Free BlackBerry (Storm, Bold/Curve) App of the Day: Yahoo oneSearch

 

Yahoo! has expanded support for oneSearch with voice to the BlackBerry Bold, Storm, Flip, and Curve 8900. We named it our BlackBerry (Storm/Bold/Curve/Flip) App of the day because it can come in handy when your hands are full and you can't type your search.

Yahoo! oneSearch voice is a great way to use your BlackBerry without having to type in search terms. Users press a button and verbalize what they're looking for. Say anything you would type in the search box, and get relevant results, delivered to your BlackBerry.

The Yahoo! oneSearch, auto locate uses cell tower and wifi information to identify your location, and gives you answers relevant to where you are.

You can search for anything--from stock quotes to celebrity news, sport scores or movie reviews--and get the most current, relevant answers you need, every time you search. oneSearch understands your intent and remembers your location, giving you answers, tailored to where you are. Get search results on one page--conveniently grouped into meaningful categories--making it a breeze to find what you need.

To use the service type in m.yahoo.com/voice or sign-up for Yahoo! oneSearch for BlackBerry online.

 

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Good Times with Babe Blocks for BlackBerry

Last week it was Sexy Dice. This week it's Babe Blocks. Am I sensing a trend here? Not available for the BlackBerry Storm just yet, this fun little game is ready to rock (err.. block?!!) for the BlackBerry Pearl and Curve and is a solid time waster. 

Babe Blocks is simple. Pictures of babes are hidden beneath a wall of bricks. All you need to do is click on groups of three or more adjacent blocks to make them disappear. You need to be quick though... as you clear out the blocks more rows continue to appear. If they're faster than you and the blocks reach the top then the game is over. There are five levels to the game, which get increasingly difficult as you progress through them. And as you may have guessed, the babes do get hotter as the difficulty increases. It's good times. There is some bad news though. AIM Productions currently is selling Babe Blocks for $9.95 and no free trial is available. It's on the steep side of game app pricing these days, but I guess sex sells right? The same developer is also responsible for Berry Strip Poker... which I'm going to download next! :-)

• Learn More and Purchase Babe Blocks for BlackBerry >>

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Warning: This Picture May Make You Drool.... Tour 9630s!

A picture that is worth a thousand words.... aren't they beautiful?! If you haven't read our BlackBerry Tour 9630 review yet, be sure to check out Part I and Part II.

Man oh man I can't wait for this device to get released. Yeah, I *wish* it had WiFi and the optical trackpad that the Curve 8520 features (wouldn't it be sweet if they added it in last minute?!), but regardless it is definitely going to be a hit with the CDMA carriers out there. When the Storm 9530 went on sale, there were lineups at Verizon stores across the USA. Think we'll see the same excitement for the Tour? Anybody reading this planning to stand in line to grab one on day one?

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Blackberry Magnum, Onyx, Pearl 3G, and Gemini to harmonize on AT&T

BlackBerry lovers, AT&T beckons. Looks like the just-reviewed Onyx is heading to AT&T and, as rumored before, so is the Magnum. We've got no pics of the latter device, but it's being touted here as the "BlackBerry Bold portfolio evolution" and uses the same processor as the Bold. It's also got a HVGA touchscreen, QWERTY pad, quad-band GSM / GRS / EDGE, GPS, and WiFi. Want more? How about an apparently non-flip Pearl 3G with 3.6 Mbps of HSDPA goodness, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, trackball, SureType, and aGPS. Rounding out this quartet is the Gemini, with a 512MHz processor, 256MB flash memory, 128MB RAM, Bluetooth, QVGA LCD, 2 megapixel sans flash, trackball, QWERTY keyboard, 3.5mm headset jack, a microSD slot, possibly GPS, and sadly, no 3G. There's no release date in sight, but hey, knowing they're on the way is half the battle, right?

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Dog or Cat Lover? This is the BlackBerry Theme for You!

Our friends at Bplay just released two new themes which are sure to be a big hit among the animal loving crowd. The Cats theme and Dogs theme both feature 15 wallpapers that automatically rotate every 15 minutes through various pictures of of top breed cats and dogs. With these themes, whenever you reach for your BlackBerry you'll have a different feline or canine companion looking back to you that'll make you say Awwwww.
Cats theme includes: British Short Hair, Chartreux, Siamese, Russian Blue, Maine Coon, Abyssinian, Siberian, Scottish Fold, Persian, Bengal, Sphynx, Himalayan, Oriental Short Hair and Ragdoll
Dogs theme includes: Beagle, Chihuahua, Yorkshire Terrier, Golden Labrador Retriever, Boxer, Chocolate Labrador Retriever, Dachshund, Boston Terrier, Standard Poodle, Rottweiler, Shih Tzu, German Shepherd, Pomeranian, English Bulldog and Schnauzer.
The Cats and Dogs themes sell for $5.99 and you can pick them up by clicking the appropriate image above.


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Hands On: UberTwitter 2.1 for BlackBerry

UberTwitter 2.1 is one of a growing number of mobile Twitter apps built for the BlackBerry platform. I decided to try it out after a number of fellow Tweeters recommended it. TwitterBerry was a very close second on their list of recommendations.

You can access UberTwitter directly from your BlackBerry's built-in browser. In this case, I'm using a Blackberry 8310. The built in browser is fast and relatively effective and the download on my Edge connection took less than minute. Installation was almost instantaneous. BlackBerry seems to have its own form of UAC control and popped up a warning that UberTwitter wanted to change some settings in my phone; most seemed to be about it accessing native features of the device. There was no option for saying OK, so I hit the BlackBerry menu button and then saved the changes. That seemed to do the trick.

