Entries tagged with “BlackBerry Storm Apps” from WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

BlackBerry Storm users who like to connect the dots can now get a free game to play on BlackBerry Storm touchscreen smartphones. The free app of the day from Tafasa is called "Dots."

The way the Dots game app works is that you start with an empty grid of dots, players take turns, adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two unjoined adjacent dots. The player who completes the fourth side of a box earns one point and takes another turn.

The game ends when no more lines can be placed. The winner of the game is the player with the most points. All you have to do is click on the space between adjacent dots to add a line connecting them. Enjoy the fun graphics and unlimited number of move undos while you improve your skills against the computer or defeat your friend!

Features of the Free Dots App for BlackBerry Storm

Play against Computer or another Person.

Undo moves an unlimited number of times.

Fun graphics.

Talk about syncronycity, we just wrote an article about disaster tips and suggest contact backup and low and behold there is a free mobile app for backing up your contacts.  And the iDrive service also allows you backup up to 2 Gigabytes of data from your computer for free.

iDrive Lite installs on your BlackBerry or iPhone then it backups your contacts to the their server, which you can restore over data networks.  You can also manage your contacts on the web.  Then you can access them on the web with or with out your BlackBerry Storm or iPhone.

If you have both an iPhone and BlackBerry iDrive Lite allows you to restore contacts from another device (iPhone to BlackBerry or vice versa).

Verizon V CAST Video on Demand service is now available to BlackBerry Storm smartphone customers.TV fans who don't want to miss episodes of their favorite shows can download the application directly to their BlackBerry Storm smartphones and start watching video programming on demand.

BlackBerry Storm smartphone customers are the first to enjoy V CAST Video on their Verizon Wireless smartphones. They can find V CAST Videos by going to the VZ Today link in their browsers, clicking on Get Apps, and selecting V CAST Videos to download the application. A V CAST Video icon will appear on the device's home screen, and customers can move it to the place that's most convenient for them.

V CAST Video features more than 100 full-length programs from leading broadcast and cable networks, including some of the summer's favorite series and shows that will be premiering or returning this fall season. Programs, ranging from highly-rated drama and comedy series to reality programs and children's programming, are available on demand in easy-to-watch segments that appear on the phone soon after their original air dates.

V CAST Video also delivers live sporting events, including NHL hockey games and an upcoming slate of college football games, so people who are away from their television sets won't miss a minute of the action.

V CAST Videos on the BlackBerry Storm smartphone features an updated design, making it easier for viewers to search for and watch the shows they want to see, as well as higher resolution video, taking advantage of the handset's enhanced multimedia capabilities. The search function has been made more prominent, giving customers the ability to find specific programs or channels quickly.

BlackBerry Storm smartphone customers with unlimited data plans can add V CAST Videos for a $10.00 monthly subscription.

There is now a BusinessWeek app for BlackBerry smartphones including the BlackBerry Tour and BlackBerry Storm. The free BlackBerry app features market updates, stock quotes, and specialized content channels. From Finance to Small Business, Technology to Management; BusinessWeek allows you to track the stories that matter most. You can also check out the article in which their reporter tests the speed of a BlackBery, iPhone and travel guidebook to see which gets common travel tasks get done fastest.

With the ability to personalize by selecting a Watchlist of must-follow companies, BusinessWeek on BlackBerry caters to professionals requiring relevant content and up-to-date business news at hands reach.

BusinessWeek can be downloaded on your BlackBerry by visiting m.businessweek.com. The application will be made available soon in BlackBerry App World and is expected to launch on iPhone in the coming weeks.

The BusinessWeek app works on the BlackBerry Bold 9000 Series, BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8200 Series, BlackBerry Curve 8900 Series, BlackBerry Tour 9600 Series,  and BlackBerry Storm 9500 Series devices.

BlackBerry Storm, Tour and Curve owners are probably aware by now that there are many fun music apps fro their BlackBerry smartphones, such as  Pandora, Slacker Radio and FlyCast  Nobex Radio is yet another streaming radio choice for BlackBerry music listeners.

