Thanks James! The book is so general… maybe most users don’t like to get into the ‘guts’ of things like I do.

Thank you!!

Michael, go to the profiles and scroll down to the bottom (Advanced). Under those settings you’ll find in-holster settings for every type of notification the profile supports. You can set it different for each profile.

Where can I get more info on the 8830? I read some posting about how you can configure the ring for in-holster and out, but the book I got doesn’t mention that… (maybe I didn’t get the full manual?) – - – I have a friend with a 7xxx series that has configured his screen with weather etc… can these things be done with the 8830 too?

Tnx.

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The magnet serves other purposes as well. When you holster your device and the magnet is found, you can change the way that the profiles work. A great example of this is you can leave the phone on Normal mode (which rings), but when it’s in the case, you can make it vibrate (still in Normal mode). I LOVE this feature. BlackBerry has definitely done phone profiles correctly. Other vendors need to look at this to see how they’ve done it.

Yep, it’s a magnetic sensor, just like the Nokia 770. (Though RIM has had it for significantly longer, of course.)

The only flaw is that the 7100′s default fabric holster was so amazingly crappy that I couldn’t bring myself to use it. Now that I’ve moved onto the Pearl and the fancy leather holster, it’s great because I don’t even need to enable the “Lock In Holster” option. Just being in the holster (or close enough to a magnet, which I’ve done in a pinch,) makes the phone secure enough for me.

(Also, while the Pearl is a pain to unlock, the 7100 unlocked at the slightest provocation just to make random irritating phone calls.)

Even if it’s just a magnet in the case there must still be a proximity sensor in the phones for it to do anything. Some kind of sensor reacts to the magnet and thus a setting is made.

Pretty sure it’s just a magnet, same on my Curve. Also, you can get the same case in a variety of colors from amazon for about $17. It really is a nice case. Note that it doesn’t prevent you from forgetting it in a cab if you set the device in the seat next to you.

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Even the old RIM 950 devices (predecessor to the Blackberry) used a magnet in their cases to put the device into sleep/locked mode.

Just a magnet in the case. Been available for years. Since I throw phones in pockets and backpacks naked, it never did much for me. I much more appreciate RIM’s thoughtful email and web-centric keyboard shortcuts in being able to use the spacebar for @ and . when typing.

My blackberry R957 (the original device from Blackberry with the “tall” form factor that all are currently based on) had that feature as well. I got it in 2000. Definitely an awesome idea.

I don’t know about the BlackBerry 8830, but on the 8700, the sensor is basically magnetic. You can test this by bringing a magnet (like the clasp magnet) up to the base of the BlackBerry on the front right near the space key on the keyboard. As soon as it senses a magnet, the screen goes blank.

All BlackBerry holsters and cases have a magnet at the bottom (in addition to the clasp magnet) that senses when the phone is placed in, and then it knows to be in the holstered state.