Set-up is straightforward. You enter your Twitter name and password and then answer a few set-up questions. UberTwitter has the ability to show your location on every Tweet and for all photos you post. It does so using cell-phone tower triangulation or, if you let it, via the phone's built-in GPS radio. I don't need everyone to know where I am at every single moment. So I opted out.

There were some complaints on Twitter that UberTwitter's competitor, TwitterBerry's font size is too small. Fortunately UberTwitter lets you set font size. Even so, I left it in its default size of "16". UberTwitter also allows you to set avatar sizes to small. I left mine at the default size because I often identify Tweets I want to read by looking at the avatar to see who wrote them. You can also set the refresh delay, from 1 minute to Never, with numerous incremental choices in between. Again, I left the default of 10 minutes in place. In practice, UberTwitter seemed to update my feed almost constantly. It was so fast, that I had trouble reading tweets before they scrolled off my screen.

UberTwitter can show a success dialogue for successful Tweets (I left that on) and has the option of merging replies into timeline (I left that off, hoping that I can see replies in a different window).

Once I was done with setup, I immediately hit a limitation I find with virtually every third-party app based on the Twitter API. I had exceeded my rate limit. It seems that the API limit is tied to the Twitter user and not the individual app. So both TweetDeck and UberTwitter reported that I exceeded the rate limit at the same time. I hope Twitter eventually addresses this issue for heavy Tweeters like me.

I waited about 15 minutes and then loaded UberTwitter. Within moments it was loading my Tweet feeds into a full-screen window that looked pretty much like a stripped down version of Twitter's timeline. The fonts and images were crystal clear. Under the BlackBerry Menu button, I found all my choices, including Update My Status, Refresh, a link to my replies, Direct messages to me, View, Reply, Direct Message, make Favorite, and views for My Friends and My Followers.

UberTwitter's update screen is basic, but gives you the one really important thing you need--a character count. The menu adds, among other things, the ability to Tweet pictures and check spelling.

My first Tweet went smoothly, UberTwitter let me add and remove photos (it automatically switches the phone to camera mode and then returns to the update screen when you've captured an image) until I was happy with the shot--though I couldn't preview the full Tweet with photo in the app. Online the Tweeted picture came up with the space for a map beside it. Had I allowed UberTwitter to locate me, I assume the map would have shown where I was when I took the picture.

My Replies page looked pretty much the same as the timeline. Selected replies appear in orange, and, as in my timeline, I can use the BlackBerry menu to Reply, Retweet, and Direct Message. One thing I had trouble finding is a way to pick up and shorten URLs. As far as I can tell, that feature doesn't exist.

Overall, UberTwitter is an effective BlackBerry Twitter tool, with enough functionality, responsiveness and features to satisfy your garden-variety BlackBerry Twitterholic.

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How's your Blackberry Storm?

With the recent release of its latest BlackBerry, Research In Motion has fired back at Apple in the Great Smartphone Skirmish of 2008.

The introduction of the touch-screen BlackBerry Storm, (along with the earlier launches of the business-savvy Bold 9000 and consumer-geared Pearl Flip 8220) may not have come a moment too soon for RIM, which has long dominated the market for high-end mobiles that double as email devices.

Consider that Apple reported selling 6.9 million iPhone 3Gs during its last quarter, while RIM sold 6.1 million BlackBerrys in roughly the same period.

But while RIM's latest offerings are packed with features like stereo Bluetooth, standard headphone jacks, video recording, multiple email options and, in the case of the Storm, a unique touch screen, the multifront attack may not be enough to unseat the mighty iPhone.

BlackBerry Storm: Set to be released next month in Australia through Vodfone, the much-anticipated Storm - RIM's first touch-screen smart phone - has slick looks and tons of features. But while the device gets some things right, a number of issues make it difficult to use.

The Storm is similar in size to larger BlackBerry models but eschews the standard QWERTY keyboard for a high-resolution 3.25-inch (8.25cm) touch screen that covers most of its face.

The screen smartly marries the tactile feedback you'd get from a physical keyboard or mouse button with the finger-swiping convenience of a touch screen. So you can scroll around with your finger but nothing should happen - no words typed, no links clicked - until you physically push on the screen.

I found it much easier to type messages with the Storm's keyboard than with the iPhone's. This could make a big difference to business users who have been lusting after touch-screen smart phones but hesitant to make the switch. Sometimes, though, I had a hard time clicking on icons I wanted: At times, the browser would zoom in on the icon rather than activating it. Or I'd end up clicking an adjacent link.

High-definition videos I had taken on a camcorder looked pretty good on the Storm, and its big screen is great for showing large photos, or album art when you're listening to songs. There's plenty of storage for your multimedia goodies, as the device includes 1 GB of memory and an 8 GB microSD card.

One neat feature is the Storm's ability to take videos in two different resolutions, the lower of which is meant for sending clips in messages. You can also take still photos with the Storm's 3.2 megapixel camera.

I like the visual voice mail feature - something also available on the iPhone - that shows you a list of your voice messages and lets you hear them in any order you'd like.

And calls sounded pretty good on the Storm, which is rated for 5.5 hours of talk time.

But the Storm seemed to labour at processing requests if I tried to do too many things too quickly, such as scrolling through photos while listening to music. And while the screen should easily change from portrait to landscape mode when you turn the Storm on its side, I often found it quite slow to react.

The Storm includes GPS. But its lack of Wi-Fi capabilities means you can't get online except through the carrier's data network.

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