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Posts Tagged: beta
RIM has just released an update on BBM Music to v1.0.0.93 in Beta Zone. It has a few new features and bug fixes, they are listed below:
What’s New?
- Stop button in media player
- Buy button now checks for available music store if none is installed
- Improved performance: limit is raised to 200 contacts!!!
- Many various bug fixes
You can download BBM Music v1.0.0.93 on BlackBerry Beta Zone by clicking here.
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RIM has just released a Desktop Manager v2.2 for Mac in BlackBerry Beta Zone. You must have Mac OSX 10.5.7 or above to install the Desktop Manager on your Mac. This version of DM is only available for users in North America.
You can now preview and test some of the features and improvements that are currently available in our beta software with your BlackBerry smartphone and tablet. We ask that you please focus your use and testing in the following areas:
- Installation: Were you able to successfully install the software on your Mac? Were you satisfied with the time it took to complete the full installation?
- Device Summary Screen: Does the software recognize your device and provide the information you expect to see? What do you think of the design and usability of this screen?
- Organizer: Synchronize your personal data (Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Tasks) between your BlackBerry smartphone and Mac.
- Backup and Restore: Automatically or manually backup and restore your data, or clear content. In addition to your BlackBerry smartphone, Backup & Restore your PlayBook!
- Applications: Add or remove applications on your device and update your software using the ‘Check for Updates’ option.
- Media Sync: Synchronize your music, pictures and videos with your BlackBerry smartphone or PlayBook.
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BlackBerry App World v3.0.0.71 now available in BlackBerry Beta Zone
By Benzoon | August 29th, 2011 | No Comments »
If you weren’t made aware of yet, BlackBerry App World v3.0.0.71 is now available on BlackBerry Beta Zone. If you are a Beta Zone member, you should have already received an email notification already. However, if not, login to your Beta Zone to download it, from the link below. After you’ve downloaded, pop us a comment below to let us know the changes.
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A while back, the BlackBerry Desktop Manager 7 was released on BlackBerry Beta Zone, but it required a keycode in order to use it. This didn’t please many users, due to its restriction. So OpenSourceBB members have gone ahead and released a version that doesn’t require a keycode. Now everyone who wishes to try the new BlackBerry Desktop Manager 7 Beta can do so. Just click on the download link below.
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Today is the day ladies and gentlemen, RIM is going to be releasing the BlackBerry App World 3.0 today, Monday, August 22nd, 2011. Here’s a word from our sources:
Please be advised that App World 3.0 is scheduled to release on August 22*.
Product Features:
Tons of high-performing apps to choose from At the sleek new BlackBerry® App World™ storefront, you’ll discover incredible apps, games, and themes. Personalize your smartphone so it’s truly your own, Discover new, exciting apps and content – right from your home screen The whole experience is now enhanced and streamlined to help you discover the latest and greatest apps and content. It all starts right on the home screen of BlackBerry App World, where rotating banners show off all that’s new and exciting. Keep tabs on your apps, with My World When you download an app, it’s stored digitally in your own personal storage folder called My World. So if you delete an app accidentally or upgrade to a new BlackBerry smartphone, you can wirelessly re-install the apps you’ve bought at no additional costs. Log in to the BlackBerry App World storefront with your BlackBerry ID When you download an app, it’s stored digitally in your own personal storage folder called My World. Search for and buy apps in more ways In addition to PayPal™, you can pay for apps using credit cards—including Visa®, MasterCard®, and American Express®—or charge them straight to your wireless bill. Scan app barcodes Any time you come across a barcode associated with a BlackBerry® app you’re interested in, just scan it, and BlackBerry® App World™ storefront will find it for you. “
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BlackBerry App World 3.0 update to v3.0.0.59 in Beta Zone
By Benzoon | August 18th, 2011 | No Comments »
If you are a BlackBerry Beta Zone member who updated your BlackBerry App World to 3.0, you’ll be happy to hear that RIM has just released an update to v3.0.0.59. They’ve made the following changes:
- UI changes to the background and app details screen
- Further improvements to speed and screen transitions
- Various bug fixes
If you didn’t get the update yet, click here to update your BlackBerry App World. If you aren’t a BlackBerry Beta Zone member yet, I advise you to. You can sign up here.
