BlackBerry App World 3.0 Beta – searching for apps at its best!

Aug 072011
 

Team App World at RIM have been working extremely hard over the last couple of weeks trying to come up with some improvements to their App World. Having said this, BlackBerry Beta Zone users will be able to enjoy an insight into the App World 3.0 which at first sight does seem to have some awesome features.

blackberry app world 3 beta

As you may observe from the screenshot above, the home screen has been redesigned completely and has made app browsing not only far interesting but much efficient as well. The addition of the search bar at the top makes app browsing a lot easier, allowing the user to sort by App Name, Price, Rating, Newest, Best Match, and Popular.

I’m sure all BB users will agree with me when I say that the featured carousel has always been the first place to look for awesome new apps, – the staff at RIM have expanded this in BlackBerry App World 3.0, making it easier to find what’s new and what’s hot. The list of best BlackBerry apps, games and themes will be updated on a monthly basis according to various sources.

The developers have kindly tweaked the app detail look and feel to give us the top selection criteria at a glance. They have made it possible for us to quickly swipe between app summaries, screenshots, and reviews – all in one screen, what else could we ask for? To top it all off, if we find an app we really like and want to tell our friends or loved ones, we can instantly share the app either on our Twitter® timeline, Facebook® wall, email, SMS, or a BBM™ Contact or Group.

Nevertheless, this is just a sneak peak to what one can expect in 3.0 – not to worry, subscribe at MWD and receive news on the features as soon as we review them!

So head over to the BlackBerry Beta Zone and sign up today to enjoy the new app world. Searching and downloading apps has never been so fun on a BlackBerry!

Blackberry calls christmas early, launches five new Smartphones

Aug 052011
 

Research In Motion (RIM) has launched 5 new smartphones running on its new operating system ‘BlackBerry OS 7’. The new smartphones include three ‘Blackberry Torch’ models (two of which are complete touch phones) and two ‘Blackberry Bold’ models.

“This is the largest global launch of BlackBerry smartphones in our history,” was a statement made by RIM’s  president and co-CEO, Mike Lazardis. The phones bring along with them the good and the bad.

The good being that, the five new phones being launched will be coming out with many software and hardware improvements over the previous Blackberry models. The bad being, that despite the phone making drastic improvements, it is still not capable of competing with the growing Android and iOS market.

All the phones launched are somewhat high end and carry some good specs. All five of the devices have an improved processing speed with a 1.2GHz processor under the hood powering these devices. The smartphones have a high resolution display for quality viewing, and 768MB of RAM to maintain high speed of processing.

All the phones have a hefty on board memory of 8GB, which can be further extended up to 32 GB. Even a good camera of 5MP has been provided with features to support HD video recording, zoom and flash.

Standard connectivity features like WiFi and GPS are also provided. Integrated BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), Enterprise focus with the inclusion of both Documents To Go, as well as BlackBerry Balance are some of the other notable features of Blackberry’s new phones.

All the phones will now come with an improved browser that will provide users with a faster more fluid browsing experience (thanks to OS7). RIM has claimed its new OS to be 40 percent faster at browsing compared to OS6-based smartphones, and 100 percent faster than OS5 handsets.

Though the phones have made a significant leap, the phone is still incapable of competing with its major rivals like Apple inc. and other Android family smartphones. For example, new blackberry comes with a resolution 640×480 for 9810 and 800×480 for the Bold and Torch compared to 450×360 pixels on the previous Torch. But this is modest in front of Apple’s iPhone (960×640), Motorola Droid 3 (960×540), and the HTC Thunderbolt and Samsung Charge (800×480).

We will update you on the pricing and availability of these phones as soon as we receive an update on it.

PressReader Review: Mobile NewsPaper Reader

May 222011
 

pressreader front page from ipad

I just found the best newspaper app reader for iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices, called PressReader. What I like about this particular mobile newspaper application is that I can read newspaper from all around the world including my home country Slovenia and other 5 country (German, Russian, Bosnian*Croatian*, and USA/UK)  newspaper because I speak  5 languages.

PressReader saves your trip to Gas Station or place you are buying newspaper from, because you can download daily newspaper right onto your mobile device, not only you can read the newspaper you can copy, save it and also share it via social networking websites such as Facebook or Twitter.

As you can see in the picture above, you can read top stories for free, you can listen to them and search for particular topic, because it is all text based.

Features of PressReader:

  • 1800 FULL CONTENT newspapers
  • Read news from 94 Countries in 48 different languages
  • Daily updated newspaper such as US Today, NYTimes, The Herald, The Washington post etc…
  • Download newspaper automatically to your mobile device
  • Flipping through pages like your paper magazine
  • It’s Green! Save trees
  • Supports on-demand audio, so you can listen instead of read!

Those are just few features that press reader has, but  there are many more features that I would like you to find it for your self,  because this application is free to download on most popular devices such as Blackberry, iOS, Windows Mobile and Android. When you download press reader you get seven free newspaper issues and  if you decide to read more, then you can  subscribe to various subscription plans that start as low as $0.99! (Subscription Plans)

Where to download Press Reader

My best suggestion is that you go to your mobile app store and search for Press Reader or press on the links bellow.

PressReader for iPad – App Store

PressReader for iPhone – App Store

PressReader for Android – Android Market

PressReader for Blackberry – App World

For other PressReader application downloads such as Windows Mobile, PC and Mac visit their website PressDisplay

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Blackberry Storm 3 Info Leaked

Jan 142011
 

Are you ready for another Blackberry Storm? Well friends at BGR got info on Blackberry Storm 3 with leaked pictures and release date. Apparently the Storm 3 should come out this year in Q3 (September) and yes this version of Blackberry Storm is going to be quite powerful.

Here are the specs that our friends at BGR posted:

  • 1.2GHz processor
  • 3.7-inch 800 x 480 capacitive display
  • Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
  • Tri-band UMTS/HSPA
  • 5-megapixel camera with 720p video recording
  • 8GB eMMC (storage for apps and data), 512MB of RAM
  • microSD slot
  • Magnetometer
  • Proximity sensor
  • Accelerometer
  • Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
  • 2.4GHz b/g/n and 5GHz a/n Wi-Fi + UMA
  • 3G Mobile hotspot
  • Optical trackpad
  • 1230 mAh battery
  • BlackBerry OS 6.1
  • OpenGL ES 2.0

So what do you think guys? Good Bad?

For more info  and pictures visit BGR