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BlackBerry App World Site Now Up

by Kevin Michaluk on 4 Mar 2009 06:51 PM
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BlackBerry App World Announcement

* Update: Well, the 10pm EST exciting announcement wasn't all that exciting (they announced that you can now sign up for announcements?!), but RIM has now put up their BlackBerry App World teaser site. Developers can sign up to begin submitting their apps for inclusion in the launch of App World if they haven't already and consumers can now register to stay notified of updates. To purchase from App World a PayPal account will be required, and RIM has tossed a page up on the site directing people to create their accounts. We'll let you know if any other App World details emerge... there's definitely still a few bits of info I'm waiting to see surface. Gotta love that BlackBerry logo within a circle in the image above though... somhow it looks very CrackBerry-esque!  *

Following up on our post earlier today announcing that RIM has given its application storefront the BlackBerry App World name, tonight at 10pm EST they're apparently going to make an exciting announcement...

We'll drop and discuss the details here in the blogs once we hear the big news. In the meantime, you can click the image above to jump on over to the announcement site.

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Posted by pennzman543 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

I hope its good news..lol

 
 
Posted by Clubbinmalta Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Doubt it's something to get majorly excited about although I would LOVE to be proven wrong :) (gemini lol)

Hopes they release the mew facebook app soon even though it lacks chat which could be kinda handy at times

 
 
Posted by CreaseKeeper28 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

You know there are other IM clients out that that have FB chat built into it...

I know i use Meebo at work..and I'm sure there's others out there as well..

As for the announcement....methinks they are going to "announce" a *gasp* date that we can actually get on it....

but hey, that's just wishful thinkin!

 
 
Posted by sspediacci Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Honestly I'm excited. But I should know better not to be excited damnit!

 
 
Posted by Kevin Michaluk Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

I just like the wallpaper on that BlackBerry in the image above! Looks sweet. Puttin the RIM logo in a circle like this is almost a little CrackBerryish. :)

Re: Announcement. It won't be all good news..or well, at least it won't be received well by everyone. It's going to be interesting to see what the reactions are (both from developers and consumers).

 
 
Posted by alan8385 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

if you happen to find that or come across that wallpaper somewhere, be sure to let us know!!!

 
 
Posted by vandebe Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

yeah i totally want that on my pearl.

i wish i had photoshop skillz

 
 
Posted by xmvl001 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

i posted a similar one in the wallpaper forums:

http://forums.crackberry.com/f123/all-flavors-blackberry-circle-black-17...

 
 
Posted by vandebe Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 1074 days ago

+72

love it.
Thanks man!

 
 
Posted by Johny cracks Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

This is really sad. I tried setting up a pay pal account at one point...let's just say I had to close to credit card account I attached to it, my password was stolen and changed, and pay pal is impossible to reach. You must know you are completely inept when you make it so hard to contact the customer services. Please people stand up and let Blackberry know that they should provide an alternative and make it NOT a requirement of the App World Store Front to open a pay pal account! Kevin. Use your Jedi mindtricks to help us followers.

 
 
Posted by yahia-rph Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 1074 days ago

I Totally agree with you, the should change PayPal or have an alternative to it.

 
 
Posted by alan8385 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

well, let's hope this is good!

 
 
Posted by TheChampJT Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Tell us a new Storm OS update is going to be out by the end of the week followed by the App World opening and I'll be excited.

 
 
Posted by whsingleton Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

The best announcement would be that they have come to their senses and have decided to DELAY opening this "App World" for a month so they can get saving applications to the SD card (or other internal memory) to work. I have a Storm and don't want people with the iphone to laugh at me, OK?? If they launch this thing and people have to remove apps just to download other apps it is going to be the biggest disaster ever. You just wait and see...

 
 
Posted by breen243 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

I think RIM should get the Storm optimized with another update instead of focusing on the app store. I'm not adding another app until they get this working better. Love my Storm but it could be so much better if they just took care of the lingering issues.

 
 
Posted by dlappjr Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

What we already know. They are going to announce that their is going to be an app store sometime soon. Thats it, they will have no other info other than App World coming March 2009, or maybe April 2009. But since we must know everything as soon as it is put out, we already know this.

It's not even out yet and it's old news.

 
 
Posted by robotmarv12 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

doubt its something good so lets not get too excited

 
 
Posted by ress626 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

too many pecimists here

 
 
Posted by Jimmy Lisk Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

My friend who works for Verizon has confirmed that the app store is going online tonight at 10 PM.

 
 
Posted by Chrisb06 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

.....for some reason i don't believe this, speculation around the water cooler. BUT, you never know.

 
 
Posted by Ascetics Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Your friend that works at Verizon was wrong, sir.

 
 
Posted by likemystorm Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Can't wait

 
 
Posted by scarletknights28 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

hour and a half!!!

 
 
Posted by DjRicoRich Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

lest hope they announce a release date

 
 
Posted by Jimmy Lisk Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

March 23, my friends, is when we can buy apps. Tonight they launch the developer's package.

 
 
Posted by grifter rc Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

they have decided to make the storm os completely from the gound up and it's now touch friendly,consumer friendly, and graphically fun???

anyone anyone??

 
 
Posted by PGAPRO Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Thanks Kevin now i have something to stay awake for. Can you imagine the forums after this announcement?

 
 
Posted by PGAPRO Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Thanks Kevin now i have something to stay awake for. Can you imagine the forums after this announcement?

 
 
Posted by tfrankson Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

1 more hr, I wonder what it could be

 
 
Posted by tfrankson Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

1 more hr, I wonder what it could be

 
 
Posted by grifter rc Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

well maybe they could just announce that they've fixed the camera and now when you push the button it takes the picture :)

 
 
Posted by An RIM Insider Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Release date is March 23, JimmyLisk is right

 
 
Posted by scarletknights28 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

How did u get that date?

 
 
Posted by An RIM Insider Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

It's what's been passed to us. JimmyLisk was right, yes, but he was unclear. I'm not sure how he knows that date, but his post made it seem like you could buy progs tonight. No, but the developer kit will be released. We plan on launching officially on March 23.

 
 
Posted by TheChampJT Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

I'm going to laugh if they're late for this. 51 minutes left.

 
 
Posted by Rated PG-13 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Jeeeeeezzzz, I wonder what's in store for us now guys!!!!!! I CANNOT WAIT TO FIND OUT WHAT RIM DOES FOR US NOW!

 
 
Posted by blaghh blagh Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

hope they fix how apps are saved, the way its set up now is retarded, I just switched to a bold and am at most dissapointed.

 
 
Posted by scarletknights28 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Watch the stuff be posted late. I bet u thats whats going to happen.

 
 
Posted by skyboxer Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

I'm not sure what the excitement is about with this app store thingy. If I need an app for something all I have to do is ask right here in the forums and I get not only an answer but usually a link on where to get it. Maybe I will see the benefit once it's up and going.

 
 
Posted by NASCAR20FAN Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Some free apps maybe?

 
 
Posted by NASCAR20FAN Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Some free apps maybe?

 
 
Posted by scarletknights28 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Maybe, but probably not but that still would be good :)

 
 
Posted by tagg32 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

Hopefully they finally fix the problems with the 8350i!

 
 
Posted by one-fase Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

cant wait

 
 
Posted by trackizmy1 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

15 more min.

 
 
Posted by audicy Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

13 minutes to go!

 
 
Posted by TheChampJT Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
 
Posted by Paintthecity Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

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Posted by pmd5498 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

you guys are acting like a bunch of school girls lol

 
 
Posted by stevenberry54 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1074 days ago

5 MINUTES!!!!! AAAHHH GOING CRAZYYYY

 
 
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