Where are you?  It’s Friday night  and ALL of your friends are looking for you to hang out.  Your friends don’t have to look that far now  because there’s another solution besides GPSed.  It’s called Whrrl  (pronounced like whirl)  It’s an application (social site) that allows you to track your friends and family wherever they be on the planet.

So we went over and signed up and it looked pretty neat.  It allows you locate your friends, receive notifications of friends in the immediate area…etc. Also it allows you to locate/rate stores, restaurants to your likings and see how others rate these locations as well.   We will report back once we collect more data in regards to the application. In the meantime go ahead over and check out the site.

Official Whrrl Site for BlackBerry

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I guess we’ll start this post out by saying,  ” Old news is better than NO news.”

This post we wanted to back track a little and talk  about the the BlackBerry Pearl 8130.  During an earlier review of the BlackBerry Pearl we really liked the Pearl.  Now it’s time to see if there were any improvements since then. For those diehard 8100 Pearl fans after reading this post perhaps you can add to this post via the comments section.  We here at MobiShark are full keyboard lovers so sorry if we dont’ cover this topic well enough -  Let’s move right along with the review

BlackBerry Carriers for the 8130:
Verizon
Sprint
US Celluar
Alltel

The Pearl 8130 Summary:
The design of the pearl remains the same since it’s release.  This design of the BlackBerry Pearl is what drew everyone young and old to this device. Changes and additions: The 8310 now has built in GPS , mobile streaming, 3G support, and video recording capabilities. That’s pretty much in a nutshell in regards to the earlier Pearl 1 and the new Pearl 2 - 8130.

Other cool items for the BlackBerry  8130
BlackBerry 8130 Themes
Blackberry 8130 Ringtones

The BlackBerry 9000 Bold has been released and several countries are still awaiting for it’s release. Why are we (USA) still awaiting for the BlackBerry BOLD???  DARN GOOD QUESTION.  Listed below are a few of the countries that have already received the BlackBerry Bold - Congrats to you guys!!!

North America Canada, Mexico
South America Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela
Europe Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Romania, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales)
Asia Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
Australia
Caribbean Dominican Republic, Jamaica

BlackBerry Metro Riders if you’re ever on the train and have a story to tell you might want to check out this nifty bloggers site . It’s a really cool site and we liked the idea . There’s always something exciting going on NYC trains - so NYC BlackBerry Users start posting.

Another funny story
New York Local BlackBerry User Group

BlackBerry KeyBoard Tricks are on the most wanted list by BlackBerry users for sure. We wrote an article 121 CrackBerry Tips a few months ago. This week we would like to review a few more basic tricks that will help you as a BlackBerry user be more proficient with your BlackBerry.
Note: Some of these tricks maybe to old to some of you but others maybe not - enjoy!

Message List - “Sorting things out”
alt +V - displays your voicemail messages
alt +O - shows your outgoing mail messages that you have sent you have sent
alt +P - shows you your phone log messages
T - allows you to scroll to the top of the page
B - allows you to scroll to the bottom of the page

Message ” when composing a message”
Period: Hit the SPACE key twice to insert a period and to capitalize the next letter
International Characters: Press and hold down a letter key and roll the thumb-wheel to scroll through International accent characters, equation symbols.. etc

Other Cool BlackBerry Tips
BlackBerry Reboot: Hit the alt + cap + del keys
BlackBerry Pearl Keyboard Tricks