BlackBerry Apps

Save the World with Outbreak Control App for Blackberry

Outbreak is a word that is usually used to describe the spread of a virus or some other form of sickness. While the outbreak in Outbreak Control App for Blackberry is also that, the actual form of the game is a curious division between that kind of high-octane action premise and the highly strategic and tactical game that comes behind the name.

An interesting plot for an interesting game

As the lead scientist for one of the most desperate research projects ever conceived in the history of humanity, what you will need to do is find a vaccine that helps with the six deadliest viruses ever seen in human history. Together, these six viral agents represent the overall hex virus and up until your efforts to contain the spread with a vaccine it has really run amok amongst humans and been unstoppable at every turn.

However, things go from bad to worse at the start of this game because of the fact that Outbreak Control Blackberry app starts with the virus getting loose and starting to spread all around the hex grid that forms the outbreak area. Your goal for the entire experiment is to start by containing the virus and then finding a cure. You must then use that cure to reduce the presence of the hex virus after you have contained the virus and prevented an outbreak in the process. It is a very interesting premise and that alone will be enough to bring a lot of people into the fold.

Real strategy and tactics involved

In the actual Outbreak Control Blackberry game app, you are faced with a hex grid that itself is also made up of hexagonal spaces that will be occupied by viral and cure elements. In each stage, your goal is to battle the bad guys to a standstill and then eventually circumvent and defeat them. Each victory just makes the next battle tougher, making this game really akin to a game of chess on steroids. Bring your best mental game, but don’t start the game unless you have the mental wherewithal to finish it.

Final Score

Outbreak Control app for Blackberry, as stated in the intro, is really a combination of strategy, tactics and action. Not many games can pull that off and even fewer of them exist for the Blackberry platform. In the end, Blackberry Outbreak Control app receives a final score of 9 out of 10 and a hearty recommendation.

Conquer the Board with Medieval Kings Chess II App for Blackberry

Chess is the ultimate strategy game with armies involved and it has pieces called the King, Queen, Bishop, Knight and Castle so really there is no surprise that the comparisons have been drawn between the game of chess and some of the greatest military kings of our time. This intersection point is also present in Medieval Kings Chess II app for Blackberry.

Relive history through the chessboard

Historical battles are studied all the time in the schools and universities of the world and imagery is a big part of those studies. Although the chessboard cannot really recreate the battle in detail because the position of the pieces at the start is the same each time, it can recreate some of the imagery and that is what is done with the pieces on the chessboard in this game. The greatest war kings of the medieval period are represented here and reliving history through the chessboard is a big part of what Medieval Kings Chess II Blackberry game app is all about.

Battle the AI

At the same time that you are appreciating the Blackberry chess game’s imagery and visual appeal, you can also appreciate the different AI levels that are available. If you want to play single player games you can choose from six different difficulty levels ranging from those appropriate for the beginner and intermediate players all the way up to those that will give even the best chess players a run for their money.

Battle online

If you’d like the challenge of playing another human player, the good news is that this game comes with multiplayer support. That means that you can play against other human players through this software, playing ladder games and even going for the “chess by mail” option that allows you to game up to 16 moves at once. Live games are also available if you happen to have an opponent in real life that you’d like to play.

Final Score

In the final consideration, Blackberry Medieval Kings Chess II game app is mostly about the visual effects. As long as you have decent AI a chess game is hard to mess up. However, the visually stunning nature of this app combined with multiplayer support serves to catapult it from the good to the great category. At the end of the day, we decided to take that into consideration and give this Medieval Kings Chess II app for Blackberry a final score of 8 out of 10.

Explode Everything with Ka Glom App for Blackberry

The best games are usually the ones that require the most thinking combined with the ones that have the most action. Magmic Games has often been good at combining the two elements and in no place is that truer than with Ka Glom Game App for Blackberry.

Learn the game with a quick tutorial

The tutorial mode on Ka Glom Blackberry app is a great place for you to learn the basics of how the game goes. In that mode, you will learn about the explosive jelly and the other non-explosive blocks that are in the game. You will learn that your goal is to clear the entire board by creating chain reaction explosions that go across different color types. You need to get four jelly Ka Gloms of the same type to create the explosion and once you’ve done that you should then see all of the connecting blocks with the same color eliminated. The bigger the explosions you get, the higher your ultimate ranking will be.

Different modes for different people

Blackberry Ka Glom Game app offers three different modes that people can use. There is the normal mode which provides a very good basic game. People that wish to show their true mettle might eventually want to upgrade to the time attack in order to boast their prowess at beating the levels. However, anyone that thinks their Ka Glom skill is unmatched should definitely check out puzzle mode in order to see just how good they have their Ka Glom theory down.

