Our easy to use Blackberry FireEagle mobile updater, BB on Fire, now supports GPS. Prior versions just used your cell location. If your lucky enough to have a GPS enabled blackberry BB on Fire will use it to determine your location and update FireEagle. BB on Fire allows you to choose to only use cell location as well (in case your worried about battery usage).
Remember BB on Fire is still in Alpha and we are looking for testers and feedback so please spread the word.
We’ve just released an alpha version of BB on Fire, a simple to use Blackberry mobile updater for FireEagle that allows you to keep FireEagle (and all the application, such as theSUGGESTR that use FireEagle) up to date on your location.
The first step in using BB on Fire, or any FireEagle based application is to link the application to your FireEagle account. If you don’t already have a FireEagle account go here to sign up. The process to link the account is a little bit long but only should take 2-3 minutes and only needs to be done ONCE. Here are some screen shots showing how to do it with BB on Fire.
After launching BB on Fire click the button to start the process.
Next you will see the generated token from FireEagle – for your convenience we’ve copied this onto your BlackBerry’s Clipboard (if for some reason that doesn’t work just write the token down). Next click launch browser to go to FireEagle’s site.
Next Step, login to FireEagle enter your token (remember it’s on you clipboard) and authorize the use BB on Fire:
On the final screen you’ll see a code you need to type BACK into BB on Fire.
Finally, return to BB on Fire and enter in the 6 characters.
Click Auth Complete.
That’s it! Remember you only need to do that ONE TIME on your Blackberry and then you can use BB on Fire as much as you’d like. Check out BB on Fire here.
We’ve just completed a first run at a simple Blackberry based mobile updater for FireEagle. This application does not directly tie in to theSUGGESTR.com, however it can work along side our Alerts functionality to notify you when you are nearby any of your personalized suggestions, wish list or favorite food television show locations. In a future post we’ll dive more into how to set this all up. Click here to learn more about linking your FireEagle account with your BB on Fire app.
The application’s main purpose is to update FireEagle of your location at a regularly scheduled interval (you can configure it to be very frequent or infrequent). Unlike some other updaters we do NOT use your GPS (although we may offer this in the future). Why is this good? Well for one if you have a GSM phone without a GPS you can use our updater AND using cellular triangulation instead of GPS uses less power.
The application has some other bells and whistles such as being able to map your current location and see all the locations you’ve been at since the application started. Also the application can run in the background to keep updates going even when your doing other things.
So far the application has only been tested on a 8320 running OS 4.5. However it should work on ANY GSM phone with OS version 4.2.1 and greater. We are looking for people to try the application out and give us some feedback (positive or negative). Let us know your phone / carrier and OS version.
Working On:
8320/Tmobile/4.5
Not Working On:
All CDMA (Sprint/Verizon)
Here are some screen shots of the application:
