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Preview of Poynt upcoming gas and weather features

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on November 11, 2009, at 10:26 pm
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Poynt is probably the best LBS app for BlackBerry. Currently, the app lets you find local businesses, movies, restaurants, events and people. The app gives you the relevant information you’re looking for, and with driving directions, interactive maps and contact information, Poynt connects you with these places.

In the upcoming version of Poynt (weeks away!), the app will be adding gas and weather functionality. These features are really awesome and we have some pics of the features in action.
Click through for more pics and details of the upcoming features in Poynt

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Free LBS app Poynt launches restaurant search feature

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BlackBerry Cool
on August 25, 2009, at 9:20 am
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Poynt has launched their restaurant services powered by Open Table this morning. The feature really rounds out the application and makes it one of the best LBS apps in App World.

The restaurant feature complements your location based services as it enables users to easily find nearby restaurants, read reviews and book dining reservations.

Once you get started with the new Poynt, load up the restaurant feature and check out the three ways to browse for food in your area: Restaurants Near Me, Restaurants By Name and Restaurants By Cuisine. The feature is fully integrated into your BlackBerry in that you get click-to-call, mapping, driving directions, integration
with BlackBerry Calendar, BlackBerry Contacts and BlackBerry Messages.

Download Poynt for free by visiting http://m.mypoynt.com from your BlackBerry Browser.

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Beta Testers Needed – Be Part of Poynt’s Next Major Release

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Kyle
on August 11, 2009, at 6:43 pm
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Poynt is now accepting Beta testers for their next release! This is awesome news considering the next release includes support for Open Table, which allows you to find restaurants and make reservations. You heard it first on BlackBerry Cool!

Here are the details from Poynt:

The next major release of Poynt, the award-winning local search application for BlackBerry® smartphones, is nearing completion and to ensure its ready for prime-time, we’re looking for 500 dedicated BlackBerry users to help test the application.

Poynt is well known for its awesome UI, not to mention how easy it is to find local businesses and movie information. The next release features a separate Restaurant section with the ability to read reviews and book dining reservations. Help us make sure it lives up to what you’ve come to expect – email us now at beta@mypoynt.com.

Make sure to let us know your PIN, BlackBerry device and carrier.

UPDATE FROM POYNT: Thanks everyone for your response and enthusiasm. We have exceeded the number of beta testers required and have closed the Poynt Beta. Stay tuned for the release.

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Poynt local search application now available in the UK

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Kyle
on June 22, 2009, at 9:12 am
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Poynt is a great app that you can use daily. When we took a look at the app at WES 2009, we saw a ton of cool features, many of which have not yet launched but should be unofficially coming this summer (just a guess). Currently, you can search local businesses, people and movie theaters. Soon, you’ll have access to a complete restaurant search and booking service powered by Open Table.

Other features include:

  • GPS functionality has been optimized to provide faster accurate locates.
  • Cell-site locates allow Poynt to quickly access a user’s general location while awaiting a GPS lock.
  • Poynt is fully integrated with both BlackBerry Maps and Google Maps.
  • Poynt integrates with Gokivo Navigator to provide turn-by-turn voice navigation.
  • Users can add frequently accessed listings to their BlackBerry Contact List, providing convenience for future lookups.

    • Poynt is a free app and it’s available by hitting m.mypoynt.com from your BlackBerry browser.

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    Poynt adds voice navigation system features to free LBS app

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    Kyle
    on June 4, 2009, at 3:53 pm
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    Poynt unreleased features

    Poynt has added another feature: Voice Navigation System integration. In addition to mapping through BlackBerry Maps and Google Maps, Poynt users have access to Voice Navigation Services Gokivo, VZ Navigator, Telus Navigator, AAAMobile, Metro Navigator and Your Nav. Users can select those services as their preferred navigation solution to map route within Poynt, allowing them to take advantage of audible turn-by-turn directions and auto-rerouting.

    And what would a BlackBerry Cool post about Poynt be without the incredibly annoying screenshot of features yet to come? See above.

    Free OTA download from your BlackBerry Browser http://m.mypoynt.com.

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    Awesome LBS app for BlackBerry Poynt now upgraded

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    Kyle
    on June 2, 2009, at 10:56 am
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    The newest version of Poynt is available and it’s a must-have application. The new version should be live on App World and ready to download so try it out!