Discover new games within games

The greatest part about Ka Glom is that you don’t actually get to try out the complete game until you earn it. You can actually look at additional modes of the game that are hidden from the start. In order to try those modes out you have to unlock them and in order to do that you need to become really good at the same. It gives you something to strive for and that in turn allows you to remain competitive.

Final Score

Ka Glom app for Blackberry is a great game with great graphics and highly addictive game play. It is a very cheap game to download and with a huge amount of replays available because of the different modes and level generators, it is great value for the money. In the end, we’ve given Ka Glom Blackberry app a final score of 9 out of 10.

Remote Access without Restrictions with Ovi App for Blackberry

It used to be called Avvenu, but ever since it was acquired by Nokia it has changed its name to Ovi. Now, what is arguably the best remote access app for the Blackberry is still available to its customers thanks to people that had previously purchased and supported the product that came before.

Remote access with files

Just like the previous Avvenu incarnation, Ovi app for Blackberry allows you to use your smart phone to actually access the files on your home drive. You can view the photos that you have stored on your home computer and you can go through all of the other documents that you have. Even complicated files such as MS Office files will be accessible through Blackberry Ovi app as long as you have something on your Blackberry that can actually open and read the different file types that are involved.

Remote access with music

At the same time that Ovi Blackberry app is giving you the chance to remotely access all of the files you have on your main computer, you can also do that same trick with music files. Any music that you have on your main computer is music that you can download through the remote connection to your smart phone device. Then, once you actually have the music files on your smart phone, there is really nothing to stop you from playing them and enjoying the experience.

Remote access with delivery

Do you have an important document on your home computer that needs delivery and you have no way of getting back home before the deadline? It’s no problem whatsoever if you have Ovi Blackberry mobile application. Simply use the remote connection to send the file directly to the client. The same thing applies with all of the other files that you have stored on your main system.

Create universally accessible files

With Ovi mobile app for Blackberry, you can now take your files and use them to create anytime files. These files are actually stored files that are accessible to you on your smart phone even when your home system has actually turned off. That is about as powerful as an app can get with the current technological context.

Final Score

Ovi app for Blackberry is a great remote access app that you can use to augment your Blackberry with material from your home system. As a result, we’ve given it a final score of 9 out of 10.

Get it Done Cheaper with Jaikuberry App for Blackberry

With Twitter and Facebook clients available for Blackberry devices (and a few of both are pretty good by now), why on Earth would someone want to create a new app for a completely new service that essentially did the exact same thing? Well, if Jaikuberry Blackberry app wants to become an accepted software package, it will most definitely need to answer that question.

Short poems about life

Jaikuberry derives its name from the two words Haiku and Blackberry. Everyone knows what a Blackberry is (at least it is hoped you know if you’re reading this Blackberry app review), but a Haiku might be foreign terminology to you. The Haiku is a Japanese poem that follows a specific structure. They are sometimes referred to outside of Japan as being small poems about life. Doesn’t that remind you a bit of micro-blogging? The creators of this Blackberry mobile app made that connection and that is why Jaikuberry exists.

Small is better

Jaikuberry app for Blackberry is not exactly the same as conventional micro-blogging as there is room for a little bit more in terms of posts and comments. The main reason for this however is the fact that the interface of Jaikuberry is highly minimalist. There is a white background, black text and a little bit of blue smatterings that represent dividers between different posts and different comments. It is very much an interface and accompanying interaction options that collectively are designed to allow you to do the micro-blogging thing while at the same time consuming as little bit of bandwidth as possible.

The big question

In the end, the way that you need to answer your own internal dialogue about Jaikuberry Blackberry app it to acknowledge your own needs in this area. Would you prefer to be able to do the same thing for lower bandwidth? Are you willing to get your family and friends on Jaikuberry as well to make that happen? If the answer to your question is an emphatic yes, you need this Blackberry app. If the answer is no, you might not want to take a second look at this. That is the critical question around which everything else regarding this application revolves.

Final Score

For our own part, we’ve acknowledged that Jaikuberry app for Blackberry is exceptionally useful on a functional level. However, visually it is barely adequate and there is really no innovation at all. So while we recognize that on a case-by-case basis this app could be great, overall we’ve given Blackberry Jaikuberry app a final score of 6 out of 10.

