Finally, a portable speaker for my BlackBerry that’s truly portable, yet as powerful as a boom box that fits in the palm of my hand! I’m talking about the X-mini, which is probably the world’s smallest yet loudest speaker around.

What I have in my possession, though, is a second generation X-mini, which is the new and improved version. The X-mini II comes with the actual speaker, a USB cable / mini-USB / headphone cable and a nice black bag. For connecting the X-mini to any headphone jack for audio playback, just plug the mini-USB end of the cable into the X-mini and the headphone plug into your BlackBerry. Additionally you can plug the normal USB plug into any USB port (like on my Macbook) and the X-mini will be juiced up.

It has even more ‘umph’ in terms of look (it’s sleek and black), battery life (expect up to 12 hours of playback), sound (it has a 40mm driver) and bass (thanks to its mind-blowing Bass Expansion System). In fact, its built-in ‘woofer’ is so ‘boomtastic’, you’d have to be careful it doesn’t fall over the edge of the table while it moves to the beat of the music. And the best thing about this nifty gadget is its sheer size and weight – it’s as compact and light as a squash ball when collapsed, and not much bigger when expanded to reveal the accordion-like body, from which you can hear the bass system at work. This is the difference between the collapsed and expanded X-mini II:

What I’m really looking forward to is buying more of these babies, and hooking them up together with their built-in 3.5mm audio cable to form a ‘chain’ of X-minis for even bigger sound. Man, my mates are going to be so jealous the next time we’re at a beach party!

BlackBerry Device Compatibility

Basically all BlackBerry devices with a 3.5 mm headphone jack are supported which includes: BlackBerry Pearl 8110, 8120, 8130, 8210, 8220; BlackBerry Curve 8300, 8310, 8320, 8330, 8350i, 8900; BlackBerry Bold 9000; BlackBerry Storm 9500, 9530; BlackBerry Tour 9630.

I took the following videos to show you how the X-mini II works. In the first video, I played some music and the SpeedRacer trailer which was in my Bold by default. Unfortunately, my cheap digital camera could not capture the awesome audio bass that comes out of the speaker - but I think you get the idea

The second video shows just how much bass is in the X-mini II. It bounced so much that I had to keep adjusting the camera to prevent it from moving off screen.

Good things really do come in small packages! Get it for just $34.50 (plus shipping): X-mini II - BlackBerry Compatible Speaker

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This is how the polls stand right now. There seems to be a high demand for the BBBatteryWatch.

Vote here: Free Software Poll (”free” as in “free beer”)

The vote is open for 6 remaining days! So be quick and give us your vote! We will bring the application on here for free - whichever app wins!

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You never get all things in one package! Do you? It is very hard to find such an application, which enables you to perform many tasks simultaneously. SLG mobile, Inc has tried its best to provide you with a new application, which serves a number of operations. BeamSuite v3.0.2 is the only application, which can view, print, access and store any type of document (PDF or MS Office). This utility enables you to view, print, access store documents, Bluetooth printing and file management. It provides a complete solution for your BlackBerry device. Some of the attractive features of BeamSuite are:

Documents viewed
You can view the PDF Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ZIP, and RTF documents with their original quality restored. The documents fonts, display and images, all remain the same as it is when we view at PC. It is not difficult to open a file. You simply need to open the attachment with your email and you can have the contents on your BlackBerry screen. This facility is allowed in almost all the BlackBerry devices, whether it is old or new model.

Print the documents
This is a wonderful thing that now you can print your documents even when you are viewing the same in your BlackBerry. You can have a hard copy of the documents, but this is possible only if you have a Bluetooth enabled printer. You simply need to pair your BlackBerry Bluetooth with that of a printer Bluetooth. Suppose you do not have Bluetooth enabled printer then you need not worry you can connect a Bluetooth printer adapter to your printer that connects to the printer’s USB port and hence print your documents.

Store and Save documents
You can save and store the documents and attachments received, if you wish to refer to it in the future. BeamSuite provides you an unlimited storage capacity and it is even easy to transfer the file to memory card, virtual file system, and internal device memory.

Minimum Requirements for BeamSuite
You can avail this in your BlackBerry device, if it has operating system v4.1 or higher with a minimum display dimension of 160 x 160. However, in case of BeamSuite, you require a network connection or a data plan. So, when there is no network or a weak one, you may have to face a problem.
At $29.99, you might find this application to be expensive. But with the all-in-one features, which BeamSuite has, this is an investment worth making.

BeamSuite download website: http://go.mobihand.com/?target=product.asp&id=30932&op=wc&posid=96&affid=541&wid=1993

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The learning of proper functioning of BlackBerry Curve 8350i has become quite easy since the latest addition of the Training Center online. A 420 page Made Simple Electronic Book and 110 short 3 minute Videos Now have been added to the arsenal for accomplishing this task. They can be accessed according to the users’ convenience.

