Blackberry at MWC 2009

Dieter is on location in Barcelona this week attending the Mobile World Congress, and it seems he has managed to stick with Espresso and keep himself away from the Sangria as the stories are still coming in. Following up on his hands-on look yesterday at the BlackBerry Application Suite running on an HTC Touch Pro, Dieter has this to say today:

Sure, they have a booth where you can check out umpteen BB vendors, but the real action appears to be happening at BlackBerry's courtyard building, where they have a bunch of meeting rooms where a bunch of business people are learning a bunch about BES 5.0

The stakes are actually higher than you might think for RIM at MWC. Overseas, Nokia is far and away the dominant force and Microsoft does much better with Windows Mobile than they do in the states. If RIM wants to extend their enterprise dominace into Europe and beyond, they had better make sure they schedule plenty of meetings in this glass box.

Nokia? Who's that?!! lol. Sounds like CrackBerry Nation is going to have to up its game and start thinking on how to become CrackBerry World! You can follow more of Dieter's MWC coverage here and if you want to see his thoughts and insights between blog posts. [Source]

BlackBerry with pink, pricey, and plenty of diamonds

While scavenging for pricey handsets to hang on the gilded walls at the Mansion, we luckily bumped into one Alexander Amosu, of Amosu fame. The Amosu brand is synonymous with gold, encrusted and dripping with gemstones, and most of all, pricey. In his bag of tricks we found three fully-kitted BlackBerry Bolds, a pink iPhone, and an iced Motorola Aura. If you lined them up on a table -- which, of course, we did -- you'd be looking at some 12 plus carats and a price tag somewhere up around 50k. Sure, we're normally harsh on these types of things, but seeing them up close, we could almost kinda get it. Huge sparkling gallery after the break, so if you have shades, now's the time to don them.

[ Engadget ]

Vopium has launched its VoIP services in the UK - Call internationally from your mobile for free

Vopium has launched its VoIP services in the UK, offering cheap mobile phone calls and text messages to more than 200 countries across the world.

All you need to do to take advantage of the service is install Vopium for free onto your mobile, and register to receive 30 free minutes of talk time and 100 free SMS.

Vopium integrates directly with your address book, and re-routes all your international calls via the least expensive method available, resulting in heavily discounted call and text messages costs abroad being cut to 9p.

On top of this, if you're connected to a Wi-Fi network and call another Vopium Wi-Fi user, you'll be able to get the call for completely free.

For some idea of what you'll pay, it'll be 5p a minute to landlines and mobiles in India and Australia, and 2p a minute to landlines and mobiles to the USA and Poland.

The Vopium service is compatible with over 500 handsets in 15 countries. Head on over to the Vopium website for full details.

Link - Vopium

Twitter Clients For Blackberry!!

Interesting round up, now It seems that Twitter has made a rush as of late - especially with BlackBerry users. Twitter the most know and best practice social networking application services are available in the form of IM, SMS and WAP - but as every demanding BlackBerry user knows, a powerful easy to use app is the way to go for any mobile service.

CB reviews: Until recently, we were stuck with only a few Twitter applications for Blackberry devices such as TwitterBerry and BlackBird. Later down the road TinyTwitter came along, and then there was Twibble which was ported over from the N95. A few weeks ago we got word of SocialScope which shows amazing promise in its early alpha stages, and yesterday our friends at BerryReview let us know about BBTweet. There is also Twitter functionality being worked into a new version of Viigo which we learned about at CES. So if you aren’t a Twitter user or just haven’t started tweeting from your BlackBerry, here is a quick roundup of the pros and cons to these applications. The best part by far is that they are all free. Read More…