Weather Channel BlackBerry App Review

Traveling executives, especially those who globetrot, might need this handy app in their BlackBerry devices. Weather Channel app for BlackBerry offers a one-click access to present weather information, alongside radar maps, local and national severe weather alerts, airport delays, and hourly, 36-hour and 10-day forecasts to help users plan their daily and upcoming activities more systematically. The app also lets its users share what they learn, as far as weather info is concerned, with others through email or text messages.

Features of BlackBerry Weather Channel App

The Weather Channel BlackBerry app is tailor made to provide weather information to you. So there is nothing more to it than various types of weather info that interests you.

The app provides accurate, localized weather information, thanks to the proprietary TruPoint technology that offers detailed weather conditions within 2 km of your current location using device’s built-in GPS feature. Further, there is a convenient home screen temperature indicator that turns red when severe weather conditions looms over your head, plus an option to save and nickname your favorite locations or the places where you happen to be present most often as part of your work related travel or otherwise. The app collects the weather information related to such places, when you select them on screen.

As mentioned, the Weather Channel mobile application lets you share the information you’ve learnt with others in the address book through email or simple text message, right from inside the app. However, to run the Weather Channel app, you require OS 4.2 or above in your handset.

Conclusion

Summing it up, the BlackBerry Weather Channel mobile app offers everything what you would like to learn about weather conditions around you in general. It offers local weather info as well the weather details of places of your choice, backed by radar maps, emergency alerts, airport delays, and precise forecasts. Weather Channel uses BlackBerry’s built-in GPS to pinpoint your current location. The app is available for $34.99 on annual subscription.

Xobni Mobile BlackBerry App Review

You receive emails from lots of people, some with the sender’s contact info and others without them, and most likely, there’ll be plenty of such messages that you’ve not bothered to copy into a contact and sync it with your BlackBerry’s address book. The Xobni Mobile app for BlackBerry eases the job for you by pulling together phone calls, emails and text messages you’ve exchanged with others, with incoming contact details, to build a comprehensive address book that virtually links to everyone who is a common factor in the circle. It is similar to the Social Networking websites that shows common friends between you and another person, even if he/she is not in your friend’s list.

Xobni Mobile BlackBerry App Features

BlackBerry Xobni Mobile app can be used in two ways; either you can let it mine information for you from incoming emails and text messages automatically, or you can pay for letting it sync all the information it had extracted from all your email in Outlook, and get it to your BlackBerry. The second option is more precise as the mobile application automatically mining info from incoming emails is not that fool proof (sometimes, it extracts unwanted numbers as well). Further, no frequent syncing is required, even if the other guy had not mailed you for a month as the app syncs across from Outlook over the web, thereby getting all updated info.

The Xobini address book can be accessed by scrolling to the top, while you are typing an email. The contacts are sorted by those who you are in contact most often, even though specific search using letters/words is also possible. Alternatively, you can add the addresses the standard way, if you want to.

Given the size of information that Xobini puts together, it goes without mention that quite a few memory space will be taken up for the same. So, the app gives you, the user, an option whether to accumulate data in the phone memory or external memory card.

On the downside, the install experience could have been made much better. Also, you are required to set up the online account before you can use the app in the BlackBerry. And quite oddly, the app requires you to click open the app permissions page while you install it.

Conclusion

Xobini Mobile is an excellent BlackBerry app that combines the utilities of LinkedIn, Facebook, and Gwabbit, backed by seamless integration with the BlackBerry OS. With this app at your disposal, no longer would you be required to scavenge old emails for a person’s contact details again. Single license of Xobni Mobile BlackBerry app comes at a price tag of $9.99, while Xobni Mobile with Xobni One: $6.99 + $3.99 monthly fee or $39.90/year.

Cortado Workplace BlackBerry App Review

At present, you can view Office documents in the BlackBerry, but you can’t print them easily. Similarly, you could check your flight status online, but you have no choice when it comes to printing your boarding pass without paying for the same at your hotel. True, you might not need to print documents from your BlackBerry most of the times. But when such a need indeed arises, you are left with no option to do so. The Cortado Workplace app brings a solution to this trouble. The app provides free storage and cloud printing ‘on any local or network printer’. In other words, you could access the files and documents saved in the cloud anytime through the BlackBerry Cortado Workplace file manager application or the browser, and take a printout of the same on any local or network printer.

Working of BlackBerry Cortado Workplace App

Once signed in, you could upload files into Cortado Workplace web explorer, and later view it on the BlackBerry or copy it altogether into the BlackBerry memory. Similarly, users could copy an email into the Workplace from the BlackBerry inbox.

However, users might find the interface of the Cortado Workplace BlackBerry mobile application a bit clunky. For example, to open a folder in Work Place, instead of simply clicking on it, users need to go to the BlackBerry menu and choose open. Further, if you refresh the Work Place to find the file that you have recently uploaded, the refreshed page takes you back to the top level rather than refreshing the folder you were working in.

