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Blackberry Playbook Tablet PC – Just About Ripe for the Picking


You don’t need an Instant Replay to see that the new Blackberry Playbook tablet is one of the upcoming gadget must-haves to get your geeky game on! (Series of pun intended.) No Blackberry product has ever come as far as this: native support for Adobe Flash for internet browsing, multitasking – browse a website in one window and watch in another, 1 GHz dual-core processor to keep up with your demands, integrated BlackBerry security, efficiency and manageability apps, real-time video calls and conferencing and astounding gaming experience. Blackberry might just set the new standard for what a tablet PC should be. Playbook is the first ultra-portable, super convenient, multiprocessing, multitasking, online and enterprise ready professional-grade tablet from Blackberry loaded with an exclusive highly secure and efficient OS plus other essential apps. The POSIX OS supports SMP, Open GL, BlackBerry 6, WebKit, Adobe Flash, Java and Adobe Mobile AIR.

The key features of the Blackberry Playbook are:
• Support for Full Adobe® Flash® 10.1
• Built-in support for HTML 5
• Astounding text, graphics and video rendering
• User-friendly QNX technology
• On-screen keyboard
• True multi-tasking capability
• Crystal clear HD display
• Rich stereo sound
• 3 MP High Definition front mounted camera
• 5 MP High Definition rear camera
• Support for popular multimedia codecs
• 1080p HD video; H.264, MPEG4, WMV HDMI video output

Blackberry Playbook connects seamlessly with other Blackberry smartphones thru secure Bluetooth connection for full access to additional features like 3G access, Push technology, Email, calendar, BBM, tasks, documents and more.

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The ROAMpay Credit Card Swiper: For The Growth Of Your Business

As the business industry advances to what we call as the electronic era, businessmen must learn how to make a few changes in their lives to keep up with the time and deal with the constantly increasing demands of customers. One such demand is convenience, from the customers’ shopping experience to their paying experience – yes, even this last part. And when it comes to that, credit cards are a must. Unfortunately, not all businessmen are given the resources to accept credit card payments because they lack the facility. It is this problem that QuickPay Merchant Services aims to solve as it partners with ROAM Data to produce the ROAMpay credit card swiper.

The ROAMpay is a device that features applications compatible with phones like Android, Blackberry, Droid, and many others (more than 400+ phones). When used, this will allow businessmen to accept and process credit card payments through their phones. Businessmen also get real-time authorization and are allowed to log their transactions, with receipts that they can email to their customers. Plus, they can also check transaction reports whether on their phone or via the internet. And of course, there’s no worry with ROAMpay because every transaction made is safe – the swiper is even certified by the Payment Card Industry. It accepts major credit cards like Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express.

With the ROAMpay credit card swiper now available, businessmen need not lose sales anymore just because they cannot accommodate credit card payments. With just their phones on hand, every credit card transaction will be accommodated smoothly.

Blackberry Torch – Sizzling Hot Sliding QWERTY Phone

Not all that is blazing hot, fast and sexy is Johnny Storm – introducing the new Blackberry Torch. This latest and flaming just off the grill gadget from Blackberry features a brand new operating system.
The Blackberry Torch features a 3.2 inch touchscreen with a slide out keyboard for comfortable typing. The phone also comes with Wi-Fi, 5 megapixel camera and 4 GB of storage. The sliding keyboard is a first for blackberry, as well as the new blackberry OS 6, which is made to improve the mobile internet experience. Additional feature of the OS includes media synch, a service which enables users to stream audio content from their home to their mobile device. Can this hot baby burn brighter than its competitors? Look at these features from Blackberry and decide.

• Slider form factor with touch screen plus QWERTY keyboard and optical trackpad
• BlackBerry 6 OS with all-new browser featuring tabbed browsing for access to multiple web pages at the same time and pinch-to-zoom capability
• Next-generation messaging including group messaging for up to 10 people and locations
• Social networking feed application for one view of all your favorite sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace
• Integrated search from home screen
• 5 MP camera with flash, autofocus, and environment settings
• Latest Wi-Fi “N” network support (Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n) for home and office use
• Plenty of memory including 512 MB RAM + 512 MB Flash + 4 GB Flash + 4 GB MicroSD
• Extended talk time of GSM: 5.5 hrs UMTS: 5.8 hrs and even longer standby time of GSM: 17 days UMTS: 13 days

Find more Blackberry QWERTY phones here.

UPC Barcode Scanning Via Top Smartphones now Possible with ScanLife Mobile App

Are you familiar with ScanLife Barcode scanner? Do you that it now has a newer version which is compatible with Blackberry, Android, and iPhone operating systems? ScanLife mobile app makes use of the built-in camera in the mobile phone to scan barcodes and automatically display product information. This is among the first applications that read major barcode formats using the three leading Smartphone platforms. ScanLife already recognizes famous 2D barcode formats like EZcode, Datamatrix, and QR. Additionally, the newer version of ScanLife phones featuring auto-focus cameras are able to read 1D barcodes like ISBN, UPC, and EAN. Such phones include iPhone 3GS, DROID by Motorola, and BlackBerry Tour.
More and more people around the world are now downloading the Scanlife app. There are also mobile operators that have this app preloaded on lots of handsets. Most product packaging across the globe now contains UPC and EAN barcodes and with the help of ScanLife mobil app, you can now scan these barcodes to obtain more product information, including price comparisons and consumer reviews from different retailers online such as Amazon.

Best is, the ScanLife Code Management Platform is now used by huge marketers and small local businesses. Consumers just need to scan the said codes so they can load videos, avail of discounts, and enter promotions right from their mobile phones. More interestingly, you can use the ScanLife Platform to produce personal codes that connect to your social networking profiles or contact information in different websites. This ScanLife mobile application stands out from the number of barcode readers out there because of its ability to scan many types of barcodes.

BlackBerry Curve 8530 Coming to Sprint

The popular BlackBerry phones to the corporate people and even got the stars buzzing aside from a bunch of iPhones is now more accessible to the younger generation with the upcoming BlackBerry Curve 8530. This new phone is set to capture the younger generation who wants to get a taste of what BlackBerry’s fast paced communication style.8530

This new phone is like just the released 8520 Gemini on T-Mobile but is a CDMA version to be used on Sprint’s network. You can see this device as somehow a twin brother of the 8900 being trapped in a smaller siblings body. It has the same operating system as that of the 8900 but is navigated with a rather new twist to what BlackBerry users have loved and get used to – the track ball. The track ball is like the center of the current BlackBerry phones out there like the Bold and the Tour. But this new baby has an optical track pad that is like a touch pad on your mouse that follows your finger’s movement left, right, up and down. This thing too has WiFi which is standard nowadays for smartphones and dedicated media keys. Yes, the dedicated media keys is its teen-pleaser of this device since there is a play/pause button in the middle that also works as a mute button and a next and back button. The addition of the media keys positions the 8530 as a device that caters to multimedia which it does well, too.

To be available in Royal Purple or Black, you can wait for these to come or you might as well get other BlackBerry devices at Amazon.