GPS Nav from Bell Now Available on BlackBerry® 8830

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TeleNav Inc., the first company to launch a GPS navigation service for mobile devices in North America, today announced Bell has chosen the company’s turn-by-turn GPS navigation service, named GPS Nav from Bell, for the new BlackBerry® 8830 smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq:RIMM) (TSX:RIM).

GPS Nav from Bell provides users with turn-by-turn, GPS-enabled directions, just like an in-car navigation service, but on a mobile device. It includes full-color, 3D moving maps, voice and on-screen navigation, and information and directions to millions of business listings in North America, including local Wi-Fi hotspots. GPS Nav from Bell automatically updates itself with current information so customers never have to worry about downloading the latest maps or business listings.

“With a smartphone as feature-rich as the new BlackBerry 8830, we believe many business customers will consider this their all-in-one mobile device,� said Adel Bazerghi, Bell Mobility’s vice president of products. “TeleNav’s GPS service is high-quality, easy-to-use and incorporates relevant features that our customers will enjoy using everyday for both work or play.�

Features of GPS Nav from Bell include:

• * Voice and on-screen turn-by-turn driving directions – Customers can type in or use voice recognition to call-in destinations, and GPS Nav from Bell computes the routes. While driving, users get up-to-the minute guidance, including street names, and will automatically be re-routed if a turn is missed.
• * Full-color 3D moving maps – Just like an in-car navigation system, the 3D maps turn, move and stop along with the driver, while also displaying a realistic image of the streets the driver is approaching and passing. Users can also pan and zoom around the map to view surrounding streets.
• * Biz Finder (local search) – Customers can look up more than 10 million businesses and services in North America, including ATMs, restaurants, hotels, Wi-Fi hotspots and gas stations, and easily navigate to them with the click of a button.
• * Spot Marker – Users can mark waypoints to help find their way back to a location or to record points of interest.
• * Pedestrian Mode – GPS Nav from Bell can be used while walking to help guide customers through crowded downtown streets or back to a parked car.
• * My Favorites – Customers can save as many addresses as needed for easy access and directions later.

“There is no reason that anyone needs to invest in an expensive, in-car navigation system or a separate navigation device,� said Dr. HP Jin, president, CEO and co-founder of TeleNav. “GPS Nav from Bell offers customers the same peace of mind and even more features – but on a device they already carry with them.�

Bell customers can download GPS Nav directly from their BlackBerry 8830 smartphone. Ongoing subscription to the service costs $9.99 per month, plus a data plan for unlimited usage.

For more information on GPS Nav from Bell and additional devices that support GPS Nav, please visit www.bell.ca/wireless or www.telenav.com.

About TeleNav Inc.

TeleNav, Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, was the first company to launch a GPS navigation system on mobile phones in the United States. TeleNav is a global leader in wireless location-based services (LBS), including GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management (MRM), asset GPS tracking (AVL) and local search. The company’s flagship product, TeleNav GPS Navigator™, is comparable to in-car systems found in luxury vehicles, but offers a superior experience with functionality such as automatically updated maps and business locations, full color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts and one-click rerouting, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder, lowest price fuel finder and more.

TeleNav partners include Research In Motion (RIM), Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, LG, Palm, HTC, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, NAVTEQ, Tele Atlas, deCarta, Qualcomm and SiRF Technology Holdings.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.

More information and a very deep review of all currently available BlackBerry GPS applications can be found at our famous article BlackBerry and GPS.

