Blackberry questions

[Randy Denzer]

Gang,
I justpicked up a Blackberry Curve and it's way over my head! I hacve a couple of questions I am hoping someone can help me out with,

1. What is the best Blackberry Wx service? There are a bunch to choose from..

2. How do you delete multiple messages from the message folder? VERY FRUSTRATING!

 

[Brandon Headley]

I found a good website that I used for weather radar when I had my curve. No good apps for it. You can search thru your browser and you should find several.

I never really figured out how to delete multiple messages. Sorry.

 

[mikedeason]

Gang,
I justpicked up a Blackberry Curve and it's way over my head! I hacve a couple of questions I am hoping someone can help me out with,

1. What is the best Blackberry Wx service? There are a bunch to choose from..

2. How do you delete multiple messages from the message folder? VERY FRUSTRATING!

1. I pretty much just use the NOAA site but I subscribe to Pilot MyCast as well, especially for radar and lightning data.

2. Try clicking on the header that separates each day's messages and see if it gives you an option to delete all messages prior to that day. I have a Pearl, but I'm hedging that the messaging software is the same.

 

[Randy Denzer]

I'll try it.. Thanks Mike

 

[Michael Carlson]

Gang,
I justpicked up a Blackberry Curve and it's way over my head! I hacve a couple of questions I am hoping someone can help me out with,

1. What is the best Blackberry Wx service? There are a bunch to choose from..

2. How do you delete multiple messages from the message folder? VERY FRUSTRATING!

Randy,

I have a BlackBerry Curve and I primarily use NOAA sites through the browser and SPC products. I also use Denver 7 mobile page for quick use radar.

The way to delete multiple messages is scrolling up to the day all those messages are on then hitting the menu button (directly to the left of the scroll ball) then its the option Delete Prior right above Compose Email. If you do delete prior from the top of you messages all the other days will be deleted if you haven't saved them. Let me know if you have further questions.

 

[Bob Hall]

Randy,

Congratulations on the Blackberry, it is amazing how nice it is to have ubiquitous seamless access to email. There are tremendous FAQ’s available at http://www.blackberryfaq.com/index.php/BlackBerry_FAQ that will teach you all the tricks. For general weather I use the NOAA site http://mobile.weather.gov. You might want to check out www.stormnow.com as they push email pretty much every NOAA Port product of your choosing for $2.00 per month. During chase season, I typically have SPC text products 3-4 minutes before the website does.

 

[Scott Bennett]

Not an endorsement or it's worth but TWC has this app.... http://www.weather.com/mobile/pda/blackberry/
looks like about $4/mo.

As for the delete of the email....
One of the best features of the BB is the ablilty to search, if you delete them you can't search for them.

For example if I am looking for an email I got from "Bob" about beer like 3 weeks ago, if I just let the old messages scroll down I can search for it using the search function with "Bob Beer".

I have 7 different email accounts on my BB, 1/2 the time I can't even tell you what account the email came in on, now I can search accross all accounts, something nothing else lets me do.

 

[Aaron Blaharski]

Hold the shift button (one that has an arrow and "aA"), and you can select multiple messages by scrolling across them. As long as the messages you want to delete are consecutive in you inbox, that will work too if you don't want to do a mass delete prior to a calendar date.

I've got a few mobile weather sites bookmarked on mine, but didn't get it until after storm season last year, so I can't say which one(s) I prefer.

 

[Randy Denzer]

Thanks to everyone... I now have a good weather app and know how to delete these messages without doing them each individually.

As A new union VP I get more email than you can dream of and my thumb was cramping from deleting individual emails!

Thanks again.

Randy

 

[Kevin Crawmer]

Randy,
Which app did you go with? I am currently looking for one that would improve what I have. Currently I subscribe to Stormnow, which is awesome. I use wunderground for my radar. Their warnings were actually quicker than Stormnow yesterday. Pretty cool. Of course you have to go to the forecast page for text, but it isn't a big deal. Storm Prediction Center and NOAA run ok too. My main problem is wanting my location plotted on the radar. That would have been nice yesterday. I'm trying to save up to get a laptop with all the bells and whistles and not settle for the cheapest one I can find.

 

[mrobinett]

I use weathertap mobile on my BB Curve, I love it. I subscribe to Weathertap already and that includes the mobile version.

Mike

 

[Mike Peregrine]

I'm still working extensively with BlackBerry on the job. I personally use an 8830, but also have the Bold and the Storm for testing and documentation. The Bold is the updated World Phone for B-berry, but has a lot of features in common with Curve, running on the new OS. The Storm has been pretty tragic so far ... non-responsive keys, doesn't work half the time, etc. After two weeks of messing with it, I finally feel like I can make it do the stuff I want it to, but it hasn't been easy.

BlackBerry is like anything in that you just have to find your way around and learn the navigation techniques, where things are, etc. What makes me love it to death are the facts that it is an incredibly stable OS, with very few technical issues, almost never locks up, and communication with our BES server (email) is steady and constant - always. It is also really strong when it comes to security, the primary reason that we will likely never move to iPhone here. Battery life is outstanding and just about can't be beat.

I have a few third party apps on mine, but doubt that I'll ever use it for chasing purposes, just because I don't like trying to distinguish radar features on a screen the size of a credit card.

Let me know if I can help you find any settings or options you might be looking for. I teach a class on BlackBerry for attorneys about once a week, and have done so for about a year and a half now, so I'd be happy to help.