For the busy individuals, the Videos To Go can be loaded on the media card and watched directly. The package of Complete Training Center is available for only $29.95 whereas the videos are obtained at $19.95 and eBooks at $14.95 individually at most online domains. The eBook can even be obtained from Mobihand on the web for $14.95.

The co-authors of the BlackBerry Smartphone series, Martin Trautschold and Gary Mazo, are also the writers of this phone’s guide. This completes the coverage of all the smartphones. The complete product line can also be found at madesimplelearning.com electronically and also through Mobihand.

This guide book helps both Windows and Apple Mac users alike with the complete features of BlackBerry Curve 8350i. More than 1,000 annotated screenshots guide the readers step by step. The language is simple and includes everything about Curve. Some of the guides are as follows: various tricks, using the Wi-Fi and GPS features, using Direct Connect walkie-talkie feature, synchronizing BalckBerry with PC, saving power as much as possible and using the BlackBerry email feature. You can even use Google Sync for true Wireless Sync without Enterprise Server, support for BlackBerry Internet Service and Corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server users. You can turn the 8350i into video or audio. You can even use Google Maps, accessing Facebook and Myspace profiles.

The online Made Simple Video Library has been updated since April, 2009. The updates are as follows:

Curve 8350i: 100 new videos have been updated. Some of them include editing Word, Excel, Power Point, setting up email, BlackBerry App World and many more.

Storm 95xx: More than 50 portrait modes Videos To Go have been uploaded and reformatted to play full in full screen. This increases the viewing area by over 50%.

Bold 90xx, Curve 89xx, Pearl Flip 82xx: 40 new videos have been added to Videos Now and Videos To Go. Key videos include editing in word, excel and power point.

To find the updated videos, you need to UPDATE the date column to the search screen, till it has been added. Click the little down triangle to the right of this column header to sort the videos according to the date updated.

BlackBerry Curve 8350i Trainer download website: http://www.madesimplelearning.com/bbms_blackberry_curve_8350_training.shtml

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There are a number of applications, which have been launched in the market recently for your BlackBerry. All of them have together made the device more attractive than it ever was. In this case, Toysoft Development, Inc has come up with another wonderful application for your BlackBerry, DemoMaker - Video Recorder Your browser may not support display of this image.v1.0. It is amongst the few applications for your BlackBerry, which have the option of video screen recording application.

This application has made recording very easy. DemoMaker - Video Recorder is a great tool to make a demo on the real device. If you are not willing to record a video, then you can utilize it to take the multiple shots. All the shots will be automatically saved by the DemoMaker, unless you stop taking them or when the total frames are saved. Some top features of the DemoMaker include:

JPG format

DemoMaker is such an application, which facilities you to save each and every screen shot to a JPG format. The remarkable thing about the application is that no conversion is required. You can save and record every current screen, except the one where you play the video or you are using the camera. Thus, the screen saved can be adjusted in terms of quality; you can set the quality of JPG to save the file.

Create Video

When you are completed with the task of recording the video, then only you can use a desktop application to create video in AVI or MPEG4 format. To create a video in this format, you hardly need even a minute to make it from the Demo Maker files. With the application, you can make a video yourself by giving the desired effects. The video and screen shot can be directly be saved in SD card.

Easy to Configure

The Demo Maker is a very configurable application and you require no additional hardware for the job. You can have an Intro and a Credit screen similar to the one, which the real DEMO has in it. You can set the total frames available (99,999) for recording. You have a facility of time lapse recording and the modifying the quality of the screen.

Minimum requirements for DemoMaker

You have the option of availing the facility for recording a video by using DemoMaker, provided you have a BlackBerry with operating system v4.2 or higher, SD card and a 30K of main memory. The minimum display dimension, which the DemoMaker - Video Recorder needs, is 240 x 320.

If you wish to own this wonderful application for your BlackBerry, you need to part with $2.99 only of your savings. Once the software is installed, you will never wish to part with your BlackBerry.

DemoMaker download website: http://go.mobihand.com/?target=product.asp&id=30893&op=wc&posid=96&affid=541&wid=1993

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You can find numerous uses of a flashlight. May be your car has some problem and you need light to see what the problem is. Even at your home if power goes off suddenly, flashlight can be a handy tool. During night hours when you reach home from your office, it is helpful in finding the key hole. You need flashlight in your phone even when you wake up in the middle of the night for a glass of water or going to the bathroom. Now, there is no need to struggle with your mobile to search a number in the dark. Just press a single button on your BlackBerry and your smartphone will serve the purpose of a flashlight.

