3 Blackberry Music Applications You Should Have

I enjoy music on my Blackberry and I hope you do too. That's if you have a Blackberry smartphone anyway. I use the Blackberry's music player a lot and I got tired of using it at some point. It's not any better than the media player on Nokia 3110c and I think Blackberry should do a lot more in this respect. If you are a Blackberry user and you are moving with time, you should not argue about that and if you do, it's your opinion.

This crave for more interesting features on Blackberry's media player pushed me on a app-hunting mission and I got some apps in my possession now. I was able to hunt some down. Really big kills. I won't eat them alone because that would be selfish. Here is your own piece too. Take it and share it with your friends too.

Great Free Music Applications For Your Blackberry:

1. Radio Apps: Blackberry should have a radio by default. By radio I don't mean the one you connect to the network. No! FM Radio, that's what I'm talking about. It' a great feature we should be enjoying on Blackberry and with unlimited BIS data transfer, we can listen to as many internet radio and enjoy hundreds of music stations online.

I once wrote about some applications that lets you listen to online radio stations. They have more than music stations but also sports and news stations.

Download the two applications: MiRoamer and Nobex Radio.

2. TuneWiki: this is a very nice application to have. You won't want to leave the application when you open it. It's just hard to switch to other apps not because it doesn't have the feature but because it is captivating enough to keep you glued to it.

This application plays music files that you have on your phone and connects to the internet to get it's lyrics. It synchronizes the lyrics with the song for your listening and reading pleasure.

This application also lets you explore Song Maps and real-time Top Charts to discover popular songs nearby and around the world, easily Share lyrics with your network of friends, get lyrics of songs as they play and also get lyrics instantly translated into 40+ languages.

Download Tunewiki Here.

3. Sasham: with Shazam you can easily Identify what song is playing. For example, if you are listening to a song on your radio or one someone else's phone and you would like to know the title and artist, you can make use of this Sasham Music app for Blackberry. Just open the app and place it near the speaker of the device playing the song, Sasham will bring the details of the song to you.

There are options there to buy the song and download to your phone, share tags with friends by text, email, Twitter and Facebook. You can also read track and album reviews, see what’s hot with Shazam’s Tag Chart, watch YouTube videos, search for music by artist and track.

Download Sasham for Blackberry.

Those are just the three Blackberry music apps I found and are worthy of sharing here. I will add more as I discover them. Hope you will like them too! You can share the ones you think should make this list and it's not there. Don't forget to share with your friends because I shared it with you too. Use our share buttons below.

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How To Opt Out Of Automatic Etisalat Blackberry Voice Plan Subscription

If Etisalat is automatically subscribing you to their Blackberry Voice Plan and you wish to opt-out, here are few steps you should take to stop Etisalat automatic subscription to voice plan. I don't need to tell you how to know if you are being automatically subscribed because it's so clear to everyone in this problem. They simply deduct N100 everyday when you recharge and this is not good at all. I know because I was once a victim of it.

This problem started sometimes ago when I posted an article about how to to use Etisalat Blackberry Internet Subscription on your PC with some DNS settings and since then, everyone that tried it has been facing this problem. I used it too. It's even more annoying that the DNS Settings is no longer working. I have managed to find a solution though and you can make use of it if you have the same issues too.

How to Stop or Opt-out from Automatic Etisalat Blackberry Voice Plan Subscription

Here is how I solved the problem:

1. Recharge your phone with N200 and Etisalat will immediately deduct N100. You now have a balance of N100.

2. The next step is to dial *399*2# on your phone and Etisalat should stop subscribing you to their voice plans automatically.

You should be able to recharge and enjoy your credit like before, without the fear of N100 deduction. I should also point out that the steps above did not work for some people but they were able to solve it by migrating to the Etisalat Easy Cliq plan. You can do this by dialing *244*1#.

If after this you still can't solve this, call Etisalat Customer Care.

Hope this helps!

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Etisalat BIS Plans / Subscription Codes (Nigeria)

In my previous posts on Etisalat Blackberry Social Packages and Blackberry Complete Plans, I mentioned the major differences between the main Etisalat BIS and other Etisalat Blackberry Plans (Social & Complete), I will show you more in this post. To be able to compare really well, you might want to open the plans I mentioned above in another browser tab by clicking the links. Have you done that? Okay, now look at what you get from Etisalat BIS and other plans.

Benefits of BlackBerry Internet Service

• Simple set-up on the phone or via your PC

• Easy to use

• Associate up to 10 email accounts, including AOL®, MSN®, or POP3/Internet Service Providers (ISP)

• Out of Office reply

• Customizable signature

• Choice of “Sent From” addresses

• Optional BlackBerry email account: yourname@etisalatng.blackberry.com

• View popular attachments in color (JPEG; BMP; TIFF; Microsoft Word, Excel® and PowerPoint®, Corel®; WordPerfect®; and Adobe® PDF)

See How To View PDF Files on Blackberry Phones

• Access individual email account icons on your BlackBerry home screen for each integrated Internet email account.  Click on each icon see the incoming and outgoing messages related to that particular email account.

