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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has launched Facebook software designed especially for its smartphones to make it easier for users to browse the popular social networking Web site. T-Mobile has been chosen as the first carrier to provide the new software to its customers. The application leverages the push-based BlackBerry system architecture and Facebook Platform to create a unique mobile experience for Facebook users.

With the Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones application, Facebook users can wirelessly send and view messages, photos, pokes and Wall posts. The application goes beyond browser-based access, automatically pushing notifications to the user’s BlackBerry smartphone as friends and colleagues send notes, Wall posts or pokes. The application allows users to take a photo, upload it to the site with captions and tags; quickly and easily invite friends; manage events; manage photo albums; and manage their status while on the go.

Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones, which will be available as a free download, makes it faster, easier and more convenient for users to stay wirelessly connected with their Facebook friends and colleagues. The application allows users to:

- Receive notifications and messages automatically - Leveraging the BlackBerry platform’s push-based architecture, notifications and messages are automatically sent to the user; the user can also set a unique alert (vibration and/or ringtone) for Facebook related content

- Quickly access essential features - Convenient onscreen icons let users quickly change their Status, upload a photo, add a friend, poke someone, write on a Wall, or send a message. Users can also quickly scroll through messages and notifications as they do with email messages

- Invite friends to join Facebook and accept new friend requests

- Quickly snap and post pictures along with a caption and tags - The photo upload feature is also integrated with the BlackBerry smartphone camera and photo management applications on the smartphone

- View the Status of friends

- Read, compose and reply to messages even while offline - If the user is out of wireless coverage, messages are queued until the user returns to an area of coverage

Facebook users will be able to download the application at www.facebook.com from their PC or BlackBerry smartphone beginning later today.

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Samsung Blackjack II (SGH-I617) More Photos - View Specs

AT&T today announced the availability later this year of the BlackJack II, a sleek and simple device powered by Windows Mobile 6. The BlackJack II is available in slick black and red wine color options, and features a full QWERTY keyboard, large 2.4-inch QVGA color display screen and front jog wheel to elevate productivity and improve the mobile experience.

Following in the footsteps of the popular BlackJack, the BlackJack II boasts an enhanced feature set, which includes:

- AT&T Video Share, the first service in the U.S. that enables users to share live video over the wireless phones while on a voice call

- Built-in GPS, Support for location-based applications such as TeleNav GPS Navigator

- Tri-band 3G UMTS/HSDPA and quad-band EDGE/GPRS technology takes advantage of AT&T’s international wireless footprint for access to email, the Web and other data applications in more than 135 countries - including Japan, South Korea and China - and customers can make or receive phone calls in more than 190 countries

- An RSS Reader Client to compile syndicated Web content in a single location for easy viewing

- Significant improvement in the standard battery capacity to get you through the day.

- A 2.0-megapixel camera with video-capture capabilities

- Increased standard memory

- A louder and clearer speakerphone

- In addition to a robust feature set, BlackJack II provides users with access to multiple email accounts, both personal and business, through Microsoft Direct Push technology with Outlook Mobile and AT&T Xpress Mail, which includes most major POP3/IMAP providers. The BlackJack II also offers over-the-air synchronization of contacts, calendar and task lists with Microsoft Exchange Server or AT&T Xpress Mail.

With Windows Mobile 6, the BlackJack II brings a powerful personal computer experience to the small screen and improves how people do business on the go on a single device. The BlackJack II helps people keep track of schedules and contacts through Outlook Mobile, browse the Internet by using Internet Explorer Mobile, as well as manage Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents using Office Mobile. Windows Mobile 6 also supports HTML e-mail so that people can view and compose email messages in their native format with live links to Web sites, support for images, tables and bullets.

The BlackJack II will be among the first Windows Mobile 6 devices from AT&T to support Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, which Ballmer introduced during his keynote address today. Available for BlackJack II in 2008, System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 offers companies an end-to-end solution for managing and securing Windows Mobile devices. Employees will also have access to company information and a line of business applications from a single, secure place behind the firewall by using a cutting-edge Mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Beyond the workday, the BlackJack II allows users to kick back, relax and enjoy a full complement of entertainment capabilities. There’s access to AT&T Mobile Music - an integrated, on-the-go music experience that delivers music by providing simple access to robust collection of music content available today, including XM Radio Mobile, which comes preloaded on the device and is available for $8.99 a month. The BlackJack II also features AT&T’s CV streaming video service. Customers can watch a large selection of video clips of their favorite television shows, sports, news and weather, entertainment and premium content, including hit HBO programs and exclusive mobile content from World Wrestling Entertainment.

With features such as stereo Bluetooth technology - with stereo headset support - a 2.0-megapixel camera with video-capture capabilities, an RSS reader client and Windows Media Player 10 Mobile, users will always be connected, entertained and informed. Built-in GPS technology allows customers to location-based applications, including TeleNav GPS Navigator, which provides GPS-enabled turn-by-turn voice and on-screen driving or walking directions, colorful 3-D moving maps and traffic-delay alerts with one-click rerouting.

AT&T’s BroadbandConnect network is available today in more than 200 major metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. and provides BlackJack II users with typical download speeds from 600 to 1,400 Kbps. Outside 3G coverage areas, customers seamlessly connect with AT&T’s nationwide2 EDGE network, the largest national high speed wireless data network in the U.S., with availability in more than 13,000 cities and towns and along some 40,000 miles of major highways.

The BlackJack II is expected to be available by the end of the year for $149.99 with a two-year contract and mail-in rebate.

- Samsung BlackJack II Specs

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