Here’s another best apps recommendation from me for Android phone users out there. But the reason I put the Android apps here is not because they offer the free and PRO version, it’s because they simply the best apps in their category. Whether you have HTC droid, Incredible or even the new HTC EVO 4G; these apps is a must have Android apps for people with a busy life and often on the go.
I’m sure some of you have heard Oprah’s campaign on no phone zone while driving. I’m also sure that some of you doesn’t agree with her or you agree but you feel that you still have to activate your phone while driving, just in case you get important calls etc. Well I recently got an interesting email and I think there’s now a win-win solution for this problem.
Meet two of my favorite apps when driving: Drivesafe and Caller ID Reader. Both apps comes from the same developer, and both apps will help you handle your email, text and phone while you ride, so you don’t have to look to your phone while driving. So you can stay connected, while keeping your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. Isn’t it great?
Well lets talk about them and allow me to give you a glimpse on how the apps works.
DriveSafe Android App will help you with email and text. DriveSafe android app will automatically read your email and text out loud as soon as you receive them. It is easy to setup, customizable, and it’s also a light app. The app of course compatible with bluetooth. Checkout the video below:
Meanwhile, the Caller ID reader works in almost the same way as Drivesafe. The difference is that the android app will read the caller id when you receive a call on the go. Here are some screenshots from the app:
The Best Android apps is available in two version; and here’s the pricing:
Caller ID Reader Free version will give you the same features, but with an upgrade message after every third use. The Caller ID Reader PRO will cost you $9.95 (one time fee). Meanwhile the Drivesafe PRO version cost is $13.95 annually.
Looking from the price point, I personally think that it is worth every penny.
PS: the best android apps can also works on Blackberry devices. How great is that? you can checkout more information on www.calleridreader.com and www.drivesafe.ly (The drivesafe works on other platform too, including iPhone)
Introduction to Nokia E72 vs Nokia N97 vs Blackberry Bold 9700 Comparison
We all heard and know the success of Nokia with its business phones, especially from Eseries and Nseries. After gaining a hit with Nokia E71, They released the Nokia E72… Meanwhile, the Nokia N97 also has a spot on cellphones fan. At the other end of arena, we see the latest product of RIM, the Blackberry Bold 9700. RIM Blackberry has always been known as the maker of business phone. And a bunch of people over at the internet are saying that the Bold 9700 might be the best Blackberry ever produced. This makes us wondering, which one is better? is it the E72, N97, or Bold 9700? You’ll find the answer in this Nokia E72 vs Nokia N97 vs Blackberry Bold 9700 Comparison, based on their specs, features and design.
Skype has succesfully enhanced the cellphone function to the other services like data. In the future, we hope that this free VoIP service will broaden its capability in roaming charge. Soon Skype will get into iPhone and iPod Touch, Reuters reports. The exactly day is incoming Tuesday we will get it in 2009 CTIA Wireless show. Further info that in May, Skype will also be available for Blackberry smartphones.
Apparently the success story of Skype will continue. So far, there are over 400 million people have become this Ebay owned free service member. Scoot Durchslag, Skype COO had said that Skype for iPhone was the first consumer request, so he had big hope of that iPhone app.
You know, just like other phone manufacturers, Blackberry have a numerous type of phone. And it might be a bit confusing to choose the perfect Blackberry phone for you. So, to help you decide which one you should choose, I found a comparison reviews over at the internet in a video format. As we all already know, the top-three position in Blackberry phones are the Blackberry Storm, Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Bold.
Zara of MobileChic made the 2 minutes video comparison between BB Storm vs BB Bold vs BB Curve 8900. What’s great is that she managed to point out the pros and cons of each Blackberry phone.
Check the video under:
So, people, after seeing the video, which Blackberry phone that wins your heart? Is it the Storm, Bold, or Curve?
There are some complaints about the Blackberry storm’s touchscreen that remains active when we’re making a call. And finally I believe that I’ve found the FREE and pretty reliable solution over at the internet. So this time I present you the Free Blackberry Storm Software named Talk Lock. This utilities freeware will lock your phone when you’re in a call to prevent accidental screen presses. Cool huh?
