Ever since upgrading from my Pearl 8130 to my Tour 9630 I had been looking for really good way to utilize the GPS chip in my Tour to track my position when I run. The 8130 does of course have GPS capability but the GPS chips isn’t available to third-party applications, therefore limiting it to [...]

Today we have a guest blogger who we would like to welcome. He is an avid Blackberry user and a lover of languages, and put together this review of BBTran for your viewing pleasure. Ever looked online or your social networking account and saw a foreign language you couldn’t decipher? Always curious as to what [...]

Welcome to Aᶟ (A Cubed, or Awesome Android App), where we look at inventive, creative and downright useful Android applications. Today I’m looking at Wi-Fi Tether for Android, a program available only to those who have rooted your phones. This may not be all of you, but the majority of users may want to root [...]

Just got a heads-up that Google Maps for Blackberry has been updated to 4.0.1 and as you can see, there is Buzz integration! Which is huge! For the couple people who use the service. Personally, I believe Buzz is only good for contextual, Foursquare-style blogging and is a viable tool to meet up with friends [...]

This week Verizon introduced their previously rumored Backup Assistant application for the devices on their network. The application does on simple thing: it backs up your contacts over-the-air. The application is fairly simple, but for many users it could be a godsend. We have all heard of people losing their contacts, and we have certainly [...]

Using Google Reader on the BlackBerry is a pretty terrible experience. While Google has made a version of their mobile site that conforms to the browsers of the iPhone, Android, and WebOS platforms, they have done little to support the BlackBerry. BlackBerry users are forced to use the generic mobile site which in my opinion, [...]

Ahh, Street Fighter. Some might say the king of fighting games on just about every platform out there. The most recent version, Street Fighter IV was released on multiple platforms not too long ago and brought with it a new outlook for the seemingly stale fighting genre of games. A few days ago Capcom unleashed [...]

There is a new king in town, except very few know about him. xScope Browser for Android is the fastest, most customizable browser on the market. In short, it supports not only pinch-to-zoom, but double-tap-to-zoom, which, to me, is so much more intuitive (meaning you tap once and on the second tap slide your finger [...]

Opera Mini 5 Beta for Android arrived this morning for the world to try. While it does not support native multi-touch, there are a few benefits to the browsing experience that will make it, if not my default browser (xScope performs that function admirably) then my heavy-image, desktop browser replacement. The reason for this is [...]

To coincide with SXSWi, and the release of updates to their iPhone and Android apps, Foursquare has increased their Blackberry app from version 1.5.5 to 1.7. While they have not revamped the app to the extent of the iPhone, they have been steadily improved the app in a number of ways. Places now have a distance [...]