Howto use your BlackBerry as an emergency flashlight tool

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December 29, 2007 at 5:23 am · Filed under Howtos

Technically this is pretty easy. As the BlackBerry Pearl (this example) comes with a bright screen – like all BlackBerry devices – you can also use it as a flash light.

There are a bunch of flashlight / torch applications out there and you can choose one of them. I guess there is no big difference. The really cool thing is, you can use your BlackBerry’s convenience key to link a key directly to your flashlight application. Lern more on your convenience / soft key setting HERE.

I am using for this:

BlackBerry Pearl 8100
Flashlight Pro

So if I am in the dark and am looking for the lock to put my key in – I just click the softkey on my BlackBerry, the flashlight switches on, and I can see what I am doing! Easy, huh?

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December 29, 2007 @ 6:52 am

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Jim said,

October 9, 2008 @ 7:25 am

You can also turn on the light used for video recording

Jeff Sims said,

July 6, 2009 @ 9:03 am

The only problem with launching the video camera manually is that the light will go off when your back light turns off. I keep my back light timeout short to conserve battery life. This great flashlight app will launch the video camera from a unique icon and keep the light on forever. Here is the link :

http://go.mobihand.com/product.asp?id=31073&op=wc&posid=96&affid=541&wid=1993