Blackberry Beta Zone

If you are not a member of Blackberry Beta Zone then many times you’d wonder when you see news/tweets about an application being available in Beta Zone.

Just thought of listing some pros and cons of having access on Blackberry Beta Zone.

Pros:

• Having access to latest app versions
• Platform to provide your feedback
• Possibility of accessing apps before it even hits app world for the mass
• Build good Karma by doing good for community

Cons:

• Unreleased apps may contain bugs
• Buggy apps can cause Blackberry performance issues (Rare cases)

So if you are a kind of person who likes testing new apps, even if there is a threat of causing issues with your Blackberry, having an account at Beta Zone is a must.

Should I update apps everytime there is a new upgrade?

Many times we see upgrades coming to apps, some after long times some frequent ones. And we have also seen with N number of upgrades that developers don’t give change logs.
We install the updated version and end up thinking ‘huh? What did they change?? It looks exactly the same like the previous one.’ Have you ever wondered that way?
 
Well, what we have observed is though they don’t mention change logs 99% there are some improvements. Some code is added in the app which brings better out of it.
It could be anything, better signal reception, lower battery consumption, smoother interface etc etc.
 
There have been some rare instances as well where upgrades have gone horribly wrong, however we have seen developers rectifying the same on priority basis.
 
So if you ask me, I mostly do all the upgrades that come to my installed apps. And I also recommend the same to you too.

Review: App Stalker [Apps]

If you have used an Android device, I am sure you must have heard of a brilliant app discovery software called AppBrain. One of the best features of AppBrain was to track the apps’ costs and inform you with the apps with highest price drops.

Well, App Stalker is an application for Blackberry phones that does exactly the same. It keeps a constant eye on all the apps on the Blackberry App World and pushes an update to you every time it finds apps whose prices have dramatically dropped or, better yet, are now available for free.

Here are a few screenshots of the application, and the download link is below the fold.
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TOI App for Blackberry

TOI has released a native app for Blackberry.

It doesn’t look like one of those high quality apps like MakeMyTrip. The fonts/font sizes are not set properly – You can set the right font size via the options but the setting is not saved

Other options available in the app

1. Save an article and view saved articles
2. Share an article to Twitter/Facebook
3. Share via Email

In addition to Blackberry, the app is available for iPad/iPhone and Android platform as well.

Download: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/36532