Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
Monday, July 28th, 2008
I have a friend at work who uses a Palm Centro by Sprint. (Yeah, I know, the poor girl is very uninformed on the importance of a BlackBerry and I will turn her but that’s another time, another post) Anyways, she was showing me a game on her phone. A very cool game. Check out [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in DreamBerry, Games
Friday, July 25th, 2008
I just read about Slydial on Engadget and I can already see quite a few uses for this. It essentially lets you dial directly to somebody’s voicemail box that way there is no chance of them picking up the phone.
The best part is that it is free as long as you are willing [...]
8 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News
Friday, July 25th, 2008
SameCell just let us know that they released an updated version to their new 2.0 that we just mentioned. Turns out that some users with OS 4.3 & 4.5 were having their BlackBerry freeze when they tried to add a friend.
SameCell got right on the problem and has released an updated version 2.05 to address [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, Utilities
Friday, July 25th, 2008
This is one cool new service coming from the guys at SHAPE. Persistent.im is promoted as a solution to create IM conference rooms. The best part is that it is cross network compatible. That means that in one conference room you can have users from every different IM network. Including MSN/Live, AIM, Google Talk, Jabber, [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, IM Services, News
Friday, July 25th, 2008
A bit back we told you how Pocket Informant is coming to a BlackBerry near you soon. Then we only had a small paragraph describing what the application will do.
Brian just let me know that there is now a product page for Pocket Informant for BlackBerry. You can sign up over there to be [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, News, Utilities
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Concrete Software has just released Texas Hold’em with Phil Hellmuth. This looks like quite an interesting game. I was hoping for online multiplayer support when I read about this on BBCool a bit back but it does not seem to include that feature. Essentially you work up through the game until you play the legendary [...]
Leave Comment » | Posted in Games, News
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Astrasync is trying to position itself as the middle ground between BIS and BES. We have mentioned it before because we find the idea very interesting. Currently BlackBerry users have the choice Between email only BIS and expensive BES. They also always had the 3rd option of buggy SyncML which never worked for anybody. [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, Email, News, Utilities
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I will start off by saying that this application is definitely a work in progress. I went through all of their hoops to install it and while it did work the screen kept on flashing at me like it was trying to induce a seizure. I am only mentioning it because I hope others might [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in News, Utilities
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Now this is a new application idea that I find interesting. Do you know how you get the name of the caller along with the number on your home phone? Do you get many calls from callers that are not in your address book?’
I know I do which is why Privus Mobile is interesting. [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I know many of you have been keeping an eye out on TVersity since we mentioned the first release candidate. As a reminder TVersity lets you stream your media collection to your OS 4.3+ BlackBerry.
Josep just let me know that they just released a new version RC2. The new version brings album art support which [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, Music, News, Video