Use your Blackberry as a PS3 remote and keypad
by Majed Athab 
{ Jan 13th 2009 at 7:30AM }
The add-on for the phone costs $39.99 and will be available this upcoming April. At that price, it's a rather attractive option as opposed to going for the official wireless keypad which costs $10 more (with no remote control features either). Check out Games|Shadow in action after the break.
[Thanks KidQwik!]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kung_fu_russ @ Jan 13th 2009 8:01AM
It's got all the great buttons !
godlovesugly05 @ Jan 13th 2009 8:09AM
Fast Forward is my favourite great button.
Thanace @ Jan 13th 2009 8:06AM
40 dollars!?!?!? FAIL!!!
SimbaDogg @ Jan 13th 2009 3:13PM
seriously...$40 bucks, these idiots obviously have never heard of supply and demand functions and elasticity of demand. at $40 bucks they'll probably have like 2 buyers. Jesus for that price you can find a cheap ps3 bd remote, and find a cheap usb keyboard.
William @ Jan 13th 2009 8:52AM
Needs a USB plug? Ugh. And compared to the PS3's bluetooth remote, it's pretty limited.
Still, the keyboard bit is nice.
Hopefully someone will come up with a nice way to do this with Android phones. I'd be willing to pay for that, once I get mine.
Dabogues @ Jan 13th 2009 9:00AM
Um...the wireless keypad doesn't need a remote control option, since, you know, it's connect to, like, the freaking CONTROLLER.
The BlackBerry device is interesting, but not for $40. I'd rather pay $10 more for something that lets me type without putting down my controller.
However, Unity4Life's all-in-one product, the AV Shadow, it's pretty cool. For $99, though, still too much for my blood. I can live with my existing learning remote.
Nate @ Jan 13th 2009 9:41AM
I think it's pretty slick, since I always have my phone on my anyway.... but it's kind of a fail to need the dongle. PS3 has bluetooth, supports bluetooth keyboards, blackberry has bluetooth and a keyboard... someone please do the math and do this straight up, no dongles. Preferably for free.
flarkle @ Jan 13th 2009 12:39PM
I agree. I hate dongles. Especially if you leave them plugged in and turn the ps3 off, then come back and turn it on and your regular controller automatically gets bumped down to whatever number after the dongles, even if nothing is connected. It's a minor thing to switch the controller to number 1, but still it's annoying.
I really wish Rock Band/GH and Buzz would get on board with the bluetooth already.
glitched @ Jan 13th 2009 9:46AM
ugh, why just blackberry? why not Winmo phones as well?
SephAlpha @ Jan 13th 2009 9:54AM
I like the PS3 but I found it a lot of trouble to go through transcoding all the downloaded videos to watch through PS3. So I finally gave up and bought a used desktop, installed ubuntu intrepid and installed gAnyremote on the desktop and anyRemote on blackberry. I now watch all the downloaded videos on my desktop connected to my 32"lcd tv. Its actually pretty cool as I can browse, play and control all my videos through Blackberry. And its all for free. Now if only PS3 bluetooth wasnt proprietary we could have a free solution as well.
I do watch all my blu rays on PS3 and find ps3 controller as a good enough remote.
Devin @ Jan 13th 2009 10:29AM
Did you ever try TVersity?
leizak @ Jan 13th 2009 10:17AM
Blackberry > *
shalter24 @ Jan 13th 2009 11:59AM
If they released something like this for the iPhone I would be all over it.
AJ_3 @ Jan 13th 2009 12:15PM
it would smell of me.
Levi @ Jan 13th 2009 2:47PM
If this was available for the iphone, I'd buy it for no more than $10. $40 is absolutely crazy. For that price, I'd forego Dunkin Donuts twice to get the pS3 specific keypad.
CJLopez @ Jan 13th 2009 3:30PM
i'd rather get a bluetooth keyboard
I have bif fungers and I find myself struggling making SMS on my 8300g quite a lot!!!!
And also, $40??????, ok, so yes, using the BB SDK cost $20, but still, its java based, i'm pretty sure a workaround could be done!!!!!
J2ME its free!!!!!!!
Mike Crazy @ Jan 13th 2009 6:24PM
I wish they would something similar for the G1~
Sebastian @ Jan 14th 2009 8:19AM
Iphone Please!