When smartphones have stupid features

October 2, 2008 11:14 AM

Is there a voice note application for the blackberry curve that DOESN'T involve me sending an MMS or Email with the info to myself?

I'll be honest: I love my blackberry curve. But my old cell phone - a really horrible flip phone from verizon - had this one thing I loved...a voice recorder. You'd hit a button, it'd record your note and you could play it back later. Very fast, very simple.

Then I got the blackberry curve. Which was a million times better in dozens of ways. Except for the voice note feature.

On the blackberry, the voice note requires you to record your note, pick an email or phone number and then send it to someone else (in this case myself).

it's a really horrible system. It's slow, it's got too many steps and it involves at the least an unnecessary email and at most an MMS charge.

So, is there a third party piece of software for the blackberry curve that's good for voice notes? Or do I need to spring for a separate voice recorder and fill my pants pockets to full?

posted by rileyray3000 to technology (5 comments total)

You can save it right on the Curve. Once you're done recording, hit the trackball to pause it, and then go over to the "Stop" icon. It will save your voice note, and you can access it later by going back to the Voice Notes Recorder app, hitting the menu button, and choosing “View Voice Notes.”

This wasn't immediately obvious to me either when I 1st started using the app.
posted by ekstasis23 at 11:49 AM on October 2

What ekstasis23 says. You may have to upgrade your OS tough, if I recall correctly the Voice Notes Recorder app was not present in the original 4.2 version I got with my Curve and was a very welcome addition once I upgraded to 4.5.
posted by fjom at 12:03 PM on October 2

Not exactly what you are looking for, but Jott is pretty cool, too.
posted by halogen at 12:25 PM on October 2

Oh man. Thanks so much for the heads up on 4.5. I'm installing it now. Apparently my many calls to RIM to complain about this might have had an effect. Good to know.
posted by rileyray3000 at 1:20 PM on October 3

Okay apparently I'm NOT installing it. I just installed the features that will tell me when it's officially available. Is there somewhere I can get a copy of 4.5?
posted by rileyray3000 at 3:51 PM on October 3