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Part I: Meet and Greet Your BlackBerry Storm
Figure 3-3:
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applications
here.
Different people react differently to different sounds. Some BlackBerry barks
would be greatly appreciated by certain segments of the population, whereas
other segments might react to the same sound by pitching their BlackBerry
under the nearest bus. The folks at Research In Motion are well aware of this
fact and have devised a great way for you to customize how you want your
BlackBerry to bark at you; they call it your profile.
You can jump right into things by using a predefined profile.
Checking out the different profiles
Each profile is divided into four categories that represent the application for
which you can define alerts:
✓ Phone: Alerts you if there is an incoming call or a new voice mail.
✓ Messages: Alerts you when a new e-mail (see Chapter 8), PIN message,
or SMS message is in your inbox.
✓ Reminders: Alerts you when you have upcoming calendar appointments
or to-do reminders.
✓ Follow Up Flags: Alerts you when you have e-mail or phone calls to
follow up on.
✓ Browser: Alerts you when you receive a new channel push, which is a
Web page sent to your BlackBerry as an icon on your Home screen.
You can personalize the alert on all listed applications. Because the way you
customize them is similar, we use one application (Messages) as an example
in the text that follows, as we customize a predefined profile that comes with
your BlackBerry.