Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Review: Jabra SP5050 Speakerphone
Rating: 7/10
Link: www.jabra.com
Cost: $58.99 from NewEgg.com
I picked up the Jabra SP5050 from Costco a couple of weekends ago, because I have been driving across state quite a lot lately, and my Jabra Earpiece is not the most comfortable thing to wear on 5 hour trips. I picked it up for about [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Accessories, Bluetooth, Hardware, News, Reviews
Friday, August 8th, 2008
In an interesting twist from their PictureID application Toysoft has released Picture Dial. It is essentially a customizable speed-dial application based on pictures. It lets you dial a contact, send an SMS/email, or browse a website just by clicking pictures. There does seem to be a trial available and you can pick it up for [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Images, News, Utilities
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Now this service is clearly targeted towards English speaking users heading to the Olympics in China. Turns out that Jajah launched a new service today that translates between English and Chinese Mandarin in quasi-realtime.
You just call their US, UK, or Australian access code from any phone and talk into it. It will then confirm what [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, News
Friday, August 8th, 2008
A reader just sent us this little tidbit of news. We told you about EZ Reregister before but it required a yearly subscription fee. They have now decided to remove the subscription fee for Basic accounts. I listed the difference between the basic and premium accounts below:
The basic account lets you store your application registration [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Kathy asked me where she could find Bejeweled for her BlackBerry so I did a bit of research. Turns out that EA/Handmark has licensed the Bejeweled game and is selling it for the BlackBerry for $14.99. A bit pricey in my opinion but a fun & addictive game nonetheless.
With a little bit more [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Games, News
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Review: Pop Cap Game’s Chuzzle
Rating: 10/10
Link: www.bplay.com
Cost: $9.99 from bplay
By far the greatest game ever released for your BlackBerry! In my humble opinion of course! - Nathan
I recently had the chance to play around with Pop Cap Game’s Chuzzle, from bplay. This game is made by the same people that brought you Bejewled and [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Editors' Choice, Games, News, Reviews
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A bit back we told you about FakeCall which replicates a fake phone call on your BlackBerry. We even did a review and were impressed. Now AIMproductions has decided to come up with their own version of the application. Actually it looks very similar but has a few differentiating features. Not really sure if there [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Raffy just let me know that there has been a new release of the free WeatherBug application to fix a few small issues. Not sure if you are experiencing any issues but if you are I would recommend downloading the latest version. Turns out there was a profile and alert issue that is fixed in [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
I know many of you are going to ask so I will say it upfront. There is no audio/podcast support in the current public beta. With that said…
The new beta essentially enables more of those features that were disabled on the main screen of the first beta. This is still a diamond in the rough [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, RSS, Utilities
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Brian just let me know that Google Maps for BlackBerry has been updated to version 2.2.3. Once again there is no changelog from Google so we will have to figure out what changed for ourselves. Hopefully this fixes the voice search feature on devices other than the Pearl.
You can pick up the latest from:
www.google.com/gmm/
Let us [...]
14 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, Utilities