Back in my BlackBerry days when I took a brief hiatus from my iPhone to rekindle the love fest that got me hooked on smartphones to begin with, I stumbled across a pretty good weather app called BerryWeather. It wasn’t terribly deep or full of features but it looked pretty nice to most eyes — something many BlackBerry apps simply can’t claim. I have since strayed from my roots but do find it interesting to keep up with BlackBerry app news most days. If you’re looking for a fairly robust and aesthetically pleasing BlackBerry weather app, BerryWeather has been updated to 2.0! The greatest new feature (to me) is the ability to set the weather as your custom background — a pretty cool trick if I do say so myself. Other improvements include updated weather maps/radars, visual tweaks throughout, weather advisories and so much more. It is on the higher end (coming from someone used to cheap Android and iPhone apps) at $9.95. But for the weather junkies yearning to have functionality and style, BerryWeather is worth a gaze or two.
Blackberry users who enjoy a “deeper-than-average” weather forecast on their addictive devices will find that BerryWeather, while not perfect, brings a lot to the table. Is it enough to part with $10 of your hard earned money? If you can live without a dedicated radar and a few inconsistencies between the in-app temperature/condition current forecast and the homescreen icon’s display of temp/forecast, you’re already winning half the battle. The second half deals more with how deep your love for eye candy is as well as your affinity for weather info such as temperature, dewpoint, windspeed, and more, then BerryWeather is just the weather program for you. Overall, I give BerryWeather a 4.5/5 stars as the lack of radar keeps this BB Weather app from taking the “perfect” score.
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While the Blackberry is the hands down winner of the corporate and workhorse world, the consumer oriented side and more “design” side of things aren’t really the Blackberries strongest points. Even on the newest models such as the Bold and Storm, many of the apps while extremely functional, look as if they were written and developed 8-10 years ago. BerryWeather thankfully is bucking this trend and manages to come off as a great weather app that looks like it belongs on an iPhone. Come inside for screenshots and the full feature rundown!