So the official site said that the Blackberry Storm freeware will automatically engages a few seconds after a call is connected, and intercepts touch screen actions. Of course, when you’re done calling the Blacberry’s touchscreen will active again. You can also disable the lock and return to your normal phone behavior at any time by swiping your finger across the screen from left to right. Oh, by the way, you need BlackBerry Storm, OS 4.7.0 or above.
Here are some features of the Blackberry Storm’s cool freeware:
Automatically runs after installation, and on each reboot
Automatically activates after phone calls are connected
Automatically hides when phone calls are completed
Manual unlock with “slide to unlock” function
Menu item to re-engage lock after unlock
Customizeable backround image (uses /home/user/TalkLock-Background.png if it exists under Device Memory)
Read more information on its official site (and have your Talklock sent to your Storm from there). Enjoy!
UPDATE: It seems that the TalkLock developers have chopped the word “free”. Too bad… The software is now priced at US$2.99. It’s still reasonable price for me… What do you think?
I do have an OTA link that offer the Talklock for free, but I do not know about the license… Download it at your own risk, ok? Remember, I strongly suggest you to purchase it to support the developer…
Blackberry Storm’s web browser is nice and decent. It also enough to browse YouTube videos. However, a dedicated client usually will bring you much richer experience and that is what exactly Google is doing right now. So according to my source, Google has released a free YouTube client for BlackBerry Storm, the very first Blackberry device with touchscreen.
YouTube client’s features including:
Browse millions of videos, including most viewed, top rated, and the day’s featured videos.
Access your YouTube account on your phone and access your Favorites, Playlists, and your own uploaded videos.
Upload videos directly from your phone and see them appear within moments on both the mobile site and YouTube.com.
Favorite, share, rate, and comment on videos directly from the mobile website to other YouTube users.
Find the specific video you’re looking for by easily searching for it.
Discover “Related” videos for each video you watch on your phone.
So you can download the free youtube client for Blackberry Storm by following the link under and then you enter your phone number. Then Google will send you a link to download the free Blackberry Storm YouTube Client. The second way is you connect to the internet from your Blackberry Storm browser and go to m.google.com/youtube.
At the end of the year, all of the Blackberry Bold user has been given a present . So the Blackberry Bold firmware update (OS 4.6.0.217) have finally here. But please remember, it is a leaked OS update, so you can download it for free, but at your own risk.
But there’s a good news to ease your worry. Our folks at the CrackBerry have downloaded the Blackberry Bold Firmware Update (OS 4.6.0.217) and according to them, it seems that nothing’s going wrong so far.
There’s also a guide as to how to rectify you BlackBerry if you do download the unofficial Blackberry Bold Firmware update (OS 4.6.0.217) and it messes with you device, click on this link to get the instructions to sort out your BlackBerry, let’s hope you don’t need it, if you have downloaded the either of the two updates let us know what you think of it, also if you have had any problems you think our readers should know about.
Download BlackBerry Bold Firmware Update OS 4.6.0.217 here
Meanwhile, for list of other firmware update for BB Bold, BB Storm, BB Pearl etc (including the latest ones), you can find them right here. And don’t forget the guide to update/upgrade your Blackberry firmware.
Install only if you are comfortable with the process.
Hello! Sorry for the late update, I was a bit busy Anyway, I’m gladly announcing that there’s a new Blackberry Storm freeware available, called Blinko. Basically Blinko is a chatting-for-free software, with several other cool features. So the combination of this freeware and your Blackberry Storm (9500 or 9530) you can chat for free with your friends anytime and everywhere you go!
Here are the features of the Blinko:
Send instant messages at lightning speed
MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM & GTalk on the go
Phone book import
Minimal data & battery consumption (4 messages for 1 kB)
Take and send photos (free)
Group chats
Easy to add & invite new friends
Fun status & Emoticons
WAP connectivity
Reinvite pending contacts
Free Entertainment services (Quiz, jokes, …)
SMS Wake up if you want to chat with friends who are offline
Friends groups to structure your friends list
Local storage of your friends list to save data and money
Free to download & use
Thus, you enjoy full freedom of instant mobile communication – no need to have access to Internet/PC & no need to worry in which community your friends are!
