* Update: Contest Winners are: crimsonlite, sfcgijill, rdease, djester02 and kcladygemini. Winners will be contact via email to claim their prize! *
Back in December we told you about MobiReport's latest application, Find My Berry. Find My Berry got a huge response from the CrackBerry.com community, and it's easy to see why. With this app installed on your phone, if you've misplaced your BlackBerry anywhere (in the house with the phone set to silent, or left it in a restaurant on the other side of town) by sending an email to yourself containing the subject word of your choosing, your Berry will go into a frenzy, beeping and blinking and vibrating until somebody picks it up (it's basically impossible to ignore). Furthermore, you can send instructions to the device that are displayed when the BlackBerry is ultimately picked up and any button pressed. So in the case where you did leave your BlackBerry in a restaurant, the person who finds it and taps a button will see a message like, "Hey, I'm Kevin and I own this BlackBerry. Thanks for finding me. Give me a call at this number, and I'll meet up with you to get it back and give you a cash reward. THANKS".
With Berry Locator, MobiReport has KICKED THINGS UP A NOTCH. If your BlackBerry is GPS-enabled, not only do you enjoy the features included in Find My Berry, but now an email will be sent back to you with a Google Map's image attached which contains the LOCATION of your BLACKBERRY! This is WAY too cool.
Where's My Berry? THERE IT IS!
Berry Locator retails for $4.95 (totally worth it) and there is a Free Trial Available, but the good folks at MobiReport have given us FIVE FREE COPIES to give away to the CrackBerry.com community. Details on How to Win after the Jump.
WIN A COPY OF BERRY LOCATOR
It's easy! All you have to do is:
- Leave a Comment to this Blog Post
- Be sure you are a registered member and are logged into the site when you post your comment, we need to see your username so we can contact you if you win via email.
- If you have GPS enabled BlackBerry, tell us what your favorite GPS applications are and how often you use your device's GPS functionality
- If you don't have a GPS enabled BlackBerry, you're still more than welcome to enter (pick yourself up a Freedom Keychain GPS and you're good to go). In this case tell us about a time when you lost/thought you lost your BlackBerry OR what you would do if you did lose it!
You have until Sunday, Midnight PST to get your comments up. Winners will be announced on Monday! Winners will be chosen by random draw from those who met the guidelines above. Good Luck!!!
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185 comments
I use navteq about every other day. I have the all you can use AT&T plan. It's super-helpful on business trips, but I also use it around town. I've actually saved money, since I have not purchased a nav in each of my new cars, the BB is just as good for me (and I can take it in a rental out of town).
I downloaded Blackberry Tracker to do some of the things mentioned above, but this seems like it would be less of a battery hog since the GPS isn't enabled all of the time like in the tracker.
I like how this app is basically triggered by an email with alerts and messages for the finder, this app seems like a must-have.
I absolutely love the GPS on my berry. I would say that my favorite GPS app is TeleNav and I use it extensively when on roadtrips and just about anywhere I go. Not that I have a bad sense of direction or anything, it just helps to have a personal navigator in your back pocket. Also Berry 411 is great with the GPS option to search for things (restaurants, banks, etc.) I would say I use some form of the GPS function everyday. Berry Locator seems like an awesome app as I do happen to misplace my berry quite often. Thanks for the opportunity to win...
I use Infospace FindIt and Google Maps practically everyday. They really help out on business because I am an independent contractor and I have to drive to my meetings, job sites, etc. all day and if I need to know where a nearby gas station, restaurant, etc. is, this is my only tool. Just imagine how bad it would be if I left it at one of those meetings, restaurants, or wherever else I may have been. This new Berry Locator would be a life (and job) saver!
I use the GPS through BB Maps on my 8310 a few times a week. It’s great when you need to get directions to anywhere right in the palm of your hand. I was interested in using TeleNav, but because my phone is unlocked, they told me they won’t support it.
I do not have a GPS enabled Blackberry, but I still couldn't get by without my 7290! I am looking forward to upgrading to a Pearl this year, but until then I guess I'll just have to be careful. BTW-Do they have Bluetooth Headset trackers? Now that I keep misplacing.
Just had a play on the free trial and wow! The BB goes SICK!
Gives me an accurate reading off the GPS even though BB Maps doesnt work too well indoors.
My favorite GPS applications is InfoSpace. I use it non stop to find nearby movies, restaurants, addresses, etc. Its very helpful when you need to find a certain piece of information near you.
