BlackBerry 10 Handwriting Recognition in BBM for Chinese (Video)

If you have ever gotten a chance to use a Samsung Galaxy Note it features handwriting input. You simply use the stylus to write and it enters the words for you.

BlackBerry looks to be offering a similar service for Chinese in BlackBerry 10. It’s debatable whether or not it would be faster jus to Read the Rest of the story [...]

How to include Text Messaging with the rest of your BlackBerry Messages

I’ve had my BlackBerry Torch 9860 for a while now. For the last few weeks, I’ve been hunting down the Text Messaging icon every time someone sends me a new SMS message. There was simply no other way to read them. On my Read the Rest of the story [...]

How to block incoming messages on a BlackBerry smartphone

A really nifty feature built into BlackBerry® smartphones is the ability to block specific types of incoming messages using a firewall. This feature will allow you block text messages and PIN messages – as well as personal or enterprise email messages – from arriving on your BlackBerry smartphone.

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How to copy and share photos taken with a BlackBerry smartphone or BlackBerry PlayBook to a PC

How many of you BlackBerry® smartphone users have lots of pictures that you’ve taken with your device that you haven’t backed up or stored elsewhere (such as your computer’s photo library)? If you said yes to this question, stay tuned because today I’ll be providing an overview of how you can Read the Rest of the story [...]

Quick Tip: How to send your contact information with vCards on OS 6 and OS 7

Have you ever been asked for your business card only to realize you ran out? Are there moments when you want to send your number, email, and pin to a friend but don’t want to type everything out? Well have no fear your BlackBerry device makes it really simple to share Read the Rest of the story [...]

How To Turn Off Message List Integration For BBM Groups

This post comes to us courtesy of forums member rrrebo. Finding that BBM Group notifications were a bit of a pain to tweak up as needed, he decided to post a quick how-to in the forums explaining how to control the message list integration.

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Quick Tip: How To Turn Off Message List Integration For BBM Groups

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This post comes to us courtesy of rrrebo. Finding that BBM Group notifications were a bit of a pain to tweak up as needed, he decided to post a quick how-to in the forums explaining how to control the message list integration.

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Quick Tip: Some great BlackBerry shortcuts

The BlackBerry is the smartphone king of shortcuts here are some favorites

Who doesn’t love a good shortcut? Doing things the long way is the like paying retail, why do it if there is a better (cheaper) way. A while back I wrote about Auto Text/Word Substitution on the BlackBerry and there Read the Rest of the story [...]

Word Substitution: possibly the best feature on a BlackBerry

BlackBerry 101: Word Substitution/AutoText

For me I’m asked one question almost every day “Why do you use a BlackBerry?” I’m asked it by friends, family members, clients and in radio interviews. Unlike many people I can’t give the easy answer “It’s what my company gave me” no, I need a real answer. I fully Read the Rest of the story [...]

Quick Tip: How to turn off auto text for SMS messages

I love the Word Substitution (aka Auto Text) feature on my BlackBerry. I’ve set up shortcuts for all three of my kids’ names, CrackBerry and all sorts of other words. While using the Word Substitution to catch corrections of misspelled words and writing emails is great, some may not want that feature included when Read the Rest of the story [...]