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Nearly three months since our last review something seems to be changed at MobileSoftMarket. Therefor, the current Top 5 products list reads as followed:

01. BlackBerry Video Generator	A program that converts and optimizes your video files to a format your BlackBerry Pearl and BlackBerry 8800 can play. It is an easy 3-step program made for you to handle those conversion tasks in a fast way.
02. NextAction!	The direct implementation of GTD for your BlackBerry. NA simplifies the way to create new next actions, mark them done and even allows you to add notes to that tasks. Moreover, it synchronizes with the most common office products like Outlook, Lotus Notes, Act! and others.
03. BerryDialer	Calling cards can help lowering your phone call expenses. “Using the BerryDialer and some calling cards I save at least 50% of my monthly phone expenses!” someone wrote in some forum (I forgot where, sorry).
04. BlackBerry Web Video Generator	Want to watch YouTube videos on your BlackBerry? This tool makes it possible by automatically downloading, converting and optimizing YouTube videos for your BlackBerry Pearl and 8800. Even though some of the conversions does not work, it runs flawlessly and is as simple to use as the #1 tool in this list.
05. BlackBerry Ringtone Generator	Allows you to create your own BlackBerry ringtone. This program also provides a free service for uploadeing your ringtone to a web server and provides a download link for you to import that ringtone directly into your BlackBerry.

So it seems BerryDialer is more and more interesting for people who like to save some money. Also the new BlackBerry Ringtone Generator in our list, seems to be quite famous out there.

Some related links:
BlackBerry Software Review: Create your own BlackBerry ringtones
NextAction! site
New BerryDialer Version 1.2 available
GTD on your BlackBerry
Pearl Software Review - Create your own BlackBerry Videos
Watch YouTube Videos on your BlackBerry

In friendly cooperation with MobileSoftMarket.

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Again we found a great bargain for you!

The BlackBerry Pearl is available at AT&T for only 1 cent. It is the silver model that is listed on the right but they also have the red one for the same price, if you are interested.

The Pearl’s capabilities as a small and slim phone are nearly perfect if you are looking for a fully featured BlackBerry that is small enough to carry it around without a holster.

Remember: If you Pearl’s ball is stuck you can take a look to our howto (this also works for the Curve, 8800, 8830 and all other BlackBerry devices that have a trackball). More howtos here.

P.S.: You can also find more gadgets in our BlackBerryInsight Hardware Store.

Previous ones:
BlackBerry Curve for $49.99!
BlackBerry Curve for $99
Current BlackBerry GPS Gadgets
Cell phone / BlackBerry and service plan bargains - AT LEAST 15% OFF on mobiles!
BlackBerry 8800 for $99 at BlackBerryInsight Store

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I just got this official press release from the guys over at wattpad. Just wanted to share it with you…

Officially launched in April 2007, Wattpad announced it has served over 10 million pages to mobile phones.

Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) June 27, 2007 — Wattpad, the global leading story sharing community for mobile users, today announced that it has served over 10 million pages to mobile phones. Developed using Wattpad Mobilizeâ„¢ technology, Wattpad Story Sharing Community is one of the fastest growing platforms enabling users to consume user-generated content on mobile phones.

“In April 2007 we officially introduced the service for mobile users worldwide to discover, read, and share stories on their mobile phones. We are extremely happy that we grew from zero to 10 million in a very short period of time,” enthused Ivan Yuen, Founder of Wattpad. “With over 60,000 user-generated stories already available to our community, we have definitely reached critical mass for the next phase of growth. A recent user survey indicates that 93% of our users are satisfied with the user experience, we are very proud to achieve significant growth while maintaining high level of user satisfaction.”

Detailed survey summary is available on Wattpad’s official blog (http://wattpad.wordpress.com/).

With mobile phone being the electronic device most people carry all the time, these stories are now instantly accessible by anyone anytime anywhere - whether you are reading short stories at bedside, reading funny jokes while commuting in the underground or viewing lyrics while listening to music on your mobile phone.

Wattpad Story Sharing Community is like the text version of YouTube with a Digg style system that uses tags, categories and voting to determine the popularity of stories. All the stories are contributed by Wattpad users. Joining the community is free. Anybody can signup and upload whatever he or she wants to share - a short fiction, an essay or a joke, and then read it on mobile phone using Wattpad Reader or send it to friends via SMS. Wattpad Reader is a small ad-supported Java ME application which let users download and read stories available in the Wattpad community.