Pandora, creates radio stations for you based on your likes.  Slacker Radio stations are programmed according to themes by Slacker expert DJs, or you can make your own stations, or base a station on an artist. (Tour and Storm versions of Slacker let your buy music) FlyCast broadcasts over 1200 popular radio programs (the same ones, you hear on the car radio).

Nobex Radio Companion  lets you listen to over 1000 radio stations around the world and see the playlist of over 2700 radio stations. These are radio stations you usually hear on a radio.  What's nice about this feature is that Los Angelenos who have been without a country radio station, can listen to country radio stations in other parts of the country.

Nobex Radio Companion also lets you get songs or ringtones with a single click, right from your mobile device. Or, receive an email with links to buy the song on your PC.  You can see lyrics of any song that scroll in sync with the song. You can now see artist and song info as well.


Nobex Radio Companion won the BlackBerry Developer Challenge last year. It was Number 7 top downloaded BlackBerry apps from BlackBerry App World. Nobex Radio Companion works on the BlackBerry Tour, BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Pearl, and BlackBery Curve (8900, 83--, not 8520 yet.)

If you love YouTube and you have a BlackBerry Tour, Bold or Storm, you may want to try Vision from Metova.  This visionary Vision app recently was chosen to be one of the first four Finalists in the 2009 BlackBerry Developer Challenge.

Vision for YouTube provides BlackBerry owners with easy access to YouTube videos. Vision is a separate native app for YouTube. It makes it easy to search video, share, create custom searches and load standard feeds on YouTube.

Vision BlackBerry for YouTube was the number one downloaded app for on BlackBerry App World, for some time. As of today, it is number five. 

The way the BlackBerry browser currently works, it does not support YouTube videos, therefore you need to download a separate app or browser to view YoutTube videos.  The BOLT browser allows you view YouTube videos also from the browser.

Metova's Vision for YouTube currently works on the  BlackBerry Tour, Bold, Storm.  It requires BlackBerry OS 4.6 or higher.

Vision is a free application and there is no purchase or registration necessary. You can download Vision to your device by visiting http://vision.metova.com/download or you can search for it on BlackBerry App World.

LifeinPocket is now available for the BlackBerry Tour and Storm. LifeinPocket has many functions for people with busy lives. It is a free text messaging via phone and PC service powered with navigation and other GPS based services. It has been suggested that the LifeinPocket app "transcends" iPhones. It offers GPS directions with maps, syncing, business search, weather, parking, gas station-finding. There are many location-based functions of this app which parents, teens, and mobile types will love. We name it our "BlackBerry Storm / Tour App of the Day" because it is very "location functional."  There moto is "Your phone, your life, in your pocket."

From the main screen you can access these icons/functions:

Navigation - advanced turn-by-turn navigation prompts with voice guidance. that  allows for hands-free navigation. Utilizing synced address book and its unique online trip planning tool, LifeInPocket Navigation virtually eliminates the need for typing on tiny keyboards.

GPS - offers fully personalized business, restaurants, attractions, WIFI hot spots search, real-time traffic, map, weather etc. based on your GPS location, address book, destinations or "MyLocation".

Friends - whether they are using the same carrier or not. Let friends and family know where you are by sending location messages to them. They can click on the location to let LifeInPocket Navigation take them there, to view it on map or to search nearby POIs (Point of Interest) meet.

For example, teens can send a location message to Mom. Mom clicks on the message and LifeInPocket guides Mom to pick up the teen via voice instruction.

Roadside Assistance and GPS Gas Finder - Request emergency and roadside assistance. Find nearby gas price, towing services, auto repair shops and parking.

Email, IM & Social Networking - access

Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, etc. and company emails and attachments by POP3, SMTP, IMAP and web. You can send and receive IM, connect with friends by social networks  easily

PIM - Sync/import/export with Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Hotmail, Palm Desktop, Outlook Express, Outlook etc. Click to navigate, call, email and socialize with your contacts!

