Leave Your Laptop Behind for Presentations: T-Mobile Offers Impatica ShowMate for BlackBerry

By Erik Linask

Associate Editor

 

Live presentations are a part of everyday business, and with them come presentation materials. Often, however, it would be considerably easier to leave the laptop in a hotel room or at the office rather than having to lug it along for the presentation.

 

T-Mobile now makes that possible for its subscribers by making available to them Impatica ShowMate, the first and only presentation solution that allows users to project PowerPoint presentations directly from their BlackBerry wireless devices. ShowMate is a pocket-sized hardware device weighing less than nine ounces and supports all PowerPoint presentation features including rich text, images, charts, graphs, animations and slide transition effects.

 

With BlackBerry and ShowMate, slide show presentations deliver the same impact with the power and convenience of true mobility.  Your ShowMate will deliver the full impact of your graphics, animations and slide transition effects. And it’s so small and light you’ll never leave it behind.

 

ShowMate’s simplicity of use makes it an optimal solution for mobile workers with a need for presentation materials.  To get the show started, users open a PowerPoint e-mail attachment or select a presentation they previously saved to the device then connect the ShowMate to both the handheld and to a projector. The presentation is now ready to begin.

 

Presentation slides are displayed simultaneously on the BlackBerry and on the projector screen with text, graphics, charts, graphs, and even advanced animations and transition effects shown in full fidelity.  The BlackBerry also becomes an easy-to-use remote, allowing the user to navigate through the presentation while being able to see the screen navigation on the device.

 

To make connecting the ShowMate device even easier, it now ships with a Bluetooth USB adapter so that it can be used wirelessly with Bluetooth-enabled BlackBerry handheld devices.