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One of the cooler products that caught my eye on the Solutions Showcase floor at WES 2009 was Gwabbit. It’s a simple, new app for BlackBerry that scans your incoming e-mail for contact information (stuff usually thrown into a signature), sends it off to their servers, figures out what fields the information would go into (phone, e-mail, etc.), compares it to your address book, and offers to update or create new contacts as needed. Although it sounds simple and awesome, they’re going with a subscrition model ($10/year) for the app, which I find just a bit confusing. Gwabbit builds off their earlier Outlook app that did the same thing, available for $19.95. I’m still unsure about how much memory this would take up by running in the background, or if it would slow down the e-mail-reading process while it’s busy scanning, but the idea is solid and will definitely be giving it a shot in the near future. Bonus points for an awesome mascot.
About The Author
Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
