BigHand Extends BlackBerry's Recording Capabilities

BigHand today launched the latest iteration of its award-winning BigHand for BlackBerry Dictation App, first released in May 2007. The launch allows unrestricted individual dictation length, meaning a BlackBerry can now match a professional dictation device in terms of individual and total recording capacity.

The latest BigHand for BlackBerry edition now includes:

• Support for BlackBerry Bold 9700 and Storm2 series of devices;
• Support for BlackBerry OS 5;
• Unrestricted individual dictation length or total capacity (limited only by size of SD-card);
• Dictations thatfail to be sent due to network coverage are now resent automatically after a configurable period of time. This feature can be enabled or disabled by the user;
• Dictation status is also updated automatically after a configurable period of time. This feature can be enabled or disabled by the user; and
• Simplified deployment and configuration covering permissions, user/email address selection, password prompts and sync exceptions.

“We continue to lead in BlackBerry Smartphone support, but more significant in this iteration are the capacity and deployment enhancements," said Will Richardson, technical director at BigHand. "BigHand for BlackBerry can now truly challenge a professional recording device in terms of voice capacity, adding to the existing usability and instant wireless communication advantages. When you also factor in it is as easy-to-install and administer our software on the BlackBerry as it is on the desktop, convergence to the BlackBerry for dictation surely becomes a case of ‘when’ not ‘if’ for organizations who rely on dictation as a critical part of the document production process.”