Download Android App Player on your BlackBerry PlayBook at your own risk
By Benzoon | July 22nd, 2011 | No Comments »
Earlier today, a leaked version of the Android App Player was found in a Desktop Manager update changelog. Many people have downloaded it, including myself, and it doesn’t seem to be functioning properly and slowing down my PlayBook.
My conclusion, after downloading it on my PlayBook, is that it’s pretty much useless for most users now. They pretty much loaded the whole Android OS onto the PlayBook as an application, but we can’t use the functions yet. And it’s super slow, it took over a minute to load the Player and it’s draining my battery like…
RIM’s response to this leak was:
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So just now, I published an article about Facebook for BlackBerry Beta 4 Released with Cross Messaging Features on Beta Zone. But if you aren’t a Beta Zone member, how can you test out the app? This how to article will teach you how.
Step 1 – Register for a BlackBerry Beta Zone account
Open a web browser and head over to http://www.blackberry.com/beta. After reviewing the information presented, click on the “Register Now” link that appears underneath the “Want to Join” banner, which will display the registration form.
You must be a resident of a country listed on the registration form in order to join BlackBerry Beta Zone. New countries are added daily as the site continues to expand. If your country is not listed, you will not be able to register for BlackBerry Beta Zone. For a listing of BlackBerry Beta Zone supported countries, click here.
An important step while signing up is to ensure that you specify your current BlackBerry smartphone PIN number in the registration form. This information is required, as keycodes will be created to unlock applications you install from BlackBerry Beta Zone and they are based on the PIN that’s contained in your BlackBerry Beta Zone profile.
To get your PIN number, select “Options” from your BlackBerry smartphone’s home screen, followed by selecting “Status”. If you upgrade your BlackBerry smartphone in the future, make sure you update your PIN in your BlackBerry Beta Zone profile.
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Facebook for BlackBerry Beta 4 Released with Cross Messaging Features
By Benzoon | July 3rd, 2011 | No Comments »
RIM just released Facebook for BlackBerry Beta 4. This beta version includes a few more UI features as well as generally improves the app’s ability to talk to other applications on the device. Other beta features include:
- Enhanced Notifications – users will now be notified of polled items, such as ‘Likes’ and Event Wall posts.
- Cross-Channel Messaging – Deep integration of Facebook with core BlackBerry applications allows users to share Facebook Content across BlackBerry Messaging Applications. An example includes sending News Feed items to other messaging applications, like email, SMS, BBM, Twitter and more.
- Enhanced Integration with BlackBerry Native Apps – Building on enhanced integration with BlackBerry Native Apps, Facebook v2.0 now includes additional messaging options from the ‘More’ button within a Profile and from the Friends list.
- In-App Error Reporting – Users can install the BlackBerry Feedback Tool through the Menu in the Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones app. The BlackBerry Feedback Tool can be used to send feedback on BlackBerry features, functions, and applications at any time and is currently available in English only.
- Touch Toolbar – BlackBerry users with a touch screen device will now have Compose, Reply, and Delete icons located along the bottom of the device screen in the Facebook Inbox for quick and easy access to these popular features.
The release is available on Beta Zone from the link below.
BBM Social Platform SDK 1.0 for BlackBerry WebWorks (Beta)!
By Benzoon | July 2nd, 2011 | No Comments »
Other than the BlackBerry Social Platform SDK 1.0 for Java, RIM also released a SDK 1.0 for BlackBerry WebWorks in Beta Zone as well. This beta release is designed to give developers the ability to accomplish the following:
- access and update fields in the user’s profile such as status, avatar and personal message
- create their own custom areas within the user’s profile for promoting recent application activity or storing trophies and achievements
- initiate BBM chats with friends
- initiate file transfers
- the ability to share applications virally with friends in their contact list
- initiate application-to-application background communication through BBM for sending and receiving application instructions, such as moves in a game or any other application state changes
For BlackBerry WebWorks app developers, initiating application-to-application background communication through BBM is particularly relevant. The major difference between the Java® and BlackBerry WebWorks versions of the BBM Social Platform is that Java developers are able to leverage the pre-existing BBM chat fields, adding those Java UI components directly in their applications to support in-app chat. For a BlackBerry WebWorks developer, if you’re enabling BBM chat within the context of your application, you’ll want to leverage the app-to-app background communication functionality for the sending and receiving of messages between two BBM users, then render that chat using the HTML and CSS you define.
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