How to Controll BlackBerry from Laptop with SOTI Pocket Controller 8

 

How to Controll BlackBerry from Laptop with

SOTI Pocket Controller 8

The application that we review today is a very powerful utility that allows us to check our full BlackBerry device from your PC, allowing us to do just about anything. Unlike other similar applications already reviewed in the past, SOTI Pocket Controller 8 for BlackBerry, not only allow us to write what we want from the keyboard appears on the display of our handheld, but literally allows us to control it remotely.

The strength of this program lies in its ability to interconnect computers and BlackBerry not only by the classic cable, but also via Bluetooth and, above all, via WiFi, under cover of a single router.

For example, our BlackBerry would be within 24 hours of our abandoned at the entrance of our study, but we could still check email, write messages on the BlackBerry Messenger comfortably seated in front of our laptop which is located in a 'other room.

1) Installation

SOTI Pocket Controller 8 consists of two parts, one on the PC side and a Blackberry hand. Once purchased the software, install it in the usual way (OTA) on our device and we will send you an email with a link where to download the part for the PC. Without this, here is the icon that appears on our BlackBerry, which will appear by clicking on the next screen:

It 'basically a screen that gives us all the information about active connections on our BlackBerry at the time, especially on the WiFi network (which will be useful later).

By clicking the "Menu" button, however, appear from which a curtain, then you can set all settings in particular:

Help

Bluetooth options

Security options (if you set a password to access the application, etc.)

notification options (of which activities we want to be notified when your handheld is connected to our PC: email, IM, SMS, etc)

Moving the PC side, however, and launching the program, you will see a green button that says "Connect". Clicking on it, Pocket Controller will ask us first as we connect to our BlackBerry, or USB, WiFi or Bluetooth.

Suppose we take connected via WI-FI and then select "Wi-Fi." This is why the program asks the IP address of our device that we will resume on the main screen of Pocket Controller on the BlackBerry and on the window of the application for the PC.

At this point, the connection occurs instantly and the program is ready for use.

2) Use

After these preliminary operations, however, it must be said, require no more than 5 minutes and only the first time, let's have the functions that gives us Soti Pocket Controller 8. The splash screen appears as shown on the Skin of our device Desktop, together with a "control bar" side, top left. Note that, in the case of the Torch, the Skin follows the orientation of the handheld, or vertical-horizontal-slider opened / closed.

The blue bar at the top contains several tabs:

the application switcher that allows us to jump between applications operating on our BB

Notifications, which makes us see what we have not yet read notifications with the date and time (they appear in a corner of the desktop, as, for example, Hotmail) and possibly save them.

Informations: general information about the program

Buttons: that allows us to have each of the 4 main buttons Blackberry

Going instead to examine in detail the functions that are available in the upper part of the Skin, we find the Explore feature that allows us to explore the contents of the BlackBerry.

System function, which gives us all the information on our part (fw installed, memory, battery, CPU usage, etc).

Books Service function which in practice allows us to examine and modify configuration data on our BlackBerry.

Tasks function that allows us to see that all processes currently running on our handheld

Moving now on the tab "view" that appear here other useful features, including those to change the Skin, to rotate the device horizontally / vertically to change the background to zoom in and out and to draw on the screen of the Blackberry (perhaps to highlight something), as in the image below.

Finally, moving on the last tab, we see that we have a number of functions to capture the screen, either as a screenshot as a video

This can be very useful and, for example, to create video "demo" or "tutorial" on using our devices or capture screen images that we believe are important and we want to keep a copy on our computer.

It should be noted in this regard, that just because Soti Pocket Controller 8 enables remote any function of our BlackBerry, the same could in theory also be used as a webcam control in another room.

It is sufficient, PC, activate the camera to find ourselves on our monitor displays the images of what is happening in the room where our handheld is (Think, for example, to control their children or the supervision of entrances, etc.), images that we can, if desired, save as a video on your PC.

3) CONCLUSIONS

SOTI Pocket Controller for BlackBerry is really an excellent application and well made powerful. It 's the first look that we can really control all the functions of our handheld from your PC and is well taken care of from the point of view of graphics and additional utilities available.

It 'really useful for those who, for example, uses a lot of BlackBerry Messenger, it allows you to do so in a big keyboard and comfortable as that of the PC

Presents, inevitably, also the weaknesses, such as, for example, the fact that very often the skin there is the screen of your PC and you need to zoom out to do it alone (this is not a function of scrolling), or even the slight delay that occurs between the command given by the PC and running on a BlackBerry or the power consumption increases when the device is connected to a WiFi (avoidable through cable).

Soti Pocket Controller 8 is available in the BlackBerry Store at this address at a price of about € 30.