PodTrapper is a download manager and player for podcasts as you all know.  It’s been out for a few months now, and we’re finally giving it a more indepth review as deserved.  PodTrapper provides a fully self contained podcast aggregator and player which allows you to subscribe to podcasts right on the BlackBerry, and download new episodes without needing to connect the BlackBerry to a computer. once subscribed to your podcasts it should be automatically downloading new episodes in the background.

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A few days ago, Shape Services released IM+ Lite Edition which is a free version with advertisements.  Better than dropping 50 bucks if you ask me.  Any way, we never gave you our feedback on what we saw on the app so here we go.  So as I just mentioned the Lite Edition is ad-based and does not offer IMPush/Stay online and Speech Recognition functionality.  This may not big a big deal for some of you just looking to get online.

As you are all probably aware there are a lot of free messenger applications. If you have friends on all sorts of messengers, or under different accounts, like business and pleasure for example. with IM+ lite you can have everyone together.

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Mobile banking is one of the most convenient activities for me.  Given that I do not use CHASE, I am a little bit dissapointed that I won’t have the same enjoyment all you account holders will have.  Ronen from BerryReview got an email from CHASE which basically said that a BlackBerry application will be coming soon.  As it is marked for “early 2010,” we can expect to see this roll out any time soon.  Who’s up for it?

-by Otoniel Bruno

It looks like another forward message is floating around today, only this time it’s about Facebook.  So the message says “If you know anyone that has facebook on blackberry tell them not 2 open an email saying password confirmation from facebook management, it has over 100 viruses, pass msg on.”  I checked out Twitter too, and it looks like this is getting retweeted quite frequently over the past hour. Have any of you received any emails from an alleged Facebook Management or is this more BBM spam?

-by Mac Jadalhack

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express released publicly and free to all to download the other day.  With that said, some folks interested may not be so tech savvy with all its ins and outs so RIM has provided a how to walk through for it.  It’s more of an animated slideshow, but it is very helpful to watch, especially if you’re looking to start your own BlackBerry Enterprise Server yourself.

• Check out the full tutorial on BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express >>

-by Mac Jadalhack

Exchanging contact information real quick in passing can get hectic.  Sometimes people don’t have time for you, and you may not have time for them.  Solution? Collect their business card, open up Business Card Reader for BlackBerry, and just take a picture of the business card and a new contact will be added in your address book with all the appropriate information in the right places.

Features:

• If you live active business and social life, contact partners, conduct negotiations, make business deals, you usually exchange business cards. Eventually you get tons of business cards and it becomes difficult to store, search and remember important contacts. Now you can scan them to your BlackBerry, just take a look at one of the best BlackBerry business card scanner apps!
• Business Card Reader scans and “reads” the picture using ABBYY’s text recognition technology and enters the data into appropriate fields of the BlackBerry address book.
• No more boring manual input of the names, phone numbers, emails and other information from business cards!
• Business Card Reader creates complete and accurate contact information on BlackBerry in a few seconds.
• Recognizes English, French, Italian, German and Spanish business cards.
• Business Card Reader is of great value for anyone who communicates with many people in work or personal life. It’s an excellent tool for business professionals, exhibitors at trade shows, exhibitions attendees and sales personnel.
• Supported phones with autofocus camera: Tour, Curve 8900, Storm, Storm 2, Bold 9700

Business Card Reader for BlackBerry is only $9.95 to purchase from the PocketBerry Store.

Compatibility: 8530 (Curve), 8900 (Curve), 8930 (Curve), 9630/9650 (Tour), 9700 (Bold)

• Check out Business Card Reader for BlackBerry >>

-by Collin Sorp

Looking to get a new BlackBerry line?  We’ve got a great special for you today with Sprint.  Start a new line today and don’t worry about the $36 activation fee as it’s all free for just today.  BlackBerry devices available are the Pearl 8130, Curve 8330, Curve 8530, Tour 9630, and World Edition 8830. Head over to the PocketBerry Phone Store today and pick out your BlackBerry.

-by Otoniel Bruno

The blog are all reporting there was and maybe still is an outage with Verizon’s data network.  My second BlackBerry is a Verizon 8530 and I haven’t had any issues all morning.  Not on WiFi or anything like that and I was definitely using BBM.  I asked some fellow New York residents who happen to have Verizon too and they haven’t had anything this past hour.  Is the outage done?  Who had one to begin with?

-by Mac Jadalhack

To put the weekend on a good note, we gave you leaked details on the BlackBerry Slider that has been rumored.  The folks over at BBLeaks have managed to get some screenshots of the the device.  Pretty damn sexy if you ask me.  We’re happy to see that it does come with a trackpad.  Hopefully that stays in the final release also.  According to the details confirmed, it will be touch screen, so having a trackpad or not raised a lot of questions.  We can all rest assure that it does have one, so far. Keyboard appears to be the same as the Bold and Tour which I like.  The Curve keys just wouldn’t look right. Hit the jump to check out the other screenshot.

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We wanted to give you folks the heads up that the PocketBerry Phone Store is now officially live.  So what is the PocketBerry Phone Store? If you’re looking to get a new line or upgrade your BlackBerry, you can do so all in a one stop at the PocketBerry Phone Store.  Our store provides all major carriers in the United States including Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Nextel, AT&T, and T-Mobile.  Both contract and prepaid devices are available for purchase.  Our goal in putting this store out is to provide the best prices possible for BlackBerry new lines and upgrades.

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