Finance - manage stock portfolio, get stock quotes, charts, financial news/ analysis/report, access brokerage accounts.

Document - upload documents and books to LifeInPocket. Then, you can read them on your phone anytime and anywhere you want.

Media - news, Sports, Entertainment News, magazines, sports (NFL MLB NBA NHL LPGA NASCAR etc.), entertainments and local reports.

Search - search via GPS, view ratings and real-time reviews by real people before navigating to an unknown restaurant/store/repair shop.

Internet- access mobile Internet anytime, any place simply click and go! Needs no or very little typing to browse through sites.

Sync- sync with server, Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, MSN or Outlook Express.

Attention doctor's office TIME magazine readers who need to read Time magazine on your BlackBerry smartphone.  Today, TIME launched their free TIME BlackBerry application, just in time for you take on your vacation or to the pool.

The TIME app gives readers the latest news, opinions and analysis from TIME influential bloggers, and offers the ability to browse through award-winning photography and TIME's hugely popular Lists.

We are naming TIME our BlackBerry Storm/Tour App of the Day, because it is so "timely."

You can also customize the content to easily view headlines from your favorite sections in TIME.

You'll get updates automatically pushed out to your BlackBerry smartphone, so you can read it on the subway or on a flight without having to commandeer the only copy in the dentist's office.

You can download the TIME BlackBerry app either at http://app.time.com/ or find it on BlackBerry App World.  

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Here's a free app that tracks outdoor activities.  nogago connects to the GPS in your BlackBerry smartphone and then keeps track of your travels, speed and how far you went.  It works with the most popular BlackBerry smartphones including our readers' favorites the BlackBerry Tour, BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry Curve 8900 as well as most recent BlackBerrry models. We name it BlackBerry Storm/Tour App of the Day for outdoor tours.

The nogago BlackBerry app lets you:

• Measure the time, distance and speed of your travels
• Record and view your tracks (while on the go and later when you are back home on your PC.)
• Navigate along prerecorded tracks (you can find many, many thousands of tracks at gpsies and other GPS track communities).

The nogago website has an online search function to help your find tracks to trek for biking, canoeing, bicycling, sailing, running, skating, horse riding, sailing and trekking all over the world.



How the nogago app works:

You can create a track log (press "0″) of your movements and share this track with your friends and family when you are back. Press "3″ to reset the odometer, whenever you want to start over with measuring your time and distance. This does not affect your track log but resets display, so when back home you can analyze how far, fast and long you went for what was recorded.

You can see your traces in the map mode pressing "9″ (always facing north) and return to the instrument view by pressing "9″ again.

To use the nogago, it would help if you have knowledge  basic outdoor navigation and how a compass works.

The next BlackBerry Storm operating systme, OS 5.0.0.140 has been leaked onto the Internet and is expected to come installed on the new BlackBerry Storm 2.  If you have a Verizon BlackBerry Storm, Verizon eventually releases updates after vigorous testing. The last update BlackBerry Storm Update OS 4.7.0.148 received excellent reviews and improved the BlackBerry Storm greatly.

The OS 5.0.0.140 update version was discovered on a Chinese website. BlackBerry Storm owners should be warned that you may void your warranty by using the unauthorized update.

The update supposedly is faster, has a battery meter, new screen transitions, browser tabs, recent activity log,  There have been reports that the not all current BlackBerry software with work with this updated operating system. The update has problems with IM, social networking sites, Weatherbug, Vlingo and backwards screen orientation.  Other reported problems include the history in the browser does not work, alarm does not work properly, and BlackBerry App World doesn't work. 

Some forum members reported that they were able to get the OS 5.0.0.140  to work on their BlackBerry Storms while this post sums it up nicely, "I was totally psyched to try this out but after browsing through hundreds of horror stories, I'm gonna sit this one out. "

It appears that this release was pirated from somewhere without testing, so some brave (or poor) BlackBerry Storm buccaneers, gave it try out and then were forced to abandon ship. This "stormy" update could be called a tropical storm or a full-blow hurricane of mishaps.