I absolutely love the GPS on my BB. I would say that my favorite GPS app is GoogleMap, which I use extensively just about anywhere I go. It helps to have a Navigation in your pocket. Also GoogleMap is great with the search for things (restaurants, banks, etc.) I would say I use the GPS at least once a day. Berry Locator seems like an awesome app as I do happen to misplace my BB quite often. Thanks for the opportunity to win...
Whoops, didn't read the competition details!
My favourite GPS apps are BlcackBerry maps and Google Maps, they let me know where I am and where I'm going when I have no idea.
And I've never thought I lost my BB. I keep it where I know it is at all times. If I lost it I would go mad! no BB = No Adlen Sanity! I couldn't wait for the insurance to send me a new one. + the insurance excess is £30
Before I buy it, I can try to win it!
I really like Blackberry Tracker. I use it a few times a week, its an interesting piece of software!
I love Beyond 411 because it always helps me find a restaurant when I take my clients out and I don't know where I am at. I have the 8310 with the built in GPS.
David
Hi y'all. I'm 46 and I believe the New Age's oldes user. I love my crackberry and couldn't live without her (she's red; thus a she!) I have had many issues in the learning phase after buying her. But, after all the seemingly teen angst of our coming to terms with each other, I couldn't manage me life one day without her to keep me in sync with the Kindergarten snack days, field trips and room mother days.
Thanks,
Stephanie
Hi,
I have Gps on my 8130 but I have not used it yet. I have only had my berry since last saturday.
Love this site. It has already helped a lot.
The first thing I would do if I lost my Pearl would be
to panic (hooked already).
Well I have the 8130 silver I love this phone just got it a few weeks ago and love it.
Right now I use google maps its pretty good.
Well if I ever lost my BB I think I would probaly go postal cause MY LIFE is in it. And I'm kinda attached to it now...
Unfortunately GPS isn't enabled(verizon) but I have been thinking now of the freedom keychain it looks pretty cool Keep up the great work letting us know about these great applications for our addictions !!!
As for if I lost it??? I would be sunk, I rely on my BB more than I rely on my wife !!
I think this is a cool idea, it's like lo-jack for your Berry. Even if someone is not honest, you know it every move.
Several months ago while on a trip with the kiddo I lost my berry. It was in Ohio at the airport, it slipped under the front seat of the rental car unknown to me. After we went thru security I was frantic to find it! I ended up flying home berryless, annoyed and upset but life had to move on.
The next day I got a call from the rental car company, they had found my berry! They even overnighted it to me at no charge.
Oh, and the hubby said when it got home "geez, you two wanna get a room?" Hey, when you love a device ya just can't live without it!
This might as well be app of the year as far as i'm concerned.
I'm constantly laying down my BB somewhere in my house. lol
*Btw, my favorite GPS is sprint navigation. I use it on my 8830 at least once a week, because I'm always on the road. My second favorite is google maps, which i use whenever I'm in the city because the street names are easier to read.
I tried the earlier version on trial. I just never got around to making the purchase.
This version looks VERY interesting!
I really don't think I could handle losing my Blackberry. I left my Pearl at home once (Thank God it was just left at home) when I was in a hurry to get to work and I felt lost and naked without it all day. I really have come to rely on it and I find that I use all the applications at various times...even my maps application.
I joke sometimes about my hubby losing his Blackberry, just so we won't hear it ring on weekends... but really I know he would go crazy... just as I would about not having that connection to work and to our families. We have come to realize that our lives have changed with these little devices.
This looks like a great program. Unfortunately I don't have GPS enabled (Verizon). If I lost my phone my clients would be the ones to suffer. I put everything I have to do in this phone - if it's not in there, I don't remember it!
I have a GPS enabled 8830 and use the GPS for Telenav and Google apps almost daily.
But the reason I need THIS application is I once left my Blackberry in a cab in New York City..... Needless to say after 3 days of effort it was gone..... I just think it would be fun to use this application the next time it happens, so I can watch my dear Blackberry drive around the streets of Manhattan without me. And of course, hopefully get it back!
Great application!
I use Sprint's Telenav sometimes and would love to have this app for FREEE in case I misplace my Berry or someones steals me and I have my Berry on me then my family can find me. :)
Having the locator is a awesome feature...My son was jumped in Harlem about 3 months ago. He was not injured, It was raining and he was walking home from a gig that he had that night...He had is Trombone on his back and his NEW Blackberry Curve in his hand and of course the 3 young teenager boys appeared from out the darkness and jumped him, they only took his phone and he walked away. If he had the locator software chances are I would not have had to buy another CURVE at the full price.....
