Facebook Chat For BlackBerry

Mobile Social Networking BB Style

Faceboo chat for BlackBerry ,Keeping in touch with contacts, potential clients, friends, and family members on one of the most popular social networking sites is easier than you might think. There are several quality applications that incorporate Facebook chat for BlackBerry users who want to stay connected on the go. Do more than simply update your status. For business owners and professionals it’s a great tool to use to build up your brand or reputation. Increase overall credibility and trust levels by adding the option for one-on-one correspondence. The ability to communicate on a frequent basis will help form deeper relationships with clientele and colleagues.

Facebook Chat for BlackBerry

Three notable standalone applications for BlackBerry users who want a separate built in mobile instant messenger are Chat on Facebook, Chat for Facebook, and FChat. Although the names sound similar each of these apps offer various features to socialize and connect. Chat on Facebook by Smarter Apps provides users with an easy to use Facebook messenger. Log in to your account and view online friends available for conversation. Settings can be customized to show pop-up messages, LED indications, vibrate, and play alert sounds. It also has a nice interface with friend's profile pictures visible. Users simply scroll down their buddy list and click to initiate chat. There are no additional bells and whistles with this app.
Chat for Facebook by mSonar is a slightly more basic version. The graphics are minimal. This application allows users to chat outside of the Facebook website using their mobile IM. Friend's images are displayed along with LED and vibrate notification options. The only downside is the slow loading friends list upon log in. It can take a few minutes before a BB owner’s entire roster appears. Users looking for something free and simplistic might prefer this app over others.
FChat by Shendz is an advanced Facebook chat for BlackBerry. This application was designed specifically with BB messenger users in mind. The features make the most of your mobile time by implementing chat history recall, buddy search options, and a handy auto reconnect when disconnected from the Facebook server. FChat also notifies your friends when you’re online. Geared towards more serious networking this app costs $2.99 USD.

Other Mobile Instant Messenger Options

When it comes to Facebook chat for BlackBerry users are not limited. Applications like BeejiveIM and Nimbuzz are also great options. These apps give individuals the ability to chat with friends on various social networking sites and add buddies from popular instant messengers all in one app. The BeejiveIM app lets users communicate with friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, Facebook, and MySpace. The initial set up process can be tedious but once logged in it’s easy to use. The clean interface displays icons for each account. Clicking on it will instantly log in and bring up available buddy lists.
Nimbuzz is a completely free app that offers the same options as BeejiveIM. There’s also a special feature that notifies users when mobile contacts are using the app so they can save money on texts (SMS). This makes it an excellent app for those users who want to cut back costs without losing quality. All the BlackBerry applications mentioned above integrate Facebook chat for maximizing your ability to connect with important contacts. ssssssssOooo Ennjoy.

I Phone Versus BlackBerry

I Phon versus BlackBerry. I am now a reverse switcher--I switched from a BlackBerry to an iPhone about six months ago, and now am switching back again. Why? Basically it comes down to the fact that the iPhone is really good at the stuff I do 10 percent of the time, but pretty poor at the stuff I do 90 percent of the time.
This is not to bash the iPhone. It has been a transformative device in the wireless industry and forced everyone else to up their game. It has shuffled the power structure among device makers, service providers, developers, and the broader ecosystem. But such a sophisticated device is a very personal choice, and people have very different priorities for something they use and carry around with them almost every waking hour. My phone is provided by and for work, and I primarily use it for work purposes, and for that I find a BlackBerry much, much more efficient.
Now after having a BlackBerry Bold for a week, I realize how much I was fighting with the iPhone the whole time trying to get it to do what I wanted, at the speed I wanted.

iPhone upsides

There are definitely some things the iPhone does extremely well:

