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...
After pouring over countless articles, slides, and pictures from RIM’s Developer conference the last couple of days, I have to admit I am really impressed by RIM’s consumer minded showing. The simple addition of BlackBerry Themes in App World combined with Widgets and actual 3D games to boot instantly jumped RIM and the BlackBerry platform up a few rungs in my book. There’s no doubt about it, for consumers focused on multimedia and entertainment, the...
One of my biggest complaints with BlackBerries, and the main reason I’ve moved on to the iPhone and soon Android is the fact that the OS feels old. Sure there are tons of themes to pretty it up, but at the end of the day even the leaked 5.0 beta is essentially the same 4.1 OS from years before. RIM is taking baby steps in the right direction however with their release of an official BlackBerry widget SDK. The widgets will pull from several languages including HTML,...
One of the most lusted after Android handsets on many Android fans’ lists is that of the Sony Xperia X3. While the X2 is still brand spanking new and not even available yet, the X3 brings in a much nicer looking and functional Android core, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and that much hyped “Rachel UI” that have many second guessing their current phone of choice. So far, the unverified specs for the X3 include: 4″ WVGA display 1GHz Snapdragon...
Android users who have been clamoring for real homescreen widgets can soon clamor no more as Google has updated the Android 1.5 SDK AppWidget framework allowing homescreen widgets. What kind of new and geeked out things can you do with said widgets? Things such as weather information, email previews, stock information, control music playback, link to other full featured apps and so much more. While Android pretty much had a sleeper year last year, 2009 and even early...
