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Blackberry Curve Review
01195 days
by Adam
in miscellaneous
This is long overdue! I moved a few posts from my personal blog over here and was reading them as I went. In one I mentioned that I was getting a Curve and that I would review it shortly, oops. I’ve now had the Curve for just over 9 months so this won’t contain any “new shiny” syndrome and should be fairly objective. There are several sub-models in the Curve family now so check the chart for the specs on the one you’re interested in.
Blackberry Surreal Theme
31293 days
by Adam
in miscellaneous
Today I just found a new theme on the Blackberry free stuff site. It is called Surreal and it looks pretty damn good which is quite shocking considering the fuglyness of all the other free themes available. Take a look at the screenshots from my device.
Blackberry JDE API – User Interface Field Reference
851526 days
by Adam
in miscellaneous
When I first dug into programming with the RIM APIs installed with the Blackberry JDE I ran into quite a few roadblocks that took a while to circumvent. Most stemmed from my unfamiliarity with Java and the standard Java UI toolkits (Swing and AWT). After figuring out how to create and display each of the most interesting fields I figured I might as well document them, provide screenshots, and sample application code to help others like myself. (more…)
Getting started with the Blackberry Java Development Environment (JDE)
751543 days
by Adam
in miscellaneous
Recently I became frustrated with the state of free games for the Blackberry platform. BrickBreaker is really hard and choppy on the newer devices so I decided to do something about it. I also have a Blackberry Pearl just sitting at home since my recent upgrade to the Blackberry Curve. So frustration + extra device + time = development on the Blackberry platform. After wading through some web pages on the developer site and running into more than one snag I decided to document to process in tutorial form. I hope this helps you get starting with the Blackberry JDE. Please feel free to drop questions in the comments or to email me at ahewgill@gmail.com. (more…)
Getting a Blackberry Curve
01570 days
by Adam
in miscellaneous
I just found out yesterday that I am able to upgrade my Blackberry Pearl to the Curve through the Rogers hardware upgrade plan. Work is going to pay for the upgrade which is a nice perk. A co-worker recently got the Curve and we have all been trying it out and getting hooked. Most affected are those of us who have the Pearl since the Curve has a full keyboard that is decent to type on. I’ll probably review the Curve once I’ve had a week or two to play with it.
Blackberry MP3 Player Instructions
101827 days
by Adam
in miscellaneous
I have previously commented on the Blackberry Pearl in an unfavourable but not totally bad light. I stand behind my position, this device will only satisfy a select market. That being said I wrote this up to give people a guide to using the media player on the Pearl as an MP3 player. By default it plays one file at a time which it not very useful.
Note: In order to use the Pearl as an MP3 player you must have added a MicroSD card to store the music on since the device memory is insufficient.
Blackberry Pearl Review
01911 days
by Adam
in miscellaneous
Blackberry Pearl MP3 Player Instructions ยป
So I’ve had the weekend to play around with the new Blackberry Pearl and I have to say it has been fun. There are some pretty cool features in there that I’ve never had a chance to play with before. First let me set the stage, I have only briefly used a Blackberry before (several different models though) so I don’t really know all the standard features. If I seem impressed about something that is not new to the Pearl that is why. I’ve only ever used business style cell phones before so MP3 playing and stuff seem incredibly novel to me. Ok, on to the review.
Hot New Cell Phone Porn
01913 days
by Adam
in miscellaneous
Along the lines of my friend Andrew’s post about his nice new laptop I thought I would simultaneously mock him and show off my new phone. It is pretty decent but is a huge improvement over the one I’ve been carrying for a couple years. Additionally I’ve been given a Blackberry Pearl to test (play with) for the weekend. First lets take a look at the two phones.