Today I decided to take a chance and try another one of the free GPS programs that now support BlackBerry Devices. As a fair warning most of these free applications are on the bleeding edge and do not even come close to Google Maps or Telenav in terms of ease of use or even getting [...]

TrackMyJourney is a free web based GPS tracking solution. They do have a beta version of the application that runs on your 8800 series BlackBerry and makes use of the internal GPS. To be honest this program and website are quite complex and has features that I don’t quite understand but I know enough to [...]

I have been hearing many complaints from Verizon subscribers on how GPS is crippled on their new 8830’s. People have been discussing it on the forums for a few months now and today it was just covered by Dave in his US News Blog. This is really frustrating since it seems that AT&T will be [...]

Google has released an update to the Google Maps application with version 1.6. I have not managed to find a changelog for this new version but there seem to be some significant speed updates in the new version.
OTA link: www.google.com/gmm
Desktop Link: www.google.com/gmm/bes
I get a GPS lock on my BlackBerry 8800 within seconds after starting [...]

There is a pretty good review of Garmin’s new GPS 10x product for BlackBerry devices over at BusinessWeek. They have given the Garmin GPS 4 stars out of 5 which is a pretty good rating. We have contacted Garmin in the past about getting the Garmin GPS application on BlackBerry’s with GPS built in but [...]

I used to laugh when I heard the saying “Just because you are not paranoid does not mean everybody is not out to get you” but the new BlackBerry tracking service by BBTrack has put new meaning into the saying. BBtrack allows you to view on a map where your BlackBerry is currently. So far [...]

BoyGenius has done it again. I know it has become expected of him to leak info on new BlackBerry devices but it is still quite impressive when they get good stuff like this. There is even talk of streaming media over WiFi or EVDO. You owe it to yourself to check out the info here [...]

Yahoo! Go version 2
OTA Link: m.yahoo.com
Desktop Link: mobile.yahoo.com/go
Cost: Free!
If you remember Yahoo Go that we reviewed a bit back you may be happy to know that they now support the BlackBerry 8830. Personally I am not sure why it was not supported in the first place but who knows. If you do have a BlackBerry [...]