Jude 2

So the company bought the bosses and estimators, me, new Blackberry Curves with Nextel Direct Connect. I have a learning curve for sure but nothing like the bosses will have.

Any pointers? Any must have apps? Does Pandora have to have wi-fi to work of will it operate off the 3G network? Does Poiynt use the NExtel GPS and does that cost extra?

A couple from church showed me a few tricks and now Wendy wants one. Way cool for sure.

I will have to help the boss man set his up too.

I ain't sure what pandora is.

The Blackberry with the nextell direct connect is slower with internet access and some of the other features that take IT or Net access.

But it does do the direct connect.

Put your email on there...and if you use the chat feature you can communicate with written text messages faster than email or anything.

PIN numbers are required for that...and it can send pics of your work to send in to the office immediately over that network.

But the "garmin" or GPS is a really handy feature.
The "speak" feature...OK...it will make you pull your hair out. Maybe your voice will work better with it.

and brickbreaker will stink up your battery...so will talking on the thing...so keep a charger handy.

make sure you download the newest Desktop Manager. I have had a BB for a few years now. Just had mine replaced with the Bold, which is 3G. Pretty decent phone. Even came with a 1GB memory card so I can use it as an MP3 player. TeleNav is a good GPS app. Google Maps is also good. Supposedly I can tether is to my laptop for wireless access, but I havent tried that yet.

I really dont like the standard headphones though. Need to replace my bluetooth real soon.

I use Pandora with my BB while I am at work. I have installed yahoo messenger and I have gtalk in my BB.

Get Google apps for BB - maps uses the GPS of the phone
Ubertwitter is a great Twitter app

olivetree.com

I am liking the BB so far. I will say that I am bummed that I had no signal but A2J girl and her hubby did on their IPhones though we were all sitting by one another at church. We were all trying to access our Bible apps. They succeeded and I didn't.

The instant upload of pics to Facebook is cool.