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BlackBerry is a line of smartphones made by the Canadian company Research in Motion (RIM). It is producing these great phones for 10 years now, and has millions of items sold all over the world. The Blackberry can function as a PDA (Personal Digital Assitant), or as a portable media player for movies and music, or as a digital camera and also has many more other features. It has a great design too, and it is known for its ability to send and receive mails wherever mobile network service coverage is present. It is mainly a messaging phone, so it definitely has a QWERTY keyboard. It has push Facebook and Myspace notifications, push Ebay  notifications, push instant messaging with BlackBerry Messenger, Google Messenger, ICQ, Windows Live messenger and Yahoo Messenger so you can easily keep in touch with your friends, wherever you are.
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It has  a lot of cool applications that you can download and install, and of course it also supports all sorts of pictures for background.  So in case you are looking for some <strong>BlackBerry wallpapers</strong>,  you should know that there are many sites all over the internet that are offering them. And one of them is <a href="http://gallery.mobile9.com/c/blackberry-wallpapers/1/">this site</a>. Here you can find thousands of cool wallpapers, and first of all you will have to choose your BlackBerry model. Here you will find probably all the BlackBerry models, from the BlackBerry 6720, BlackBerry 7100 and so on…all the way to the BlackBerry Storm 9550. After choosing your model, you will find thousands of cool wallpapers for each one.

All of the wallpapers are sorted on categories, and these are: animals, abstract, brands, automotive, cartoon, computer, games, landscapes, miscellaneous, movie, nature, people, sports, technology, original, sci-fi &amp; fantasy, festive, Bollywood, funny and finally signs &amp; sayings. So now let’s take a random model – the BlackBerry Curve 8520, and see some of the wallpapers that you can find for it. Let’s go for example at the “brands” category. And here you will find a lot of famous brands such as: Pizza Hut, Tuborg, Nike, Adidas, Apple, Puma, BlackBerry, Metallica, Vodafone, OVB, Windows, Pepsi and many more others. If you like animals, then you can go at the category with the same name, and here you will find wallpapers with: cats, dogs, monkeys, birds, rabbits, lions, horses, parrots, frogs, whales, fishes and all the animals you can think of.



Or maybe you like cars, and in this case you should visit the “Automotive” category. Here you will find images with cars like: Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Volvo, Formula 1 cars, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and hundreds of more others. The list can continue for any category you choose, so this is a great site where you can find thousands of cool <strong>BlackBerry wallpapers</strong>. But it is not necessary to have a BlackBerry to visit this site…it doesn’t matter which model of mobile phone or smartphone you have, as long it can support wallpapers, and as long as you have an USB cable so that you can copy the image into the phone.

Blackberry phones are just the perfect host for applications. And you can find some of the <strong>best BlackBerry applications</strong> online, some free and some with payment. Blackberry mobile phones are multimedia, internet-based gadgets and they focus on making your surfing a more pleasant world, and even offer widgets to manage your work, schedules, and offer maps to get you around and so on. There are lots of BlackBerry applications out there and they are mostly related to communication, games, productivity, educational and so on. So here are some of the <strong>best BlackBerry applications</strong> you must have.
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To start with, there is BBNotePad, this is a text editor in which you can enter full-length documents or codes. BeeTag is very ingenious; it scans barcodes and ads on the products or brands and tells you everything you need to know about them, text or URL information depending on the products. If you are an Amazon lover and want to always stop their place and place your orders, you can do it directly from your phone using Amazon application, you place your order and afterwards Amazon will process your order.

We all love chatting, so BlackBerry Messenger is one application you must have in order to stay in touch with your friends, and what is more you can send text messages and you won’t get charged! Boopsie is a search engine; it gets you your required information in seconds. Moving on to the most popular social network, Facebook, you will be able to load pages quickly, leave comments or messages in seconds. Now getting a bit more serious, Mobipocket Reader comes in handy whenever you want to read eBook titles and also want to download books directly on your BlackBerry phone.



