Useful And Fun Blackberry Applications

While there are many third-party applications to chose from when you’re looking to add to the functionality of your Blackberry, there are a few that stand out among the rest. The following is a brief list, but is designed to bring you an array of entertaining and informative options.

If any of your favorite sites offer RSS feeds a Viigo account will send regular updates from them directly to your Blackberry. Even if you don’t have regular sites that you want to check up on, you’ll find that the Viigo application offers a huge selection of news, entertainment, local interests, sports, weather, politics, finance (including stocks) and flight and travel updates which can be quite useful to have on your Blackberry.

This simple application turns your Blackberry into a powerful information directory. Whether you’re searching from home, work or a location defined from GPS, Beyond411 delivers business listings directly to your Blackberry and this application will even feature directions to the business once it is located.

The Beyond411 application also allows web searches directly from its interface and will even convert websites into mobile formats whenever possible. As if this isn’t enough, you can also check the weather, sports, shopping, movie and local information all on your Blackberry from this same, highly useful application.

Like to read, but hate lugging around various books, magazines or papers? Try Wattpad. It’s free to download the Wattpad reader to your Blackberry and free to download from their library or upload to their library if you’d like to share reading material. While you won’t find every book you want to read on Wattpad, there are a few really good selections or you can request a particular selection you’re interested in reading from the Wattpad community. As well, if you’re an aspiring writer, Wattpad also allows you to upload your own works that are then shared with the entire Wattpad community.

(TIP: This application is also available for other phones besides Blackberry.)

If you know what Twitter is, chances are you’re already hooked on this new, micro-blogging/social networking phenomenon. You probably already know that you can receive tweets via instant messaging, but did you know that there is also a neat little application called Twitterberry that is especially designed to keep you tweeting from your Blackberry phone? With a simple click on the Twitterberry application on your home screen, you can join the thousands of other users in Twittering the day away.

How would you like to watch live NFL games, receive scores and reports all on your Blackberry? Of course, this application is only available through Sprint and is only accessible with certain devices and operating systems…but if you have Sprint and would like to know if your device is compatible, try texting NFL to 7777. (Hint: Even if your Blackberry isn’t compatible and you can’t watch live games, some users have reported that they’re still able to receive updated NFL scores on their device with the downloading of this application.)

So there you have it: Sports, news, information, social networking and tons of reading material are all available to help take your Blackberry experience to new levels. As with any new application, you’ll always want to back up before downloading any of these and it’s also recommended that you watch the memory usage on your device closely for several days after any new downloads.

Whether you just download one or whether you download all of these, time spent on your Blackberry is sure to serve you well with these extra applications.