FlyCast is a streaming audio "radio stations" program, we previously named "BlackBerry Storm App of the Day." FlyCast claims to have more radio stations than any other Internet radio or satellite platform with 1200 stations. For our BlackBerry Tour readers, we have confirmed from FlyCast that FlyCast works on the BlackBerry Tour.

FlyCast streams popular radio stations and it will work anywhere. If you are out of town and want to listen to a major radio station, you should be able to find some of your favorites from Boston, New York or Los Angeles.

Flycast has updated their service now offers "wireless station caching," the ability listen to  favorite radio stations without a wireless connection. With FlyCast 2.0, users store their favorite stations when  connected to a cellular or Wi-Fi network, then disconnect from the network and listen to the stations any time.

Version 2.0 of their BlackBerry app presents music stations in a track-based cover flow, enabling in-application music purchases and providing time shifting skip-ahead and skip-back functionality. FlyCast 2.0 reduces battery drain and cellular data usage charges.

Handmark has released TweetCaster, a new free Twitter application available exclusively for BlackBerry smartphones with a trackball (including the BlackBerry Tour) and the BlackBerry Storm.

TweetCaster claims that their app, makes Twitter on a BlackBerry smartphone fast, easy, and fun. With TweetCaster, offers nearly twice the number of features as alternative BlackBerry smartphone or mobile web-based Twitter apps.

TweetCaster offers:

• Ability to toggle between multiple accounts.
• URL shortening.
• Picture sharing.
• One-step @reply and retweet capabilities.
• GPS locator to find Twitter friends near you.
• Real-time trending topics list.

TweetCaster is currently the only Twitter application for BlackBerry smartphones offering the ability to toggle between multiple accounts.

Many of our readers who are BlackBerry and J2ME cell phone users have enjoyed the BOLT mobile browser.  We saw a demo of the BOLT at CTIA on both the BlackBerry Storm and commonly used "free-style" basic phones.  BOLT rendered the images like a computer and because BOLT is powered by the Bitstream people who really know their fonts, the fonts appeared quickly and clearly. An added benefit is the ability to view Flash-based animated web pages such as YouTube videos.

Bitstream just released the faster Beta3 release of  BOLT and added the ability to copy and paste text from web pages, enhanced font rendering, inline entry of text into online forms and support for languages using Cyrillic alphabets.

Other new features included:

• The ability to upload files such as videos to YouTube or pictures to Photobucket.
• Managment of favorites to order favorites and arrange them into custom folders.
• Toggle between viewing websites with or without images displayed.

BOLT added a forum for users to discuss the BOLT browser. The BOLT browser features unrivaled speed -- consistently at least 25 to 50 percent faster than competitors. The WebKit based BOLT browser offers ultra-fast viewing of streaming and flash video, high standards compliance, rich media, and graphics enabling people to view websites just as they do on a PC.

BlackBerry Tour users will be looking for a better browser because reviewers have mentioned the sub-competitor browser.  We have seen through Twitter posts that that  BOLT really speeds up the BlackBerry Tour and have a call to the technical team at  BOLT to confirm compatibility.  We found through forums that BOLT is only browser that automatically shows the full PC-version of the website, while Opera Mini and the BlackBerry browser shows WAP, lower-functionality web pages. The BlackBerry Tour has a similar operation system to the BlackBerry Storm.  BlackBerry Storm users flocked to BOLT early on.  

BOLT, however, works on many phones.  If you surf the web at all your cell phone, its worth checking out BOLT.  BOLT has been installed on more than 1,000 mobile phone models from over 50 handset manufacturers.

There is now a new version of  Pandora Internet Radio for BlackBerry. The new version works on the brand new BlackBerry Tour smartphone. We previously named Pandora our "Free BlackBerry Storm App of the Day" and are adding it to our list of Favorite BlackBerry Tour Apps.

