Duncan Mac-Vicar

While being in Barcelona like a year ago, I was playing with Android’s SDK and trying to implement a todo-list that could make a phone vibrate when you walk nearby the grocery store, and you had a todo item saying “remind me about buying tomatoes if I walk nearby”.

When I googled for it, I found [Naggie][2] (link dead), but it was dead, which was quite strange. After googling more, I think [I found out why the site may have been dead][4].

Then I had the opportunity to play with an Android phone for first time ([Martin's][5] phone), and I asked him whether such application existed. Well Martin, [it does][1], but I could not find the download link.

However, today I found a [free app for BlackBerry][3] called got-2. I installed it. However, it claims it [has some problems][6] with OS 4.5, which is the one I use. Lets see how it works.

[1]: http://people.csail.mit.edu/hal/mobile-apps-spring-08/
[2]: http://naggie.com/demo/Naggie.jad
[3]: http://m.gwhizmobile.com/downloads.php
[4]: http://www.google.com/patents?id=9CYSAAAAEBAJ&dq=6680675
[5]: http://news.opensuse.org/2007/10/12/people-of-opensuse-martin-lasarsch/
[6]: http://gwhizmobile.blogspot.com/2009/01/got-2-problem-on-bbos-45.html

If you own a Blackberry from Vodafone Germany, you may be able to update to OS 4.5 depending on your model.
I did the update yesterday, and it went smooth. You will need:

* Windows machine, as the update is done from the desktop manager
* [The right firmware update for your model][1].
* You need to re-activate against the Enterprise Server in case you use BES. Contact your administrator for that.

You get lot of improvements against 4.2:

* Better browser. Mouse cursor to navigate.
* HTML mails
* Video camera.
* Some Media Player enhancements.
* Decent fonts.
* Documents to go. I can now even open pdfs from mail.
* Lot of user interface improvements. It looks nicer.
* Free/Busy calendar lookup.

(note, features depend on your device model)

[1]: http://www.vodafone.de/hilfe-support/blackberry/112008.html