To download Wattpad Reader, go to m.wattpad.com on your mobile phone’s browser and follow the link to download. Wattpad Reader works with most mobile phones from major manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, Sharp, Sanyo, Panasonic, BlackBerry and many more.

More information about Wattpad is available online at www.wattpad.com.

About Wattpad Story Sharing Community

Wattpad Story Sharing Community is the global leader in mobile user-generated content. According to research published by Informa Telecoms and Media and the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the market for mobile user-generated content will be worth US$13.2 billion by 2011. Developed using Wattpad Mobilizeâ„¢ technology, Wattpad Story Sharing Community was the first community to provide a platform to discover, read and share stories on mobile phones. With mobile phone being the electronic device most people carry all the time, these stories are now instantly accessible by anyone anytime anywhere. Wattpad Story Sharing Community now has the largest selection of stories available for mobile users. For more information, please visit www.wattpad.com.

About Wattpad

Wattpad’s vision is to bring rich media readable content to all mobile users. Wattpad’s flagship Wattpad Mobilizeâ„¢ technology allows content publishers to effortlessly reach billions of mobile users with a highly optimized user experience, combining content delivery and viral distribution elements. With Wattpad Mobilizeâ„¢, Wattpad is a complete technology provider for unleashing the potential of the mobile market.

For more information, please visit www.wattpad.com.

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A long time ago the BlackBerry Video Generator has experienced its last update. Today we have seen another one which now supports the new BlackBerry 8830 world phone as well as the BlackBerry Curve.

Being able to convert and optimize videos for your BlackBerry has been a very interesting field in the past months. We have seen a lot of videos using this application to create videos that are especially made for the BlackBerry. Since all new BlackBerry devices have an SD-Card slot and are able to play high quality videos there seems to be an high demand of such applications.

You can get the most recent version at MobileSoftMarket for only $14.99.

Previous articles on this:
BlackBerry Video Generator supporting the BlackBerry 8800 and new aspect ratios
BlackBerry Web Video Generator Quick Guide
The BlackBerry Video Generator Conversation
BlackBerry Video Generator 2.0 released

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Some days ago we presented you the press release of this new offline security program called EmergencyWipe. Today I was able to check that out (I got a free evaluation unit :)) and I really love it.

There will not be so much circumstances when you might use this application. It wipes a bunch of confidential data of your BlackBerry on your command. Well, we all know that if you are on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server your BlackBerry can be wiped remotely if you lost it. But if you have a BlackBerry that is not on a BES (like I have one) or the guy who will take your BlackBerry knows how to prevent the BlackBerry from not logging into the BES you will have a problem. There is no way to delete your BlackBerry’s confidential data. That’s exactly what the EmergencyWipe can do.

Anecdote: I had en experience some time ago where I accidently went into an restricted military area. Actually I was just hiking with some friends to a GPS position we picked by random on Google Earth. Well, the military thought that was not such a good idea and after negotiation and searching us they decided to confiscate our digital cameras and a BlackBerry. Having all those important tasks, contacts and appointments in there they can check… So in this situation I would have definitely used this kind of application to wipe the device before they confiscated it.

But back to the review. The program is directly built for this kind of situation. If you are in the need to fastly wipe your confidential data you can do so. Even though it has a “double wipe confirmation” so you cannot wipe your BlackBerry accidentially. The current version wipes the tasks, contacts and appointments of your BlackBerry. It is always recommended to have a backup of your BlackBerry stored on your computer, so you can restore that backup easy if you get your BlackBerry back. Or, if you are synchronizing your BlackBerry with your favorite desktop application you can just sync the data from your desktop to your BlackBerry. The quite good EmergencyWipe Guide has covered all those topics as well.

