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Free Level Application For BlackBerry Storm
I was having a look around BlackBerry App World the other day to see if there were any new app additions for the Storm. Low and behold I found a new application from Xtremelabs, the same folks who brought us the awesome Speedtest application. This one is just simply and accordingly called Level. If you ever have any need around the house or garage for a level and typically happen to have your Storm on you, you may wanna check this one out as it could come in handy on more than a few occassions. It's a nice free alternative to Storm Level Pro and is available at the link below or through BlackBerry App World. CrackBerry.com’s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. Free Level Application For BlackBerry Storm
BlackBerry App Roundup: Special App World Free App Edition
It's time to celebrate and embrace the opening of the brand-new BlackBerry App World … With an App World FREE App Edition! I'll take a look through some of the most popular and free apps available in App World at the moment. If you haven't picked up the App World yet, you can get it on your Berry via mobile.blackberry.com or from your PC via blackberry.com/appworld. All apps mentioned in this special addition are all available right now in App World, so head on over via one of the links above for full details. Lets get right down to it. Covered in this edition are the following titles: Viigo, Bloomberg, Ticketmaster, Social Networking & Sharing Apps, Music Apps, The Hockey News, Trapster and Poynt CrackBerry.com’s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. BlackBerry App Roundup: Special App World Free App Edition
Best of SPE, CTIA 2009 Edition
This week three of our intrepid editors headed out to CTIA 2009 in Las Vegas to catch as much coverage as we could — and catch it we did. From the Palm Pre emulating the PalmOS to BlackBerry App World to Hands-on time with the Nokia E71x to hands-on time with half a dozen Windows Mobile devices, it’s been a pretty crazy week. It wasn’t all Vegas Baby, however. TiPb has been all over the rumors of next-gen iPhone hardware and both the iPhone and Android picked up new document editing capabilities. You’ll find the details on all of that and much more inside as we round up the best of Smartphone Experts!
Android CentralStop us if you’re heard this before: a huge cellphone trade-show and Android news is nowhere to be seen. That was once again the situation at the CTIA 2009 conference. Nevertheless we did have plenty of Android news outside the conference. First and foremost, it’s clear that Samsung is getting in the game soon, but just whether their Android devices will be “Google-like” or “Samsung-like” is an open question — one we endeavor to answer. We’re also well-pleased to have Documents to Go available on Android, as it helped ease the pain of finding out that while tethering apps are available in the Android Market, they aren’t available for T-Mobile users CrackBerry.comThe big big news of CTIA from RIM has to be the release of App World: it’s live now, so get your download on. Outside of RIM there were plenty of BlackBerry partners and developers presenting, see our Special Coverage of CTIA 2009 for more from Qik, Netflix, iHeartRadio, and more. We couldn’t help ourselves, we pulled a little April Fools Day action. To help you recover from the (possible) shock of that story, be sure to settle down with part 2 of our BlackBerry 9630 Review! Nokia ExpertsOur resident Nokia Expert, Matt Miller, got some hands-on time with the Nokia E75 and the finally-its-landing-on-AT&T-and-holy-cow-it’s-only-$99 Nokia E71x at CTIA 2009. Meanwhile, we’re happy to say that the best Twitter client on Symbian — or on any smartphone, now that we’re mentioning it — it Gravity. Here’s why. PreCentral.netAfter a few weeks of relatively little news (outside of release date rumor-mongering, the Pre world absolutely exploded this week. PreCentral.net broke the story that webOS will support PalmOS emulation via an app called Classic — an app we demo’d on video the very next day. We also brought you a video of new 3rd party apps on the Palm Pre, were live at the Web 2.0 Expo, and are even looking forward to Push services for the webOS. As far as Pre news goes, every one of those links is pretty much as momentous as it’s gonna get before the Pre launch, but stay tuned to PreCentral.net, because we have no intention of slowing down! The iPhone BlogPreviously on theiPhoneblog.com: iPhone 2.0 Beta 2 hit fast, but next generation iPhone rumors are hitting faster — faster CPU, faster GPU, faster 3G networking, and low-power 802.11n WiFi. They’ll likely need all that to handle the 3.5 or 5 megapixel camera… Meanwhile, Skype landed on the iPhone (everywhere but Canada!), was downloaded over 1,000,000 times in 2 days, was almost banned by AT&T’s new TOS, though AT&T quickly backpedaled, and was the subject of a lawsuit by the Free Press over it’s WiFi-only restriction. Saved SlingPlayer as well, though you’ll still be forced to buy a new SlingBox if you want to use it… TreoCentralWe were happy to see that the Treo Pro landed on the Vivo Network in Brazil and would be just as happy to find out it’s hitting Telus in Canada too. Naturally, being Treo fans, we kept a close eye on the Classic emulator story and, as always, kept an eye on the Treo’s growing television stardom! WMExpertsLast week over at WMExperts.com can be summed up with two four letter words; CTIA and Snap. The biggest buzz of the show was all about HTC’s newest phone, the QWERTY-based Snap. The 2009 CTIA electronics conference was held last week in Las Vegas and was mostly a Windows Mobile recap from the 2009 Mobile World Congress. We did run across new Bluetooth accessories from Jabra as well as software updates for Bolt and Iris web browsers. Celio announced a Beta version of Redfly Mobile Viewer that duplicates your smartphone on your PC. Combined with the news generated from the 2009 Mobile World Congress, the 2009 CTIA served as a pleasant reminder that 2009 is shaping up to be a very good Windows Mobile year.
App World First Impressions
On Wednesday, RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) officially unveiled BlackBerry App World, which is RIM’s response to Apple’s AppStore. The new on-device application storefront offers a broad selection of personal and business applications for BlackBerry smartphones. You can read about compatible devices from our previous post from last month. I downloaded the store to my Blackberry Curve and the process was dead simple. The store downloaded into my applications folder and after opening has a nice, simple user interface. The store had 11 featured titles with a mix of free (Facebook) and paid applications (Guitar Hero – $11.99). There is also a button for categories, Top Downloads, Search and an area called “My World” which presumably shows you which apps you have downloaded. The store features 13 categories: -Entertainment I saw one press release that claimed the store would offer over 1,000 apps, but a quick glance from my phone showed about 500 apps with roughly half (227) being games. I haven’t gone through the purchase process yet but I did download the free Facebook app to my phone and it worked flawlessly. My initial impression is that the store is well done. It looks good and worked great. I was somewhat surprised that it downloaded into my application folder vs. setting up a new icon directly on my phones “desktop”. I’m sure future versions will be pre-loaded onto devices and they will get that important realestate location. To try it out on your Blackberry phone, simply go to: www.blackberry.com/appworld/download from your device.
Blackberry App World Info Part I
We will be providing some analysis of the latest OEM owned and operated App Store in a series of posts as we read through the developer agreement, rules of engagement, etc. So, first things first. 1. When will App World be available? They have not released specific dates but you can sign up on their website here to get notified when the store is live. 2. What devices will be supported? BlackBerry App World works with compatible BlackBerry smartphones running OS version 4.2.0 or higher and is supported on the following devices:
3. Where will BlackBerry App World be available? BlackBerry App World will launch in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. No word yet on how someone with a compatible device will get access to App World but inside sources have told me that it will be available as an over-the-air download to your device and ultimately will come pre-loaded on newer devices. My assumption is that there will also be a desktop accessible storefront (similar to iTunes) but no definitive word on that either. In the next post we will look at the pricing model, revenue share to developers and billing options for consumers and developers.
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