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Seesmic Twitter Client for BlackBerry

By On 22/11/2009 · 2 Comments · In mobile, usability

Seesmic, a service I’ve not tried before, have released a Twitter client for the BlackBerry. Is it any good? How does it compare with the features of Dabr or the usability of UberTwitter? Find out!

Getting the client was fairly simple, but could be better. Simply visiting http://seesmic.com was enough to [...]

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BlackBerry Wireless Update

By On 19/11/2009 · 2 Comments · In mobile

There now follows a quick run through of how you go about wirelessly updating your BlackBerry.  The total process took just under an hour.  This was a BlackBerry 9000 updating from 4.6.0.266 to 4.6.0.301.

What’s really annoying is that there’s no automatic propt to tell you there’s new firmware. I wonder how many people out [...]

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Mobile Badvertising – BlackBerry Characters

By On 05/11/2009 · Leave a Comment · In badvertising, mobile

HTML is a complex beast. Especially when it comes to languages. I don’t mean the difference between English and French but between UTF-8,  Windows-1252, and all the other methods for encoding text.

When it goes wrong, you can come a cropper – take a look at this advert for the BlackBerry.  Somehow a [...]

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Review: Opera Mini 5 Beta – BlackBerry

By On 17/09/2009 · Leave a Comment · In mobile, usability

(Disclaimer, I work for Vodafone Group who do a lot of work with Opera. These are my personal views.)

The regular BlackBerry browser is… how can I put this politely… sub-optimal. For reading mobile-friendly sites it’s perfectly adequate – but for anything more complex it tends to choke.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s “good enough” [...]

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UberTwitter Review

By On 01/07/2009 · Leave a Comment · In mobile, usability

It’s been a long time since my last post about Twitter on the BlackBerry.

Back then I concluded that Dabr wasn’t quite up to snuff – how wrong I was! In the last year it has come on leaps and bounds. I’ve even contributed a few suggestions and lines of code.

Without a [...]

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BlackBerry AppWorld – Pictures and thoughts

By On 02/04/2009 · Leave a Comment · In /etc/

So, RIM have finally released their Application Store (hereafter called AppWorld) Let’s take it for a spin on a BlackBerry Bold (9000 running 4.6.0.237 for those who care about such things). All screenshots taken with the magnificent CaptureIt from The Tech Mogul.

You can grab it by pointing your ‘Berry at http://blackberry.mobi/appworld.

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Some thoughts on .tel

By On 30/03/2009 · 2 Comments · In mobile, usability

Just a few quick thoughts.

.tel is yet another top level domain to go with all those other highly profitablepopular ones. You know, like .biz, .museum, .info, etc.

This domain is different – this domain is single purpose. .tel’s raison d’être is to abolish the business card. No more handing over [...]

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Mobile Twitter on the Blackberry

By On 06/10/2008 · 3 Comments · In mobile, usability

Twitter == Addictive. CrackBerry == Addictive. Twitter + BlackBerry == toxic levels of addictivenessicity.

This is a quick review of some of the mobile Twitter interfaces and how well they work on the BlackBerry. I’m just looking at mobile web interfaces (for now).

Mobile Twitter

First off – the official mobile Twitter interface –

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