Updated - 28/SEP/2008 - 21:05 Oxford, United Kingdom

USEFUL APPLICATIONS FOR BLACKBERRY PEARL - in no particular order:

01. Opera Mini 4.1 - New Release - Super fast web browser on your blackberry. FREE

02. Metro 1.2 (Underground) Map Viewer - Free underground maps for major cities: London, Paris, New York, Madrid. FREE

03. AutoLock - No more calls by accident whilst your Blackberry is in your pocket. FREE

04. SoftReset - Reset the BlackBerry Pearl without having to take the battery out. FREE

05. Beyond411 - Beyond411 provides instant access to Yahoo Local Yellow pages, maps, and driving directions. FREE

06. BB Screen Shooter 1.62b - Nice tool to capture the current screen of your Pearl. Useful to create documentation, etc. FREE

07. Color Pearl - Now FREE and very nice - for 8100 only.

08. Phantom theme and other free themes - OTA, quite serious and functional, downloadable only from BBerry online. FREE

09. JiveTalk 1.1 - Multi-client instant messaging application that supports simultaneous connections to AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, ICQ and Jabber. Free trial now.

10. Blinkberr - BlinkBerry blinks the external LED backlight in different colors according to the signal strength returned from the phone. Free trial.

11. Google Mobile Applications - All Google Mobile Applications - Mail, Calendar, Docs, Search, etc. FREE

12. Piconews 2.1.1 - Piconews gives you a permanent connection to news articles in real time.

13. LexSpell spelling checker v. 2.3 - A BlackBerry spell checker the way it should be - quick, quality and free.

14. Dictionaries, spell checkers, Bible study, phrase books, etc - Several languages, not free but do their intended job very well.

15. J2ME VNC - Remote PC access a Free remote-control program that works on Blackberries. FREE

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Please feel free to add your suggestions to the list and I will keep this top of the page constantly updated.

nice avatar....

Thanks,

Have found a few more. Very good apps.
AUTOLOCK - No more calls by accident whilst your Blackberry is in your pocket.
RESET - Reset the BlackBerry Pearl without having to take the battery out.

you're welcome. Are you gonna remove the shorts too?

Autolock is a good idea, but I'd rather have the phone go on 'standby mode' than having the keypad lock itself up: easier to re-activate it from standby (just push the button on top).

Geez, just got JIVE TALK. Installed, i must say i love it!
Fab tool, super design great features and quality.
here are the download links, Pearl only:


just notice this...

"IMPORTANT

Even though we have reopened the beta to accept more users, please do not share these links or post them in public. We want to have some control over the number of users during the beta period.

Thank you,

The JiveTalk Development Team"

Sorry, had to remove the links.
If you still need them private me, i might pass them to you.

Err, not to be a douche, but I would think that they still wouldn't want you passing the links privately. It's good that they have a control over who has it; besides, they give it out to pretty much everyone that asks.

right. umh....emergencies only? lol, no way. thanks for the note.

You kinda missed the entire thread that already answers this thread:

http://www.blackberryforums.com/gene...lackberry.html

Ya there have been several threads about top / favorite applications....

AND

Where is my two dollars ????

Great suggestions, but don't insult Opera by calling it Internet Explorer :P

Beyond 411 Search under Useful Apps. Free and a must have!

where can i get opera mini from?

didn't miss it at all. i really got inspired from there quite a lot. just that it is an old post now, my idea was to keep this one updated and as much as i can always on top.

thanx anyway

from here
Opera Mini (BlackBerry) - Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com

If you are concerned about making phone calls accidentally I would strongly recommend a blackberry case (with magnet). Please understand I have had Nokia's forever and constantly locked/unlocked the phone and hate phone cases, but the BB case is great because it puts the phone into standby mode automatically.

I've tried installing the Opera Mini program with PocketMac, but I get, "Unable to locate one or more files required by this installer." message. Is it not compatible with PocketMac? PM installed the trackball colour app just fine.

Um...it seems like the other one had much better lists...but i MAY be biased.

Or you could just type in Bump in the other one and that would solve the problem..

Don't take this as mean or anything, but this idea is actually what a lot of us *don't* like, a million threads about the same subject. You should reply to the existing thread (which will bump it) instead of creating yet one more place that people searching for answers have to go.

As NJBlackBerry says, "step away from the New Thread button".

Why don't the mods just make one thread, and sticky it...and then we add suggestions/programs like normal?

Any other browsers out there for the pearl other than opera??? I think opera is great, but i'm just curious...

i downloaded opera mini and it was on my phone. I was running the setup and was on the last step and it would say that something is wrong with the internet. Could not connect or something... But I am connected because I can use the bb b