Summary of Contents for Blackline GPS 8800 series
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Page 1: User Guide
Share Your Where G e o - s o c i a l i n t e r a c t i o n fo r y o u r BlackBerry 8800 series smartphone User Guide... - Page 2 BlackLine GPS products. GPS Snitch, Share Your Where, and BlackLine GPS are trademarks or registered trademarks of BlackLine GPS Inc. BlackBerry, BlackBerry 8800 Series, BlackBerry 8700 Series, BlackBerry Curve, BlackBerry Pearl, and BlackBerry Maps are trademarks or registered trademarks of Research In Motion Ltd.
- Page 3 Users of BlackBerry Smartphones without GPS technology can share in the fun, interacting with shared GPS-enabled BlackBerry smartphones and GPS Snitch devices. If you own a BlackBerry Pearl , BlackBerry Curve , or BlackBerry 8700 , purchase a GPS Snitch for yourself and start tracking!
- Page 4 BlackBerry 8800 Series smartphone, and installed the Blip application. For users who have a compatible BlackBerry without GPS and wish to interact with a GPS Snitch device or shared GPS-capable BlackBerry smartphones, this guide assumes you have an account and installed Blip on your BlackBerry device.
- Page 5 Overview Since GPS is not built within certain BlackBerry smartphones, the interaction experience is limited. If you have a non-GPS-enabled BlackBerry device, your smartphone will be able to interact with the BlackLine GPS Snitch and GPS-enabled BlackBerry 8800 series smartphones. However, others will not be able to map your most recent location since GPS publishing is not possible.
- Page 6 GPS & EULA GPS Location Security Notice When you start Blip for the first time, your BlackBerry smartphone will notify you that it is requesting access to your GPS location. For Blip to perform correctly, you must agree to Blip’s continued access to your GPS data.
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Page 7: Login Page
Login Page When you agree to the EULA, you are presented with the login page. Pressing the menu button on your BlackBerry smartphone while on this page allows you to modify connection settings, view data usage, and access GPS location publishing features that do not require you to be logged in to modify. - Page 8 Published locations are accessible to you and to the people that you know to whom you share your device history. Currently, only the BlackBerry 8800 Series devices contain internal GPS technology and are able to publish GPS locations. You can modify how frequent your BlackBerry device publishes locations via the Publishing Options page.
- Page 9 Login Page window tinting and concrete structure, such as office buildings. In these situations, a failed location publish is flagged “Poor GPS Coverage”. Publish Location Now You can publish a location at any time. Select ‘Publish Location Now’ from the menu. This task instructs Blip to attempt to publish your location to your account.
- Page 10 Login Page Show EULA At any time, you can view the Blip End User License Agreement by selecting Show EULA from the menu on the Log-in page. Connection Settings You can change the method of how Blip communicates with the BlackLine GPS servers by adjusting the Connection Settings via the menu while viewing the Login page.
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Page 11: Devices Page
This menu item allows you to map the most recent location for the highlighted device within the BlackBerry Maps application. If you keep BlackBerry Maps open, each time you map a location, it will Mapped Location: BlackBerry Maps be remembered within BlackBerry Maps until it is closed. To... - Page 12 Devices Page quickly map a location, press the letter “L” on the BlackBerry keyboard. If you do not have BlackBerry Maps installed on your BlackBerry smartphone, you can proceed to the BlackBerry Web site and download the application: www.blackberry.com Device History...
- Page 13 Devices Page BlackBerry: Publish Location Now If you highlight a BlackBerry device that is activated on your account, you can access a “Publish Location Now” menu item. If you select this menu item, Blip will attempt to publish your current GPS location.
- Page 14 To keep data usage to a minimum, this data is only updated when you request it. To refresh this data, either press the “R” hotkey of your BlackBerry keyboard or select “Refresh” from the menu. This will pull the most current device data from the BlackLine servers.
- Page 15 “About” from the menu. Hide Selecting “Hide” from the menu pushes the Blip application into the background of your BlackBerry desktop. This allows you to access other functions of your BlackBerry device, such as the phone log, e-mail, etc. Close When you wish to close the Blip application, select “Close”...
- Page 16 The power of Blip comes from its ability for your to share your location with others that you know. Friends, co-workers, and gps-snitch.com Online Account family do not even need a BlackBerry device to see where you are. They can access your BlackBerry smartphone location from The people you know do BlackLine’s GPS Snitch site.
- Page 17 gps-snitch.com When you share your devices, an e-mail invitation will be sent to them inviting them to create an account in order to see where you are. Setting up a BlackLine account is free and takes only a couple minutes. Go ahead and Share Your Where! Support gps-snitch.com: Sharing...
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