BeamBerry 3.0 released - adds SD card viewing, no longer free
BeamBerry went 3.0 on Dec. 31st and turned non-free, the honeymoon is over. I haven't had a chance to get into playing with it yet myself, so no comment yet on the new features. What this means though is that you can now view PDF files off your SD card, which might be a real benefit to people dealing with confidential information they don't want pushed to the BeamBerry servers.
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http://beamberry.com/pressrelease123107.html |
Will the free version still work?
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I got an e-mail from them saying the beta version we have is good for seven days. |
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Dear BeamBerry Early Access Customer, BeamBerry Solutions, Inc. recently announced the release of BeamBerry 3.0 which marks a significant next step in the evolution of the BeamBerry viewer. The key new feature introduced in this release is the ability to view documents that are stored on memory card (e.g. SD card). BeamBerry 3.0 marks the termination of the Early Access program. The subscription price for the BeamBerry service will be $49.99 / year. For further details, please visit our website at BeamBerry - View, Print, Store BlackBerry e-mail attachments. If you wish to continue using BeamBerry, please download the new version OTA (using your BlackBerry) from BeamBerry Download. Your current version of BeamBerry will work for another seven days. Thank you for being a valued customer. |
Anybody give this a shot yet? I am very curious to see how the 3.0 works but am swamped and can't really test it myself yet. I love the SD option personally.....
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not an option for me -
two issues: No send to fax No opening of images I'll stick with Repligo for now. |
I've enjoyed having the free version but there's no way in the world its worth $50 a year.
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I'm a bit disappointed they didn't offered a special offer to beta testers.
Best, Jaime |
Goodbye Beamberry.
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Too expensive. Dynoplex has a better and cheaper product. $50 too, but it's a one-time fee.
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I used both and I have to say beamberry is way faster than dynoplex. However, it's no better than Repligo. Best, Jaime |
I have downloaded the trial. The SD card feature looks good but it still does not open Word 2007. I have indicated this to them as it just says that it opens Word documents on their website. I will not be paying the $50. Do any of the other similar programs mentioned in this thread open 2007 documents?
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Dataviz has Documents To Go for the Palm, it opens Word 2007 documents read-only. Dataviz has announced Documents To Go for the Blackberry, but it's been 4 or 5 months and it isn't released yet. Moreover, there are rumors that the new 4.3 OS update is going to include Documents To Go, which I find hard to believe, but anyway.
Short answer: no, there isn't, but there might be soon... ish. |
Uninstalled beamberry and have gone for the trial of MasterDoc. However all I get when trying to open anything is "Retrieving attachment information please wait" After about 5 minutes the attachment is finally ticked with a green arrow and then when I try to open I continually get "File is not ready yet, please try again in a moment". I am with vodafone UK and on BIS. Never had this with Beamberry. Any ideas anyone? Sergey??
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People want a simple PDF viewer on their device, that's it - store a PDF on the SD card and open it with a viewer. No file management, not bells and whistles like document management or online integration. Just launch an app and open a PDF and read. Period. All this other junk that vendors are adding to products are NOT solving a problem the users have, they're trying to create a need where one does not exist for many folks. |
The problem is that a phone may not have enough horsepower to "decode" a PDF. It may be really necessary to get it through another computer, elsewhere, that can crunch and mince the data and send it back to the puny phone.
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== (*) why some PDFs fail on your S60 device « rivviepop phantom |
It would be very interesting to create a "pre-processed" PDF files, so you can store those files when you need it with you without network access.
Or freeware server program. Either way. :) |
The world would be a much much better place if PDF had never been invented. But now it's too late.
Sometimes I have to receive PDF from people, but I would never use PDF to store any data I may want to look up at home or in the wild. There are so many other infinitely better formats than that. I just wish the Blackberry could read Plucker documents. If I could talk the developer of FBReader into it... Seems unlikely. The guy seems to have his hands pretty full already. |
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