• Maps: The best out there. Invaluable for me, and I'll miss these, though the latest rev of Google Maps on the Bold does all the same things. It just misses that last bit of visual flair.
• OmniFocus: I'm not really a big app buyer, but this GTD-based task manager is the one app that I use every day. I will lose it on the Bold, and I will miss it. (I'll continue to use it on my Mac.)
• Photos: I love how conveniently I'm able to synch my Aperture photo library with the iPhone, and the experience of showing photos on the screen. It's not something I do that often, but it is very handy when I want it. (I'm mystified why it's relatively laborious to get photos off the iPhone and into Aperture, though, requiring a manual import process as though it were any other SD card.) The imminent Desktop Manager for the BlackBerry promises similar photo (and music) syncing.
• Facebook: The iPhone Facebook app is mostly very good (though often hard to get a refresh), and the new version looks to be even better. But the current FB app on the Bold works very well, is actually faster than the iPhone one, does everything I need, and I find more intuitive to navigate.
• Safari: It's the best mobile browser, and while it has its downsides in general it works very well. But I don't do much mobile Web browsing, it's just not that much fun--still slow and inconvenient, and only worthwhile when there's nothing else to do or you're in a pinch. In truth, it's often more pleasant to look at mobile-specific versions of Web sites like NY Times and Southwest, than it is to try and look at the real page. They load faster, require less scrolling, strip out the advertising, etc. In fact, looking at NY Times mobile is faster than using the NY Times iPhone app (though it doesn't allow caching, but I was never organized enough to cache ahead of time anyway).

iPhone downsides

Now for the things I dislike about the iPhone:

General Usability

• Typing is what I do more than anything else on the iPhone, and it's the thing that causes me the most frustration. It's my No. 1 reason for switching. If I could get on with the touch screen, I would probably keep it. But I just don't like the touch screen. I am literally 3 times faster typing on the Bold, which has an excellent keyboard. No matter how much I "just trust" the iPhone, the number of typos and deletions I have to do is just unacceptable. Yes, it's all well and good to have smart predictive typing, but it keeps doing "fir" instead of "for," "sane" instead of "same," and so on. The horizontal keyboard helps, but then you only get a few lines of text to actually look at, and it's slow to switch when you rotate the device, and sometimes seems to get stuck in horizontal mode after I flip it back to vertical.
• Apple's insistence on the "simple" paned interface is indeed easier to get started with than the Bold, which has more of a learning curve. But unlike the big Mac OS, which has all manner of shortcuts, there are none in the iPhone. You have to follow the tortured route from one app or function to another without shortcuts. This is my second biggest complaint. By contrast the BlackBerry UI is incredibly fast to use once you learn it, as you do a desktop OS. The lengthy menus and the amount of customization possible are intimidating at first, but you quickly realize they contain everything you could conceivably want in any context. The two convenience keys make it instantaneous to get to your most-used apps.
• Fingerprints, earwax and general grime on the iPhone screen; it's constantly dirty and this both mars visibility as well as touch gestures.
• It's tricky to hold to your ear for more than a couple of minutes--too thin at the edge, and slippery. The Bold is bigger in width and thickness (a bit too big, IMO), but it is very secure to hold. It's not quite as well built as the iPhone, however.
• Poor battery life--it requires charging every 1.5 days for me, with 3G on most of the time, no Wi-Fi, and only a few calls a day. Having said that, I'm not doing much better with the Bold so far, so we'll see how it does once I settle into a more normal pattern of usage.
• iPhone camera is very slow to activate (often 7 or 8 seconds for the animated iris to open). It often jogs when I press the poorly placed onscreen button (causing blur) and my finger often gets in the way of the lens. There's no flash, no white balance or exposure control, basic photographic features that have existed in other phones for years.
• It's not that good of an iPod: Using it while it's locked is a pain. Using it in a pocket is a pain. No way to switch off coverflow (as on the Nano)
• No expandability. No card slots to add memory, you have to buy a whole new phone. With the Bold I can add 8 or 16GB micro SD cards for a remarkably low price.

The iPhone represents an interesting paradox that often comes up in usability testing: the UIs that are perceived as the best to use are not always the fastest. However, over time, people's opinions often change from their first impressions as the things that didn't seem that big of a deal at first, and which perhaps aided initial ease of use, now become barriers. At this point, enjoyment drops off dramatically. That's what happened with me. I was ready to throw the iPhone against the wall a few times because of how slow I found it to use, even as I appreciated its visual loveliness.