Pandora creates radio stations based on songs and artists that you like based on algorithms from the Music Genome Project. Pandora Radio streams the songs to your BlackBerry.

Users give feedback on individual songs (thumbs up and thumbs down) which Pandora takes into account for future song picked. While listening, users can buy the songs or albums. Over 400 different musical attributes are considered when choosing the next song. These 400 attributes are combined into larger groups called focus traits. There are 2,000 focus traits.

If you haven't tried Pandora, you really should. It has been very popular on the BlackBerry Storm and we expect it will as popular on the BlackBerry Tour.

Pandora can be a lot of fun because you may remember an artist you liked but not always the song or vice a versa.  Type in the song or artist and you'll usually find music you like.  One day, we created a station based on the Mama's and Papa's and were taken back to the happy hippie days of the sixties.

Verizon  BlackBerry Storm smartphone customers will see the Slacker Radio application icon appear on their handsets' home screens. The app will be pushed over-the-air and will give customers Slacker Radio combined with the ability to buy music. Wireless and Mobile News named Slacker Radio "BlackBerry Storm App of the Day," we also named it one of our "Top Ten Best Summer Fun Free BlackBerry Storm Apps."

This version of Slacker Radio also connects to V CAST Music. When a song is being played using Slacker Radio and is avaialble through V CAST Music with Rhapsody catalog, a V CAST purchase con will appear on the screen.

The Slacker Radio for BlackBerry Storm is apersonalized music discovery and listening experience, with more than 100 expert-programmed Slacker stations, over 10,000 artist stations or nearly unlimited number of the listener's own custom-created stations. Features include station caching to storage memory, an intuitive interface optimized for touch operation with support for vertical and horizontal orientation, as well as "peek ahead," allowing the listener to see a preview of the next artist and album in their stations' rotations.

Location-based social event and place suggestion application buzzd is now available for the the BlackBerry Storm. buzzd had been working on the BlackBerry Storm, but now it optimized for the touchscreen and other features.

buzzd delivers information about places such restaurants, bars, with up-to-the-minute reviews and ratings from other members of the buzzd community. Users rate the location with either "thrill" or "kill."

Users can browse and search continuously updated event feeds, which include pricing, location, and event details as well as the firsthand ratings and reviews posted from the event by other members in real-time.

Event and venue information is culled of Citysearch, Flavorpill, Time Out, MyOpenBar, last.fm, Upcoming.org and many other local content providers. User-generated feedback for "real-time" activity about venues and events is also layered at the top of event listings throughout the platform.

They say that complete compatibility for buzzd with the popular BlackBerry Storm touchscreen is important because 40% of the location based application's downloads to date have been by BlackBerry Storm users.

There is good news for our BlackBerry Storm user-readers, Shazam "name that tune" music-identifier app is available for BlackBerry Storm in BlackBerry App World and or from http://is.gd/IWHh.

With Shazam you can identify music tracks, buy music, and share the tags with friends. You can also learn more about artists; find out what's hot and increase your music collection.

Shazam allows users to identify music by holding a mobile handset to a song as it's playing. Shazam identifies and provides information to the user about the track, artist and album from its ever-expanding music database; currently consisting of over 8 million tracks, including the largest collection of undiscovered music and pre-release tracks. Since September 2008, Shazam has enjoyed a tremendous surge in popularity around the world, growing its user base from 20 to 35 million with more than one million tracks tagged each day.

Shazam launched a BlackBerry version in January of this year. Shazam is very music-centric app and is viral for friends. You can also see the newest/hottest release chart.

You can try Shazam for a free with a full-featured trial version which becomes limited after the trial period (7 Days).

The sun is shinning, the kids are out of school. If you are lucky enough to have a job and go on vacation with your BlackBerry Storm here are some fun and useful apps for your BlackBerry Storm for summer fun.

