Mobile gadgets running Blackberry & Android OS'
Archive for April, 2010
A week without my BlackBerry Bold 9700
2650 days
Inspired by a search I did out of nowhere, I decided I wanna try to live without my BlackBerry Bold for a week and…use my T-Mo Pulse Android OS instead! I will continue to use the BlackBerry to receive my work phone calls but that should be it. I’ll also use it to send/reply to some of my work emails but will try to do so as little as possible.
I know there are some disadvantages:
- the lack of physical keyboard will slow me down when writing.
- the lack of work emails will be a definitive minus as I can’t find a good Exchange client; should be free, like the one I use in the BlackBerry.
- the battery life which is horrible in Android devices, on the Pulse included.
There are also advantages:
- the Pulse’ so much better for multimedia.
- the touchscreen is better for “on-the-fly usage” especially on apps not requiring data input.
- a LOT of applications to use and get accustomed with in a short period of time.
I just don’t know if i should update the blog regarding the way the things are going daily, or to write a single post after a week. What do you think?
RIM BlackBerry Twitter application goes officially on Beta
0668 days
As I expected, the BlackBerry Twitter application by RIM went officially on Beta! Which means waiting will be over soon. I will continue to use the leaked version (the same built after all) but I will sign-up for the Beta Zone – this is where you can get the Twitter application if you’re not lucky enough to be in a country using the BlackBerry App World.
Update {(d) leaked} RIM BlackBerry Twitter application
2673 days
I’m glad to see they are working actively on this app! In my original review I was expressing my disappointment regarding the fact that RIM announced their Twitter application will be ready by the end of 2010!
Then Crackberry wrote the application will be available on March 31st, as some RIM employees reported at CTIA 2010. It turned out not to be true and RIM has apologized for that blunder but not it seems we’re not going to wait too long; a new version has surfaced just a couple of days ago.
This version 1.0.037 is a lot faster and brings some extra features like the lists. No lag when switching from the messaging section to homescreen or to the Task Manager – this one was really bad; I once clocked a 20 seconds lag…
This is what’s new in this version:
- create, edit and read lists
- edit your profile
- faster operation
- disable tweet and navigation bar
This is still in Beta – not being official and still encountering some lags but it means that the launch date is close!
Update: I wasn’t planning on writing about this but it seems that this is a super-app, like RIM likes to call it, a push application. I noticed it’s not running in the background (it didn’t on the first version either) but it will send notifications every time it will find tweets or replies/DMs depending on your rules you ticked in Options. If it’s so and it’s a pushed app, it’ll greatly reduce the energy consumption and the strain on your RAM – especially on BlackBerry which always had (and it seems like it will always will or at least as they will keep on running this Java platform/OS) memory issues.
