Comments on: An Electronic Wallet for Your BlackBerry http://www.keenerliving.com/an-electronic-wallet-for-your-blackberry A retired professional talks about life, technology, learning Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bruce Keener http://www.keenerliving.com/an-electronic-wallet-for-your-blackberry#comment-1022 Bruce Keener Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:03:00 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/07/21/an-electronic-wallet-for-your-blackberry/#comment-1022 Thanks for the super informative comment, Thomas. I'm glad to see some of the Palm apps being ported over, too. BTW, I did download the BlackBerry simulator and toyed with it a little bit, but not much yet. May toy with it some more this weekend. Thanks for the super informative comment, Thomas. I’m glad to see some of the Palm apps being ported over, too.

BTW, I did download the BlackBerry simulator and toyed with it a little bit, but not much yet. May toy with it some more this weekend.

]]> By: Thomas R. Hall http://www.keenerliving.com/an-electronic-wallet-for-your-blackberry#comment-1021 Thomas R. Hall Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:13:55 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/07/21/an-electronic-wallet-for-your-blackberry/#comment-1021 Having used SplashWallet on a Palm and also Windows Mobile, I can tell you that it works well on the BlackBerry as well -- just as you would expect from a SplashData product. Having both a Windows Mobile device and a BlackBerry, I was hoping that I could sync both with the same desktop program. As of the last time I tried this (sometime this past spring), there were some minor differences, so I actually had to use the desktop version for each platform separately. I hope that they fix this eventually. However, it's not that difficult to export indivdual items and import them into the other program. Or, I can wipe out all of the data on one device and desktop app and import them all from the other one. Again, not ideal, but not too bad. Also, SplashData has SplashShopper and SplashPhoto out for the BlackBerry as well. Haven't used SplashPhoto on it, but SplashShopper works well on the BlackBerry as well. Good to see more great Palm apps being ported over to this excellent platform. Thanks for mentioning them, Bruce! I'm sure that a lot of people were unaware of SplashData and have been only looking at the BlackBerry-only apps that have been around for a while. There is also a Password Safe program that comes on the BlackBerry. If you sync with a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), it backs up this data automatically as well, all encrypted. That's always an option, though it's not as flexible. Having used SplashWallet on a Palm and also Windows Mobile, I can tell you that it works well on the BlackBerry as well — just as you would expect from a SplashData product. Having both a Windows Mobile device and a BlackBerry, I was hoping that I could sync both with the same desktop program. As of the last time I tried this (sometime this past spring), there were some minor differences, so I actually had to use the desktop version for each platform separately. I hope that they fix this eventually. However, it’s not that difficult to export indivdual items and import them into the other program. Or, I can wipe out all of the data on one device and desktop app and import them all from the other one. Again, not ideal, but not too bad.

Also, SplashData has SplashShopper and SplashPhoto out for the BlackBerry as well. Haven’t used SplashPhoto on it, but SplashShopper works well on the BlackBerry as well. Good to see more great Palm apps being ported over to this excellent platform. Thanks for mentioning them, Bruce! I’m sure that a lot of people were unaware of SplashData and have been only looking at the BlackBerry-only apps that have been around for a while.

There is also a Password Safe program that comes on the BlackBerry. If you sync with a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), it backs up this data automatically as well, all encrypted. That’s always an option, though it’s not as flexible.

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