We’ve recently been talking with Thumb Arcade because they’ve got some upcoming PlayBook news for CES and we stumbled on their free app aSecret. The app gives you shortcuts, tips and tricks that will save you time and money spent on apps that do the same thing. This free app has the following features:
One-click flashlight (similar app costs $2.99!)
Reboot – no more battery pulls (similar app costs $2.99!)
Today, RIM has launched a new program called Built For BlackBerry, which essentially allows certain accessory manufacturers to use the BlackBerry brand on their products. The program doesn’t offer anything new for the end user, but rather seems like a way to help certain brands differentiate themselves from the competition and leverage the BlackBerry brand to help sales. Members of the Built For BlackBerry Program include: Case-mate, Speck, Incipio, Otterbox, Tru Protection, iGrip, Vaja, Dicota and Trexta. Continue reading ‘RIM Announces Built For BlackBerry Program for Accessory Manufacturers’
We mentioned Nogago back in 2009 and they have recently updated their app to version 2, with a few new features. Nogago Outdoor is a navigation app for BlackBerry that lets you track and measure time, distance and speed of your activities. You can also view maps of the surrounding area and navigate along tracks and planned routes which are optimized for walking and biking. In this latest version, the company has added: Continue reading ‘Nogago Outdoor Maps and Navigation App Updated With POI and More’
RIM’s developer blog posted a video that walks you through deploying an app to the PlayBook simulator, as well as shows how the Tablet OS SDK integrates directly into Adobe Flash Builder 4 and the GUI builder in Flash Builder “Burrito”. It looks like building a PlayBook app is fairly easy, and with a little bit of work, you can make yourself eligible for a free PlayBook.
OfferedApp.com is a website that offers users paid apps for free, in exchange for participating in their sponsors’ incentive programs. When you sign up for OfferedApp, you get a daily email alert pointing you to the daily app deal. If you’re interested in the deal, you can choose from different advertisers that ask you to complete a survey or give some personal details, in exchange for the cost of the app.
Even though the Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu is claiming that Flash is a resource hog and will lead to poor PlayBook battery life, the latest video from RIM shows some awesome advantages of supporting Flash. The above video takes us through some HTML 5 video, as well as the desktop versions of YouTube, Facebook and Facebook games. All of this rich media browsing is all possible thanks to Flash support, and it’s hard to imagine a PlayBook without it. Hopefully, rumors of Flash sucking up battery life aren’t true, and we’ll have a tablet with decent battery life, and full, rich media browsing capabilities.
