Monthly Archive for February, 2010Page 18 of 25

Mplayit Release Data About Top Smartphone Games

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Mplayit are a smartphone app vendor that is based on social networks. The company have a big Facebook presence and have been collecting some interesting data about smartphone purchasing habits.

The latest data to come out of Mplayit is about smartphone gaming trends. I’ll stick to the data about BlackBerry, but it’s also interesting to see how other smartphones are making out. Obviously iPhone is dominating the mobile gaming space, as the most popular apps for iPhone are almost 100% games.

Mplayit’s findings, drawn from live data collected from over 50,000 users of its Facebook app store over a two week period ending January 29, highlights the kinds of games that were popular for each of the three major smartphone audiences. The most active game categories on all three platforms were largely identical: Arcade, Casual, Card/Casino, and Puzzle. However, there were some significant differences in taste across platforms.

Music games were particularly popular on the iPhone, befitting its media-centric iPod heritage. Android users showed a predilection toward ‘geeky’ games making innovative use of things like the GPS, camera, and augmented reality. And the BlackBerry audience gravitated toward television and movie tie-ins.
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Tips and Help with BlackBerry Voice Commands

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on February 9, 2010, at 10:11 AM
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Voice Command can be a really annoying feature when it gets activated accidentally, but it’s also very helpful whenever you need some hands-free dialing. Voice dialing isn’t the only thing you can do with it though. Other commands include:

“Call Extension” will call a specific extension.
“Call [Contact Name] Home” will call the contact at their home number.
“Check Battery” will check the battery status.
“Check Signal” will let you know the strength of your wireless signal and whether or not you have “No Signal”, “Low Signal”, “High Signal” or “Very High Signal”.
“Turn Off Voice Prompts” will turn off the “Say a command” voice and replace it with a simple beep.
“Turn On Voice Prompts” turns the friendly voice back on.
Click through for more tips and help with BlackBerry Voice Commands

Help Improve Your Community With SeeClickFix for BlackBerry

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SeeClickFix is an interesting concept that helps individuals improve their communities and report emergencies. The site and BlackBerry app, allow users to take a picture of a problem (pothole, unsafe building, potential accident), leave details, and upload the problem to a community board where it hopefully gets dealt with.

The SeeClickFix service brings a measure of transparency and accessibility to the service request process. Reporting an issue takes only a few seconds, and the ability to view, comment on, or express support for issues raised by others makes it much easier to stay in touch with what’s going on in the community.

To download the SeeClickFix app for BlackBerry, visit m.seeclickfix.com/ from your device.

Sidebar Delivers Recommended Content to Your BlackBerry

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on February 8, 2010, at 1:31 PM
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Sidebar is an interesting app that pushes recommended content to your BlackBerry as well as it has some content-related features. The app reminds me of Genius or Pandora, in that it is supposed to learn about what you enjoy reading, and push more of that content for you to read. According to the Sidebar team, “the more you use Sidebar, the better we get at picking stuff you like.” Content comes in the form of applications, music downloads, podcasts, RSS feeds, video, wallpaper, ringtones and more. Sidebar also includes a QR code scanner, which can be used to compare prices for goods, just like with Edocrab.

This application is going to have to strike a good balance between sponsored content and content the user will actually want. I can see the monetization of this app killing the user experience, if a large percentage of the content is an ad for ringtones or Amazon products. Nonetheless, I’ll give it a shot.

Sidebar is available for the Storm, Storm 2, Tour, Curve 8900 and Bold 9700, with other devices soon to follow.

Download Sidebar for your Desktop.

Download Sidebar for your BlackBerry OTA or head over to their site for other download methods.

UPDATE: Sidebar let us know that the most foolproof way to download the app is via the BlackBerry browser through their direct download link: http://downloads.sidebar.com/download. This link will automatically direct supported devices to a download page. Unsupported devices will get a page with a message stating Sidebar is not yet ready for their device, along with an opt-in to be notified when it is.

BerryBlab Optimizes vBulletin Forums for BlackBerry

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Generation Media Group have launched a cool app for browsing vBulletin forums called BerryBlab. The app is really great at delivering a mobile version of a vBulletin forum, but there are some catches. First, the forum obviously has to be powered by vBulletin, and second, the forum owner must install a plugin.

The app is available as a freemium service, with the free version allowing you to add multiple forums, view threads, as well as read private messages. The premium version ($2.99) allows you to reply to threads, subscribe and unsubscribe to threads, view images, as well as reply to private messages

More information available on from the BerryBlab site.

CIA World Factbook Updated to Version 2.0 With SD Card Caching

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S4BB let us know that their CIA World Factbook app has been updated to version 2.0. The app comes with the most recent data of more than 270 countries and regions and a new caching mechanism lets you store data on the SD card for easy access when no network coverage is available.

S4BB have also put the app on sale for $9.99 (down from $29.99).

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