BlackBerry Tools Apps

Keep Them Away for Good with Call Blocker Professional App for Blackberry

Although it is not free like some of the other apps that have been reviewed, Call Blocker Professional app for Blackberry is one app that many people believe supplies extremely good value for the money. Many people in fact would say that it is the best $3 they’ve ever spent because of what it does.

Choice on every call that comes in

When Call Blocker Professional Blackberry app is running, you get some sweet choices on every single call that comes in. You can choose to have the phone pick up and hang up on the caller in a way that does not allow them to realize what has just gone on. If you’d like to hear what the person has to say and just don’t want to talk to them right now however, you can instead choose to send the call right through to voicemail. The choice is completely yours.

Change options on the fly or preset

Whenever Blackberry Call Blocker Professional app is running you will get the options mentioned above. However, if you do not want to get those options all you really have to do is turn the app off and your Blackberry will go back to normal mode. In addition to these on the fly changes, you can also create presets for this mobile application. A good example of this would be choosing to block all calls at night and allow them all during the day.

Custom number actions

At the same time that you have blanket options available with Call Blocker Professional app for Blackberry, you can also create exclusions for those blanket options for special numbers. You can have numbers that are always let through, numbers that are always blocked and of course you can do both of these things to all of your numbers. If you want you can even put a whole area code on the block list so that all 800 numbers as an example are blocked before they’ve even had a chance to register.

Final Score

All of these actions are extremely useful as is the block history that is kept by the app that you can use to review how well your current settings are working. This really is your full call blocking solution as it has everything that you could want. Our final score for Call Blocker Professional Blackberry app is 10 out of 10. If we could give it more than perfect we would.

Where’s My Phone BlackBerry App Review

If you have the habit of forgetting things, perhaps you should try out this app in your Blackberry. As its name suggests, Where’s My Phone helps you to locate and recover your lost Blackberry without anyone knowing about the same. For example, if it is somewhere nearby, you could find it out by triggering an alarm, or alternatively, you could have your device its GPS location to another phone. It is also possible to make it ring you or show an alert even if the Blackberry has been put in a silent mode.

Features of BlackBerry Where’s My Phone App

With Wheres My Phone app, you could make Blackberry do a lot of things, which might help you to track it down, if you’ve happen to lose it somewhere. Apart from the features mentioned above, the app also lets one check the battery status to see if you need to hurry up before the phone goes dead. And you could do that simply by emailing the app from your own email address.

You, the user, need to set a code word for Wheres My Phone app and give it a number to display on the Blackberry screen. It is also possible to change the phone number displayed on the Blackberry screen. The app responds to code words – such as START to play the alarm, LOCATE to receive the phone’s location, or CALLME to have the BlackBerry phone you at a specific number – send in the email subject line.

Where’s My Phone mobile application replies back with the current battery level, whether the alarm is activated or if someone turns the alarm noise off (which lets the user turn it back on), or if they press the button to phone you (assuming you missed the call). The phone’s current location also arrives by email, with links to both Google and Bing maps to precisely spot the place. Also, users can set up the Where’s My Phone app to clean up the messages automatically.

On the downside, Where’s My Phone app may not work, if the phone is lost in the underground basement of a concrete home, as the GPS may fail to make the contact with the device. Worse, the app will only keep trying for five minutes at a time, to save power. Here, it is assumed that your Blackberry comes with GPS feature. Also, the app is of no use if the Blackberry remains in a holster or if it is closed, like in a flip Blackberry Pearl.

Conclusion

Where’s My Phone is a very handy app to have in your Blackberry phones for you never know when or where you might misplace your smart phones. Where’s My Phone app works well in most circumstances, and feature wise, offers more than one option to pinpoint the location of the lost phone. Given its features and utility quotient, $3.99 per license is certainly a just price tag for the app. We recommend our readers to try out this useful application in their phones.

Free WiFi Cafe Spots BlackBerry App Review

True 3G is fast. But they can’t match the speeds offered by WiFi internet. While one the move, how you could find a coffee bar or library with a free WiFi network that’ll get you online? Well, the Free WiFi Cafe Spots is an app tailor made for this very purpose. Further, the app also comes with a built in database of free wireless hotspots.

Working of Free WiFi Cafe Spots App

Free WiFi Cafe Spots app finds the WiFi cafes near you using your BlackBerry’s GPS. The user-interface, though looks a bit primitive, is fast and easy to use. The huge international database of free WiFi hotspots means you are never too far from a connection. If, for some reason, you fail to get a GPS signal or your provider blocks third parties from accessing your gadget’s GPS unit, simply enter your current position manually to find the hotspots near you, thanks to its rich database of free WiFi hotspots that comes packaged with the BlackBerry Free WiFi Cafe Spots app.

