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On the left we have placed a link for all of you who are considering to purchase Cingular’s BlackBerry Pearl. It seems to be a great offer to get $450 (90%) OFF! To be honest, I currently do not own a Pearl for myself but I am considering to purchase one soon.

Even T-Mobile’s BlackBerry Pearl (right) is already listed at Amazon. But there is no price yet and so we hope it will be ‘purchaseable’ soon. However, the site gives more information on why there is no price:
“The “click for price” message indicates an additional discount is in effect, and this discount is calculated in the Shopping Cart. You can see this price by clicking the product name and then selecting the Add to Cart button on the product information page. Please be assured that simply adding an item to your cart does not obligate you to buy it–you can always delete the item from your cart if you decide not to purchase it.”

Interesting, isn’t it?

Anyway, hope you feel happy about our link service for your convenience

Related Links:
BlackBerry Pearl Video Creator - Customer Reviews
BlackBerry Pearl - An iPod Rival?
BlackBerry Pearl: Optimized Classic Videos for Download
BlackBerry Pearl at Vodafone
GPS Mapping Tool Supports the BlackBerry Pearl!
Pearl Software Review: Create your own BlackBerry Videos!

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There seems to be great news for German GTD enthusiastics who own (or plan to own) a BlackBerry. Since a long time NextAction! - the only straight GTD implementation for BlackBerry - is the market leading application. Now you can get the German version of NextAction! as well.

Not only the German language support has been added. The most important new feature (complete list below) is the “Notes Support” which was a big shortcoming since the notes are used by many Microsoft Outlook users to add some more information to a task. Moreover, I like the direct and quick access to all essential functions of the program. Shortcuts to create, delete, rename, hide/unhide contexts as well as shortcuts for the navigation.

As there is nothing like this on the market yet, I guess our German reader will be happy to hear that. The new version is tagged as NextAction! 1.6.1 and brings some new features like:

• German language localization
• Notes support
• SPACE to mark a next action as done/undone
• “n” to add a new task
• “c” switch to contexts
• Contexts: SPACE hide/unhide selected context
• Contexts: ENTER rename context
• Add/Edit next action: save next action
• Contexts: “n” add new context
• “e” context up
• “x” context down
• DELETE deletes the selected next action
• Contexts: DELETE deletes the selected context, tasks will remain but disassociated from the context
• Configurable delete confirmation for next actions
• Configurable delete confirmation for contexts

The English speaking user community of NextAction! is quite impressed of its implementation of the GTD approach and therefor published a lot of testimonials and reviews. Here only two just as an excerpt:

Testemonials

User from Alpharetta, GA, USA - posted in David Allen’s GTD Forum:

“[...]I received my first BlackBerry last week and purchased / installed Next Action last evening. My first impressions are very, very positive.

The lure of email, calendar, cell and most GTD functionality in one small device is for me compelling. I’ll be working over the next couple of weeks to fully convert my paper-based (Levenger Circa) GTD implementation to the BlackBerry.[...]“

Dave from Toronto, Canada - posted in BlackBerryForums.com:

“I recently bought NextAction. I’m not connected with the vendor in any way.

It’s cheaper throught their site than handango “next-action.com” [...]

Basically, it does what is promised. Saves time and keystrokes which is valuable to me on a handheld device with a reduced keyboard (I have 7130e).

I like the ability to hide categories that are not relevant to GTD tasks. The synching with Outlook task list works fine. The only shortcoming I see is that NextAction can’t see the notes field in an outlook task while the Blackberry task list can. This is not a big deal fro me as I use the Outlook task list for next actions more than projects (both used in the GTD sense).[...]“

Update 2006-11-30: For all who want to know more about Getting Things Done: Productive Talk Compilation: 8-episode podcast with GTD’s David Allen

Links:
NextAction! - The GTD Implementation - Suggestions?
Implementing Getting Things Done with your Blackberry
NextAction! (English Edition)
NextAction! (German Edition)
NextAction! (German Edition) at MobileSoftMarket - Instant Download
David Allen’s GTD Forum
BlackBerryForums.com

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My favorite GPS and mapping software now supports the UMTS BlackBerry 8707g which is only available in Asia/Pacific. So you guys out there in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, … can take advantage of your fast networks and get high speed map downloads

So here is the original quote from them:

The current version of Spot now officially supports the new Palm Treo 680 and BlackBerry 8707g if used with an external Bluetooth GPS receiver. Especially the UMTS BlackBerry 8707g brings Spot to the Asia/Pacific market with its fast UMTS networks for high-speed map downloads.

Besides, the Palm Treo 680 is now officially supported too. As - compared to the Treo 650 - there is nothing different than the price, I guess “Spot” was runnable on this device before too.

