Official OS 5.0.0.1079 from T-Mobile Germany has reached the BlackBerry Bold 9000. If you have a Bold 9000, get out that USB cord and give your a device a fresh OS. Don’t forget to drop a comment below and let us know how it’s working out for you! If it is any better for you?
Note: The Software Platform and Applications version numbers can be found under Options-About screen on the handheld.
Are you a developer living in Germany and interested in going hands-on with the BlackBerry PlayBook all while learning a thing or two about porting your apps using Adobe tools? You’re in luck. Due to the success of the recent Meet the PlayBook events in the EMEA, RIM has extended the tour and is headed to Cologne, Germany on Thursday, July 28th.
This half-day event is your opportunity to learn about developing rich applications for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet using Adobe® Flex® or Adobe® AIR®, as well as BlackBerry® WebWorks™! There will also be hands-on demo sessions with the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and some of our BlackBerry development experts, so don’t miss this great opportunity!
The event comprises two parallel sessions, one business-focused and one technology-focused, with members of the technical teams from Research In Motion® (RIM®) and Adobe available to answer your questions. Places are limited, so early registration is recommended – don’t miss it!
You’ll want to make sure you sign up early as spots are going to be limited but it’s a great opportunity if you’re in the area and can make it. RIM has been steadily adding dates, so if this isn’t your area, check back as they may be near you soon.
More information and registration for Meet the PlayBook – Germany
Regardless if you check the weather for travel plans, work or your daily excersise routine, a good weather app is a must-have on our BlackBerry device for a lot of us. WeatherPro by MeteoGroup, has been a top selling Android, Windows & iOS application for a while and now they have decided to show us BlackBerry users some of that love too. WeatherPro for BlackBerry 1.0 provides a 7 day forecast for more than 2 million locations. With updates every three hours you will always have access to the very latest weather, no matter where you are in the world.
With WeatherPro you can get animated worldwide satellite images and radar for much of Europe and the United States. WeatherPro for BlackBerry 1.0 supports radar for Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Denmark, the Baltic States, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United States. WeatherPro is $4.99 and currently available for the following BlackBerry devices: 89xx, 9000, 93xx, 95xx, 96xx, 97xx & 9800.
For more information / download WeatherPro for BlackBerry 1.0
The average consumer simply doesn’t care about security today, but they will in 5 years. You can’t go an entire week without reading a story about the Chinese Government or some hacker group trying to access an individual or corporation’s private data. As smartphones become more ubiquitous, users are going to buy more of the smartphone platform that affords them more protection against malware and potential theft of personal data.
Recently, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security warned that clicking on an infected PDF file “is sufficient to infect the mobile device with malware without the user’s knowledge” on several versions of Apple’s iOS operating system. A statement filed said that cyber criminals could access confidential information such as passwords, online banking data and emails.
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Vodafone seems to be the winner in the “coming soon” race with the BlackBerry Bold 9900. Vodafone DE in Germany now has listed the upcoming device on their coming soon page. While there is no release date listed (as has been the case in other sightings) it’s still a step in the right direction. Nothing big noted along here as the site just lists the specs of which we already know but no preorder or other info. There is a sign up page to be notified when things start moving along however. Hit the link below to check it out.
Check out the BlackBerry Bold 9900 at Vodafone DE
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Following the World Health Organization’s revelation last week that cell phones are “possibly carcinogenic to humans based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer associated with wireless phone use,” Jabra has issued an easy fix: instead of putting a cell phone to your ear and possibly getting a brain tumor, use one of its Bluetooth headsets. Jabra says its headsets emit 800 times less radiation than cell phones — just 0.0025 watts max output compared to 2 watts max from cell phones. In a Jabra-sponsored survey, 61% said cell phone radiation only concerned them “a little bit” or “to some extent” and 25% said they were not at all concerned. But when informed that using a Bluetooth headset has been scientifically proven to drastically reduce exposure to radiation, more than half of the respondents said they would use a hands-free device. Hit the break for Jabra’s press release.
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Paris Hilton snaps a pic with her BlackBerry Bold while in southern Germany…
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UPS has announced that its mobile app and website are now available to more countries including Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Canada. The UPS Mobile App features the following:
To download the app, head over to BlackBerry App World, and you can also bookmark the mobile website at m.ups.com.
For almost two years there have been rumors suggesting that the BlackBerry 9900 was going to be a Bold/Touchscreen hybrid device, known as the BlackBerry Magnum or Dakota. However, it remained as just that, rumors. There haven’t been much evidence to support a launch of the 9900, whatever it may be. We did see images of the “Magnum”, but no one knew that device’s model number.
“Let me call you using Gmail” – the next time you hear that from your friend, don’t throw a blank stare as though you were technologically ignorant. After all, it has been confirmed that Google allows voice calls to another phone via Gmail – now how about that? It will be free if you decide to place calls to the US and Canada until January 2011 rolls around, while phone calls to other countries will be billed at “very low rates”, although the word low is relative here. For those who love chatting up family and friends in the U.K., France, Germany, China, India, Mexico and Japan among others, you can do so for as little as $0.02 per minute. You dial a number in a similar manner to that of a normal phone, clicking “Call phone” at the top of your chat list beforehand. Only US-based Gmail users will be able to experience this over the next few days, where you will have to install the voice and video plug-in to get started. For a non US-based user, the folks at Google are working on a rollout solution in due time so stay patient!
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