BlackBerry presents its new flashlight application BrightBerry Flashlight for STORM v1.0 to make your smartphone handier to use for. You will be amazed to know a fact, which comes from the researches that 43% of BlackBerry users use it in their bedroom. While sleeping, they keep their BlackBerry having BrightBerry flashlight by their side.

Features

You can activate or deactivate the flashlight by using a single button. This makes it much uncomplicated to use. The BrightBerry Flashlight is available for Blackberry STORM only. It illuminates up the complete screen and makes the screen as vivid as possible making the phone completely comprehensible. Its light is there due to the enlightening of LED, which can give you fine white light with brightness as much as possible for the LED.

Minimum System Requirements

The new Flashlight application software of BlackBerry, BrightBerry Flashlight v1.0, has been developed by Motek Mobile. You should have a minimum display dimension at 480 x 360 to bring out enough light for making your mobile easy to use even in the dark. It is compatible with BlackBerry phones having operating system v4.6 and v4.7.

BrightBerry Flashlight for STORM v1.0 is becoming the ‘IN’ thing in the market because of such exclusive features. If you want to buy this software to make your handset more lucid, just spend a mere amount of $0.99 only and you can have this. Its price is $2.99, but now Motek Mobile is gifting you with a discount of 66.89% till 1st of August. Every time such opportunity will not knock your door. Grab this offer before it ends and enjoy the pleasure and fun of having BrightBerry Flashlight for STORM in your BlackBerry smartphone.

BrightBerry Flashlight for STORM download website: http://go.mobihand.com/?target=product.asp&id=31918&op=wc&posid=96&affid=541&wid=1993

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Do you want to time yourself perfectly and not lose even a single second of your life? It is true that in fraction of a second, you can lose or win something. So, it has become very necessary to value the time in your life. Thinkomatics has given us a new application, StopWatch2 Your browser may not support display of this image.v1.1, which is very useful and handy.

StopWatch2 is a dual pack, which provides you with both a Stopwatch and a Countdown timer. This application is generally not available in most BlackBerry devices.

Accuracy

StopWatch2 is a very well known for its accuracy and you can bet upon that. It can come up with information, which is 1/1000 second accurate. It is basically a clock with a stopwatch utility. The current time is displayed in 24 hour format, whereas the elapsed time in the application is displayed in days/hours/minutes/seconds/hundredths of one second.

Measure the time

When you want to time an event, then just simply switch on the application. Your timing to that particular event will be timed. When the particular event is over ten, what you need to do is simply switch off the application. You will know the exact time taken by the particular event. There will not be a fault of a fraction of second. There is a plus point of StopWatch2; it makes a sound and thereby alerts a person when it has reached zero.

Location of the button

You can switch on the application very easily, as the button for StopWatch2 to play is located at the side of the BlackBerry device. So, you can start or stop the timer conveniently by a button whenever you want.

Minimum requirements for StopWatch2

Since you know that the StopWatch2 is not present in all the BlackBerry devices, there must be obviously some requirements in the device to support the application. In case of BlackBerry RIM, you need to have the platform to at least be OS v4.0. At the same time, the display of the device should be 160 x 160 for running the utility properly.

You can have this software in your BlackBerry device by paying $1.95 only and evaluate your time accurately. Thus, you can easily avoid wasting even a faction of a second of your life, as the time, which passes by without your knowledge, will never ever comeback. So try and use each and every second to the maximum with StopWatch2.

StopWatch2 download website: http://go.mobihand.com/?target=product.asp&id=30890&op=wc&posid=96&affid=541&wid=1993

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Skylab Mobilesystems Ltd. just released a brand new version of TopoExplorer for BlackBerry! The new version number for TopoExplorer is now:

• Non-Touchscreen BlackBerry Devices (Bold, Curve, Pearl): 1.0.83
• Touchscreen BlackBerry Devices (Storm): 1.0.82

Changelog for this update:

• Improved GPS support
• Improved map management

From the comments on our blog and in forums we see that some people have had problems with getting a GPS fix. I didn’t have such a problem though, but it seems the Skylab guys did something in there. So it might be worth to check out the new version

New have also been released. They write in there that the new source is the Soviet Union Military. So these are the topographic maps which were used to plan the Soviet Military interventions in the world? Sounds pretty cool to me!

The full feature list reads as followed:

• Covered area: Africa / South America.
• Scale: 1:500,000.
• Size: 2.3 GB (needed on memory card).
• Map packs can be used partially.
• Type: Topographic.
• Source: Soviet Union Military.

