And remember, you can find the MobiHand Deal-of-the-Day by visiting your BlackBerry community desktop app store powered by MobiHand or on your BlackBerry — either through using the MobiHand On-Device BlackBerry App Store or the BlackBerry’s web browser.
Check it out … MobiHand has an On-Device BlackBerry Theme Store, which provides immediate access to thousands of themes and exclusive deals for personalizing the BlackBerry device’s look and feel. It can be downloaded over the air (OTA) by going to www.mobihand.com/ThemeStore from the BlackBerry Web browser.
Using Smart Call Control, you can block any unwanted, unknown/private calls. You can block any number individually or you can block numbers group wise.
Wake On LAN (WOL) allows your WiFi-enabled BlackBerry to power up desktops, laptops, and servers on your local network. This application works by sending the WOL “Magic Packet” to the specified computer to power it on.
SmartBCalendar shows current date as app icon on your device HomeScreen. It also shows the day of the week (i.e. Monday, Tuesday, etc.) as application title. Moreover, on icon click SmartBCalendar starts the regular BB Calendar, so you can replace the typical Calendar icon with SmartBCalendar.
Smartphones are hot and the mobile content that runs on them (i.e. apps, music downloads, podcasts, RSS feeds, video, wallpaper, and ringtones) is even hotter with new additions springing up daily. Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were an assistant for your smartphone that could screen mobile content and recommend to you which ones you should pay attention to? That’s the idea behind the FREE SIDEBAR appthat is currently available for the Android platform with plans on rolling out for BlackBerry devices, the iPhone, and Windows Mobile smartphones.
In brief, SIDEBAR (www.sidebar.com) is a personal content recommendation and delivery engine that makes it easy for you to discover, access, and share “fun stuff.”
It utilizes a patent pending, highly attuned optimization engine that gets smarter the more you use it.
The company recently completed a highly successful consumer trial conducted with a Tier 1 carrier that validated Sidebar’s appeal and ability to stimulate content consumption and engagement. The trial included 5,000 smartphone users and, in a survey taken after its completion, they gave SIDEBAR high marks for being “easy to use” and “a fun way to get information.” Nearly half of the surveyed active users expressed that they were more likely to consume mobile content as a result of their use of SIDEBAR and 20 percent said that they shared, bought or downloaded a product or service that they discovered in SIDEBAR.
Advanced Device Locks (ADL) allows you to lock your BlackBerry or selected applications only such as Messages, Pictures, Contacts, Video, etc. to prevent them from unsolicited access.
You can find the MobiHand Deal-of-the-Day by visiting your BlackBerry community desktop app store powered by MobiHand or on your BlackBerry — either through using the MobiHand On-Device BlackBerry App Store or the BlackBerry’s web browser.
Also, don’t forget. There are only a few days left to our Theme Store Grand Opening sale. In addition, the Theme Store’s Deal-of-the-Day will offer discounts of up to 50% off best-selling BlackBerry themes.
Phones Review (UK) just posted a short piece about a free app called DriveSafe.ly by iSpeech, Inc. that runs on BlackBerry and Android devices. What it does is automatically read the incoming text messages and emails you many receive while behind the wheel, out loud so you can concentrate on the road. Basically, it was designed to eliminate the temptation to reach for your phone. Along with reading to you, DriveSafe.ly also has an option to auto-respond for you. The human sounding text to speech is powered by iSpeech.org.
For the BlackBerry, there is a free version and a pro version that runs $13.95. For Android devices, there is only a free version currently available. Some key features include:
Automatically plays incoming text SMS and email messages
Plays messages on demand through menu
No complicated software to install easy to use
Small footprint lightweight app does not slow down your phone
Customizable auto-response and timeout duration
With DriveSafe.ly Pro you get the ability to use additional voices and listen to text messages/emails without sponsor messages. To learn more, go to www.drivesafe.ly.
Legally Addictive Games has just released Addictive Tower Defense (ATD), a new tower defense game for BlackBerry smartphones. Designed for gamers by gamers, it is loaded with tons of extras like downloadable maps.
A desire to create a game that would showcase the power of the BlackBerry device is what drove Mike, co-founder of Legally Addictive Games, to start working on ATD. He said that he wanted to show users that with the right mix of art and expertise, the experience they’ve come to expect on other platforms can be available on their favorite BlackBerry.
Addictive Tower Defense offers a complete tower defense experience for your BlackBerry including maps with “mazing,” predefined paths and a mixture of the two, as well as several other innovative twists on classic designs. With the downloadable map system you will be able to take advantage of new maps being released all of the time and with the online leader board, you’ll never run out of competition.
MobiHand president and CEO, Steve Howard, was quoted in a Wired.com story (Research In Motion Woos BlackBerry Developers by Priya Ganapati) appearing in the Gadget Lab section of the website. He was asked to comment on some of the announcements that were made at the BlackBerry Developer Conference that’s taking place in San Francisco this week.
The announcements probably aren’t enough to help RIM steal developers away from rival operating systems but could put the BlackBerry on a more equal footing, experts contacted by Wired.com say.
“All these things are just a matter of getting to parity,” says Steve Howard, president and CEO of MobiHand, an operator of app stores for smartphones. “They are not dramatically leapfrogging anyone else on the platform side but they are creating a more creative environment for BlackBerry developers.”
When asked about Adobe partnering with RIM which will allow application developers to use Flash platform technology and other Adobe tools such as PhotoShop to create apps for BlackBerry devices, Howard said “It’s a competitive blast at Apple. There are a huge number of developers qualified to develop in Flash and tightly integrating Flash with the BlackBerry environment injects energy into the BlackBerry platform.”
To coincide with the grand opening of the BlackBerry Theme Store, we are doing a series of stories on theme developers. Today’s is about BlackBerry Boutique and its founder, Michelle.
BlackBerry Boutique has several dozen themes in the MobiHand catalog. Her newest one is GlamBerry. Michelle remarked, “I was first inspired by the name ‘GlamBerry,’ and imagined it as a boutique-ish style theme. After all, when you think of shopping and boutiques, you think pink and black, stripes and polkadots. Put it all together and you have a glamorous BlackBerry!”
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