After spending a couple ours with Blackberry App world, I can truly say that as soon as I get wind of RIM’s Bold replacement I will be switching back. App World while still greatly trailing Apple’s 25,000+ and counting app store has one BIG feature that the iPhone will never have…background processes. Fire up Pandora and write that email. Do this or that. Know what I mean? Anyway, a few honorable mentions already include Shazam (the great song...
It’s no secret that the App Store wars are nearing full swing in a multi manufacturer sense as you app stores already launched or in the process of from Apple, Android, Microsoft, Nokia, and RIM. RIM’s much hyped Blackberry App World has the Blackberry user base in a frenzy as they have for quite a while now wanted a more unified app system. After Apple’s amazing success with their app store everyone changed course from hardware being number 1 to...
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...
If you don’t have an unlimited texting plan (I didn’t used to) you know the feeling of always calculating in your head about how many texts you’ve sent/received each month and how close you are to going over you monthly allotment. It is a balancing act that often results in you paying several dollars up to more extreme cases of several hundred just for using a few bytes of data each time. Pricing per text message is rediculous in itself, but...
Blackberry users have the distinct characteristic of wanting everything at their fingertips and readily available. The two side convenience keys on Blackberries of long have allowed users to assign an application to each, making launching apps easy. However for many, two is simply not enough. That is where ShortcutBerry comes in. ShortcutBerry for example, allows you to assign the camera to the left convenience key when clicked once, address book when clicked twice,...
