BlackBerry DevCon 2010

Last year's DevCon was a blast, and a great opportunity to learn about the future of BlackBerry as well as doing some great networking - so this year we are going back to DevCon - September 27-29 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis for more.

Its interesting to see that an event normally in November has been scheduled to end September. What is RIM trying to say ? Focus on OS6? "Blackpad" introduction? new devices? maybe all of those.

We will be blogging and tweeting from the event - so if there are things that you would particularly like to hear about just post it here.

BlackBerry Alliance Membership

As a mulitplatform smartphone developer we work with a number of vendor programs. One of the programs that we think is worth special mention is the BlackBerry Alliance Program. What this program does, is not just give you access to the standard development and marketing tools, but it also lets developers like us get access to other benfits including access to special BlackBerry hardware, training, and other programs.

If you are a BlackBerry developer you should check out the program. Its certainly worth it.

And we would love to hear what you think of it and how it compares to other smartphone developer programs in the comments on this entry.

BTC Connect wins Brothersoft Editors Choice

We are really proud to mention that BTC Connect iPhone has won an Editors Choice award on Brothersoft app review site.

Check it out here

Its a great review from a major app review site - we are pleased to be able to win this award!

Thanks to all our users from around the world for your support.

BTC hits the Australian

The Australian IT has published an interesting article about the iPad revolution and how the technology can be applied - as well as a good update on BigTinCan and were our opportunities are. Its worth a read http://bit.ly/be71sR

Outage notification

We are currently experiencing an outage with our upstream carrier for phone calls in Australia and some other regions. Estimated restoration time is 3pm AEST Tuesday 6th July 2010

Service fully restored 2:38pm AEST

If you have any remaining issues please contact our support email

support@bigtincan.com

BuzzMe Beats Football Edition

Is now live on App World and Mobihand.

If you want to really get behind your team you need BuzzMe Beats Football Full Edition

BuzzMe Beats Full Edition includes 10 unique football tones that match with customised LED colors and vibration patterns on your phone. Everytime you receive a phone call your phone will flash the colors of your team, play a specially selected football ringtone and vibrate in a pattern specific to your team - and it also includes bonus downloadable wallpapers and links to the latest team information.

The Full Edition lest you control your tone, LED, and vibration for phone calls, SMS/MMS. each email account, and all your social media including BBM, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, MSN chat and over 9 other service types.

The app includes 10 different tones that you can select, or turn off the BuzzMe Beats volume and use your own tone.

Everytime you receive a phone call, SMS/MMS. each email account, and social media including BBM, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, MSN chat and over 9 other service types. your phone will flash the colors of your team, play the alert tone (including whistles, crowd sounds, soccer balls being kicked and more) and vibrate in a pattern specific to your team.

The FULL edition includes links to flag wallpapers of each of the teams.

Get BuzzMe Beats with Football Edition now and get into the spirit of the game.

Want to get Off your Face - well look out for BTC FaceOff

We have been working hard since Christmas on a new app for the BlackBerry Storm that takes advantage of the accelerometer in the Storm and Storm 2.

That app is FaceOff.

And just like the 1997 Movie Staring John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, BigTinCan FaceOff lets you escape the bad guys and go undercover when ever you turn your BlackBerry Storm or Storm II "face-off"

FaceOff is something cool for BlackBerry Storm users that uses the built in accelerometer to let users easily manage the ring process on their phone.

With FaceOff you simply need to turn your phone "face off" and the phone will not ring and vibrate when you receive a call. Ideal for when you are in a meeting and don't want to be disturbed or on the bedside table at night.

And FaceOff is a lot more than that. You can select and control the ringtone and vibration, have a different ringtone volume or vibration when the phone is set "face off" and best of all you can use the FaceOff WhiteList to setup numbers that will cause the phone to ring when they call.

With WhiteList you can be in a meeting with the phone set "FaceOff" and be able to feel confident that you wont miss that important call from home, your best client, or the kids school.

As you have covered BigTinCan products in the past we would love to let you do a "preview review" of FaceOff.

The Beta is available for download now at this link

http://bit.ly/amm1l2

We would love to have your comments

and screenshots of the app are at this link

http://gallery.me.com/roegrif1#100289

FaceOff is set for release mid April 2010 on BlackBerry AppWorld and Mobihand for $4.99.

Requirements: FaceOff works on the BlackBerry Storm I and Storm II with OS v4.7 and OSv5.0