BlackBerry 10 Now Offers More Than 100,000 Applications to Customers
Developers continue to support BlackBerry® 10, bringing more than 30,000 new applications to the platform over the past seven weeks. BlackBerry® today announced that BlackBerry 10 customers now have access to more than 100,000 applications for the BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone on the BlackBerry® World™ storefront. Today, Amazon Kindle, OpenTable and The Wall Street Journal are available to BlackBerry 10 customers and in the coming weeks CNN, The Daily Show Headlines, eBay, eMusic, Maxim, MLB at Bat, MTV News, Pageonce, PGA, Rdio, Skype, Soundhound and Viber will be available for download or purchase. BlackBerry 10 customers already have access to leading apps and games, including 8tracks, Angry Birds Star Wars, ATP…
Picinote – New BlackBerry PlayBook Photography App
Picinote, (pronounced “Pic-e-note”) is a cutting edge photo note taking tool that integrates directly with your BlackBerry PlayBook camera. Using stylus or text based technology, Picinote allows you to edit on or around your image. Save into organized Picibooks, email as PDF or post to Facebook. (£3.00)/download here. Features Features: · Search, Edit, Delete and Add New Picibooks · Use images from My Pictures or Take New Pictures using the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ camera · Pinch & Zoom multiple images on a single canvas · Create notes with handwriting/stylus based technology as well as digitized notes using the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ keyboard · You can choose your paper type…
Camera for Twitter – BlackBerry
Finally, this app is available on BlackBerry®! You can now take a photo and upload it to your Twitter account with just one click. Features: – Connects with your Twitter account – Upload a photo with just one click – Single click photo taking Note: This application does not integrate with the Twitter application that is installed on your phone. You need to log into your Twitter account within the app and authorize the app to upload photos. This app retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here.
BlackBerry – PlayBook – InstaBook: Instagram Client – New
This app allows you to ‘supercharge’ your Instagram experience on your PlayBook. This app is currently available for only $1.49/£1.00 at a special launch offer price. You can download it here.
BlackBerry – PlayBook – PhotoFX Image Effects – New
Apply more than 40 cool and professional effects to your photographs (full resolution supported) such as old film, tilt-shift, rotation, distortions, color mixing (RGB, HSL), color extraction, HDR simulation,… The result can be posted directly to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, and Twitter. This app is new and retails for $2.99/£1.99, you can download it here.
BlackBerry – More BBM Connected Apps Set To Launch
A series of updates to BlackBerry apps will be released over the coming days to make it even easier for users to stay connected with their BBM contacts. RIM today announced that Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones, Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry Travel, BlackBerry App World and BBM Music will now include BBM connectivity, allowing users to keep in touch with their friends, share experiences and discover new things from within their own BBM community easily. Facebook and Twitter Apps Integrated with BBM Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones (version 3.0) and Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones (version 3.0) now allow users to share their Facebook status or latest Tweet with their BBM…
We Have A New Flickr Group – ‘Mobile Photography and Imagery’
We’ve got a new Flickr group – it’s called Mobile Photography and Imagery and we want to see your mobile images. We love them, they’re inspirational. Whether you’ve taken shots on an iOS, Droid, Windowsphone, BlackBerry, whatever you’ve got, providing it’s mobile, we want to see your great photographs. Each week we will be sifting through and picking out a few to showcase on theappwhisperer.com. As time goes on we will set up competitions and themes too. Please join our new group and lets get sharing. Here’s a link to join.
Integrated Carrier Billing Gains Momentum On BlackBerry
With carriers experiencing a 120% increase in BlackBerry app downloads, RIM today announced that more than 40 carriers around the world have now deployed integrated carrier billing for their customers on BlackBerry App World. BlackBerry App World is now available in 164 markets and territories worldwide. More than 60,000 apps are currently available on RIM’s app store and over 174 million apps are downloaded each month. Over two billion apps have been downloaded to date. The deployment of integrated carrier billing is an example of RIM’s ongoing commitment to work together strategically with its carrier partners and it has proven to drive significant value for the whole mobile ecosystem,…
BlackBerry – WordPress for PlayBook
The all new WordPress for PlayBook app allows you to write posts, edit pages, and manage comments on the go. Both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.9.2 or higher) sites are supported. This is definitely a much needed app for your PlayBook. You can download it here.
RIM Finally Updates BlackBerry PlayBook OS To OS 2.0
Well we’ve all been waiting for this for a while, but as we mentioned in our CES preview, RIM stuck to their word and released OS 2.0 today. If you’ve got your PlayBook in your hands, just head to Settings, then Software Updates and finally Check for Updates. Your PlayBook will note the OS 2.0, so just follow the instructions to install. So what do you get? Well this is no small update for a starters, this is a big overhaul in fact and brings with it a gorgeous revamped homescreen, email, calendar and contacts and of course, social integration by way of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Check out the…
