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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.

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