http://www.berryreview.com/forums/tags/blackberry-app-world Discuss Everything BlackBerry en-US Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:44:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q http://www.berryreview.com/forums/search.php http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-update-11015-ndash-app-world-now-a-top-download#post-2223 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:07:41 +0000 Ronen Halevy 2223@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Thnks. It&#8217;ll be very usefull for me</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/unimpressed-by-the-blackberry-app-world-welcome-to-the-clubhellip#post-1984 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:45:12 +0000 Ronen Halevy 1984@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>RIM has really been building up to the BlackBerry App World launch. The problem is that the App World is just not that impressive. It has extremely limited functionality and nothing truly innovative. It essentially gives you a catalog of applications on your BlackBerry that you can quickly buy and install. I was hoping for some of the ease and simplicity we see in the native RIM OS or even the RIM applications like the IM clients. With over 1,000 applications headed to the App World this week the limited functionality RIM provided is really going to look bad. So I thought I would break it down the way I see it. Let me know if you agree or if I missed something!</p> <p><a href="http://static.berryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blackberry-app-world1.jpg" rel="lightbox[]" rel="nofollow"><img title="http://www.berryreview.co/blackberry_app_world[1]" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="121" alt="blackberry_app_world[1]" src="http://static.berryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blackberry-app-world1-thumb.jpg" width="http://www.berryreview.co/179" border="http://www.berryreview.co/0" /></a> <img title="http://www.berryreview.co/blackberry_app_world[3]" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="121" alt="blackberry_app_world[3]" src="http://static.berryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blackberry-app-world3.jpg" width="http://www.berryreview.co/179" border="http://www.berryreview.co/0" /> <img title="http://www.berryreview.co/blackberry_app_world[5]" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="121" alt="blackberry_app_world[5]" src="http://static.berryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blackberry-app-world5.jpg" width="http://www.berryreview.co/179" border="http://www.berryreview.co/0" /> </p> <p><strong>The Good:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Both business and personal applications </li> <li>Automatically shows applications for your device </li> <li>Works over Wi-Fi &amp; mobile internet connections </li> <li>Cool interface with Top Downloads section with top 25 downloaded apps </li> <li>Quite a few categories broken down </li> <li>Keyword search capabilities </li> <li>Reviews and ratings of applications </li> <li>Send application recommendations via email, PIN, SMS, or BlackBerry Messenger </li> <li>Keeps track of your downloaded applications so you can easily reinstall them </li> </ul> <p><strong>The Bad:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Only available for US, UK, &amp; Canadian users (for now) </li> <li>You can recommend applications to a friend through email, SMS, BBM, or PIN but the links it sends do not work! </li> <li>Only works on OS 4.2+ and devices with touch screens or trackballs (I guess this is RIM subtly telling you to upgrade) </li> <li>Extremely limited in terms of finding new applications <ul> <li>Only has Top Downloads area for discovering new applications (which updates infrequently) </li> <li>Does not even have a new releases section where you can see what&#8217;s new </li> <li>No way to find top rated applications </li> </ul> </li> <li>Does not let you filter results at all so you cannot only view top rated or free applications </li> <li>There is no auto-complete as you type for the search so you need to know exactly what you are searching for </li> <li>No way at least that I could find to rate applications or reviews without installing the app first </li> <li>There are no specials like deals of the day or anything and no coupons </li> <li>Everything is on a different screen. If you want screenshots expect to wait for them if you want reviews expect to wait again… It can take 5-10 clicks just to browse through one app listing </li> </ul> <p><strong>The Ugly:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The store is full of useless homescreen shortcuts with no way to hide them </li> <li><strong>THERE ARE NO FREE TRIAL then buy options</strong> <ul> <li>Applications are either listed as their purchase price or as a free application </li> <li>Free trials are listed as free applications when they are not </li> <li>Applications that do have free trials elsewhere do not have them on the app store </li> </ul> </li> <li>No way to just find free applications (This is a no brainer) </li> </ul> <p><a href="http://static.berryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blackberry-app-world7.jpg" rel="lightbox[]" rel="nofollow"><img title="http://www.berryreview.co/blackberry_app_world[7]" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="188" alt="blackberry_app_world[7]" src="http://static.berryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blackberry-app-world7-thumb.jpg" width="http://www.berryreview.co/279" border="http://www.berryreview.co/0" /></a> <img title="http://www.berryreview.co/blackberry_app_world[8]" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="188" alt="blackberry_app_world[8]" src="http://static.berryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blackberry-app-world8.jpg" width="http://www.berryreview.co/279" border="http://www.berryreview.co/0" />&#160; </p> <ul> <li><strong>It does not include even the most basic BlackBerry applications</strong> <ul> <li>None of the RIM instant messaging clients are in the app store??? </li> <li>None of the Google applications that everybody uses like Google Maps are in the app store </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><img