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RIM updates Locate Service, GPS-free location queries now possible

By: |Jul 19th, 2010 at 03:27PM
Filed Under: BlackBerry, Mobile, RIM, Software
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Today, RIM announced an update to its BlackBerry Locate Service that will allow developers to use GPS-free cellular triangulation to acquire location information in their apps. As RIM states:Users can be indoors with no GPS coverage, but your app will still be able to guide them to restaurants or points of interest (POI) around them. Although the accuracy of the fixes obtained from the Geolocation service may not always be as high as with GPS, it has use cases for apps that require highly accurate GPS fixes a...

Exclusives

BlackBerry Storm User Guide

By: |Oct 6th, 2008 at 12:27AM
Filed Under: BG's Corner, BlackBerry, Exclusives, Handsets, RIM
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While we wait for RIM’s ex-IDF teams to storm (har, har) the office, we’ve decided to share a ton of pages from the BlackBerry Storm’s User Guide with our loyal readers. It’s a lot more in depth than the PowerPoint was, and it walks you through practically everything. We posted what we thought were the most important parts of the device and things we haven’t seen before. For instance, the full home screen in both orientations, the active call screen, voice recording, camera and v...