One Touch Flashlight App is Now Available for BB10
JaredCo’s One Touch Flashlight, rated a top five Blackberry app by Fortune Magazine, is now available for the new Z10 smartphone.
One Touch Flashlight uses BlackBerry video light, instead of the dim LED screen light, to deliver more light quickly. With more than 4,000 reviews, One Touch Flashlight is the most downloaded flashlight app of all time on Blackberry® World™, said The Jared Company founder and CEO Steven Kader.
Other features of the app include:
- · It uses less power than other flashlight apps.
- · A one-touch on/off icon for the flashlight allows for easy access to the light fast.
- · It also works on the Blackberry Playbook.
Download One Touch Flashlight for free at Blackberry® World™: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/9081
We recently announced that our exceedingly popular free wallpapers are available for BB10 and the Blackberry Playbook and that the highest-rated free weather app on Blackberry World, WeatherTrax,is now available for BB10.
Highly Rated WeatherTrax App is Now Available for BB10
JaredCo’s WeatherTrax, the highest-rated weather app on Blackberry® World™, is now available for the the new Z10 smartphone.
WeatherTrax is a free app with new features for the Blackberry 10 OS, including faster speed, smoother searches and the optional function to update BBM™ personal messages with current weather.
For up-to-the-minute forecasts, WeatherTrax uses Weather Online, a very accurate weather reporting service. Other features include:
- The display shows a detailed forecast for the current day and the weather forecast for the next five days.
- WeatherTrax can use the BlackBerry® GPS for real-time weather reports for the user’s current location.
- The user has the option to switch from Celsius to Fahrenheit.
- Locations can be stored and easily deleted later.
- A convenient drop-down menu provides current weather conditions for locations world-wide.
WeatherTrax is available for free at http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/12603.
We also recently announced that our exceedingly popular free wallpapers are available for BB10 and the Blackberry Playbook. We will soon be announcing numerous other BB10 apps.
New JaredCo Survey Reveals BlackBerry Brand Loyalty
We just released results of a survey of nearly 6,000 customers using our apps for BlackBerry® smartphones. The responses show a high degree of loyalty to the BlackBerry brand.
Those surveyed include customers who have downloaded and purchased one or more of his company’s apps for BlackBerry smartphones and are subscribed to the JaredCo mailing list. Most are from the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as other countries where the BlackBerry App World™ storefront is available.
“At The Jared Company we design apps to make BlackBerry and other smartphones more powerful, indispensable tools in people’s lives,” said JaredCo founder and CEO Steven Kader said. “We believe the results of this survey of our customers demonstrate we’ve been on target in creating BlackBerry apps that provide BlackBerry customers improved functionality, productivity and utility in their devices.”
Nearly 70 percent of the 5,732 survey respondents said they plan to buy a BlackBerry® 10 smartphone when they are ready to replace their current BlackBerry smartphone.
About 54 percent of those who said they plan to buy a BlackBerry 10 smartphone when they are ready for a new phone said they prefer BlackBerry over other platforms, and another 19.5 percent said they would buy a BlackBerry 10 smartphone because of “appealing features.”
Of the respondents, 39.74 percent have been using a BlackBerry smartphone for the past three to five years, and 27.41 percent for more than five years.
A great majority – 68.3 percent – of those completing the survey said they prefer using a keyboard to an all-touch device, and 88.03 percent said they expect that their current apps will be available on the BlackBerry 10 platform.
Survey respondents said the most valued features of BlackBerry smartphones are email/short message service (25.01 percent), BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) (23.09 percent) and ease of use (20.05 percent).
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BlackBerry App World Hits 3 Billion Downloads
By Angela Moscaritolo, PCMag.com
In spite of all its troubles, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has something to celebrate — its app store, the BlackBerry App World, has passed 3 billion downloads.
"BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook users around the world have downloaded over three billion apps since BlackBerry App World launched!" RIM said in a blog post Friday. "Three billion app downloads averages out to over 2.5 million downloads each day."
It took BlackBerry users just over three years to hit that mark, installing apps for devices such as the BlackBerry Bold 9930, Torch 9860, and the PlayBook tablet. The BlackBerry App World launched in April 2009, and currently has about 90,000 apps available for BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook tablet.
RIM said that the number of daily app downloads continues to increase. BlackBerry users downloaded the first billion apps in just over two years. About seven months later, the App World reached 2 billion downloads. Users downloaded the remaining billion apps in the past six months.
Apple's App Store, in comparison, hit 3 billion downloads in less than 18 months and reached the 25 billion app download mark in March. Google's Android Market reached 3 billion in about 27 months, and Microsoft's Windows Phone marketplace has yet to hit that mark.
Mini Keyboard for the BlackBerry PlayBook
I haven’t tried this yet but it looks like a nice addition if you plan on typing documents while on the go. For emails and instant messaging I don’t think it is necessary because you will want to be holding the unit all the time and tapping on the screen to navigate from message to message.
Does any one have this? If so do you like it?