I can't wait to see how this turns out!!!

the moment we've all been wating for! lets hope its as good as its all cracked up to be!

woot finally! haha

JUST WAITING TO DOWNLOAD

I can't wait :D

The UI is awesome, and perfect for the STORM!

I'm so excited! Hope it is worth all the waiting!!!

This is not the moment we have been waiting for! haha. Us storm users are hoping tey launch the new os as well!

hell yeah who needs sleep

Seems like it's up! Downloading it now :)

Awesome! Downloading it on my girlfriend's Curve now!

It now has changed to give an option to download now

so what is the application center software that is already loaded on the storm?

I am downloading right now :)

I just saw this and was about to post in the forums but you guys were on it! It looks pretty cool off first viewing. Should be even better once I sink my teeth into it.

got it

Beauty! Now I can load up my 8GB Micro SD with more useless apps!

I use Areize Card Loader to load and run apps all the time. Its great cause I don't ever have to worry about filling up the device memory!

I think im shedding a tear

Wait...I can have an app store on my phone, and I don't have to switch to a crappy network and join the iPhone cult? Sweet!

FINALLY! cant wait.... phone died...

Looks awesome on the storm.

this is nice....im glad they did bring it out....IPHONE here we come....sooooo move bitch get out the way!!!!

IT'S live

This is great, for the release, they did an amazing job. Been playing with it for a bit and it's everything we could ask for!

My first download was Shazam :)

shazaam is on there !!

It's about time I can't wait for this I hope it's just as good or even better then the app store eventually at least good job RIM hope this store delivers

its very fast and smooth to get through it...i love it...credit card...here i go...lol

YEAH! Looks real good to. Nice and clean! Good Job RIM!!

glad i've got this now!

Any free apps on it?

The new OS for the storm and its COMPLETE! (or getting there :))

Everything in the App store has already been available! Where is the new stuff!!?!?!

Thanks for the post!!!!!
I've been playing with the BB App world for a few minutes and I already love it.

It's everything we've seen, just collaborated into one place... some outrageous prices too!

so far so good. i already download 10 apps and shortcuts. I really like the GUI its simple and fast on my 8900

shazam does not seem to work on the storm =(

Looks and is running good on my Storm. Good job RIM.

i am not to happy about having to have paypall for this..

Just downloaded. Flows pretty good, no hiccups. Purchases are super easy and quick.

just caught the shazam post! downloaded now!

first impression of it- the interface of scrolling through the menu's is clean lookin, love the bottom menus. So far its lookin good

i like it a lot, really easy layout. Yes there are free apps.

Nice, much better than i expected. I didnt like the layout of the iphone app store when i first tried it. I really like the layout

Worth the wait. They did it right.

I'm just downloading it right now... looks like sleep just went out the window... and after running through it on a pearl... it works AWESOMELY... about time RIM got with the program...

I love the UI, its perfect for the Storm. My only problem with it is the fact that I need to use my paypal account, that I think is lame, I wish I could just link a credit card to it.

Looks like they might've taken it down.

www.blackberry.com/appworld/download isn't working now, either.

edit: and it's back up. yay!

WOO! THEY'RE ON TIME!!! XD

the moment we have all been waiting for

Pure awesomeness! :) looks great!

at first i thought it was an april fools joke. then i thought crackberry wouldn't be that cruel. then i downloaded it and its working just fine. so yeah... NOT an april fools joke.

SICKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

I went to the app site but could not get the download link to work? Note yet live?

I am flippen excited.

Got it downloaded but it won't load. I get connection problems. On Bell Mobility, in case that matters.

Looks awesome even though its a bit slow. Just installed Shazam yay! Seems better than I expected.

Just got the email at 12:39am EST.

Looks good! Make sure you check out the Shazam App!

J.

Very impressive so far

im thinking they lunched it before the april 1 virus attack...anybody else thing so?

Is it worth it? since we will be downloading apps like crazy...

Are these being stored on system memory, or that cloud BS RIM was talking about?

pretty impressive! Rim held up on there end. hopefully offical os drops later on today too.

how do you save apps to the card??? I'm out of space on the application memory..... thanks

can anyone find the ticketmaster app? its displayed in that picture but i cant find it anywhere?

