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Top 10 Free Blackberry Apps for 2011

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Which Blackberry app would be at number one on your Top 10 list of Free apps? Your BlackBerry smartphone comes with software and applications
already installed. You may choose to upgrade them and/or install others.
BlackBerry commands a 14.8% share of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the fifth most popular device manufacturer after Nokia, Samsung, LG, and Apple. The consumer BlackBerry Internet Service is available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies

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1. Blackberry Messenger

Get into BlackBerry® Messenger and express yourself – your way. Share your pin or unique barcode to connect with friends anywhere, anytime. Take comfort in knowing your friends are only a BlackBerry® Messenger message away whether you want to make plans for the night or ask a quick question. Chat and share funny stories, pictures, videos and more with individual contacts or groups of friends instantly. Stay in touch like never before with BlackBerry® Messenger

Highlights of BBM v5.0.3 include:
• Support for BlackBerry Bridge
• Support for Hindi and Vietnamese
• Simplified sending of pictures and voice notes
• More user-friendly wording and organization in menus
• Support for a simpler, one line view of contact list
• Support for both deleting an unsent chat message (Shift-Del) and escaping out of a chat while retaining an unsent chat message (Escape button)


2. Twitter

Doing the things you love on Twitter® are made quick and easy using your BlackBerry® smartphone. With Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones, you receive a notification as soon as a Message or @Mention arrives – no matter which application you’re using. And because you’re using a BlackBerry smartphone, you not only receive a notification, the message itself is delivered directly to your inbox making it even easier to stay on top of what’s important to you. It even works with your BlackBerry Browser and BlackBerry smartphone camera, so it only takes a moment to post a link or upload a picture directly to Twitter. Plus, you can follow friends, search for a topic of interest, edit re-tweets, and find users quickly by typing @usernames. Easily stay connected to the information and news you care about—all from your BlackBerry smartphone.

Key New Features in Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones v2.0.0.11

• Redesigned Navigation Bar
• New Compose Tweet Button
• Single Search Screen
• External Notifications Header (Feature is only available to users running OS 6.0+)
• New Black Chrome Color Scheme

3. Facebook

Stay on top of your social life with Facebook® for BlackBerry® smartphones. This free application makes Facebook services - like sending messages, poking friends, writing wall posts, inviting friends to join and uploading photos - available on the go! Take Facebook wherever life takes you and don't miss a beat!

4. Foursquare

Foursquare is all about helping you find new ways to explore the city. Earn points and unlock badges for discovering new places, doing new things and meeting new people.

People use foursquare to "check-in", which is a way of telling us your whereabouts. When you check-in someplace, we'll tell your friends where they can find you and recommend places to go & things to do nearby. People check-in at all kind of places - cafes, bars, restaurants, parks, homes, offices.

You'll find that as your friends use foursquare to check-in, you'll start learning more about the places they frequent. Not only is it a great way to meet up with nearby friends, but you'll also start to learn about their favorite spots and the new places they discover.

Think of foursquare as an "urban mix tape." We'll help you make lists of your favorite things to do and let you share them with friends. Think beyond your standard review - we're looking less for "The food here is top notch" and more for "Go to Dumont Burger and try the most amazing Mac and Cheese ever." Foursquare will keep track of the things you've done, help you create To-Do lists and even suggest new experiences to seek out

5. iSpeech Translator

Speak and translate any words or phrases including email or text in multiple languages with iSpeech Translator™. The app’s human-quality text to speech and speech recognition are brought to you by iSpeech®, the creator of DriveSafe.ly®, award-winning leader in texting while driving applications.
Speak or type any phrase and listen to the corresponding translation in your choice of language.

iSpeech Translator™ Features:
*Translate any text by speaking or typing it
*After typing or speaking the phrase, the translation will appear in the text box
*Cut and paste from web browser, chat applications, emails
*Translate by speaking text in 7 languages (more coming soon)
*Listen to your translations read aloud in 18 languages (more coming soon)
*Share your favorite translations with friends on Facebook

Translations are supported in these languages:

Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese.
iSpeech Translator™ is powered by iSpeech®, a text to speech and speech recognition cloud. To speech-enable your apps, visit the iSpeech website (www.iSpeech.org) and download free SDKs for your platform.

6. Player for YouTube

Player for YouTube allows you to browse, play, search, share and bookmark YouTube videos on your BlackBerry® device with a very easy to use interface.

The following features are supported:

* Featured, Popular, Top Rated, Newest and Most Viewed Feeds
* Playing videos over RTSP Streaming or Wi-Fi and WAP
* Share video links by email with your friends
* Bookmark your favorite videos for easy access
* Search for videos, including saved search history
* Browse videos by Categories and Tags
* View user channels
* Click on YouTube.com links from other BlackBerry applications
* Support for High Quality videos
* Support for log into YouTube to manage favorites
* Embedded video player (no longer launches the browser)

New features in 1.2:

* View more than just the first 25 videos
* Share videos by Email, Facebook or Twitter
* Many Bug fixes and minor improvements

Player for YouTube Pro is now available with support for Uploads, My Videos, Subscriptions and no ads.