RDEASE
I have a GPS enabled 8310. I had a Pearl that fell in the Pacific the two days after Christmas and I could hardly sleep that night waiting for the AT&T store to open the next morning. If I lost my 8310 I'd be totally screwed as my entire personal and professional life is geared to that device. Mr. Murphy seems alive and well because everytime I manage to misplace my Curve it is in silent or vibrate mode which makes it hard to locate. This app would be a Godsend.
I was using Telenav but found my usage level didn't justify the monthly charge. I then switched to Google maps but found that app to run very slow and consume huge amounts of battery. The past month I've been using Microsoft Active Search once or twice a week and so far it is meeting my needs.
This is an amazing new opportunity for blackberry users, particularly Pearl users, who could easily misplace their blackberry. I applaud the designers who are taking the blackberry to the next level!
I love google maps on my 8310! Saved my butt in Las Vegas! I use the GPS at least 4 times a week. And with this software now my wife can know where I am 24/7! Oh well, no worries! Now she can really tell I got lost! Cool software!
I haven't lost my Berry yet (knock on wood/iPhones...your choice), but we all know that stuff happens. This app would be great, and since i have 8300 i'm considering picking up that freedom keychain gps as soon as my next paycheck hits the bank. i don't ever use handsfree sets anyways, so i'm not too worried about it not working at the same time as a bluetooth headset.
for the contest tho....if i lost my berry, i guess i would probably cry and slit my wrists with the gophone i would have to buy since i don't get an update until 2009!
I love the idea of being able to find my BB if it gets lost! Mine is GPS-enabled and I love being able to get a route to wherever I'm going, along with seeing traffic delays, ETA, etc. I use it pretty much any time I'm headed out of town.
I think I would be totally lost if I lost my blackberry. I have the 8830 GPS enabled and use google maps, blackberry maps, and blackberry tracker. I would love to add this app as well. I use these apps daily and think my BB has saved me from hours and hours of driving endless many a time.
I became a first-time Blackberry user quite recently, and already have no idea what I would do without it. I'm new to the area where I'm living... no family, friends, etc... so the TeleNav GPS directions have been a Godsend for me. BB fan for life here.
My favorite GPS application is that I can never get lost!! I love that, I'm one of those guys that doesn't like to stop for direction's and now I don't have to. I use my GPS enabled Blackberry all the time, even if I am going home from work I will use just to see the directions it's amazing.
Well this one is pretty tops. Holly smokes I'm so paranoid I'm going to leave my BB someplace.
But right now my favorite app is Google maps because the locater function works even if I can't get a good GPS signal (darn Canada) and you can do searches for restaurants and starbucks near by. For example, I needed to find brake fluid for my car one day when I was driving one day... I'd say when that light comes on it's pretty important right? So I pull up google maps and search for "Canadian Tire" and found the closest one.
I guess you can do that on a GPS unit.
i actually just replaced my 8300 with an 8310 yesterday but haven't had a chance to use the built-in receiver yet...but the app i've used previously is telenav. just installed infospace findit but again have yet to use it. used telenav all the time on my 8300 though. seein as its only $200 to get the newest nav dvd for my car that has only one city in cali that's been updated! what a waste
I have almost 500 users that at least 20% of them lose their Blackberries in strange places. On the ski slopes (I live in Colorado), in taxis, in restaurants, in strange weird places. What a great program to have installed on all my devices so that when one of my users calls and says "I lost my Blackberry somewhere in the state of Colorado", I can say "Hold on! I can find it now!". :)
Thankfully I've only ever "lost" one cell phone and that was on a rollercoaster (Millenium Force) when it came out of my pocket and was floating in the air thanks to zero gravity. It looked real cool but destroyed my phone when it got sucked under the car at the bottom of the hill. I can still hear the phone getting crushed/smashed on the tracks.
If I were to lose my phone now I would definitely be calling it non-stop while backtracking my every move eventually giving up and going back to my old enVy. Just the thought of going back to that thing makes me sad.
I don't have a gps enabled blackberry and i havent lost it yet. Which is a good thing because I just got my first blackberry 2 weeks ago. 3 days into getting the blackberry i already knew i was an addict. I could not imagine losing my bb. If i lost it would be texting it and emailing it like every minute trying to get a response. So this program would prove to be very useful.
