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Blackberry Beta Zone

If you are not a member of Blackberry Beta Zone then many times you’d wonder when you see news/tweets about an application being available in Beta Zone.

Just thought of listing some pros and cons of having access on Blackberry Beta Zone.

Pros:

• Having access to latest app versions
• Platform to provide your feedback
• Possibility of accessing apps before it even hits app world for the mass
• Build good Karma by doing good for community

Cons:

• Unreleased apps may contain bugs
• Buggy apps can cause Blackberry performance issues (Rare cases)

So if you are a kind of person who likes testing new apps, even if there is a threat of causing issues with your Blackberry, having an account at Beta Zone is a must.

Angry Birds upgraded to buggy version 1.1 on Playbook

When I woke up this morning I could see an upgrade for Angry Birds in app world.

The joy of upgrading it ended pretty soon as I realized its a buggy upgrade. Not something huge but sound goes on and off while playing. And trust me, I love the noise birds make

Hopefully RIM will come up with a corrected upgrade soon.

Anyone else facing such issue???

Should I update apps everytime there is a new upgrade?

Many times we see upgrades coming to apps, some after long times some frequent ones. And we have also seen with N number of upgrades that developers don’t give change logs.
We install the updated version and end up thinking ‘huh? What did they change?? It looks exactly the same like the previous one.’ Have you ever wondered that way?
 
Well, what we have observed is though they don’t mention change logs 99% there are some improvements. Some code is added in the app which brings better out of it.
It could be anything, better signal reception, lower battery consumption, smoother interface etc etc.
 
There have been some rare instances as well where upgrades have gone horribly wrong, however we have seen developers rectifying the same on priority basis.
 
So if you ask me, I mostly do all the upgrades that come to my installed apps. And I also recommend the same to you too.

Win 10 licenses of BatteryPlus – Battery Booster and Manager

Here is your chance to win a license of Top Rated, Best Selling, and Most Advanced Battery Booster & Power Manager ‘Batteryplus’ to Squeeze Peak Performance Out of Your BlackBerry. Our friends at @bzlinkpremium are sponsoring this contest and 10 lucky winners will get this $5.99 app absolutely FREE.

Please read this post about them and to win a license leave your Blackberry PIN in comments. 

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FAQ 

• What is BZLink File Hosting?
  BZLink File Hosting is a file hosting provider. We offer online storage/remote backup capacity, sophisticated uploading and downloading tools.
  With BZLink File Hosting you can host files, images, videos, audio and flash on the same place.
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  Whenever you need to send a file that is too large for e-mail, BZLink File Hosting can help. If you need secure remote storage capacity for off-site backups, BZLink File Hosting offers solutions for you. If you want to access personal data from a variety of computers and don’t want to carry around a USB stick, BZLink File Hosting is a perfect way of doing so.
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  No, because not everyone wishes to share the files they upload with everyone else. This way BZLink File Hosting can be used to share files with anyone you choose to, as well as keep it for yourself as a backup or to download from anywhere in the world.
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About BatteryPlus :

• Regional Selection in the 2010 BlackBerry Partners Fund Super Apps Developer Challenge
• 2009-2011 Handango Championship Award – Best Phone Tool

BatteryPlus is a powerful battery boosting tool and power management application specially designed for BlackBerry®. BatteryPlus automatically detects the type of your device and its active network (GPRS, Edge, 3G, or Wi-Fi, etc.). Based on system specifics, BatteryPlus then provides the most accurate information on your battery charge. An auto-updating live chart allows you to visually tracking your battery usage. You can adjust the chart view to examine battery capacity change during the day, week, and month.

BatteryPlus is also embedded with a variety of battery boosting techniques and provided the most easy-to-use boosting functions to assist you boost up your battery’s running time. For example, Battery Plus will remember your last battery calibration time, notifies you when a monthly calibration is due, and turns off WiFi and LED when your BlackBerry is on low battery.

Download link : http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/4087/?lang=en

Winners of BBIndia B’Day Giveaway

Here we are with the little analysis of yesterday’s contest and list of the lucky 15. Response was really huge and at one time #BBIndia was trending on twitter (In Mumbai).

285 – Total Unique Entries

229 – Valid Entries (excluding those who are not following @bbindiaforums)

We used random.org to select 15 random entries from the 229 valid entries and 15 lucky Winners are -

BBIndia congratulate all the winners for winning a Flipkart e-Gift voucher of Rs. 200

Winners are requested to email below info to info@bbindia.net and we will email the vouchers in 2 days.

Info Needed -

Name , Twitter Handle , City , Mobile Number

We are really thankful to all the people who participated in our contest. Hope to see you all in our future contests too

If you have any questions regarding the contest please contact us at info@bbindia.net

BBIndia 2nd Anniversary Giveaway

Friends,

As we celebrate 2nd Anniversary of BBIndia, we want to say thank you by giving you a chance to celebrate, too.

How to Enter:

•     To enter, follow @BBIndiaForums on twitter and retweet the contest tweet.
•     There will be total 15 winners.
•     Each winner will get a Flipkart e-Gift Voucher worth Rs. 200 
•     Any retweets, or messages we believe to be spam will not be eligible for the contest.
•     The Winners will be announced on our blog and in our twitter stream.
•     Winners will be randomly chosen from eligible entries.