You can get the BlackBerry 8707g in Asia/Pacific at:

• Australia
  • Optus
• Hong Kong
  • 3
  • CSL
  • PCCW
• Indonesia
  • Telkomsel
  • Indosat
• Macau
  • 3
  • CTM
• Malaysia
  • Maxis
• Philippines
  • Globe
  • SMART
• Singapore
  • StarHub
  • SingTel

Looking for a Bluetooth GPS Receiver? Take a look to our Recommended BT GPS Receivers!

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Hi folks,

I just wanted to remind you that there is still a special promotion until 2006-11-30 for the free lifetime access to the BBWallpapers wallpaper database. So feel free to download it at handango

Product & Download Page



The RSS-Feed for wallpaper updates can be found here:

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I have just discovered, there are new wallpapers on the market!

Several new packages like: Animals, Baseball, Christmas, Martial Arts, Motorbikes and Porsche. I have listed these packages below and linked them for your convenience.

But don’t forget! There is still a program which allows you to an huge database of wallpapers for FREE! So don’t hesitate to check it out at handango: BBWallpapers at Handango

P.S.: If you are still considering to purchase something at the MobileSoftMarket - there is a discount code for our BlackBerryInsight readers who will get 25% OFF within this month.
Discount Code: MPXMGT (can be entered at the end of the purchase process and is valid before 2006-11-30)
P.P.S.: More info on BBWallpapers: Link

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BlackBerryInsight is proud to announce its new integrated search engine! In cooperation with Google we could be able bring this service to you - for FREE! You can find it on every page at the top of the page. No matter it is the main page, a single entry or a normal page like “Write for us”.

For those of you who have not seen it yet please take a look to the search field below:

Feel free to use it for searching anything related to the BlackBerry and Mobile Computing topic.

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I just got mail from the guys from S4BB who told me they have just released the BlackBerry Video Generator 2.0 to the world. Sounds nice as many people are using this neat tool. So the new feature list reads as followed:

Features:

• - Converting your (home) videos to a format your BlackBerry Pearl understands
• - Easy Installation
• - New User Interface
• - Better Usability
• - High Amount of Supported Formats:
  • - MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
  • - MPEG-4 in all variants including DivX, OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), XviD
  • - Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2)
  • - Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL)
  • - RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2)
  • - RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries)
  • - Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs
  • - DV video
  • - 3ivx
  • - Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2)
  • - Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs)
  • - VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL)
  • - MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
  • - FLI/FLC
  • - HuffYUV
  • - various old simple RLE-like formats

There is a promotion on the “BlackBerry Video Generator” at MobileSoftMarket. They provide a discount of 25% off within this month.

Discount Code: MPXMGT (can be entered at the end of the purchase process and is valid before 2006-11-30)
(Tip: This discount code can also be used for all other products in their shop)

There seems to be a completely new user interface:

Related Links:
BlackBerry Video Generator at MSM
BlackBerry Video Generator Product Page
BlackBerry Video Creator - A Demonstration Video
BlackBerry Pearl Video Creator - Customer Reviews
Pearl Software Review: Create your own BlackBerry Videos!l

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There was just a product review of the 8703e on the CNet channel. It is a short move of about 2 minutes that does not really cover any news we didn’t know yet.

However, the short clip is not as bad and features nice sound. There was one important thing they forgot to tell you: Sprint’s version of the 8703e has a working built-in GPS receiver unlike Verizon’s version. I still doom them for deactivating this chip!

Related Links:
CNET editors’ review
cnet.com
Special Report: BlackBerry and GPS
GPS Software for the 8703e

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News from the VoIP front!

BBCalls - the only one Jajah Client for the BlackBerry platform is released in version 1.0. It can now handle also not acurate formatted phone numbers in your address book.

You can get your free copy at: BBCalls.com

There are also some FAQs for you:

• What does the error message “Parameter is missing” mean?
  Usually this indicates that you did not enter a source phone number in BBCalls, or you have entered an invalid source phone number. You have to enter at least one phone number which is registered with Jajah in the BBCalls main screen.
• Does BBCalls use minutes on my plan?
  Some providers do not offer incoming calls for free. If this is the case, you might have to pay for the incoming Jajah call.
• How do I register a free Jajah account?
  Go to the Jajah website and click on “Register Now”

Related Links:
BBCalls - free calls with your BlackBerry for real
BBCalls - How it works
BBCalls.com

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There is a new promotion on the program BBWallpapers. It is valid until 2006-11-30 and offers free lifetime access to their wallpaper database. The normal price is $9.99 for the package is given out for free in the mentioned period.

There is also a cool feature that allows to check into their database of wallpapers and get information about the currently available wallpapers. You can subscribe their RSS Feed on all wallpaper updates on their database:

There are currently 320 wallpapers over 4 categories available and the vendors says “We are also steadily updating our wallpaper collection.”. You’ll need an internet connection as the database is not packaged in the program, of course. It might be too big, I guess. So you’ll get access to their wallpapers and can use them on your BlackBerry.

By the way: This program comes from the same company like the BlackBerry Video Creator which has many fans out there and seems to be a high quality product.

Link:
BBWallpapers at Handango

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