• Advanced Security for web browsing and onboard data encryption of data on the device.

• Availability of social networking applications such as facebook, twitter, MySpace

• Availability of a wide array of Instant Messaging Clients such as yahoo! Messenger, MSN messenger, google gtalk

• Blackberry Protect

Etisalat BIS also has the Daily, Weekly and Montly plans. They are all unlilited in terms of allowable data data transfer but they have their limits in the number of days alloted to them. Daily plan expired after 24 hours, Weekly plan expires after 7 days and the Monthly plan expires after 30 days.

Etisalat Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) Subscription / Activation Codes

Plan: Blackberry® Internet Service
Validity: 30 days
Price: N3000
Activation code for BlackBerry Voice Plan: *499*1#
Activation SMS/Code for BlackBerry Non Voice Plan: *399*1#

Plan: BlackBerry® Internet Service Weekly Plan
Validity: 7 days
Price: N1000
Activation code for BlackBerry Voice Plan: *499*6#
Activation SMS/Code for BlackBerry Non Voice Plan: *399*6#

Plan: BlackBerry® Internet Service Daily Plan
Validity: 1 day
Price: N250
Activation code for BlackBerry Voice Plan: *499*5#
Activation SMS/Code for BlackBerry Non Voice Plan: *399*5#

You might want to checkk out the other Blackberry plans too - Etisalat Blackberry Social Plan and Blackberry Complete Plan. You might also want to bookmark this page for future reference.

Hope this helps!

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Glo Blackberry Internet Subscription (BIS) Plans & Subscription / Activation Codes

Here is a list of Glo Blackberry Internet Subscription (BIS) Subscription / Activation Codes ad the different data plans.

Glo has it's rates for Blackberry Service reduced by 42% sometimes ago. This is applicable to the Unlimited Glo Blackberry Internet Plans only which is very much different from the Glo "Complete" Blackberry Internet Plans. Those are relatively cheaper but do not have all the feature of this Unlimited plan.

Monthly BlackBerry SUbscription Plan was reduced to N2,800 with that of MTN still at N3,000 while Weekly Subscription Plan is now N900 and the Daily Subscription Plan is N300.

To activate the Monthly Package, text "bismonth" to 777. To activate the Weekly Package, Text "bisweek" to 777. To activate the Daily Package, text "bisday" to 777.

There is no point spelling out what and what you get in this plan. This is the unlimited plan that allows you to use just any application available of course; except for services like video streaming which requires you to be on the Blackberry Enterprise Service (BES). You can use your Blackberry Appworld and Blackberry Protect with this plan. Many Blackberry users don't know how useful Blackberry Protect is and thus don't pay much attention to it. Don't make that mistake.

SUMMARY OF EVERYTHING:

BlackBerry Internet Services (BIS) Packages, Keywords, Price (Service rental), Validity & Data Transfer Limit (Data Bundle)

Package: BIS Month
Keyword: BISMONTH to 777
Service Rental: N2,800
Validity: 30 days
Data bundle: UNLIMITED

Package: BIS Week
Keyword: BISWEEK to 777
Service Rental: N900
Validity: 7 Days
Data bundle: UNLIMITED

Package: BIS Day
Keyword: BISDAY to 777
Service Rental: N300
Validity: 24 Hours
Data bundle: UNLIMITED

Text 'STATUS' to 777 to check the usage status of your current subscription. With this, you can check the expiry date of your plan and some other information as applicable.

You might also want to check out the Glo Blackberry Internet Social Plans.

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How To Check If Your SIM Is Registered – MTN, Airtel, Etisalat, Glo

These are steps to follow to check if your MTN, Airtel, Etisalat or Glo SIM card has been registered officially by your Network. It can be frustrating registering with this road-side kiosks claiming to register every SIM from every network. I've been a victim before and I couldn't go back to them to confront them when I hadn't got a proof that it has not been registered. After some digging anyway, I got the solution to check if your SIM has been registered and recognised by your network.

Some networks like Glo and Etisalat (in my case) do sent message from time to time to remind me to register my SIM card before I finally did. I don't know if they still do that though. If they still do, it would be easy to tell after 24 hours of registering your SIM and you still get messages from them. You don't have to wait for this anyway with the tips I'm going to give you here!

How to check if your MTN is Registered

Send REG as a message to 789. After sending the text to 789 with your MTN SIM card, you will get a reply confirming that you have been registered if it was actually registered, otherwise, you get a "not registered" message.

If your sim have been registered, you will get a service message saying:

2348031231565 has been registered. Thank you!

2348031231565 is your phone number!

