The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is designed to give you a solid battery life depending on what you do, but there are some things you can do to help maximize the battery life of your tablet so you can stay connected, enjoy your media and capture amazing pictures and videos. We’ve compiled a number of tips to help you. Continue reading
A variety of BlackBerry smartphone’s feature Bluetooth® wireless technology, which enables the use of hands-free calls, stream music wirelessly and transfer file data such as documents and photos to a compatible wireless receiving device.
Bluetooth wireless technology is often used in cars to assist with hands-free calls and can also provide additional feature such as streaming audio music from the BlackBerry smartphone.
One of those great new KBs from RIM:
Bluetooth® wireless technology is not enabled by default.
Bluetooth can be enabled one of the following two ways:
Research in Motion and BMW have been working on technology that essentially turns your BMW’s ConnectedDrive (iDrive) into a remote control of your BlackBerry. Using a new Bluetooth protocol called MAP (Message Access Profile), the BMW and BlackBerry can pair allowing ConnectedDrive to sync all the contacts and email from the BlackBerry. Once paired, ConnectedDrive can scan through and read headers of emails through the iDrive console and select messages can be read using iDrive’s text-to-voice feature. Continue reading
Following on from complaints about it’s iPhone 3.1 OS update, Apple has contacted some affected users relating to the battery drain issue and presented them with a list of 11 questions, regarding e-mail, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and apps. Continue reading
The Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) will officially announce the short-range wireless standard Bluetooth 3.0 on April 21st. The new spec will negotiate a seamless ad-hoc WiFi connection between compatible devices. Continue reading
