Posted on July 23, 2009, at 11:00 AM .
Starting today, you can find the Deal of the Day in the BlackBerry Cool Store.
To ring in this cool new feature, we’ve selected 10 outstanding products for the first 10 days. BlackBerry Cool readers will have the opportunity to buy a great app or theme – that day’s designated deal – at a 50% discount from either the new Desktop module or through the existing On Device App Store module.
The first set of Deal-of-the-Day offers include games/entertainment apps, themes, apps for improving personal productivity and performance enhancers for the BlackBerry. So there’s going to be something for everyone.
The First Deal of the Day
HD FutureX by Hedone Designs, is an innovative theme that tackles how to get more than 10 buttons on the home screen while still being wallpaper friendly. At first glance, you’ll see wallpaper displaying a blue sky and wheat-colored field. Hidden in the lower part of the screen are three boxes that each contain a hidden dock holding customizable icons. Hedone describes these as “15 in 3″ buttons. All of you need to know that this “natureful” theme is also quite functional and should be a welcome addition to any BlackBerry.
Normal Price is $6.99. Deal of Day price is just $3.50.
Posted on July 23, 2009, at 10:28 AM .
Texas Hold’em King 3 is by far the best poker game for BlackBerry and it’s now available for BlackBerry Storm users, fully optimized for the touchscreen.
THK3 connects you to a massive poker community with over 100,000 players. On top of that, you can join Magmic’s social network, which further helps you stay in touch with poker players online.
Register at Magmic Social, become a fan of THK3 and start adding friends to your network. You can get email updates when your friends (or enemies) are playing THK3 and get consistently fast games.
Play Texas Hold’em King 3 for the BlackBerry Storm.
Posted on July 23, 2009, at 10:13 AM .
S4BB generally puts out quality software and they have recently released MessageSchedule for BlackBerry.
MessageSchedule allows you to prepare an SMS or email, and schedule them for automatic delivery at any time and date.
Features of MessageSchedule include:
* Create, view, edit and deleted scheduled SMS and E-mail messages.
* Send an SMS or E-mail at a specified time.
* Record the sizes and number of SMS and E-mail messages sent.
* Keep track of the total cost of all SMS and E-mail messages which have been sent with MessageSchedule.
* Schedule a reply or forward easily from the BlackBerry SMS and E-mail application.
* Create message templates for quick scheduling of previously scheduled messages.
Purchase MessageSchedule from S4BB for $9.99.
Posted on July 23, 2009, at 10:00 AM .
DailyHoroscope has been available for Android users for almost a year and it has recently launched on App World. The app has had some great success on App World, having climbed to the #2 stop in the Entertainment category.
The app is very straight forward, you get a daily horoscope with a user friendly interface.
Download DailyHoroscope for free for your BlackBerry.
Posted on July 23, 2009, at 7:47 AM .
LaterDude is a free application that lets you create events from the Call Log. The premium version, LaterDude Pro has been released and features some great new features.
LaterDude Pro is an application that reminds you to call, SMS or email someone by integrating with your native calendar. After installing the app, you always have the reminder options available to you in the menus.
You can populate LaterDude Pro from the following applications:
- Call Log
- Messages/email Application
- SMS Application
- Address Book
Just enter menu and select “Remind me later!” to set a notification. It’s easy!
Purchase LaterDude Pro for $2.95.
Posted on July 22, 2009, at 2:12 PM .
EDITORS NOTE: This article was provided by Flash Networks to demonstrate how their optimization techniques speed up mobile browsing.
Only one-third of mobile Internet users are satisfied with the user experience. Speed of response is the number one complaint. As a result, operators are continuously competing to advertise the fastest download rates and invest significant resources in upgrading their networks. How much of this investment is really reflected in the end user experience?
Available bandwidth vs. actual speed
Research conducted in the UK in June 2009 by broadband benchmarking firm, Epitiro, revealed that the average download rate in high speed networks (HSDPA) in the UK is just under 1 Mbit/s (0.9 Mbit/s, to be exact), only 24% of the advertised download speed and 34% slower than speeds achieved on equivalent ADSL broadband services.
While bandwidth dramatically increases as networks evolve, website download time is not reduced to the same extent. In a comparison of HSDPA 7.2 with HSDPA 3.6, download time was reduced by only 6% (based on lab results from large Asia Pacific mobile operator), demonstrating that bandwidth is not the main bottleneck anymore.
Click through to continue reading about the discrepancy between the user experience and bandwidth
