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This is no April Fools. BlackBerry App World is finally here! The service itself is an app available to download to your BlackBerry smartphone. While there aren’t nearly as many applications available as there are for the Apple iPhone, the collection of apps is respectable. Look at it this way. You won’t spend hours sifting through apps trying to determine which one is best.
One of the features of BlackBerry App World is app reviews. After you download your favorite app, you have the opportunity to offer up your thoughts, or read what others have said. While there are free downloads available, you must have a PayPal account in order to purchase others.
To ensure the BlackBerry App World application works on your smartphone, it must have BlackBerry Device Software version 4.2 or higher; it must have a trackball or SurePress™ touch screen; and BlackBerry App World is only available to customers in US, Canada and UK and may not be available on all networks…whatever that last part means. Gotta love the mumbo jumbo disclaimer. If you aren’t sure about what software you have on your phone, check out the BlackBerry device software page.
To download BlackBerry App World, visit blackberry.com/appworld/download from your phone’s browser.
Shazam For BlackBerry. This is one app that all BlackBerry users have been waiting for. You can now try Shazam for BlackBerry free for 60 days when you download it from BlackBerry App World. And it’s not some knock-off music identification software. I’m still unclear of the limited capabilities after the 60-day trial has expired. Regardless, you should still be able to take advantage of its primary function…and that’s identifying music.