title="http://www.berryreview.co/blackberry_app_world[10]" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="188" alt="blackberry_app_world[10]" src="http://static.berryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blackberry-app-world10.jpg" width="http://www.berryreview.co/279" border="http://www.berryreview.co/0" /><img title="http://www.berryreview.co/blackberry_app_world[11]" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="188" alt="blackberry_app_world[11]" src="http://static.berryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blackberry-app-world11.jpg" width="http://www.berryreview.co/279" border="http://www.berryreview.co/0" /> </p> <ul> <li>There are no options… at all! </li> <li>Last but not least the app gets sluggish very quickly even on the relatively fast Bold lots of hourglasses and “loading” screens. </li> </ul> <p><br/><a href="http://www.berryreview.com/2009/04/01/unimpressed-by-the-blackberry-app-world-welcome-to-the-club/" rel="nofollow">Unimpressed by the BlackBerry App World? Welcome to the Club&hellip;</a></p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/unimpressed-by-the-blackberry-app-world-welcome-to-the-clubhellip#post-1985 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:45:12 +0000 Ronen Halevy 1985@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Yes! I haven&#8217;t been able to connect to the app world server. I have tried several things but still can&#8217;t get it to work, any suggestions? (I&#8217;m using the new blackberry pearl flip).</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1301 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:56:19 +0000 AdamG 1301@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>RIM is also proud to say the iTunes has not been dowloaded once in App World.</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1299 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:40:45 +0000 DavidB 1299@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>It&#8217;s been #1 since v1.1 launched!</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1291 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:36:03 +0000 Ronen Halevy 1291@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I have the Storm on Verizon, and it is the same as described. The only logic as to why its #1 is that everyone that uses it had to of downloaded it. The only logic as to WHY its there, is for easy access to get updates</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1288 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:08:12 +0000 Ronen Halevy 1288@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>That can be the only reasoning. Nevrtheless, it is lame that it is listed at all.</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1286 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:46:19 +0000 Ronen Halevy 1286@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Yeah right!!! Anyone who believes that is true should talk to me because I have a nice piece of beach front property in Veags (baby !) I will sell to you dirt cheap!!!</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1283 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:51:20 +0000 Ronen Halevy 1283@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s listed because it&#8217;s counting all the update downloads that people have downloaded from the store.</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1279 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:56:03 +0000 beamolite 1279@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I can believe it. We are still waiting for them to fix the native browser.</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1277 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:22:30 +0000 Ronen Halevy 1277@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>While your in the AppWorld why don&#8217;t you download the AppWorld! ummmmm&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1276 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:19:49 +0000 Ronen Halevy 1276@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>How does this make any sense at all?</p> <p>The number one download application in an Application Store&#8230;is the Application Store itself?</p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1275 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:09:10 +0000 Ronen Halevy 1275@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>It&#8217;s like the old addage: What came first ? The Chicken or the Egg ?<br /> <img src='http://www.berryreview.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='http://www.berryreview.co/wp-smiley' /> </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-worldhellip#post-1274 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:09:09 +0000 Ronen Halevy 1274@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p><img title="http://www.berryreview.co/appworld-number1" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="210" alt="appworld-number1" src="http://static.berryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/appworldnumber1.jpg" width="http://www.berryreview.co/279" align="right" border="http://www.berryreview.co/0" /> Took RIM long enough. The BlackBerry App World is now the top download in the free apps listing of the BlackBerry App World. RIM must be really big on self promotion! Though I really cannot see the purpose of listing an application as the top download in a list that can only be viewed from that same exact application…</p> <p>This listing comes from a T-Mobile BlackBerry 8900 so the list may be different on other devices. Still I really cant believe that RIM has not fixed this yet.</p> <p>Thanks Luis for the screenshot!</p> <p><br/><a href="http://www.berryreview.com/2009/08/13/blackberry-app-world-is-1-now-top-free-download-in-blackberry-app-world/" rel="nofollow">BlackBerry App World is #1! Now Top Free Download in BlackBerry App World&hellip;</a></p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/blackberry-app-world-update-11015-ndash-app-world-now-a-top-download#post-1126 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:19:37 +0000 Luis Merlos 1126@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Thanks, probably should use it a bit more I don&#8217;t use it much</p>