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Here are a few absolutely fantastic and must have (well, for many of us anyway) apps for your Blackberry, not necessarily in order of preference:

1) Google Maps: download from m.google.com/maps
Get Navigation, Places, Compass Mode, Directions, Latitude (find your friends), Traffic, Layers (overlay information on Maps), Indoor Maps, 3D Maps, Place Pages, My Location, Street View etc all depending on your location and device.

2) Opera Mini: download from http://mini.opera.com
Awesome web browser.

3) Gmail: download from http://m.gmail.com
Great app to have if you ever need to quickly access the Gmail contact or mail that isn’t saved in your BB Mail.

4) Blackberry Travel: download from BB AppStore
Great app for flight status, Weather, Currency Calculator, and World Clocks.

5) Pandora for Blackberry: download from www.pandora.com on your mobile browser.
Pandora Radio is a free personalised Radio.

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After iSync has been dropped from OSX Lion, we have been looking for alternatives. SyncMate is a multifunctional sync app for your Mac which will sync it with mobile phones, other computers, portable devices and online accounts within one app!

SyncMate is offered in Free and Expert editions for your convenience. You can try out Free edition and upgrade to Expert to get more sync options after testing. Enjoy syncing!

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The Nokia C3-01 is a fantastic low cost Nokia touch screen phone. Although the OS is a bit limiting, but you can use the following settings to browse using your WiFi connection.

Go to Menu –> Settings –> Configuration –> Personal Settings –> Options –> Add New then create a new account called My Web. And ACTIVATE it.
Also Check :
Menu –> Settings –> Connectivity –> WLAN –> Internet Connection it should be ‘Ask First’.
2. Menu –> Internet –> Web Settings –> Configuration Setting it should be set toConfiguration : Personal Config. And Account : My Web
Now try to connect and every time it will ask you to choose between connection to connect to the network and you can save your GPRS Bill by using Wi-Fi connectivity at home and at Hot Spots.

For those who are facing a problem with MTS USB Internet on MAC 10.7+ system, here’s a solution:

Uninstall/delete your older MTS dialler application.

You will need ‘CrossPlatformUI-V2.1.2-SSTL.dmg’ (which is available on the ZTE website)

After installation, plug your MTS dongle and  go to
System Preferences > Network > ZTE Wireless Terminal.

Settings:

Configuration: Default
Telephone Number: #777
Account Name: internet@internet.mtsindia.in
Password:  MTS

Save and click connect. That should work.

RIM recently launched the Blackberry Bold 9900 with touchscreen in India. Its an awesome phone, with good build quality (though at first check, it feels a bit plasticky), and a very fast and responsive OS. All in all, a great phone to buy. Now the question is, can you tether it to your Mac as a modem via bluetooth? Of course you can. I called up Airtel for help and they said they didn’t support Macs. So here it is for all fellow Mac users.

Before you start, you will have to call up your carrier and request them to enable internet on your BB (in this case Airtel, and you should mention that you want to access the internet on your laptop/pc via your laptop. You need them to tell you whats your APN, username and password).

For Airtel, call 121 for enabling internet and call 7070 (dial and then press 2 once connected) for BB instructions.

Download BB modem script from here. Place the contents of the zipped folder inside your Mac HDD -> Library -> Modem Scripts

Bluetooth Pair your BB with your Mac. In the end of the process you will get the dialog box which says you can use your BB/Device as a modem to access internet. The details for access are as follows:

Phone Vendor: research In Motion
Phone Model: Blackberry IP Modem (GSM)
Username: (leave blank)
Password: (leave blank)
APN: airtelgprs.com
CID: 1

Now go to Network Preferences: Locations -> Edit -> Add New and name it, lets say, BB9900
Configuration: Default
Telephone Number: airtelgprs.com
Account Name: (leave blank)
Password: (leave blank)

Click on ‘Advanced’ and your settings should be as per the following:

Click ‘Ok’ and save the settings.  Now click ‘Connect’ to enjoy the internet.

Carry your Google Calendar in your pocket! GCalSync is an open source application that lets you do a two-way synchronization between Google Calendar and your phone’s built-in calendar. Download events to your phone, or add an event on your phone and upload it to Google Calendar.

To install, visit http://wap.gcalsync.com with your phone’s browser

Features

Download events from Google Calendar to your phone’s calendar
Upload events created on the phone
If an event has been changed in Google Calendar since last sync it will be updated on the phone
Specify time period you want to sync as number of past days (default: 1) and number of future days (default 30)

GCalSync is still in its early stages, so expect some rough edges. Known limitations:

If an event has been changed on the phone, the changes will not be uploaded to Google Calendar
Reminders not supported
Recurring events are treated as multiple events

The blackberry Torch is a fine phone. I just helped shift someone from a Nokia E61 to a BB Torch. It would have been simple in normal circumstances but this time, the Mac’s bluetooth wasnt working. So here’s how I fixed the contacts transfer (over 1400 of them)

In the Nokia Contact Book, select ‘Mark All’ and then select Copy to Memory Card.

This exports all the contacts as individual VCards which is Apple AddressBook compatible. (This Nokia couldnt handle so many contacts at once, so I had to do it in three exports)

Now I could browse the Nokia on any bluetooth Mac and got the vcards on a USB Flash drive. It was a breeze to drag drop all the cards into the desired Mac’s AddressBook.

Now I installed the BB Software on the Mac and it automatically imported all the contacts from AddressBook to the BB.

The Sony Ericsson W395 unfortunately doesnt work with iSync, but pretty well with a Mac using PhoneAmigo and GSM Remote.

First pair the phone using Bluetooth and Phone Amigo. You will be able to select Direct COM port

Now go to GSM Remote. Pair the phone here as well. Go to Preferences. Your phone should be on the list. Now go to Phone Book and click onLoad. GSM Remote will load your phone’s contact list, as you want, either from SIM memory or Phone memory or both. You have an option from exporting this list using File->Export as Vcards.

These VCards can be imported in Apple Address Book. Its a round about way, but works very well.

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Looks like a promising phone. Has anyone tried it? It works with a Mac using Phone Amigo and GSM Remote. Scroll down to read more.
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The N8 is a Symbian V3 TouchScreen phone from Nokia. What we love is large screen, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, Micro USB, FM Radio and Transmitter and HDMI (yes, HDMI). It has excellent software support.

• Unified push email client supporting multiple protocols: Yahoo!® Mail, Gmail™, Windows Live™, Hotmail and other popular POP/IMAP services, Mail for Exchange, IBM Lotus traveler
• Editing of key office documents

And best of all, it has native support for iSync via this downloadable plugin from Nokia.