Note on Soviet Union Military Maps

• These are high quality topographic maps covering even very remote areas not available elsewhere.
• Names of places are in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is however easy to map them to Latin names.
• A Cyrillic-Latin transliteration table is included with the map pack.

Africa and South America Map Packs:

• Africa - the whole continent, 1:500.000 topographic maps: $29 at MobileSoftMarket with Instant Download.
• South America - the whole continent, 1:500.000 topographic maps: $29 at MobileSoftMarket with Instant Download.

Related articles:

• The new kid on the block in GPS: Topo Explorer
• New Map Packs for TopoExplorer & Pricing Poll
• TopoExplorer for BlackBerry Storm released by Skylab Mobilesystems
• GPS Offline Topographic Map Application TopoExplorer for BlackBerry Now Available - For FREE!
• Blackberry and GPS - 2009 Edition Popular article!

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Do you wish to know the increase in the value of assets and keep the information of your personal finances at your fingertips? The ups and down in the market is very important for you to know on a daily basis, if you have made an investment in the market. You can achieve this task by having a new application in your BlackBerry. Amerco International Limited has successfully launched Aimiya Financial Goal v1.3, which is perfect for the job.

Categories for main assets groups

Aimiya Financial Goal is such software, which has infinite customized categories for main asset groups such as cash, bank account, deposits and many more.

Helps you to set the goal

The application helps you to set your goal and achieve the target set by you on time. Aimiya Financial Goal will assist you to set many aims such as how to increase the value of your assets and checking out the investments done by you on the regular basis. This application also also encourages you to save the money.

Track the economic condition of the market

It is possible to calculate the estimated balance, only if you are acquainted with the market position. Aimiya Financial Goal helps you to keep yourself updated with the happenings. The use of pie chart or graph is also possible for you to evaluate your balance. The currency of many countries is supported by the application, so you will find no problem in estimating the balance in dollars and pounds.

Customize the application

The width and the font of the application can be changed as per your convenience. You can slide it in upwards or sideways to read the whole content. The data can be stored easily with no problems. This shows that the application is so handy for any user to use. The information, which you store, can be kept secured and safe by the use of a password. If you are not able to understand the application and how to use it, then do not worry a help system is inbuilt. It has all the solution to your query with regards to Aimiya Financial Goal.

Minimum Requirements for Aimiya Financial Goal v1.3

The Aimiya Financial Goal v1.3 is meant only for BlackBerry, which has operating system v4.2 or higher and with a minimum display dimensions of 160 x 160.

Even though this application costs high at $49.99, it is perfect for the one, who works in a financial field. They would like to have minute details of the economic condition of the country.

Aimiya Financial Goal download website: http://go.mobihand.com/?target=product.asp&id=31846&op=wc&posid=96&affid=541&wid=1993

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We had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Sylvain Dufour, CEO and Founder of Mobigloo LLC to get his insights on the BlackBerry industry. Mobigloo is a fast-growing developer of mobile software that is supported on a large range of mobile operating system including Palm OS, BlackBerry, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphones, Symbian UIQ, Symbian Series 60.

1. Tell us a little about yourself

My name is Sylvain Dufour and I am the CEO and founder of Mobigloo LLCwhich has offices in Miami, Florida and Raleigh, North Carolina. I’ve been involved in Mobile development for over 10 years now, previously CEO of 995SOFT and VP Mobile Development at Ring2 Communications.

2. What BlackBerry do you use now and what PDAs have you used in the past?

I currently use a BlackBerry 8900. I’ve used a lof of devices in the past, started with a Palm TX, BlackBerry 7190, Pearl, iPhone, Storm, Bold.

3. Why is the BlackBerry a good platform to develop on?

Mainly because the same company (RIM) is both building the hardware and the OS. This makes development and testing easier.

4. Other than your own, name your three favorite applications for the BlackBerry.

I would have to say email first but I also like to play a few good games. Fierce Tower from NickelBuddy is fun and Mahjong from ConcreteSoftware.

5. What’s your favorite trick or feature that you use on your BlackBerry?

The ability to keep all my emails on the device and search through them if I have too. I think I currently have over 40,000 emails on my BlackBerry.

6. What’s the most important feature that the BlackBerry lacks?

Probably not a feature but the perfect BlackBerry devices has yet to be built, which would include the form factor of a BlackBerry Tour with a touch screen.

7. Where do you see the focus of third party programs for the BlackBerry going over the next few months?

I think developers are going to try to take advantage of unique features from newer devices and new versions of the OS such as building some applications around the 3.2MP camera, designing apps exclusively for the touch screen, including GPS and connectivity whenever possible, using the latest API to create vector graphic games, etc.

Mobigloo Website: http://www.mobigloo.com

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