    Poynt is a convenient and timesaving service that connects consumers to local businesses and theaters at the moment they want to buy or acquire products or services. By entering search terms, the consumer is able to find businesses and movies near their location, get phone and address information as well as additional enhanced features such as accessing movie reviews and trailers. For example, a Poynt user could locate themselves via the GPS on their smartphone, then search for businesses such as a car rental agency, hairdressers, hotels or attorneys. Results are sorted by distance and the user has the option to view directions on a map, click-to-call the business, or view their website.

    For a free OTA download from your BlackBerry Browser visit m.mypoynt.com.

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    5 free BlackBerry Storm apps

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    on February 19, 2009, at 11:21 am
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    TalkLock

    This app will deactivate your screen when talking on the phone. Good app for preventing any accidental hangups or button pressing. Download here.

    Viigo

    Viigo is an RSS reader so you can read all your favorite sites on the go. It also lets you send Twitter updates right from RSS feeds that you want to let your Twitter friends know about. Download here.

    Google Maps

    This doesn’t need any explanation. Great maps to take you anywhere. Get it here

    Slacker

    Slacker internet radio client for the Storm gives you over 100 stations for free. Download it here

    Poynt

    Poynt is essentially a local search service with three main components: search for business, movie search, and a ‘map this search’ function. Download it here.

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    Know of more free BlackBerry Storm apps? Comment a download link and share with the community.

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    Poynt for BlackBerry Storm hands on

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    Douglas Soltys
    on February 13, 2009, at 6:18 pm
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    We’ve talked about Poynt, a free local search service, quite a bit on BlackBerry Cool: as a BlackBerry Developer Challenge winner, in podcast form with developer Multiplied’s Peter Werry during BBDC and in recent releases on the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220.

    Multiplied has now brought Poynt to the BlackBerry Storm and was kind enough to give us a copy early for a hands-on. After the jump you’ll find Poynt for BlackBerry Storm’s feature list, a bunch of screen captures, and impressions from our time with this nifty application. Or you could just download Poynt at the link below, considering this is one of the best applications out for the Storm right now.

    Download Poynt for BlackBerry Storm

    Poynt for BlackBerry Storm impression, features, screenshots

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    Poynt now available for the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220

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    BlackBerry Cool
    on January 9, 2009, at 12:25 pm
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    You might remember us last talking about Poynt during the BlackBerry Developer Conference, when we interviewed Peter Werry about Multiplied’s free local search service for BlackBerry. Poynt was a grand prize winner in the BlackBerry Developer Challenge.

    Multiplied has announced today that their latest version of Poynt comes equipped with support for the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220. You can download the latest version of Poynt at the link below. Go nuts!

    Download Poynt for BlackBerry

    |via MobileSyrup|

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    BlackBerry Developer Conference: the Interviews (BlackBerry Cool Podcast)

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    BlackBerry Cool
    on October 31, 2008, at 4:29 pm
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    The BlackBerry Cool Podcast

    Ok, so we’re a little late (early?) with this edition of The BlackBerry Cool Podcast. Blame the Blackberry Developer Conference – the sunny weather and good times left us pretty unreceptive to Ottawa’s dreary climate, making doing any sort of work quite difficult.

    We’ve been thinking quite a bit about BBDC this past week, because it was such a clear marker of the sea change currently underway in the BlackBerry ecosystem. There is so much energy coming from RIM and BlackBerry developers right now. The amount of cool applications displayed during the BlackBerry Cool 15, the BBDC Keynote, or by enthusiastic developers with BlackBerrys in hand was mind-boggling. If you weren’t there yourself, you wouldn’t believe BlackBerrys could do these things. I’m sure with the new APIs and tools being released by RIM, the software we see at WES will be even better.

    To that end, this week’s entire podcast is dedicated to the people that help make BBDC worthwhile: developers and the VC’s that fund them.

    Beth Marcus, Zeemote
    Evgeny Lebanidze, BeamBerry
    Peter Werry, Multiplied (Poynt)
    Robert Kao, SmrtGuard (PeeKaWho)
    Rick Segal, BlackBerry Partners Fund

    Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get anyone from BlackBerry Cool 15 winner Nobex on the podcast (they were too busy cashing their 150,000 cheque), but we’ll have them on next week. Downloading/streaming options for the BlackBerry Cool Podcast can be found after the jump, as well as links to all the relevant news stories. Enjoy!

    Special thanks to BlackBerry Cool Podcast sponsor, Rove Mobile, and BBDC coverage sponsor, bitHeads!

    BlackBerry Developer Conference Key News

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