For Skype users, this application will send and receive video calls and also offer messaging functions, it’s called ISkoot. Staying in touch with the latest news, see the latest audio clips, weather information and more can be tricky as you always have to access different websites, well here is when Viigo can help you, it views news, money data, stocks, sport scores and a lot more. What is more you can download this application instantly from your BlackBerry browser.  Google Maps is a well-known application that you must have. It helps you get on the right direction, see traffic and your location. You will never get lost anymore as you can get maps in satellite views from now on. Are you a fast food lover? Want to know where are the newest and closer fast food chains in your area? Well load up Fast Food Finder on your phone to get GPS system running in getting directions to the nearest fast food chain. For coffee lovers, there is Caffeine Finder, in the morning it’s hard to decide or to remember where to have your wake-up call coffee, but now the solution is easy as pie. Pandora Mobile will help you arte songs and create new stations. You can use it as a media player as well, while on the background you continue sending e-mails or create documents.



These are just some of the <strong>best BlackBerry applications</strong>, to find more use your mobile phone and start surfing around. You can never have too many.

Having a smartphone you want to upload <strong>applications</strong> to it so you can use it as much as possible. And as <strong>BlackBerry Storm</strong> has a microSD car slot you can add lots of memory to it, available is 8GB. So why not load it with different fun, educational, entertainment, multimedia applications? And if there is some room left personalize your phone with themes, wallpapers, ringtones and make your phone special.
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You are able to find applications for weather, for social networking, finding local bars and restaurants, getting maps and see exactly where you are and many more. One application that might turn out to help your hunger is UrbanSpoon. This one uses your local data to se the slot machine with local dining locations, so you can twist it a bit and let the phone select where you are going to take a meal. No more deciding where to eat what to eat, it will make the choice for you.

Then there is Google Maps, everybody knows about it. Get turn-by-turns directions and see images of where you are and where you should go to reach your destination. For the ones always concerned about the weather and don’t know what to wear if take the umbrella or not, there is the Berryweather. This one delivers weather updates on your <strong>BlackBerry Storm</strong> each day. You will see the exact forecast for the day and even for the following week.



The JiveSlide is an <strong>application </strong>used for sharing your photos and files with friends or family on Flickr or Yahoo. It is actually a slideshow application. If you always want to stay in touch with the latest news check out Piconews. This <strong>application</strong> brings the news to your phone and you can after that sort them by category or keywords. If you are travelling and don’t know what’s going on just use this one and you will be instantly connected to the world. Next is the FourSquare, this one is more interactive, if your friends are using it you can see where they are exactly. For Twitter lovers there is UberTwitter, you start tweeting on the go with your friends. Then there are applications for Instant Messaging. Now let’s get serious with SMARTGuard. This <strong>BlackBerry Storm application</strong> tracks your BlackBerry phone and can wipe all your data form their website. It is also possible to track your love one (of course only with the permission).



TalkLock is another useful <strong>application</strong>. Usually BlackBerry storm does not lock the touchscreen when you are on the phone, so this application automatically engages when you are on the phone. Now you won’t accidentally start any application or access the internet while you are on the phone. It happened to me several times to accidentally send text messages to people. Viigo is one of the best RSS readers for <strong>BlackBerry phones.</strong> Slacker is an internet radio <strong>application</strong> allowing you to listen to over 100 stations free. Then there are applications for games such as Dope Wars, Zelda Mobile, and well-known Sudoku, Blackjack, Chess and many more.  These are just some of the applications you can use. If you have the time you can search for many on the category you want, weather, news, games, security, social networking, free themes, desktop and so on. The list is endless.

strong>Verizon</strong> customers looking for a <strong>smartphone</strong> should be in a lookout for the <strong>BlackBerry Storm</strong> available now. It has a <strong>touchscreen</strong> with tactile feedback and it offers dual-mode functionality so it is working worldwide in case you are considering traveling a lot. What is more it has a 3.2 megapixels camera so you can capture any moment with it.
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This <strong>BlackBerry Storm</strong> was the first to announce a touchscreen from BlackBerry. The price is affordable enough, about $199.99 and everybody died to see its features and how it performs the tasks. Unfortunately it let people down a bit as the performance proven was a bit slow. <strong>Verizon Wireless</strong> came with solutions to fix the problems. It resolved in 2009 some bugs this <strong>BlackBerry</strong> had and it added some updated features.