If you have several hundred items (contacts, tasks, appointments) in there this might take some time. Anyway, the BlackBerry will be “clean” after the wipe and therefor you can give it away without being afraid of compromising anyones contact or your own tasks and appointments. Therefor, I can recommend that one for everyone who might come in circumstances it is necessary to wipe the confidential data no-one should get access to. Its easy and slim interface allows you to clean the BlackBerry in a fast way but also provides high protection to not delete your data by accident.

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I know, I know, we already mentioned the Curve bargain some weeks ago for $99; but the price dropped by 50%! You can now get the new BlackBerry 8300 Curve Silver for only $49.99.

If you are fine with AT&T (the exclusive distributor of the iPhone) this should be no problem because you will get a contract of course. Anyway, a good deal I think!

More BlackBerry hardware products can be found in our BlackBerryInsight Hardware Store. For software gadgets please refer to MobileSoftMarket.

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After nearly 2 months of a break, our Free Download is back! We are happy to cooperate with MobileSoftMarket again to provide you with a new gadgets FOR FREE! Today you can get the tetris game BBTris which is some kind of addictive. So be careful!

BBtris is based on the famous brick combination principle.

Be aware of becoming addicted to it! Try to be the best brick-combiner to get the highest highscore!

Its intelligent key leyout also enables left-handers to have fun on the road!

Controls:

72xx, 77xx, 87xx Series:
• A, D, H or L: Left
• S, G, K or DEL: Right
• R or U: Rotate
• F, J, O or N: Down
• SPACE:Drop

71xx Series:
• 4: Left
• 6: Right
• 2 or 3: Rotate
• 8: Down
• SPACE:Drop

Screenshots:

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Hi folks,

We just got a press release for the new EmergencyWipe application. It seems to be promising and we will review that one soon. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know about it

Press Release

S4BB Limited is proud to announce the final release of “EmergencyWipe for BlackBerry® Wireless Handheld”.



Our brand new product allows you to protect confidential data on your BlackBerry. You will be able to quickly remove these data if you are in a situation you where it is highly possible that some unauthorized person might gain access to it. A quick guide is included which describes the whole process from wiping to recovering - once you have your device back. Please find the content of the EmergencyWipe page below.

EmergencyWipe for BlackBerry^® Wireless Handheld

Protect your data!

Description | Features | Quick Guide | Screenshots | Purchase

Description

EmergencyWipe secures your private data from unauthorized access. If you are in a situation you need to quickly erase the confidential data of your BlackBerry^® our EmergencyWipe for BlackBerry^® will help you. Please check out our quick guide for a detailed description on how EmergencyWipe works.

Features

» Wipes sensitive data » Secured by double wipe confirmation » Protects your data » Protects your privacy » Protects your contacts » Protects your business » All current models supported!

The current version may wipe

» Contacts » Tasks / Todos » Calendar events

Quick Guide

A quickguide can be downloaded here.

Screenshots

Purchase

At: MobileSoftMarket ($24.99), MobiHand ($29.99)

This program requires BlackBerry^® OS 4.1 or above.

Your mobile software experts at S4BB Ltd.

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I just got mail - again - where the guys from Skylab were announcing an update on their cool application MobileTracker. It comes with a lot of new features which are listed below. We reported some while ago that their app is also compatible with BlackBerry Pearl and Curve they have now announced that officially. All current users will receive a free update. All others can get the full version at: http://www.skylab-mobilesystems.com/en/products/mobiletracker.html

New Features in MobileTracker 1.2.0:

• Recording:
• Timestamp tracking
• Traveled time from start for every position on track
• Average Speed of track
• Traveled time of track
• Traveled distance of track
• User interface:
• Status indicator
• Live coordinate output
• Live distance output from start
• Simplified User Interface
• Adjustable altitude mode
• General:
• Quick start guide
• Several minor bug fixes
• BlackBerry Pearl and BlackBerry Curve support

Related links:
MobileTracker on your Pearl and Curve
Discount on MobileTracker
MobileTracker for BlackBerry Video
Software Review: MobileTracker for BlackBerry 8800 and BlackBerry 8830

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