Has anyone been having trouble with their Blackberry devices? I’ve been getting these messages for the past few days. I’m on AT&T using a Bold 9000.

It’s official.

Good news Blackberry Bold owners! Loopt officialy supports the Blackberry Bold now Download it today!

Following what I had read about at Blackberry Forums, I figured I should give it a shot on my own. Looks like it wasn’t too god to be true. Visual Voicemail is coming to the Blackberry Bold.

For the inauguration of President Barack Obama this year, I wanted to make a point to include as many people in the experience as I could. Being an avid user of Facebook, Loopt, WordPress and now Twitter, it was important to find a way to bring all these services together and syndicate the information between them all. Originally, I wanted to use Loopt to track myself, but without a Blackberry Bold client, had moved to TwitterBerry and some lightweight Twitter location updating client. While I was searching for an adequate solution, I was reading through Blackberry Forums and found that the 8830’s Loopt client ran on the Bold without too many glitches (Open wap.GetJar.com with your mobile -> Quick Download -> enter Quick Download Code 29639). Loopt it is.

Having used Loopt in the past, I had known about the Loopt feature called “Loopt Link” that will syndicate the last 10 or so journal entries in the Loopt application to Twitter, Facebook, A Web Widget & RSS feed. For Tuesday’s ceremony, I implemented all but the RSS feed into my web applications to allow for maximum visibility which put my Blackberry in control of every Loopt journal entry, Tweet, Facebook Status and post here at nickganga.com.

Loopt Widget & Journal Entries

Loopt’s blog widget is a great way to show your journal entries on an interactive map. I featured the widget here on this site in the header from Monday January 19, 2009 – Wednesday January 21, 2009 as family and friends followed us on our journey to the nation’s capital.

Wordpress TwitterTools Plugin

Alex King’s WordPress plugin TwitterTools powered the WP integration for this historic event. Because Loopt delivers status updated to Twitter, this plugin listens to Twitter and was set to create an entry for each Tweet.

I’ve put together a short video (~ 6min) about how to create ringtones for a Blackberry using GarageBand on your mac. Soon to come are Quicktime Pro & iPhone variants.

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YouTube Version

Anyone having trouble with their AT&T Blackberry service?? Mine is OUT!!!!!!

With the recent exploit “Blackjacking” I am quite surprised that RIM hasn’t considered something like this from the start. Blackjacking is, of course, really only an exploit for Blackberry Enterprise Server users, so standard BIS users need not worry. While I understand this is considered an exploit, I feel like it would be really useful to have a feature on the Blackberry where users could connect their laptop to their Blackberry (via USB or Bluetooth), and use the DUN capabilities to establish a secured link back to the internal network. Verizon already allows their users to connect their devices to their laptops and use the speed of the EV-DO network to dial up, why not take this a step further? Work on it RIM!

Well, not really. However, with the pending launch of a new version of Google Talk, it will be soon. Users of the new Google Talk client for Windows Now have the new and following features:

File Transfer With this top requested new feature, you can send unlimited files and folders to your friends through Google Talk. There is no restriction on the file type or size and the peer-to-peer transfer is fast and reliable. Learn more
A small percentage of users (such as those behind restrictive proxies) will not experience the highest level of file transfer speed possible.

Voice mail If a friend isn’t around to answer your call, now you can leave a voice mail. You can even leave voice mail messages for your friends who don’t use Google Talk–they’ll receive an email with the message attached as an audio file. Learn more

Music Status Listening to music while on Google Talk? Now you can let your friends see what you’re listening to by selecting “Show current music track” in your status menu. Your status message will change when your song does! Learn more

For those of you who don’t use Google Talk, I highly recommend it. While similar in functionality to all the other IM clients, Google Talk has some key features that make it stand out as the leader:

1. Direct Gmal Integration – you can use Google Talk right from the Gmail website. Check it out!
2. Chat Auto Archiving – because of the direct integration with Gmail, Google Talk can automatically save your chat histories in Gmal for you under the heading Chats. What makes this cool is that it doesn’t matter what computer/device you are accessing Google Talk from, it will get everything. For example, I connect to Google Talk from my desktop at work, home as well as from my Blackberry. The chats are archived from all the devices
3. No Ads! – That’s right, when you are using the Google Talk client on Windows, there are no Ads anywhere. Yay Google!
4. Voice Chat – Similar to Skype, Google Talk features an excellent VoIP solution (SIP) for great voice calls.
5. Easy To Use – With just the options you need, Google Talk is great for nearly all users

So yeah, DOWNLOAD THE NEW GOOGLE TALK!

Digg It!

In my normal browsing of the Blackberry website, I discovered that after last weeks announcement from Cingular, the 7130c was posted. What caught my attention was the fact that modem thethering is listed as an available option!! FINALLY!

See for yourself: 7130c

All I have to say is, ABOUT FREAKING TIME. This phone was announced in 2005 and I saw a live version at CES in January, but it has sorta fallen off the radar since. Except for the FCC Approval, no news until today. Engadget is reporting that the Nokia Blackberry killer will be hitting states side soon. The device will supposedly not feature UMTS or Wifi (in the Cingular flavor), which is lame, but expected. It should also sport a wide range of wireless email services, including: Good, MS Direct Push, Blackberry Connect (which I demoed on the Nokia 9300 and wasn’t too impressed with) an of course ExpressMail (powered by Seven). One really cool thing about this phone though is that apparently there is a USB hardware profile to support Mass Storage device. Cant wait!

The FCC approved two new GSM Blackberry handhelds: the 7130c (for Cingular Wireless) and the 7130g for other GSM carriers. This new Blackberry appears to have similar characteristics to it’s big brother, the 8700 series (Quadband GSM, EDGE, mini-USB port) but also has an upgraded bluetooth to Bluetooth 2.0. No carriers have announced this product and it is not shown on the RIM site. Hopefully we’ll see this device soon. Follow the link to see more information from the FCC database.
Via FCC Database

This is a very beautiful graphic commercial for the new MTV HD channel that is coming soon. If you can, download the movie and listen to just the audio. Its so pretty.

MTV HD

Edit: This is really a great song. I think I may try to make a ring tone out of it for my Blackberry. If anybody is interested, let me know.

T-Mobile USA is now offering the Blackberry 8700 series in their product lineup dubbed the Blackberry 8700g. With a new service plan, you can have the best Blackberry for 299.99 (After rebates). Enjoy!

Blackberry 8700g