Final Thoughts

Cortado Workplace app is useful to executives who travel a lot, and who might need to print some documents, such as a boarding pass, in the shortest of time frames. True, using the app has its own share of complexities. But this is not an app for everyday use. Its more of an emergency utility wherein one has to use his/her BlackBerry to print some of the documents. The app’s complimentary Web Explorer helps managing files from a PC or notebook. The app is available for free, with 1GB online storage space bundled. To know more about the Cortado Workplace app, visit www.cortado.com/workplace.

txtForward BlackBerry App Review

BlackBerry is clearly the favorite smart phone amongst business people around the globe, thanks to the gadget’s advanced email and messaging features. However, as important as the sending/receiving emails and SMS is the need to save/store the relevant ones safely for future reference/use. In order to save your emails/SMS, Electric Pocket has introduced an app for BlackBerry, named txtForward- SMS to Email backup. With this app, you won’t again run the risk of accidentally losing your important emails or SMS from your smart phone. At a basic level, the app works by forwarding your text messages to any email address provided by you. BlackBerry txtForward app comes with a price tag of $19.95.

How txtForward BlackBerry App Works?

The txtForward concept is simple and straightforward. All the incoming emails and text messages are saved in the Electric Pocket server, before forwarding it to the email address configured by you. Alternatively, it is also possible to direct the incoming emails/text messages straight to the email address rather than routing through the said server. Now, if you have Outlook Express to notify an incoming email in your email address, it is guaranteed that you won’t miss an email/text message again. The beauty of this arrangement is that you could reply directly to the forwarded text messages from your configured personal email account, from your PC.

Installation

The installation process of txtForward mobile application is easy and manageable even for a novice. The file size of 27.1 KB does not strain the system resources either. Alternatively, you could also use BlackBerry’s Desktop Manager to install the application provided your phone is connected to your desktop PC through a USB cable. The app is compatible with all top free email service providers such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Rediffmail, AIM etc.

On the downside, the app does not work well with messages with multimedia contents.

Conclusion

txtForward app for BlackBerry is a handy application that does exactly what it promises to do. The app lets you remain on top of your emails/text/PIN messages, even if you are away from your BlackBerry. On the pricing front, the app seems to be a bit overpriced, at $19.95. We suggest that you download a trial version, and try out its features, before purchasing the licensed version. For more information about txtForward BlackBerry app, visit www.txtforward.com.

UberTwitter App for BlackBerry Review

UberTwitter is a feature-rich Twitter app specially designed for BlackBerry devices. The app supports all the basic Twitter features plus some advanced functionalities.

A Perfect Twitter Client for BlackBerry

UberTwitter brings all the Twitter features to your BlackBerry smartphone. UberTwitter has all the basic Twitter features including update your status, view list of followers, replies/retweets, direct messages, view your friend timeline, search Twitter, view currently trendy topics and much more. In addition, the app provides some advanced capabilities such as photo integration, URL shortening, twitter lists, changing twitter avatars, tweet shrinking, location aware features and so on. You can manage multiple Twitter accounts using UberTwitter app.

When the BlackBerry UberTwitter mobile application starts, you have to enter your Twitter username and password. You also have the option to choose location broadcast with this app. You can add location to your every tweet. You can also update your profile with current location. You can also set interface options such as receiving notifications for new tweets, number of tweets in a timeline, merging direct messages and replies to timeline and so on.

UberTwitter App Menu Features

The UberTwitter main menu features many options to make your mobile microblogging quick and easy. With Update My Status option, you can type in your message and it will display your Twitter feed. There are options to view direct messages and replies. To retweet a message, you have to highlight the message and choose Retweet from the main menu. To send a direct message, highlight the user you want to message and choose Direct Message option from the menu. You can also mark your favorite tweets by choosing Favorite option. With Refresh option, you can get all the latest tweets.

You can get a detailed list of friends with My Friends option. You can access the full power of Twitter search by choosing the Search option. The most popular topics on twitter will be displayed by hitting Trending topics tab. The app also lets you to embed videos directly into your Twitter updates. One of the exciting features of UberTwitter app is Everyone Near You option. It allows you to get the location of Twitter users you follows. You can also include your GPS location using this feature. The app also supports TweetPhoto to share your pictures.

Final Thoughts

UberTwitter is one of the best Twitter clients to access Twitter on your BlackBerry device. It ensures a simple and clean user interface that acts quickly. UberTwitter is a free application and you can download it easily.