Mobile Phone Accessories Review

We have to get over or get around or wrap our minds around the inescapable fact that our mobile phones are no longer just telephones with little screens.  They really are full-fledged pocket computers, and they have more computing, voice, image, and text capacity than ten of our very first pc’s combined.  If you have become the proud owner or new custodian of a sparkling new Blackberry, you immediately should optimize your pocket-powerhouse’s capacities.  Download the very best “apps”—right now, before you pass “Go” and collect $200.

First, download “Opera Mini.”  Only newbs and rubes stay with the Blackberry’s built-in browser; all the cool kids go to Opera Mini. It very closely resembles your desktop: with it, you can zoom-out to view your entire desktop, and you have a search bar and “auto complete” for your most-visited URL’s.  Regular users describe it as “studly” and claim it’s a gotta-have-it—especially if you frequently work in Wi-Fi zones.

Then, download Google Mobile App.  If you use g-mail and all of Google’s other search, text, and image services on your desktop, you’ll want them on your Blackberry, too.  Now in its second incarnation, Google’s Mobile App shows all the marks of its designers’ dedication to making it as much like the desktop version as they possibly could.  And you reasonably can expect it too keep evolving right in sync with the technology.  Just like on your desktop, Google Mobile still dominates the search engines.  Google Mobile now offers all your favorite features: “auto completed” search suggestions, the ability to scroll through your search history or to correct a misspelled search term, and one-touch initiation of new searches.

These two apps will keep you both busy and productive for quite a while, but as you’re wrapping your mind around their awesome powers, remember that they represent just the tip of the apps iceberg.  There are still lots more good stuff in-store.

For those of us initiated into the cell-phone world back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth and our phones were approximately the size of small boulders, the fact that the new ones actually complete calls seems pretty overwhelming. Some of just learned how to turn-off the predictive-text keys so that we could send text messages in the words we really intended to use.

Imagine our surprise; therefore, when it finally dawned on us that our “mobiles” have a lot more in common with our laptops than our telephones. A whole new universe opened-up—especially when we discovered the amazing downloadable games we could put on those little handheld powerhouses. Wow! Who knew?

Although we quickly discovered we decided we could download “Final Fantasy” and the other high-powered role-playing games, we decided to start small and work our way up. Arcade games still lead the league, outranking their nearest competitors by tens of thousands of downloads.

And “Pocketman” stands-out as by far the most popular arcade game. PocketMan reprises our childhood favorite, the PacMan arcade game from the 1980’s, updating and adapting it for pocket pc’s. Although it still has all the features we always have loved, the designers have updated the look and added adjustable gameplay. Although I typically advance no further than the saddest, lowest, most pathetic levels, the designers have added lots and lots of higher levels. They also have improved the graphics, upgraded the music, and added a new character, who assists as we struggle through our missions.

Of course, downloadable PocketMan is at least as addictive as the original arcade game. Thank goodness we don’t have to keep pumping-in quarters to keep playing.