In terms of design it is kind of the same rounded look as its competitors (such as Apple and Samsung Omnia) it comes in a black casing with some silver here and there. It measures 4.4 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide by 0.5 inch deep and it weights 5.6 ounces.  It is a bit wide but when you hold it in your hands it feels stabile and it is in fact well-constructed. The display stands out having 3.25” VGA glass. It delivers sharp and bright images with 65.000 colors and the resolution is 480x360 pixels. It is a beautiful display with great colors. You can choose to adjust the brightness, font size and type. It is equipped with an accelerometer so when you rotate the phone in each side you will be able to see the right display.



For touch screen features, this smartphone uses SurePress, it’s pretty cool, because when you press something on the screen a gap forms just like you press a normal button on the keyboard. When you want to enter text the screen keyboard is available in both landscape and portrait mode. You can access the settings to choose the full QWERTY keyboard if you want. Moreover it has other finger touch capabilities, for example if you press the screen twice it zooms the picture, website page you are viewing. You can use the touch to copy paste documents or pictures. You will eventually get used to the SurePress technology.

But if you are used to the classic QWERTY tactile keyboard on the BlackBerry you will definitely miss the feature. The keyboard buttons are also a bit cramped so maybe you should double check the text you are going to send. Below the screen you will see the navigation controls for Call/End, menu key and the clear button. On the sides of the <strong>BlackBerry Storm </strong>you will see<strong> </strong>the micro USB port and on the right the 3.5mm headphone jack, the volume rocker and the camera button. The camera lenses are on the back and behind the battery is the microSD card slot.



Along with the phone there are other accessories you receive such as a travel charger, USB cable to connect the phone to your computer, an 8GB microSD card so you can take as many pictures you like and also personalize your phone with themes, ringtones, wallpapers, videos and games, a SIM card you can use when you go abroad, software CD for installation and the reference material. <strong> </strong>

<p><strong>BlackBerry 8830 World Edition</strong> looks a lot like the <strong>BlackBerry </strong>8800; it is mostly the same phone but has a few changes and some new features. One thing that definitely makes a difference is the fact that is one of the smartphones offering support for CDMA and GSM networks.
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This means that if you have a service contract with Verizon or Sprint you can make calls outside the U.S, where there is GSM service. Of course besides this special feature there are the usual ones like having a multimedia player, supports MP3 files, videos and photos. You can get this phone from both Verizon and Sprint Wireless.

The keyboard on the <strong>Blackberry world 8830</strong> are a bit cramped and don’t have a lot of space between them, unlike the other <strong>BlackBerry</strong> <strong>smartphones</strong>. It is a bad thing, because when you type in messages or e-mails you will notice and have to check twice if you haven’t pressed multiple keys at once. The design though is very nice, in silver chrome and with the trackball in the center and the 35-keys on the QWERTY keyboard. The display features a 320-by-240-pixel resolution, the screen is also QVGA and the colors are pretty nice, bright and crisp. It also has GPS, microSD card in case you want to expand the memory and high capacity battery. In case you want to remove the microSD you don’t have to remove the battery to get access as you have to do with <strong>BlackBerry</strong> Pearl and Curve. The trackball in the center of the phone is easy to use and has fast response, maybe too fast sometimes. The phone is solid constructed and you will feel that when holing in hands.



As for performance there is a 312 MHz processor giving enough power to quickly open and switch applications. The menu options are like the other <strong>BlackBerry</strong> phones but the e-mail interface has been improved. The web browser works fine when you access websites for mobile phones. It would be a good thing if <strong>BlackBerry</strong> would design a web browser so you could see a normal layout on all websites not only the ones providing mobile-friendly layouts.  The multimedia player is one feature improved; you can listen to music, view photos and watch videos. The GPS is SiRFstarIII-LT, it consumes less and you get faster location directions. The signal is strong and remains continuous even in suburb areas. There is a map system so you get the best navigation assistance. The <strong>BlackBerry’s World 8830</strong> battery is 1400 mAh battery and it pulled out 5 hours in talk time and 22 days in stand by, quite impressive I must say. This <strong>smartphone</strong> delivers long battery life even with the big display and the multimedia features it brings.




You can consider this phone as an upgrade for the 8800 and it is a good choice for world travelers as they can switch to either service is available. They can easily access e-mails, address book and plan appointments using the calendar and notes. It is a good thing it has GPS so you will always know where you are.  Adding the full keyboard you will eventually get used to and the long battery life and this turns out to be a great worldwide gadget.