To find WiFi hotspots, you only need to pick your country from the menu (or postal code), following which you’ll get to see a list of available cities. Some countries may have only few details, while some others provide detailed info of WiFi hotspots available in its cities/towns. Once you select a hotspot, you’ll get an address and link to the map showing the said location. The app uses BlackBerry’s Maps app as the mapping tool to reach results. The hotspot info includes the quality of the connection, restrictions if any, and if any power sockets are available to recharge the BlackBerry’s battery.

However, this won’t work if you are in roaming, and the BlackBerry not connected to a data network, as map can’t be downloaded.

The app comes with a feedback option to send feedback about the WiFi hotspots you’ve visited, or if you’ve found a new one that is not given in the database, to application’s makers so that they could make necessary changes/updates to the database accordingly.

Final Thoughts

In short, the Free WiFi Cafe Spots BlackBerry app is a simple mobile application, with a big utility quotient. It makes the job of finding free WiFi hotspots near you a virtual cake walk of sorts. The app interface may look a bit primitive; but in terms of user-friendliness and utility, it is second to none. The Free WiFi Cafe Spots app is available for $3.99 per license.

Evernote App for BlackBerry Review

Evernote is an excellent note-taking app for BlackBerry users. You can quickly create and organize your notes any time using Evernote app. With this mobile application, you can capture everything including a text note, web clips, snap shots, recording and more on your BlackBerry device.

Remember All Things in One Place

Now it is easy to keep track of your notes through advanced Evernote app. The app helps you to remember and recall anything from small to big things. You can keep all the notes in one place and access them whenever you require. You can record any type of notes such as research note, class notes, client meetings, voice memos, snapshots of business cards, clip web pages, create to-do lists, synchronize your desktop notes and files and much more. Everything you record will be automatically processed, indexed and keep searchable. You can also organize notes into different notebooks.

Completely Useful Features

BlackBerry Evernote app has many features to keep your professional and personal notes safe and organized. You can record all information every while on the fly. When the app starts for the first time, you have to create an account. After creating a free account, the main menu of the Evernote app will be displayed. The main menu options include: Text a Note, Take a Snapshot, Create an Audio Note, Search and Upload a File.

You can easily create a note using Text a Note function. Just give a title, add some content and choose a notebook to save. You can also add tags to notes for easy searching. With snapshot feature, you can take picture using your blackberry device and add title text or tags. If you want to record some audio, use the audio notes function. Taking audio notes is simple by just clicking the record button. The app also helps you to store files online. You can upload any files on your BlackBerry’s SD card using upload function. The search function allows you to find any notes fast by titles, keywords and tags.

Conclusion

If you are looking for an effective note taking tool for your BlackBerry device, Evernote is a worthy app to download. The app has clean user interface with completely simple functions. The main advantage is that you can easily sync all notes between your PC or Mac, Evernote web app and BlackBerry device.

Remove the Annoyance with the BlackBerry Backlight Utility

One of the easiest ways to get a handle on how good any particular freeware package happens to be is to compare it with freeware packages of similar capability that are available for the other mobile platforms out there.

In the case of the BlackBerry Backlight Utility, you will find a very similar review for a software package that was created for the Google Android system. That application was referred to as a Flashlight that always kept the backlight on when it was activated. The BlackBerry Backlight Utility app is a bit more than that for the simple reason that you can do more with this software package. Of course, it is also freeware, making it a bit more versatile in the end than its Android counterpart.

Do not misconstrue this as meaning that there is no Flashlight feature available through the BlackBerry Backlight Utility mobile application. Indeed, nothing could be further from the truth. If you want the utility to take the form of a simple on or off switch for your backlight, you can certainly configure it to do exactly that. When the utility is running, you can keep the backlight on indefinitely. Then, when you turn the utility off, the backlight settings can go back to their factory default position.

However, what makes the BlackBerry Backlight Utility a better piece of software is the fact that you can do a lot more with it. You can set it to go on and off depending on the programs that you are using and you can also configure timings in order to allow you to leave the backlight on for a long time, but a time that is definitely finite. If you need to read uninterrupted for an hour as an example, you could configure the utility to keep your backlight on for that amount of time. The advantage here would be that the backlight would turn off automatically after that time period has passed rather than you having to turn it off manually and potentially forgetting to do so. Backlights can burn out and are expensive to replace, so the BlackBerry Backlight Utility potentially gives you a lot more and still remains freeware in the process.

We enjoyed the Flashlight utility for the Android and we absolutely love BlackBerry Backlight Utility as well. If you often feel annoyed by the standard backlight settings, this is a freeware package that you definitely need to download. Our final score for BlackBerry Backlight Utility mobile app is 9.5 out of 10.