E-mail

• Shuttling back and forth to look at each e-mail account separately drives me batty. If I'm in my work e-mail account and want to see if my personal e-mail has anything new, it takes four clicks. And then four clicks to get back again to my work account. It takes no clicks in Blackberry to do the same thing because it unifies all e-mail accounts (and texts and IMs) into a single "feed."
• I have to unlock the iPhone to see if I've got a new e-mail, and remember the e-mail unread count from my last time looking at it (for each account). This often takes 30 seconds of constant interaction or more--not a big deal, it may seem, but it pulls my focus away from whatever else I was doing more than it should. The notification light on the Bold tells me at a glance when new mail (or SMS or voice mail) has arrived, saving me the trouble of picking it up to check.
• The iPhone Sent e-mail folder doesn't get populated in real time, and if I want to find a recent message I sent, I have to wait for it to download from the server. This can take several minutes if it's been a while since I looked at my Sent folder. On the BlackBerry, sent e-mails are included inline with received messages, making them easy to go back to.
• iPhone has no customization of font sizes for e-mails (message list, or within a message). With such a large and high-res screen, why can I only see less than five messages at a time if I have the message preview on with two lines? (Reduce message preview to one line and it goes up to...six messages visible! And still only eight if I turn off preview entirely.) That's just a ridiculous waste of space, and means I have to do a lot of scrolling. On the Bold I've got it set so I can see 13 messages at once.
• No auto-text/shortcuts to speed up repetitive message elements (e.g., On the Bold, I have created a shortcut sig and typing it at the end of an e-mail will fill out a signature as needed. On the iPhone you can only have one signature, and it's applied every time or never. And the Bold will let me create any other number of text shortcuts--mtg for meeting, fdi for frog design, inc. and so on). I was stunned when I got the iPhone that it couldn't do this, searching in vain for a way to accomplish it. (Third-party apps exist to do it in an extremely hacked way.)

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BlackBerry 8800

Blackberry 8800 is the latest on the line of RIM smart phones – feature rich and visually and functionally inspiring. It is also the thinnest Blackberry handset yet.
Going straight into its specifications, the Blackberry 8800 comes equipped with a QWERTY keyboard – unlike Blackberry Pearl – and a trackball navigation system. It appears that Blackberry had finally come into terms with the fact that joysticks are not great devices for navigational purposes, especially to zip through a phone menu. The QWERTY keyboard can be a bit confusing in the beginning, but as the user starts typing on it, gradually he/she will get used to it.
If there is another major difference between Blackberry 8800 and the Pearl, then it is the absence of the camera. Blackberry has dispensed with the camera in 8800 for a more reliable feature, the GPS, to track down roaming business users and devices. Even though, the Blackberry 8800 does not have Google Maps in it, the bundled TeleNav GPS Navigator does an exceptional job in giving the user the right directions always. The local search function also works very well.
The display of 8800 is quite bright (320 x 240 resolution) and offers good visibility in all lighting conditions. A built-in light sensing device adjusts the brightness levels of the keypad and screen accordingly to optimize visibility.
Blackberry 8800 supports EDGE and quad-band GSM/GPRS networks with reasonable data speed. For moderate to extensive browsing needs, the handset performs reasonably well. Regarding email, if using the Blackberry web services, the phone supports as much as ten corporate and personal e-mail accounts, the setup being one of the easiest one could find in any of the smart phones on earth. Attachment support is excellent – users can view Word, PDF, Excel, and JPEG files – even though there are no way you could edit the office documents. Using the Desktop Manager, the Blackberry user could synchronize the memos, calendar, tasks, and contacts with the relevant organizer tools such that every relevant piece of info will be updated in the required applications simultaneously.
Like all other phones in its category, the Blackberry 8800 also offers an assortment of multimedia features that include music and video, ring tones, and images. The Media Manager utility can be used to import photos, and videos into the device, even though, as mentioned already, one may not be able to take pictures or record videos using 8800 as it lacks a camera. The media player supports the file types - MP3, AAC, and WMA music files, as well as WMV video and MPEG-4 files. DRM support however is absent.
Other voice features include voice-cancellation for better audio performance, VAD – Voice Activated Dialing – with Speaker Independent Voice Recognition, call forwarding, conference calls, and smart dialing, a high quality low-distortion speakerphone, and dedicated ‘mute’, ‘send’, and ‘end’ keys.
Finally, the pricing, the Blackberry 8800 carries a price tag - £299 - that falls in between Blackberry Pearl and the Cingular 8525 (£399). Given its features, however, this is a quite reasonable price (Its competitors also carries a similar price tag). For more info on Blackberry 8800, see the Blackberry home website.