BlackBerry News Apps

Wall Street Journal Mobile App for BlackBerry Review

The Wall Street Journal has long been the financial periodical of the world. Its daily take on the market is something that everyone interested in finance should take a look at. Now, the Wall Street Journal has gone mobile on the BlackBerry device. This free app can be downloaded directly to your BlackBerry and once you have it there you can certainly start to use its amazing financial prowess.

Use Wall Street Journal Online

The first thing that you’ll get out of this app is the Wall Street Journal Online. If you head over to the Wall Street Journal website, you’ll discover that there is a lot of great financial information available for you. Now, you can read through that information on the way to work and get a lot of great insight as to what is going on in the world of finance today. That can directly help you figure out what you’re going to do with your financial situation.

Use MarketWatch.com

Part of getting healthy finances is investment. Even if you don’t invest directly in the stock market, things like pension plans, guaranteed investment certificates and even registered retirement savings plans all fluctuate depending on market conditions. Therefore, watching the stock market allows you to keep watch on your investments in order to see how your future is doing. After all, there’s no point in getting your present budget under control if your future is not being secured at the same time. This is where this particular part of the BlackBerry app comes in handy.

Use Barrons.com

Don’t let the name fool you. Despite the title and land-holding connotations of the name of this website, it is just as good a financial market tool as MarketWatch.com. In fact, these two tools complement each other quite nicely when all is said and done. You need both to have a complete overview of how the markets are doing on a given day and the Wall Street Journal BlackBerry app will make sure that you can get that overview that you need.

Final Score

The final score of the Wall Street Journal Mobile app for BlackBerry is 9 out of 10. Even though it is not a direct budgeting app and therefore does not occupy that part of the financial app spectrum, it is still one of the best free sources of financial information available for the BlackBerry. That is why it is still very important.

CNN App for BlackBerry

CNN App for BlackBerry

Summary

CNN is easily one of the most respected international news organizations in existence. In fact, it would not be a stretch to say that many people would consider them the most respected. However you slice it though, CNN news stories are followed by millions around the world. Because of the importance of the feeds coming out of CNN headquarters, the CNN app for BlackBerry is definitely a useful application that any CNN fan can certainly get a lot of productivity from using.

User Interaction

Interacting with the CNN for BlackBerry app is easy. It essentially functions as a funnel for information, so all you have to do in order to access that information is scroll through the various headlines and select the one you’d like to read. It’s almost like having an instantly updated newspaper in your BlackBerry. Of all of the different BlackBerry app setups around, this one is perhaps the most impressive because of this fact.

User Interface

Since CNN is a news organization, one would expect their layout to be quite logical. And this does turn out to be the case when you take a look at the graphical user interface for this particular BlackBerry app. The news stories are laid out in a standard list format and when you select one of them for further review you are taken directly to the story where you can read up and down by scrolling and reading. In the end, this is easily the best way to do an interface because of the fact that the news stories are generally cycled through regularly by users, something that CNN capitalizes on by placing the newest stories at the top of the list.

Utility and Productivity

CNN is an international news organization more than it is an American news organization and that means that all of the stories from around the world that are worth reporting on are stories that CNN would have written pieces about. This means incidentally that if you download the CNN app to your BlackBerry, you have all of the news that is worth reading available to you at your fingertips. This allows you to use your BlackBerry and the CNN app to catch up on world and domestic events whenever you have a few extra minutes. The ability to use your time more productively by catching up on news events instead of staring out the window of the bus or taxi will make you a more productive person. Every news story you read on the way home is one more you don’t have to read at home and that in turn gives you more leisure time at home to do something else with.

Rating

The CNN app for BlackBerry really does epitomize what the BlackBerry is all about. It is supposed to be a time-saving device and the CNN app is definitely one that can save you an hour or more a day from the point you get home. For that reason, we rate it at 9.0 out of 10.

Viigo App

Name: Viigo

Summary:

Viigo is a BlackBerry application that is rich in features in viewing RSS and news feeds, weather update, money and stocks data, podcasts, audio clips and countless others. Aside from this, the application offers you to do more things like browsing plenty of blog RSS feeds, reading books, viewing local weather report, and even see sports scores. Viigo is one application that you will never want without on your BlackBerry smart phone.

User Interaction:

In just one click of Viigo application, you can easily get access to Twitter, shipping, movies, flight status and schedules, stock portfolios, markets, live sports scores and schedules, entertainment, weather, news and more. All of these are delivered to you quickly, intuitively, and efficiently in a format that is specially designed for your BlackBerry smart phone.

Viigo application makes information available for you immediately and updated whenever you need it, regardless of what your interests and wherever you are. You do not have to wait for the browser to load and no typing of the URLs needed. In just one click, the information you care about is instantly available for you.

User Interface:

Viigo application integrates plenty of cool and new social features for your BlackBerry smart phone. Along with these features is its interface enriched with eternal benefits for the users. Among these benefits, include adding, subscribing, and finding your own news feeds of very simple browsable categories, long list of presets, and adding of favorite RSS URLs.

Viigo application in BlackBerry smart phones has extra channels that track the weather and flights, stocks data, and a demonstration on the productivity of the application. However, not all of the extra channels works smoothly, the strength of the application’s RSS reader clear the indulgence of the work in progress.

Utility and Productivity:

Viigo is an application that allows you to access a vast array of web services and content right at the comfort of your BlackBerry smart phone. From the channels in this application, you can navigate through various service categories and make a subscription on the ones that interest you. Here are some of the benefits you can get from Viigo application:

• You can stay updated on local events concerning sports, theater, music bands, and more.
• You can get the latest headlines or new from different parts of the world.
• You can get the latest global sports news and scores, or even monitor your favorite sports team.
• You can quickly access the local weather reports.
• You can subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs and websites.
• You can track your mail packages from the package carriers.
• You can get updated information on public transportation and highway traffic.
• The application has keypad shortcuts for your quicker navigation.
• It has a one-click article-emailing feature.
• It has the ability to synchronize to users’ Google Reader account.
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Rating:

(9.0 out of 10) Viigo application boasts of its mobile-friendly and intuitive interface that delivers a vast array of customized services and contents for its users. These services and contents are from the world’s leading content publishers and providers.