All posts tagged with blackberry

Yesterday, I open-sourced “Lock With A Clock”—a small BlackBerry™ application I originally had developed three years ago.

As the process of setting up a build environment on Mac OS X (without using a Windows VM, or using Rosetta to run old PowerPC binaries) is somewhat dreaded, I took the liberty to fully document all necessary steps in the accompanying README file.

Be sure to check out the app—it’s really the best way to lock a BB against accidental key presses, et al.

More one the Lock With A Clock website.

How do current smartphones fare when it comes to accuracy of the determined location? Can we really throw our standalone GPS devices away now?

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Did I show you this fantastic shot of BlackBerry OS 7.1’s About screen yet?

Smartphone camera comparison: BlackBerry Bold 9700 vs. iPhone 2G

Back in January I took the old iPhone and the two-and-a-half-year newer BlackBerry Bold 9700 to the zoo and shot ten photos to confirm my subjective impression—I had the feeling the BB camera, despite the better specs (3 megapixels, autofocus, flash), delivers much worse pictures.

These are the results.