• bWatchDoggy - if you leave your BlackBerry Storm on the chez lounge while you are in the pool or making maragaritas, first install and then turn on bWatch Doggy. Once this app is activated if some on picks up your BlackBerry Storm, A loud dog-barking sound is played when the device is moved a barking dog sound is played. To stop the barking, swipe your finger on the screen to the right. The app description states, "This will surely scare the person away who touches your BlackBerry Try it, it's fun and free!

• StormTorch: this handy free app brings clean white light and turns the BlackBerry Storm into a flashlight. StormTorch will turn on your screen as well as the led light very brightly.

• Shortcovers eBook Reader -  this cloud-based reader app gives you access to the Shortcovers service with an eBook store that offers some free eBooks. The Shortcovers service allows readers to read thousands of bestselling books, chapters, news and magazine articles, short stories, blog posts and more, online and on your BlackBerry. Members  can bookmark and save books, chapters, articles and stories, plus build a digital library and rate, comment and share favorite reads with your friends and family.  (Available for Storm, Bold, Curve, 8000 Series Blackberry devices.)

• Audible - users can shop, sample, download, and playback audio from Audible's catalog of over 60,000 titles, right on a BlackBerry.  When you download the BlackBerry apps for a limite time, you get a  free download of Hot, Flat, and Crowded," the best seller by author and syndicated columnist Thomas Friedman.

BlackBerry Storm Apps have been a favorite topic for our readers. This month, we discovered even more free BlackBerry Storm Apps that entertain or help users.  When the BlackBerry Storm was released last November,  there were few apps available for the popular smartphone and now there are many more free BlackBerry Storm apps. Here are the best of the best top Free BlackBerry Storm apps for this month:

Pocket Express is a handy all-in one entertainment and news aggregator with maps, sports, weather, travel and 411. Pocket Express is a data intensive application and you should have an unlimited data plan before using the app.

FlyCast Radio  is one of the most popular BlackBerry Storm apps we have covered. It offers over 1200 streaming radio stations and there is bound to be station that you like. Their program guide show almost every type of station, CNN, BBC, 70's, 80's, Fox News, Sesame Street, Jazz, Sprituality and more as well as local stations across the United States.

QuickPull is another of readers' favorite apps, this handy utility allows BlackBerry Storm users to simulate pulling the battery, to free up memory and it is of course free.

Feel-Goodies - this free feel-good app reminds you how wonderful you really are. Click through positive empowering sayings to feel better about yourself. "An app to give or receive that can't go wrong."

BOLT is a mobile browser application we saw demoed last month at CTIA which has been downloaded and approved by many BlackBerry Storm users. BOLT as it name implies makes web browsing lightening fast, with special viewing tools for the BlackBerry Storm touchscreen. It also makes video streaming easier.

Now that the BlackBerry App World is open you can download a lot of free travel programs that will be very helpful while traveling with your BlackBerry.  These apps are useful on the BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Storm.

Many of these best apps were previously named "Wireless and Mobile News Free BlackBerry or BlackBerry Storm Download of the Day"

Here are the top best free travel  BlackBerry apps from BlackBerry App World for traveling and travelers:

WorldMate Live - This is full-featured travel app has hotel booking, itinerary manager, one-touch access to real-time flight status; maps and directions to hotels, meetings and airports; and weather forecasts.  Real-time notifications  alert members instantly of changes to their travel plans, including flight delays and cancellations and allows them to take action by providing the necessary resources at their fingertips. Note: we previously wrote about this great travel app but now WorldMate Live says members can now receive up to $100 off every hotel booked directly through the Web or mobile application.

HRS Hotel Organizer - This free travel app lets you search through huge database of more than 230,000 hotels worldwide, check current prices and availabilities. You can even find out about the location of and facilities at available hotels

Taxi Magic by RideCharge - this app gives travelers the ability to book taxis and sedans from a  BlackBerry and also has mobile payment and receipt features.

Best Free BlackBerry Storm Apps Article.  Free Feel-Goodies  BlackBerry app.