The best BlackBerry apps of the month are rolling into town once again: five delicious downloadable dollops of digital delight. As always, we’ve done the hunting so you don’t have to – showcased below are some of the finest apps ever to grace the internal storage of your BlackBerry handset. Without any further ado, let’s get to business…
Virgin Media certainly isn’t messing about when it comes to taking massive strides in the digital marketplace. No sooner has the media giant launched its own dedicated music store, it’s also pushing this intriguing app onto BlackBerry (and Android) devices. PushLife’s Virgin Mobile Live syncs with your desktop PC to allow the quick and painless transfer of your music library.
It connects to Virgin’s aforementioned music marketplace, and even allows you to post about your songs to Twitter as well as have content recommended to you based on your listening tastes. So if the app constantly assails you with Will Young and Sugababes ballads, you’ve only got your own twisted aural preferences to blame.
If you’re anything like us, you’ve experienced the intense embarrassment of sending a text whilst drunk. The resultant pieces of prose are usually badly garbled at best and entirely incoherent at worst, and when they’re directed at ex-partners or annoying workmates, they can cause you an intolerable amount of agony when your hangover eventually subsides.
Schedule Send is one solution to this problem – not only does it allow you to specify what time and date you wish to send a text or email, it gives you that much-needed safety net when you type under the influence – scheduled messages can be edited right up until the moment of delivery, allowing you to check what you’ve written when your head is a little clearer, and expunge the evidence if it’s not suitable for public consumption. One of the best BlackBerry apps for work hard, play harder types.
Should you fail to follow the advice outlined by the preceding review then this cheeky little app might be of assistance. It automatically creates excuses that can be used to extract yourself from sticky social situations – such as when you’ve sent a tipsy text to your boss telling him he’s got a behind that would bring shame to an obese water buffalo.
Granted, some of the excuses given are a little thin, and many apply to very precise situations – but if you’re in need of an exit strategy and your mind has gone blank all of sudden, this could be your ticket to freedom, and you’ll find yourself thanking your stars you read our best BlackBerry apps of the month column.
Remember those ‘Whack-a-mole’ mallet games you used to find in dusty old seaside arcades? Bunny Buster is the mobile equivalent of this archaic pastime, offering two game modes which revolve exclusively around hitting poor, defenceless hares over the head.
The memory mode challenges you with hitting the colour hoppers in order, while the timed task is all about how many you can crack over the bonce in a minute. It’s hardly rocket science, but the score-based nature of the gameplay is shockingly addictive. Just don’t let anyone from the RSPCA catch you playing it.
The amount of cool stuff that’s possible with a smartphone like a BlackBerry is almost mind-boggling, but it comes at a cost: battery life.
Mobile multi-tasking is most definitely a marvel of the modern era, but having loads of apps running at once drains your long-suffering power cell like there’s no tomorrow. As a result, you’re likely to be forever exiting programs to check up on what your battery level is.
FastBattery circumvents this annoying process by including the power status of your phone’s digital heart in the menu structure of the app you’re using. It works across several different programs – including Facebook, Twitter and Gmail – and is a surprisingly useful download.
