I’m pretty happy right now with my Blackberry Curve. It was very convenient (perhaps too convenient) in the meetings I was in last week, and it’s working out quite nicely for me.<\/p>\n
One tool on it I’m sorely missing, though, is better timed control over the “profiles.” A profile is a configuration for how the BB lets me know a message, phone call, voice mail, e-mail, IM, or other notification has come in. I can configure noise, vibrations, and LED indicators for each of those, and can actually distinguish between in- and out-of-case conditions.<\/p>\n
Though it’s easy to manually change profiles from, say, “Normal” to “Quiet,” I’m really bad at doing so. The BB does have an “Auto On\/Off” function that will turn the phone off and back on at a fixed schedule on Weekdays and on Weekends — but I could wish for a better control and options.<\/p>\n
I had a nice application, Central, on my Treo which did this. It let me set up multiple schedules to mute the phone — so, for example, I told it to mute my phone on weeknights between 11:30p and 5:00a — but on Saturdays until 10 and on Sundays until 11 (so it stays mute in church). I could also tell it to mute during my karate class on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. It also let me just mute it ad hoc<\/em> (which is always dangerous when you forget to unmute it — which is why I prefer automation).<\/p>\n I’ve yet to find it, but it would be swell if there were a BB utility that would let me schedule profiles for given times\/days of the week. It would be even more swell if I could tell it to start a profile for a period of time (“I’m sitting down for a movie, so let me turn my phone to quiet for the next 3 hours”), but that would just be icing on the cake.<\/p>\n If anyone knows of something that can do this, please let me know.<\/p>\n Central on Treo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m pretty happy right now with my Blackberry Curve. 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