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30 Jan, 2010

Top Ten Free Blackberry Apps

Posted by: drivelocity In: On The Web

As you’ve probably read, if you’ve visited drivelocity.com recently, I’m a new Blackberry user. So, what does one do when they have this new-found mobile freedom? Play with it like it’s your first set of Legos on Christmas morning and see what kinds of cool things you can do… Here are the top ten free WordPress apps I’ve used, in no particular order.

  • Wordpress – This free app from WordPress has allowed me monitor and update all of my blogs from just about anywhere.
  • Pandora – There are several free streaming music apps for the Blackberry. With Pandora I can enter favorite bands or songs and channels with similar music is created.
  • Facebook and MySpace – I’ll just lump these together, since they pretty much do the same thing – updating the social networking sites.
  • Google Sync – Blackberry has its own calendar, but I already use Google Calendar. This app syncs the two, as well as you contacts.
  • Google Mobile App – Sometimes it’s too time consuming to bring up a the Blackberry browser and manually typing in your query. With this app, you can speak your question, or keywords and it will search for you. (Apparently, this does not work on the Blackberry Storm)
  • UberTwitter – This is pretty much the king of Twitter apps for the Blackberry and retains most, if not all, of the functionality Twitter.com offers. Of course, it’s no match for a PC client like TweetDeck.
  • PayPal – There’s not too much to this one, but being able to send payments and check your acct history while traveling is pretty cool.
  • The Weather Channel – I prefer this weather app over others, like WeatherEye, because it offers a longer forecast and has less intrusive advertising.
  • Poynt – From locating businesses, restaurants movie times and gas prices near you, this app does a lot!
  • Blackberry Messenger – This one is pretty muck a given. It’s a quick and easy way to chat and share pictures with friends and famiy.

Most of the Blackberry apps listed above can be found at BlackBerry App World and the CrackBerry App Store. Enjoy!

3 Responses to "Top Ten Free Blackberry Apps"

1 | belly ring

February 9th, 2010 at 5:45 pm

awesome list – thanks! I personally use the weather channel app every day.

2 | mobile sites

February 9th, 2010 at 5:46 pm

Facebook Mobile is pretty nice. Will have to check out the others.

3 | harry

February 11th, 2010 at 8:33 am

I have some good ideas that can be converted in to Mobile Apps. I would like to develop programs based on those ideas for other mobile platforms like Windows Mobile, Android , J2mE , Blackberry etc.

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