BlackBerry assistance for a numpty

[Browser]

Just been issued with one of these heinous devices by my company, and would like to download a sat nav application for it before I register it to the company network as they've barred all internet connection via BB's (don't know why, presumably previous misuse by others?) and I was told by a colleague that I would be unable to download anything once I registered it.
Anyhoo, does anyone have a recommendation for a good sat nav please?
p.s. does the Livestrong calorie counter need to connect to the 'net or is it a plug in and forget jobbie?

 

[Proto]

Not sure it qualifies as SatNav, but I downloaded Google Maps onto mine. Supposedly superior to Blackberry Maps.

 

[ColinJ]

Not sure it qualifies as SatNav, but I downloaded Google Maps onto mine. Supposedly superior to Blackberry Maps.

But surely that won't work without the internet connection?

 

[Aperitif]

Use it in conjunction with an iPhone and it will perform mathematical equations with ease - there is nothing like a blackberry and apple pi.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Use it in conjunction with an iPhone and it will perform mathematical equations with ease - there is nothing like a blackberry and apple pi.

+3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862...

 

[Browser]

Use it in conjunction with an iPhone and it will perform mathematical equations with ease - there is nothing like a blackberry and apple pi.

Very gooood! Go to the top of the class and jump off

 

[Globalti]

My BB came with a maps thingy, which is quite good. It tells you where you are by triangulating from cellphone masts.

 

[marzjennings]

I use the google maps application my BB came with, but it wouldn't work without an internet connection. I don't think there is a sat nav application for the bb that doesn't require an data connection.

 

[gbs]

Just been issued with one of these heinous devices by my company, and would like to download a sat nav application for it before I register it to the company network as they've barred all internet connection via BB's (don't know why, presumably previous misuse by others?) and I was told by a colleague that I would be unable to download anything once I registered it.
Anyhoo, does anyone have a recommendation for a good sat nav please?
p.s. does the Livestrong calorie counter need to connect to the 'net or is it a plug in and forget jobbie?

I have a satnav app on my B/B but have never acheived better than "within 500m" resolution. This may be a weakness of the Orange network. It may be that it is not worth falling foul yr coporarte ogres for a service of limited utility.

I am puzzled by the no internet connectioin policy. The great bonus of B/b is the email facility.

 

[Campfire]

Can anyone tell me please how I get the photos off my Blackberry (9700 Bold) and on to my iMac? If I connect it up, it just goes through some sort of rigmarole I just don't understand.

My Palm Treo used to load the photos/diary notes etc and I could go into it and refer to things on the computer. The dratted BB doesn't seem to do it? or does it?

Help!

 

[PaulSB]

Can anyone tell me please how I get the photos off my Blackberry (9700 Bold) and on to my iMac? If I connect it up, it just goes through some sort of rigmarole I just don't understand.

I don't have a Blackberry but imagine if you connect with a USB cable Windows will recognise the device as a camera. You should then be able to open the BB via My Computer or the Windows wizard which should open at connection, then copy the images to your PC. This is what happens with the iPhone, which I do have.

 

[Globalti]

I do this by Bluetoothing the BB to the laptop; it's quick and easy once it's set up.

 

[Campfire]

I actually managed to get the photos on to the computer the time after but I was trying to set up the Bluetooth between that and my Mac and it just didn't seem to work, both were discoverable and the Mac kept giving me different numbers to correspond with the phone etc but it just wouldn't get connected.

I then solved another problem, I had downloaded a music clip from a Blog and couldn't get it to copy or burn to CD so had the 'bright' idea of going onto the internet with the BB, looking up the site and then downloading it onto the BB. IT WORKED! So I can now listen to the song (which was a lovely, simple lullaby which this girl had written herself in Finnish) whenever I am out and about.