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App Friday: Official UEFA EURO 2012 with Orange
1 month ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
Euro 2012 might not be kicking off until June, but if you want to get your footie fix early, the official app has just been launched. With Official UEFA Euro 2012 with Orange you can keep up to date with news, videos and up to the minute scores on all the major phone platforms, for free. Official UEFA Euro 2012 with Orange is being released in two versions. Part one is out now and includes a host of background information, including teams, news, photos and travel, if you're planning on...
App Friday: 0800 Wizard
1 month ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
Ofcom is planning to make calls to 0800 numbers free from mobile phones, but the consultation it announced this week won’t deliver those for some time. Until then there’s the 0800 Wizard app from Skycom. How can it offer free calls to 0800 numbers so you don’t fear those warnings telling you “calls from mobile phones may be charged”? By rerouting the freephone number you dialled to an 01 or 02 number. That way the call is covered by the monthly bundled minutes that...
7digital Android 4.0: Tap to share playlists with NFC and Android Beam
2 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
7digital has updated its Android app so that it now works on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich devices as well as letting you share playlists by tapping two phones together. The new 7digital app makes good use of Android Beam, Google’s NFC tap-to-share platform that lets you share links and YouTube videos as shown off on Google’s recent TV advert. Tapping two NFC-enabled phones will let you share a playlist with a friend that has the 7digital app installed. Playlists will consist of 30...
App Friday: Get Taxi
2 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
If you’ve ever stood on the street with your arm out desperately waiting for taxi, hunted for a taxi number, or been told there’s a 60-minute wait for a taxi, then Get Taxi is for you. Get Taxi lets you order a taxi, be informed it’s arrived and pay, or via an intuitive app and is designed for consumers and business accounts. The thinking behind Get Taxi is to provide a safe method for women - and men - to order a taxi, as well as providing a quicker, more efficient service, by...
Best free BlackBerry apps
3 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
Since it launched in April 2009 RIM’s BlackBerry App World has seen a steady increase in followers and the number of applications on offer. It's not quite as populated as the Apple App Store or Android Market, but 60,000 apps and 2 million apps downloads per day (and growing) is not to be sneered at. As a user BlackBerry App World seems to have more emphasis on paid than free apps - in fact with an average price of $0.99, developers make more money (around 20-40%) by developing for...
McAfee announces next-gen Mobile Security 2.0 for Android, BlackBerry and Symbian phones
3 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
McAfee has taken the wraps off of its Mobile Security 2.0 suite, a comprehensive anti-virus and anti-phishing package that protects virtually all Android, BlackBerry and Symbian phones and tablets. Android phones and tabs running 2.1 Eclair through to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich are covered, as are BlackBerry phones running OS 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0. We’re checking up about support for BlackBerry OS 7.1 - our guess is that as this is rolling out now, support for it will be included...
iTether for iOS arrives in App Store: £10.49, cocks a snook at your iPhone’s tethering plans
5 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
USB tethering on your iPhone, though a feature that’s been possible since iOS 3.0 landed, hasn’t been as straightforwards as its been on Android phones since it arrived with 2.2 Froyo. iTether is available to download from the App Store right now, costs £10.49, and enables USB tethering from your iPhone, once you’ve installed a companion desktop app on your PC or Mac. Once all that’s done you ought to start seeing delicious data flowing on the iTether app screen...
RIM fires up BBM Music for the UK: MP3 mixtapes meet instant messaging
6 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
Alongside the recently announced BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 comes word that BBM Music has finally launched in the UK. The social-music-messager lets you listen to and play a friend’s library of 50 songs, as well as your own 50 favourite tunes. The main idea behind BBM Music that the more friends you add, the more music you’ll be able to access as part of your growing ‘BBM Music Community’ as RIM puts it. You can swap up to 25 songs a month to keep things fresh...
7digital Premier Android tablet app launches: iTunes for Honeycomb tabs
6 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
Online music vendors 7digital have launched a tablet version of it’s existing music store app for Android phones. The Honeycomb-optimised app is available to download right now from the Android Market and gives you access to a 16 million strong library of tunes. Tying in with the existing Android phone app that launched back in May, any songs you purchase through this app will be accessible through the 7digital cloud locker on other devices. So any tunes you’ve bought previously...
Huzzah! A Spotify app is finally heading to BlackBerry phones
7 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
Finally, some good news for BlackBerry owners who had naught but doom and gloom last week. Spotify has announced over on its blog that its working on a BlackBerry app that’ll give you access to its vast library of online musics. Even better, there’s a preview version of the app that you’re able to test out on select BlackBerry phones right now. Only available to phones on GSM networks (that’s us in the UK and Europe), Spotify has tested its app on the BlackBerry Bold...
Top 10 Augmented Reality Apps
8 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
Augmented Reality, AR. It means your smartphone uses visual input, and combines it with online data and overlays that onto what you see; this can mean extra geographic information, or a visual representation that adjusts depending on how you move your phone. Smartphones have only recently developed into devices with enough power to deal with augmented reality apps, and combining camera input with streaming data will still sap your battery pretty quickly. But you'll find some of the most...
The best football apps for the 2011/2012 season
8 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
With the summer transfer window closed, many footballs fans are rubbing their hands in glee for the new season. It may have already kicked off, but there's plenty of apps to make sure you don't miss a single goal. We've also included our favourite recent games. And yes, Champ Manager is in there. ESPN Goals A free app that will customise the video content depending on your favourite team, weekly video highlights ensure you miss none of the action. You can even get goal alerts sent...
Back to School: Get your learn on with your smartphone, tablet and these apps
9 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
If you were among those who recently received the A-Level results you wanted and are heading off to your University of choice after summer, or you’re a returning mature student about to embark on an MA or PhD, then you may be thinking about how you can use your smartphone to make life easier for yourself. Provided you’ve been able to stump up the required funds for your course and still afford an iPad or high end Android phone then read on... iStudiez Pro - £1.99 (iPhone, iPad)...
How to watch TV on your smartphone or tablet
10 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
If you are heading on holiday soon and can’t bear the thought of missing the latest episode of Top Gear, or simply need some entertainment to while away the hours there are a range of TV catch-up services worth considering. Modern, more powerful devices make is easier than ever to stream video, couple this with industry wide increase in screen sizes to 4.3-inches and smartphones now are just about the right size for watching TV. The introduction of the iPad produced a mass-market gadget...
Not going to Silverstone? Download these Formula 1 apps
10 months ago | POSTED IN Blackberry
Wimbledon has come and gone and now the British public is gearing up for the next great sporting event of the year. Thousands of fans have already flocked to Silverstone in anticipation of Sunday’s race and it looks like attendance levels will reach an all time-high. If you’re not one of the many who’ve camped out or won’t be watching the live broadcast, but want to keep tabs on the action, check out these. It’ll be just like you’re actually there! Kind of....
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