 Contest Tweet:

#BBIndia B’Day Giveaway- Flipkart vouchers worth Rs.3000; to win follow @BBIndiaForums and Retweet this tweet bit.ly/Bbirth

Deadline: March 21, 11:59 PM IST

About: BBIndia.net was started in March, 2010 to help Indian Blackberry users and it has 2800+ registered members. This forum is also backed by a very active (730+ members) google group/mailing list (bit.ly/BBInd) and members discuss everything about blackberry and help other members in their technical issues with Blackberry. Blackberry has also recognized BBIndia and posted this video from one of its group meet on their official Youtube channel.  (Link – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJQi4fkS4M )

BBIndia.net is a very active forum with 90K page views and 45K unique visitors per month. Facebook fans: 1200+, Twitter: 1150+.

To Advertise on BBIndia Contact us on info@bbindia.net

Download FREE BBIndia Toolbar

Friends,

Let me introduce you all to BBIndia toolbar for your computer browser.

Features:

• 1-click access to all important links related to BBIndia.
• Search BBIndia forum from toolbar itself, try it it’s an amazing feature.
• Access to latest tweets in toolbar.
• You can also use its gmail button to have access to your gmail account and see unread emails in toolbar itself.
• Toolbar is absolutely FREE.
• Compatible to Firefox and Internet explorer.

Download link –

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Blackberry wallpapers available for download

Friends,

Here are some Cool wallpapers for your Blackberry device.

Blackberry rules the Enterprise

CIO Association of India (CAI) conducted a survey to understand how CIOs perceive enterprise mobility and what factors influence the decision making. Here I am sharing some of the key findings related to Blackberry.

• BlackBerry is the most popular enterprise mobility platform.

BlackBerry leads as the popular platform with 80% of the respondents indicating that their companies currently use it. However, many companies also support more than one platform, including the iPhone, Android, Symbian, and Windows Mobile.

• BlackBerry is the preferred solution partner for most respondents.

This is true of respondents across industries, and large and small companies. A clear majority (61%) of the respondents rated it as the best platform for enterprise mobility, with the Android at a distant second (18%).

• BlackBerry is popular even with CIOs using other enterprise mobility platforms.

Current BlackBerry customers rated it as their preferred partner. So did the respondents using other platforms – more than 40% of iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Android users tagged it as the preferred partner.

• BlackBerry leads the deployments currently in progress, but the Android is also gaining popularity.

A majority of the respondents – about 42% – have BlackBerry platforms being currently deployed (in progress). Android is also gaining momentum with more than a third of the respondents (34.2%) using it for current deployments.

• The BlackBerry is the preferred platform across industries.

The exception to this is the Government or Public Sector, which seems to lean towards Android-based solutions. Windows has some appeal in the Hospitality segment, but across all other industries, the BlackBerry leads as the preferred platform.

CIOs prefer the BlackBerry platform for its security and ease-of-use features. This is what they say:

“The ease of use and intelligence of the device, backed by the security features, give it an edge over other mobile platforms/devices available.”

“Enterprise-grade, secure, proven mobile device management, stable.”

“It works best with email.”

“Vastly used and accepted by the users, cost competitiveness.”

“The BlackBerry solutions were designed for enterprise mobility itself and they remain one of the best in the industry. Other players jumped into it later, copying most of the existing features.”

“Secured, facilitation of messenger, mails and Internet access; apps for this platform are far more stable than any other platform.”

“We already have the infrastructure in place and no other brand gives the kind of response time that BlackBerry gives.”

“A study was done and this was found to be the best option based on several parameters.”

For other platforms please refer the actual report (Links are given below).

Survey was launched on 6th September, 2011, and responses accepted till 19th September, 2011. Survey was sent to the CAI member community and received 305 responses.

Download the report by clicking here : CIO Survey on Enterprise Mobility (203)

Source : http://cioresearchcenter.com/2011/11/cio-survey-on-enterprise-mobility-survey-report/

Playbook for non-Blackberry user???

This is my second blog post on Playbook that I bought about 15 days ago and boy… I just love it.

Many of my friends, who are not using a BB (Blackberry), were curious to know more about my latest craze or rather my latest gadget. My words emit pride as I talk about my Playbook with all the show off!  That was the moment when a thought struck my mind, ‘Would non BB users also choose to buy the Playbook?’

Seriously, the willingness to buy Playbook I have only seen in those who are already using a Blackberry. However what I think is it’s a kind of tablet which anyone can buy who wants to buy a wi-fi only tablet. This is as good as any other wi-fi tab we have in market.

 Then some guys start comparing the specs, my point is what is in numbers? What we should look for is performance. It is pretty amazing to touch, pretty cool graphics, true multi-tasking, flash supported browser etc etc..  I had NFS, Asphalt, Browser and one more game running in background and I couldn’t see any lag in the performance. Now I don’t need to care as to how many GHz CPU I have, I am happy with the performance.

Reading this article on my Playbook

What RIM could have done is, they could have promoted the Playbook for non BB users as well. They are pretty creative with their ads, ‘Do what you Love, Love what you do’. It’s their ads which made Curve 8520 famous amongst the teenagers. I don’t remember a single ad featuring Playbook.  If they had the mindset of launching the tablet as a standalone wi-fi tablet with an extra star for having a BB  for an added advantage to access mail, BBM and browse then I am sure it would have encouraged more people to buy Playbook.

So if you want my call, I strongly recommend the Playbook for non BB users as well. Go for it ! I Say