BlackBerry Pearl freaks out a rechargeable flashlight

Posted by Mauricio on Mar 29, 2009 at 9:57 PM | Comments

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This is weirdly interesting.

My Pearl is about 2 years old.. and a refurb. It’s always done weird things when too close to speakers – makes them sputter out all kinds of noise due to its radio antenna signals. Last night I discovered a new.. “trick” this thing has. I put it next to a rechargeable LED lantern/light and suddenly it started blinking WILDLY. When I moved the BB away, it stopped. The light is controlled by a physical button, and to my knowledge does not have any radio controls.

Has something like this every happened to anyone?  I get the radio and speaker thing all the time, but never has my BlackBerry freaked out another electronic device let alone turn it on.

Source: BlackBerry Blast

Free download: BerryTorch turns your BlackBerry into a flashlight!

Posted by Mauricio on Feb 10, 2009 at 1:18 PM | Comments

capture11 25 12 Free download: BerryTorch turns your BlackBerry into a flashlight!

My buddy Fabian Heuwieser created a new, free application for BlackBerrys called BerryTorch.

From the description:

The application is quite easy to explain:
It shows a blank, white screen and activates the LED. Through this you can see in the dark.

Features:

  • Activates the LED
  • Shows a white screen

I’ve tested it out on my BlackBerry Curve 8900 and it works great! No problems at all.

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