BlackBerry For Dummies

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John Wiley & Sons, May 27, 2010 - Computers - 384 pages
Get the most juice out of your BlackBerry handheld!

Feature-rich and complex, the BlackBerry is the number one smartphone in the corporate world is among the most popular handhelds for business users. This new and updated edition includes all the latest and greatest information on new and current BlackBerry mobile devices.

Covering a range of valuable how-to topics, this helpful guide explores the BlackBerry's most useful features, techniques for getting the most out of your BlackBerry, and practical information about power usage.

  • Covers all aspects of the number one smartphone in the corporate world—the BlackBerry
  • Reviews managing appointments, creating a To Do list, getting online, using e-mail, and taking photos
  • Shares navigation tips and shortcuts as well as essential applications for the BlackBerry
  • Addresses power usage and consumption
  • Advises on how to take advantage of the expandable memory

In addition, BlackBerry For Dummies, 4th Edition explains business tools, games, and great sites that deliver what you need for your BlackBerry, when you need it.

 

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Contents

Table of Contents
Getting Started with BlackBerry Smartphone
Saving power
Navigating the BlackBerry Anatomy 101The Body and Features of Your BlackBerry
Turning On Your BlackBerry and KeepingIt Happy
Viewing a contact
Organizing YourContacts
Searching forSomeone outside Your Contacts
Adding aContact
Surfing the Internet Wave
Adding and visiting abookmark
Exercising Options and Optimization Techniques
Cache operations
Gears settings Installing andUninstalling Applications from the
Getting Around with Your BlackBerry
Taking Great Pictures and Capturing Videos

Never Miss Another Appointment
Creatinganappointment Opening anappointment
Setting Alarms and Keeping Your Passwords
Creating credentials Generating random passwords
Calling Your Favorite Person
Placing your call on hold
ArrangingConference Calls
Getting Online with Your BlackBerry
Enabling wireless email synchronization
Searching through Messages Like a
Too Cool for EMail
Taking control of yourIMapp
Workingwith Pictures
Satisfy All Your Senses with the Media Player
Managing Media Files
Lifestyle Applications
Syncing the Synchronize
Data Synchronization on the
Switching Devices
Protecting Your Information
Restoring Your Data from Backup Information
Installing and Managing ThirdParty Applications
The Part of Tens
External Speaker

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About the author (2010)

Robert Kao is a computer-engineering expert who develops BlackBerry applications for an investment bank. Dante Sarigumba is a software developer, gizmo fan, and longtime BlackBerry user who programs extensively on the BlackBerry platform. They have written five previous BlackBerry For Dummies books.

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