As you all know, RIM is doing its best to reach out to folks all over the world, especially when it comes to application development. So next month, RIM has three awesome events in South America to get in touch with developers of the local region. The dates are March 8th, March 9th, and March 11th where all three events are in different regions of South America. Continue reading to check out the full schedule and details.
It looks like the results are in and the BlackBerry Curve makes it in first place over the iPhone more importantly. All these statistics are once again according to IDC Mobile Devices and Technology Trends who do these statistics. The list goes as follows for Q4 in 2009:
1. RIM – BlackBerry Curve
2. Apple – iPhone 3G S
3. Motorola – DROID
4. Apple – iPhone 3G
5. RIM – BlackBerry Pearl
6. RIM – BlackBerry Bold
7. RIM – BlackBerry Storm
8. Palm – Pre
9. RIM – BlackBerry Tour
10. T-Mobile – myTouch 3G
Out of all of IUGO’s games available for BlackBerry, Zombie Attack is my very favorite. Zombie Attack is a tower defense style game where you must protect your shack from zombies coming in to destroy it. So how do you protect it? For starters, you get a stick to hit them with but you’ll never be able to keep up. Build up to 4 different types of turrets that shoot bullets, burst fires, chop up bodies, and launch bombs. All these turrets can be upgraded into several different stages as you get more money to do so, making the even more powerful. You can place them any where you want strategically creating a way for zombies to get killed in route on the way to your shack. Today’s giveaway is 10 absolutely free licenses. To participate you must:
This giveaway will be running until midnight February 9th and the winners will be announced the day after.
-by The PocketBerry Team
Swindoe is a well known rapper from the West Coast who just dropped his album earlier this month. Being a huge fan of BlackBerry as he went from the Storm 9530 to the Bold 9700, he created two versions of a song called “BlkBerry” where yes he does shout out to many popular online publications including myself! In celebrating the launch of his album, we are putting out a coupon code here today and the first 50 people will get it absolutely free. First come, first serve folks so get it while you can! “Woowooowoo,” as Swindoe would say. Click here to head over to the Swindoe Store to purchase. Use the coupon code “POCKETBERRY-SWINDOE” at checkout to get the album absolutely free.
-by The PocketBerry Team
I love Viigo, but nothing beats a traditional Google Reader. Many folks out there including myself are waiting for an official Google Reader to launch, but this one will suffice. Unread is a Google Reader App for BlackBerry that is straight forward and simple. Upon opening the application, simply enter your Google account information and then you’ll be brought to your whole feed.
Features:
Unread is available for only $4.99 at the PocketBerry Store. As it has been available for quite some time now, Unread has expanded itself to all OS 5.0 devices as well.
-by Kal Chebli
As tweeted last night on @PocketBerry, I went ahead and downloaded Fun Park Tycoon for BlackBerry and promised to give you guys my input. In best hopes, you all know about Tycoon games and the game style so we don’t have to get into that. Fun Park Tycoon allows you to build a whole theme park and maintain every aspect of it. Feel free to build rides, arcades, benches, ice cream stands and much more. The thing that pissed me off was that the description of the game is completely wrong and advertises it as a pizzeria management game. Any way, to get back to the game, it is very addictive.
As promised, we’re announcing the winners for both the Cliffed game by IUGO and the handy application PrivacyStar. Cliffed was the first game launched by IUGO for the BlackBerry platform which hit really big as the game does very well on the iPhone. After expanding to the BlackBerry, we had to share the game with you guys as we were following it close, hence a giveaway. PrivacyStar is really handy as mentioned earlier. It’s a full blown out call blocking application with tons of options to it. Traditionally you have to pay for it annually but today at PocketBerry, we’re announcing 5 winners who will win 1-year licenses each. Hit the jump for the full list of winners.
As many of you know, Verizon BlackBerry smartphones have been optimized to have Bing as the single search engine on the start page via BlackBerry Browser. This angered many at first and now it has just become a norm. Of course Google is not fond of the idea, and many seem to think that the new Bing search engine lock hurts Google’s business but it’s still far from it. So Bing forces itself on a Verizon BlackBerry and Google launches a blown out commercial during the Super Bowl last night amazing many. Is Bing going to contract with a TV station under the terms that only Bing commercials play and no Google? They can’t do that of course, but I bet they would if they were given the opportunity. The main point is that Bing can continue forcing itself on smartphones and other devices and will continue losing respect for it, while Google openly puts its services out their optional in a smoother more respectable manner. If you’re confused and haven’t seen the commercial, above is the first screenshot of the commercial. To view the full commercial continue reading.
Just a heads up for all those who were waiting for Gym Technik to work on OS 5.0, the day has finally come. Just over the weekend, Crystal let us know that the application currently supports OS 5.0 and all links have been updated on their site. Of course Gym Technik is not a freebie so don’t get so frenzy over it. If you’d like to give it a test drive, click here for a free trial. If you’d like to use their free services, point your BlackBerry Browser to m.gymtechnik.com and start using their basic features.
-by Otoniel Bruno
How far can we possibly be from the BlackBerry Tour 2 9650 launch? The official visual voicemail application for it has leaked out as well and it wasn’t from MegaUpload. This one’s officially linked off of Verizon Wireless, so we’re not investigating of this is to be true or not. If you have a BlackBerry Tour 2 now, you can pick up the Visual Voicemail app OTA by clicking here.
-by Mac Jadalhack
Source: BlackBerry Cool
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