Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
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
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Back in February we told you about the Xtensor positioning itself as the solution to BlackBerry Thumb. It is essentially a finger exerciser contraption that is supposed to help promote healthy fingers.
Turns out that Joanna Stern of Laptop Magazine got her hands on one of these Xtensors. She does a great job of explaining how [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in Accessories, News
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I was just reading a post on PinStack by Aggieaj letting everybody know that Windows Live Messenger 2.1.32 is now available. It seems to be as stable as the 2.1.33 version of Google Talk. (Which is awesome by the way!)
You can pick up the latest version by going to:
www.blackberry.com/livemessenger/
For AT&T users. you may need [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, IM Services, News
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
There have been quite a few leaks regarding the BlackBerry KickStart. It will be the first flip phone coming from RIM so it will be interesting to see how it fairs.
Kevin @ CrackBerry managed to get his hands on a pre-production model of the KickStart and has completed a review of the hardware inside [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in News, RIM, Reviews
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I am not sure if I am the first to notice this but there is a new link on the BlackBerry Help page at mobile.blackberry.com. It now lets you search to see what instant messaging applications are available for your BlackBerry.
Just go to www.blackberry.com/instantmessaging/ from your BlackBerry!
You then click the search button and [...]
21 Comments » | Posted in AT&T / Cingular, Free Software, IM Services, News, RIM