The one thing that really sold me on getting a blackberry (that $30 a month internet was a tough barrier) but having GPS and being able to download Google Maps sealed it. I've used it at least once a week since getting it. I haven't lost it yet (And I hope I don't!) but if it could email me it's location that would be awesome!
Yes my phone is gps enabled and i use maps on the phones at lease 1 time a day. My phone always seems to disa pper in our house as my kids think it is funny to hide it on me, being that it is the pearl 8130 it is very easy for them to hide it all the time on me. It waould be hilarious if I could find it all the time and make them think i was always whatching what they do.
Thank you,
I'm currently using Amaze on my 8310. Although a little slow to boot up, it gets me to where I need to go. I also like using Google Maps which helps me with local unfamiliar areas.
Never lost a phone but it's always nice knowing you have some type of 'insurance.' Berry Locator will be a welcomed addition.
In addition to building custom homes, we do volunteer construction work on a regular basis. What really helps us is when we're 3 hours away on a volunteer construction site and we're missing a piece of hardware or ran short on a piece of material. Before you can find a phone book, I've got Google Maps up and have somebody in route to get what we need. This is a lifesaving application...well, not really lifesaving, but time saving. Now, when the blackberry falls out of our tool pouch or we drop it trotting through the field to get to the project we would be able to find it using Berry Locator!
Pearl II - Alltel
Thanks.
I use a GPS enabled blackberry 8310. Hands down my favorite application has to be TeleNav. It works flawlessly on my 8310 and has bailed me out of getting lost so many times I cannot count. I use my GPS functionality daily. There is no way I could possibly lose this blackberry because I keep it velcro'd on me wherever I go, and this app would allow me to do away with the velcro :) A toast to berry locator!
I don’t even want to think about this. I was test driving a SUV a couple weeks ago and I had a bad feeling so I reached down to my side. It was gone. I started to panic. Where did my life (BB) go? I was so bad I was about to pull over and look for it. I asked my girlfriend if she had seen it or if I left it in her car. She knew what I was going though so she started to panic. Btw she also is a crackberry. She said "I don’t think so. I think you left it at home". NOT GOOD!!! I have 2 dogs and one of them is a pup. You know what that mean. she chews on everything. I was unable to concentrate on the test drive I was to worry about where my BB was. So I made the drive short and told the salesmen which thought I was a nut-case about my "phone" that I could not look at any more vehicles Intel I found my BB. I ripped apart her car looking under seats in all the places it could drop. Nothing. At this point I needed a tracker to ease my self. I rushed home to find it safe on the couch. FEEWWW that was close. I hope that nothing worse will ever happen to it. The use of this program will keep me at peace if this was to ever happen to me again.
P.S. I did not end up buying the SUV I was a sign from the Blackberry gods. LOL
Just that word "FREE" intrigues me....but I think that this is great app to have, god knows all of us here have a Mild Stroke at anytime we loose site of our precious Blackberry’s, and what better to have than a tracking device for the one(s) we love..LOL its like an amber alert for your blackberry!!
I've had some pretty scary moments when I couldn't find my blackberry. First the gasp, then the shifting eyes scanning around the room for that shiny little 'life in a box'. Don't forget the patting down of yourself to see if you just put it in a different pocket. When you don't see it, you get this horrible sinking feeling and the questions in your mind begin. Who/what/where/when/why did I see it last? But knowing in the back of your mind you could just send yourself an e-mail and your bbry would make itself known would be awesome. I would use it for sure. A $5 insurance plan is pretty cheap. :)
This app looks to be extremely helpful. Especially since I have a habit of leaving my blackberry just about anywhere I take it out to respond to text or even just review my emails. So far I have been lucky, but it only takes once for it to be gone.
I have a 8320 curve. i love it dearly. i haven't lost my curve thus far, but if i did i would deffinately appreciate having this app. i dont know what i would do with out my bb. its my life line to friends, email, new, weather, finding things... i'd be lost. this looks like a great program and i cant wait for the day when my bb will have wifi and gps... oh yeah
In all seriousness, this is an awesome addition to the Blackberry family. I can't imagine losing my pearl and forking out another $450 for another, because we all know we wouldn't go very long without one. I will be the first to say that I would just drive straight to the store! Lol! The other advantage is when some A-hole decides they are too cheap and wants to steal your berry, get that google map and go take care of bidness! If I win this software, I will become a crimefighter to protect all berry owners :)
I use the GPS at least once a week. I ride a motorcycle and when I am out of the city, I love using the navigation to find restaurants, gas, restaurants, bathrooms, and restaurants =)
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