7. Pandora

Pandora. It s radio that is personalized just for you, playing only the music that you love. Simply enter one of your favorite songs or artists and Pandora creates a radio station that explores just that kind of music. With your BlackBerry® smartphone, Pandora brings an effortless personal soundtrack right to you whenever you want to listen to music.

Pandora plays all your current and old favorites and introduces you to new songs that you ll love. Rate songs as they play because Pandora caters your radio stations to your tastes and adapts the playlist to your feedback on the spot. Pandora has all styles of music - from hip-hop to jazz, country to classical, latin to rock, dance to pop, and much more.

Get the Pandora application on your BlackBerry® phone, and be prepared to fall in love with music all over again.

8. TuneIn Radio

Listen to over 50,000 radio stations, including your local AM/FM stations, programs and podcasts, with TuneIn Radio for BlackBerry®.

The application requires WiFi or celluar data connection. BIS-B and BES connections are not supported. If you have connection issues, please visit our technical support and FAQ page at http://tunein.com/support/blackberry

9. WeatherTrax

Everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it – except JaredCo. Now you can find out which way the wind blows anywhere in the world

Check out these benefits to keep you dry when it rains, warm when it’s cold and cool all of the time.
• Easy set up. Click, add a city or location, and it’s stored on your BlackBerry® until you change it. Just click to delete a location when you don’t need the up-to-the-minute beach report any longer.

• Easy, drop down menu provides current weather conditions for locations world wide so the next time you book a flight to Timbuktu, you know what to pack.

• The WeatherTrax icon always shows current weather and temps at a glance. No click required.

• The display show a detailed forecast for the current day and the weather forecast for the next five days.

• WeatherTrax can use the the BlackBerry® GPS to give you up-to-the-minute weather reports wherever you are.

• Switch from Celsius to Fahrenheit. Tap, tap, done.

• WeatherTrax updates regularly throughout the day so you’re current on precip, temps and sun block.

• Just download, pick as many locations anywhere in the world and you know the weather from Albania to Zimbabwe – a must for today’s busy world traveler.

• WeatherTrax uses Weather Online for your forecast, a very accurate, weather reporting service.
With JaredCo’s WeatherTrax, you always know what’s happening here or there with the weather. And you’ll use it daily to keep up with the latest in weather around the world.

10. ScoreMobile

ScoreMobile is a true mobile application built from the ground up for all BlackBerry® smartphones. We provide up-to-the-minute sports scores, boxscores, player stats, betting odds, game previews, recaps, top stories, and league standings. In addition we publish exclusive live blogs for key games.

Coverage includes: Baseball (MLB), American Football (NFL, NCAAF, CFL), Basketball (NBA, NCAAB, NCAAWB), Hockey (NHL), Soccer (EPL/Premiership, Champions League, Serie A, La Liga, MLS), Golf (PGA), Auto Racing (NASCAR Sprint Cup, F1), Tennis, Cricket (ICC, IPL), and MMA (UFC, Strikeforce).

Personalization:
-Push Notifications -- either by team, or for selected games (OS 4.7+ and selected OS 4.6 devices)
-The Dynamic Home Screen Icon is a unique feature where the application continues to background monitor the last viewed league or game.
-Users can personalize Favorite Teams and Data Refresh intervals.
-Game start times are customized based on device Time Zone setting.

ScoreMobile is affiliated with The Score Television Network (theScore TV).

11. Navita Translator

Translate-and-Speak words, phrases from e-mails, Browser, SMS or typing in the software.
Navita Translator translates more than 50 languages and is capable to speak languages like English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Russian.

IMPORTANT: this app has NO "run" button on appword. After install, the app icon will be on your device Home Screen or your device Downloads folder

Other Features:
- send your translations to: Twitter, Mail, SMS, PIN, MEMO
- supports English, Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese interfaces.
- free support
- Compatible with all devices
- Dictionary mode (temporarily disabled)

You can request a ad-free key at: www.bbtranslator.com
If you enjoy Navita Translator, please Review with 5 stars.

Become a Navita Translator follower at Twitter @NavitaSoftware.

Visit our Forum for support issues - http://www.navitasoftware.com/forumbb.

12. ebay

Stay connected to everything that's important to you on eBay with the eBay® application for BlackBerry® smartphones. Search, watch, bid or buy. Get reminders in your BlackBerry calendar when a listing is about to end, enjoy near real-time alerts when there’s another bid or you’ve won or lost an item, and pay for an item using your BlackBerry smartphone. As a seller, you can watch and review your sale items and enjoy communications made easy with the ability to respond to a buyer’s questions. The eBay application for Blackberry smartphones makes it easier than ever to follow the action and close a sale – even when you’re away from your computer.

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