackberry applications as well as iPhone and Android Applications.

BlackBerry App World

Blackberry is announcing that its going to open the App store for the blackberry mobile devices very soon, with everything that would be handled within its interface and apps would be sold without any 3rd media sources. No exact date has been given for the launch of App World but it is scheduled for some time in March 2009.
The online store most probably known as BlackBerry App World, will starting providing games, networking software and music applications as soon as the store is launched.

Blackberry Storm

The BlackBerry Storm is the sort of phone I imagine most of us would like to own, only because it’s an inspired piece of machinery that tells me a great deal about the emotions, beliefs and dreams that were behind its creation. The

BlackBerry Storm is a smartphone, and within that simple explanation are so many inspirations that, as a handset, it’s interesting — even when it’s just sitting on the table, doing nothing.Storm has applications such as AOL and Yahoo Messenger, Facebook, Flickr, and Myspace available on the device. Although not outstanding, this little masterpiece lets you do all the things a great bit of technology should. All the usual features are there, but now they’ve added taps, multi-touches, slides and an accelerometer, which allows you to switch between portrait and landscape mode ( something the iPhone already has, sure, but at least this phone sends MMSs). Oh, and with portrait mode, you have BlackBerry’s SureType keyboard, but when in landscape, it transforms into qwerty — a full-on PC keyboard.

The BlackBerry Storm is arguably one of the most innovative smartphones to come out of Research in Motion for some time, but that clicking touchscreen could be more fragile that you’d like.

The new BlackBerry Storm can indeed compete with other leading cell phone models. Its amazing features make it very practical, convenient, and easy to use. It can be bought at 580 USD or 27, 990 INR.

Which would you choose the Blackberry Storm, the Curve 8900 or the Bold?

If you are thinking about obtaining a Blackberry smartphone there are many to choose from, obviously the current top three are the BlackBerry Storm, the BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900, so which do you choose?

Hmm, Difficult decision!!! So what to do now….. Let’s describe the features of all one by one. May be that will help us in decision making… Today I am explaining the features of Blackberry Curve 8900.

Best 8900 features:

3.2 megapixel camera – no more “blurryworld” memories. Produces an excellent picture

Flash memory – I have at least 100MB free all the time on the 8900 – it leaks from 115MB to about 100MB. On the Bold, I would memory leak from 35MB free to zero sometimes. And this comparison is essentially with the same apps and messages installed.

Screen is more fun to look at!

The downside: I mistype maybe 20 more individual letters a day than the Bold, over many mails and messages, due to the smaller kepyboard on the 8900. It’s not a deal kiler, as long as there’s spellcheck.

The speed of 3g on the Bold, is not THAT drastically faster than EDGE, and, the hit in 3g battery life for me is for sure not worth it.

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Blackberry Software Development

Blackberry Software Development mainly works on two platforms, J2ME and MDS. But I m confused when to use which. Ohh Great Problem for me …Unable to decide in which situation I have to use J2Me or MDS….
Hey Got the Answer!!!!!!

The Blackberry Solution is being used in many organizations to access mobile email and personal information. A less know option for getting the most from BlackBerry is to develop software for the BlackBerry solution.

J2Me and MDS are two main software platforms that can be used in developing for BlackBerry Applications:

J2ME

BlackBerry devices run on RIM’s own version of J2ME, which includes additional APIs. Of the two development platforms available for BlackBerry development, J2ME is by far the most feature rich and allows the most functionality to be built in to the applications.

J2ME applications can be downloaded by users to their devices and are generally built to work regardless of the back-end platform. Common examples would include many games and other mobile applications. RIM refers to these programs as “BlackBerry Java Applications”.

MDS

BlackBerry® MDS Runtime Applications are also built for BlackBerry, but require BlackBerry backend software to run. Normally, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software can be used to provide that backend functionality. If, however, an organization wishes to use MDS on devices that will not be used to access email or personal information (for example, for field or warehouse staff), BlackBerry Enterprise Server for MDS Applications can be used as a more affordable alternative to full BES.

At this time, applications developed on MDS are not as feature rich as those developed on J2ME. Certain functions, such as Bluetooth, GPS, and complex graphics are not available. Additionally, MDS Runtime Applications cannot currently call other applications, including built in applications like contacts and the phone. Some of these features may be available in the future.

While MDS as a development platform does not have as many features, the major advantage is that it is a rapid-application development platform. Projects that might have taken months to develop on J2ME are now able to be created in weeks. Not only does this mean an idea can go from the drawing board to the field faster, it also reduces the cost of development.

Because MDS Applications are built on web services, they are ideal for building front ends for existing corporate databases. For example, if a company has a database where sales people’s leads are stored on an in-house server with a recent version of SQL Server, an MDS Application could be easily built to allow the sales person to search their prospect database from the BlackBerry while in the field.

BlackBerry Storm Launch-Bell

Not wanting to be beat by its rival Telus-Bell followed suit and also launched the BlackBerry Storm today. A press release from Bell Mobility published by CNW confirms the news and the $249.95 (3 year term with $45 voice and data combination) 2 & 1 year as well as no contract pricing was published-but we can assume it will be close the Telus’.

“Smartphones just got better at Bell as earlier today we sold our first BlackBerry Storm. Bell is offering an unbeatable 3G BlackBerry line up with the addition of the BlackBerry Storm. The BlackBerry Storm delivers a robust combination of multimedia capabilities, improved business tools and international roaming capability – all supported on the proven and trusted BlackBerry platform, and all available with a few simple taps of the screen”

Wade Oosterman, President of Bell Mobility and Chief Brand Officer for Bell.

Currently the Storm is only available at select Bell location in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) with a full launch expected for tomorrow (Dec. 11).