How to check if your Airtel SIM card has been Registered

The only way to check if your Airtel SIM card has been registered as at the time of writing this post is by calling 111 on your phone or by sending an email to customercare@ng.airtel.com

How to check if your Etisalat SIM has been Registered

For Etisalat, you can verify your SIM card registration status by calling 200 or sending an email to care@etisalat.com.ng

How to Check if your Glo SIM is Registered

Send REG to 3456 as a message. If your line has been registered, you’ll receive a message that looks like the one below:

Your SIMCARD +2348071111111 has been registered. Thank You!

Enjoy!!!

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Slots Limited : Get Prices of Phones Online In Nigeria

Getting prices of phones in Nigeria is easy. You can use Slots limited, NGPriceHunters, etc.

Here are websites from which you can get prices of Blackberry, iphone, HTC, Nokia and other phones in Nigeria. It’s never been easier to get prices of these smartphones in Nigeria considering the fact that you can easily do it from your phone and it’s even coming from reliable sources.

One of the sites I will be showing you is SLOT Limiteds official website. I think everyone knows SLOT Limited and we all know that they sell good and cheap phones. It’s a pity I will not be paid for this advertisement but the truth must be told. We can use their prices as yardsticks for prices in other sales outlet.

Many Nigerians today still make use of a foreign sites like GSMArena to get prices of phones like Blackberry, iPhone, HTC, Nokia, etc. We all know that this might not give us the real value in Naira here because it is displayed in Dollars and also prices change with the forces of demand and supply. Exchange rates change on a daily basis and there will still be extra cost of shipment.

HOW TO GET PRICES OF BLACKBERRY, IPHONE, HTC, NOKIA, ETC. ON SLOT LIMITED WEBSITE

•Go to SLOT LIMITED OFFICIAL WEBSITE

•Click on Products

Note: Clicking on Pricelist will only bring prices of few Backberry and HTC smartphones.

PRODUCTS YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM TO CHECK THE PRICES INCLUDE:

BLACKBERRY

HTC

IPHONE

LAPTOP

LG

MOTOROLA

NOKIA

SAMSUNG

SONY ERICSSON

OTHER PHONES

OTHER SITES TO GET PRICES FROM:

NGPRICEHUNTER: This site helps you compare prices of different products from different online shops. It doesn’t just deal on Mobile phones but other produsts such as electronics, beauty products, etc.

DISCLAIMER: This post is just for information purpose only and is not recommending purchasing phones from any of them. Note that these sites can change the way their sites function at any time.

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Blackberry Display Pictures (DP) Download Websites

One of the things that makes Blackberry interesting is the Blackberry Messenger and one of the things that makes BBM fun is the Display Pictures (DP) used by your BBM Contacts. You can keep yourself busy and entertained by just viewing Display Pictures (Blackberry DP) of the contacts on your Blackberry Messenger. Some can even enlighten you, some to send a message, some motivational and some to share your mood with your contacts.

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Get Blackberry PINs of Girls & Guys In Nigeria With These Apps

Many people want to get as many contacts as possible on their Blackberry Messenger as soon as they buy it and hence start searching for means to add contacts and meet different guys and guys via BBM. Some people do this for the fun of it, some to show off that they have many contacts on their Blackberry Messenger while some do it to get potential customers on their palm. I do that last one too. Whichever one you are doing it for, I’m going to show you some apps you can use to get started. You don’t have to start downloading and deleting several apps till you see the one that works. I have tried the apps on this list and they work!

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Blackberry Social Feed – Social, News Feeds In One App

I own a Blackberry Bold 9790 (Bold 6) and this application called Social Feeds 2.0 came pre-installed on it. I initially neglected it and went on to configure the basic features of the Blackberry phone. When I later got to it, I felt I should have configured it earlier.

Social Feed app lets you stay up-to-date with your social networks and receive the latest news and information from the blogs and websites you choose all in one place, on a single application.

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Tecno Phantom N9 (Android Tablet) Specifications & Price

Tecno Android Tablet (Tecno Phantom N9) was recently released in Nigeria after the release of several Android Phones like the Tecno N3 and Tecno F7 amongst other. Some call it the Tecno Pad. The two that I mentioned above are my favourites of the TECNO Android Phones Series. I must say they are posing a strong challenge to Samsung Android phones and Samsung must be aware of this by now. If they don’t, it’s at their own peril.

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Tecno D3 Android Phone Specifications

This Tecno D3′s Specifications is coming in this post because of some requests I got. People asked for the specifications of this Android Tecno D3 after I wrote an article on the Tecno Phantom N9 (Android Tablet) earlier today. I must say at this point that one thing I don’t like about the Tecno D3 is that it has no 3G. Another thing I don’t like about this Tecno Android phone is that the secondary camera is poor at 0.3 MP. Like all other Tecno Android phones, it is dual SIM and can support up to 32GB media card.

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