BlackBerry For Dummies®

Chapter 13. Getting Entertained with BlackBerry Media Center

In This Chapter

• Listening to and viewing media

• Importing your PC media collection

• Downloading media

If there's a word to describe today's phone market trends, it's convergence. Your BlackBerry is one of the latest participants in this convergence race. We probably don't have to tell you this, but in addition to sending and receiving e‐mail and being a phone, a camera (Curve and Pearl), and a PDA device, your BlackBerry is a portable media player. In the palm of your hand, you can listen to music, watch video clips, sample ring tones, and view pictures. These media capabilities are all bundled into an application with a name you would recognize even after sipping a couple of pints of strong ale — Media. This chapter is all about Media and how you can take advantage of its capabilities.

Accessing Media

To run Media, simply press the menu key from the Home screen and select Media. Or if you have Media chosen as one of the five applications you display in the Home screen, you can select it directly by clicking its icon.

Media is a collection of media types: Music, Video, Ringtones, and Pictures. And each one is represented with an icon upon opening Media, as shown in Figure 13-1 . You don't need to be Einstein to figure out what each one of these media types is for. Ready to have some fun?

Figure 13.1.  Figure 13-1: Explore Media here. ...