Here are the steps to use the Blackberry Storm freeware:
Download & install the application (Java, MIDP 2.0 phones) on your phone
Create your account – mobile number, your name and password is enough to get started (in case of connection problems please check your GPRS settings)
Add all your friends (directly from your phone book if supported by your phone) to your friends list or activate your existing MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM or GTalk account and your contacts are immediately imported to your friends list
blinko is available in 8 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian & Dutch.
Here’s the link to download the Blackberry Storm version of Blinko:
To download the Blackberry Storm freeware directly to your cell phone, here’s what you need to do:
Open wap.GetJar.com with your mobile -> Quick Download -> enter Quick Download Code 22042
IMPORTANT:
You know, basically Blinko is a java based application, and it means that Blinko can work on most cellphones too..!! Isn’t that exciting? So what are you waiting for? go and download Blinko from the link provided above
I noticed that many people are searching for the Blackberry Storm ringtones, and finally a while ago I went to Google to find some free Blackberry Storm Ringtones, so that I can present the ringtones to you Blackberry storm users. Finally after some time of frustration of not finding the exact and free Blackberry storm ringtone, I found a website named ventones from yahoo answer. The man recommended the ventones said that the ringtones at ventones can also be used in Blackberry Storm or other Blackberry phones. So I went to the official website to find Blackberry storm ringtones and eventually I found out that they also share free ringtones for various blackberry phones and other devices besides providing a service that allows you to make your own ringtones… Isn’t that cool? Making your very own Blackberry Storm Ringtone for free! All you have to do is just register as a member there. It’s totally free, or so they said. To bad I don’t have the Blackberry Storm in my hand, so I can’t make and download my own Blackberry Storm ringtones. Anyway, here’s an excerpt from the official site:
Never pay for Ringtones again!
Ringtones are very easy to make, and simple to download to your phone.
You will use the latest free online tools in order to:
Create Free Ringtones from your own collection of songs.
Download Free Ringtones created by other people.
Download free iPHONE – Cingular – AT&T – Sprint – Verizon – Alltel – T Mobile – US Cellular – Rogers – Fido – Metro Pcs and Cricket ringtones .
Create Free ringtones in seconds from your own music files!
Make ringtones and we will send them straight to your cell phone inside a text message.
Don’t have internet or text messaging? That’s ok, for most carriers internet is not needed. You will also learn several ways to load the ringtones and wallpapers on your phone.
Please note that I cannot guarantee that the ringtones will work on Blackberry Storm, but I guess it’s worth the shot, right guys? Please do try it and leave a comment below
[Update]
I think that the ringtones also works on other devices besides Blackberry Storm, So why don’t you try one? Some of our commenters are satisfied with the make and share ringtones service, what about you? Oh, by the way, you can download other free stuffs like games
Anyway, You might also be interested in our compilation of Storm 9500 freeware and themes Here are the links:
Good news, Blackberry storm users and fans out there! Verizon Wireless has officially released a pretty significant firmware update for their Blackberry Storm 9530 messaging phone. It is the key to some improvements for your Blackberry Storm, and you can have it by downloading the 102 MB size update. Oh, by the way, the latest version of the Blackberry Storm firmware update is ver 4.7.0.75 r107
The latest OS update resolves the following issues:
Intermittently, the device may have powered and immediately powered back on while sitting idle or when using multimedia applications.
Intermittently, a user may have experienced muted incoming audio when using voice-activated dialing.
Intermittently, while listening to music (on low volume) with “wired” stereo headsets, if the user received an incoming call, the audio volume of the music increased to the highest level.
Intermittently, customers received a recording stating, “cannot complete call as dialed” when manually dialing *86.
General improvements:
Improvements in performance for multi-media applications such as video, music and MMS.
Improvements in Bluetooth audio performance.
Improvements in display performance in terms of correctly displaying keys when switching between landscape and portrait modes.
