For those who know how to use them, there is hardly anything that a Blackberry handheld device cannot do. You can send an email to your boss on the road, or give him a call, like any other cell phone. You can send and receive text messages, something that becomes more and more important as the text message becomes more and more popular as a means of communicating. You can browse the web, which is handy to be able to do on the go, and you can even send an Internet fax, which has a variety of benefits over traditional fax methods. Over 14 million people are Blackberry subscribers, a number that continues to grow as the stress of daily life does, the force that pushes people to try to cut out the annoyance of having to operate so many different devices when a Blackberry can do it all. Here, you will find some websites that are devoted to getting the most out of your Blackberry. You are almost guaranteed to find out some new cool feature that you did not even know about before.
One of the finest places on the internet to find information about your Blackberry is Blackberry Forums. While other websites may contain input from one or several writers that are attempting to squeeze the most out of their Blackberry, Blackberry Forums is a forum community that has one thing in common: the Blackberry. Forums are only as useful as the amount of activity they have, and that criterion makes Blackberry Forums very useful. Currently, there are over 100 people viewing the General Blackberry Discussion subforum, which in turn contains over 26,000 topics and 170,000 individual posts of information. Although some of this may be unrelated to the Blackberry, the majority of these topics and posts come from people who have questions about using the Blackberry, as well as the answers by those who happen to be knowledgeable on the subject. And that is only one subforum: Blackberry Forums is home to about two dozen subforums whose total number of posts is either approaching one million or has nearly surpassed it. In addition to the General Blackberry Discussion subforum, there is also a separate subforum for each individual device series and for a plethora of other specifications, including a new member forum – you may find yourself cutting your teeth there.
If a million posts of information was not enough, you could also try Blackberry Forums’s information database, Blackberry FAQ. In the style of the ubiquitous Wikipedia, Blackberry FAQ contains information on everything from what to do at the first sign of problems with your device to how to edit the “Sent from my Blackberry” message from your emails. The front page of the website contains many useful links, mostly to popular questions or to general FAQ pages that will get you started. Each Blackberry model series has its own FAQ page, and then the rest of the front page separates frequently asked questions into categories in order to help you find what you are looking for easily. A search function makes finding the answer to your question even easier, so that if you would rather not sift through the front page in hopes that your question is displayed there, you can instead use it. As the website notes on the front page, you do not actually ask questions at Blackberry FAQ, but if you and plenty of other people ask the same question elsewhere (such as on Blackberry Forums), it will probably eventually show up at Blackberry FAQ.
Another place to turn to if you need help getting most out of your Blackberry is the Blackberry Technical Solutions Center. Similarly to Blackberry FAQ, the Technical Solutions Center has answers to many popular questions that plague Blackberry users. A useful search box allows you to get to where you need to go on the website with ease, while the front page directs you to individual articles that are helpful both in specific situations and also to you as a Blackberry user. Mostly, though, you will want to use this website when something seems to be going wrong, and given the complexity of the Blackberry, it is difficult to have nothing go wrong after a long period of time. Through discovering how to fix an error, though, one often also discovers several other features about the Blackberry that may or may not have been obvious. There are also Blackberry support forums for more personalized assistance in solving whatever problems you may have.
The Blackberry Owner’s Lounge is a great place to see what’s new in the world of Blackberries. Becoming a member of the Blackberry Owner’s Lounge allows you to more actively participate in the Blackberry community, voting in polls and communicating with other members seamlessly through your wireless device. There are plenty of other things to enjoy on the website, including free ringtones and other downloads that are difficult to find otherwise. Members of the website have access to all of these things and more, not the least of which being the very useful tips and tricks section that allows you to squeeze so much more use out of the Blackberry. There probably comes a point in one’s interaction with any wireless device where you think you know it all, but along comes a new tip or trick that completely changes the way you do things for the better. Being a member of the Blackberry’s Owner’s Lounge is simple, with only a quick sign up process standing in the way between you and a community of Blackberry users that tends to know a lot about the device. The site is highly recommended for beginners as well as for advanced users who want to stay in the loop of the Blackberry inner circle.
If you are looking for websites that load quickly when accessing them through the Blackberry itself, there are plenty of lists that members of the aforementioned websites compile. Most forums have a search feature that allows you to enter keywords that will sift through the posts on the forum to reach results that are relevant to your query, so you are encouraged to do so in order to find what other people have been saying on the topic. Although the Blackberry was originally known for its email capabilities, its web surfing prowess is also being noticed more and more, and now plenty of sites are created for the express purpose of being accessed by a Blackberry. Finding one of these sites is just a matter of doing a search on any major search engine, or sifting through one of the forums to find a list of Blackberry-friendly sites, and then taking them down for future reference.
All in all, the Blackberry community’s presence on the Internet is very strong, and there are plenty of websites devoted to helping Blackberry users get the very most out of their handheld device. While the aforementioned websites are among the best, there are always other sites that are even better depending on what exactly it is you are looking for. Studies have shown that Blackberry users are much more efficient than their counterparts, and learning to get even more out of your Blackberry means more time saved.
