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Carbonite Expands Mobile Access with new BlackBerry® Smartphone Application and Updated iPhone™ Application
Backed up files available for access anytime, anywhere.
London, UK — 11th May 2010 — Carbonite®, a leading provider of online backup, today introduced a mobile application for BlackBerry® smartphone users that provides access to their backed up files anywhere, anytime directly on their BlackBerry phone.
Carbonite subscribers who download the Carbonite application for BlackBerry smartphones will be able to access the following features:
- Browse: Carbonite customers can see files on their BlackBerry smartphone arranged exactly as they are on their computer(s).
- View: Files types including PDFs, images, audio and video files, Excel files and Word documents, can be downloaded and opened anywhere and at anytime on a BlackBerry smartphone.
- Share: Files backed up with Carbonite can be attached and emailed easily from a BlackBerry smartphone.
To learn more, Carbonite customers can visit www.carbonite.co.uk/blackberry from their computer or download the app at www.carbonite.co.uk/blackberry from their BlackBerry smartphones.
The introduction of Carbonite application for BlackBerry smartphones is the latest in a series of mobile and remote product innovations from Carbonite to provide customers with real-time access to their files. Carbonite provides customers with remote file access from any computer with an Internet connection through Carbonite Remote Access and released an iPhone™/iPod touch® application earlier this year. In addition to announcing the BlackBerry smartphone application, Carbonite has also introduced an upgrade to its iPhone application, version 1.1.
"We know our customers are constantly ‘on-the-go’ and find great value in quickly being able to access their files, " comments Carbonite CEO and co-founder David Friend. "Many Carbonite subscribers are small businesses that use the standard Carbonite product and rely on their BlackBerry smartphone for day-to-day activities. Now these customers will not only be able to access email and the Web, but also all of their invaluable files they have backed up.
"The Carbonite application for BlackBerry smartphones continues our commitment to simplicity. With just a few clicks on their BlackBerry smartphone, a Carbonite subscriber can easily find an invoice from their computer and email it to a customer or view photos they have backed up."
The Carbonite application for BlackBerry smartphones supports BlackBerry smartphones running OS 4.6.1 and with a screen resolution of 240x320 and higher, including the following device:
- BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230
- BlackBerry Curve 8300, 8500, 8900 Series
- BlackBerry Bold 9000
- BlackBerry Tour 9600.
As part of its on-going mobile access strategy, Carbonite also introduced the 1.1 version of the Carbonite iPhone application. In addition to integrating feedback from Application users, the new version allows anyone to sign up for a free trial of Carbonite directly in the application.
About Carbonite
Successful serial entrepreneurs David Friend (CEO) and Jeff Flowers (CTO) founded Carbonite in January 2005. The company is backed by an impressive list of venture capital companies, including Common Angels, 3i Investments, Menlo Ventures and Performance Equity Management. The company has raised over $67 million from its investors and management to date.
Carbonite believes that PC users should not have to think about backup. Its mission is to provide an inexpensive, reliable and truly easy-to-use product for the mainstream PC user; one that is simple, safe and always on.
The company’s flagship product, Online PCBackup™, is an incredibly simple and cost-effective way to back up a PC, offering unlimited automatic back up for less than £3 per month. Carbonite Online Backup allows users to ‘set and forget’, knowing that in the event of PC theft or damage, their data is safe and secure.
Carbonite carefully looks after user data – all data is encrypted twice before it ever leaves a customer’s PC using the secure transmission method employed in online banking.