Looks great: I love it! Incredibly easy to navigate. Visually, it's easy to use and the graphics are great. Large icons are easy to read. Only downside (so far) is that large categories take a minute to load. With more apps coming, this could become slow to use.

I was even surprised to see Shazam is now available for BlackBerry. Great treat! Excellent job RIM!

It would be nice to have a method of viewing new applications. As the App World grows, it'll be hard to see what's new without having to re-check through all the old apps.

loaded and appears to working very well on my storm.... COME ON OFFICIAL OS!!!!

I just downloaded Shazam!! Awesome!

PERFECT!!

looks great, but the apps are very expensive.. 10 bux for games?

Yeah, only app I have downloaded is shazam and it's sweet. Although there is a lot missing, for instance where do you find utility apps like batterpull etc?

They really did a nice job on this. A bit disappointed in the pricing, but hey, there's actually FREE ones on there, which wasn't expected.

WOOHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's working perfectly!

What is the use of the app world if RIM doesn't add apps to it periodically. And not just loads of cheezy fart apps either. I want real iphone qaulity apps. Is that to much to ask?

VERY nice interface (on both the Storm and Curve). Runs nice and smooth. Not too keen about having to type my PayPal password into the app on my phone though (it's a mix of letters and numbers) but so far so good. Glad this is finally available.

nice app world woot woot cant wait to dl it and check it out

Does anybody know when will this be available worldwide?

I just downloaded the app connectorlocal. It doesnt seem to format very well to the storms screen. Maybe they should put that information in the app store so we dont download apps that dont work well with our model blackberry.

Or do they install only to the device memory?

USA, Canada and the UK only!
I don't understand why this app's not available Worldwide, after all the hoopla it's a real letdown, you think the Apple App store is geographically limited? Mobihand doesn't care if I live in Spain, they take my money anyway and not just PayPal.

just got it and it looks sick!

Does anyone know if Shazam works for the Storm??

Am happy the app world is here and am pleased!!!

I'm loving it!! More Apps for my Storm!!! and it has a cool setup and easy functions. I havent downloaded much yet but maybe 2 or 3 apps but its Awesome!!!

OK a few things...the interface is great on my BB Storm but....
They don't list which BB the applications are compatible with..
Shazam won't work on my Storm :( It's the only app i downloaded and of course it wouldn't work...way to go RIM

Also App world is kinda useless because you can only buy and install so many apps before you run out of room because there is no external storage allowed....kinda limiting their income potential here...

They made it so it wouldn't work over wifi only... you have to have a data plan! >:-(

shazam does work for the storm. make sure you go into options>advanced options>applications>shazam>menu>disable compatibility mode. that should make life a lot easier

I am having trouble downloading the useful-sounding level app. anyone else?

it was good to see that RIM held on to their part of the bargain by releasing the app store right on time. Kudos RIM, im about to download the app store now! hopefully it wont be buggy as the Storm hehe

Downloaded and running now...sure are a lot of Terms of Conditions. Pretty slick interface. Works very well on the Storm so far.

Maybe I can lose BerryStore now. So far, I like the search function and from a sheer numbers standpoint, there are a lot of apps to download (lots more than berrystore). The selection is still a little questionable though... where are the IM clients? Not a single one listed? Where are file managers like Aerize Explorer, File Manager Pro, or my personal favorite, BBFileScout? No mention of BBWeather, WeatherEye, BerryWeather or WeatherBug in the News & Weather section??? Even Accuweather and Weather Push which are listed on the mobile.blackberry.com site is absent from the list!

But I'm sure selection will improve over time. There are two things I can already tell are going to be MAJOR gripes if not addressed though. One is that there doesn't seem to be a way to distinguish between apps that truly are free and apps that are trial based (I've only been using it for a few minutes so I don't know if this is standard for all programs, but I've already seen one pay app listed as free just because the trial can be downloaded without a purchase). The other thing that's going to get annoying fast is that there's nothing distinguishing "launcher" style web shortcuts from full applications. I think these should go in a separate section. I don't need another icon cluttering up my phone for every web page I want to visit more than once. That's what bookmarks in the browser are for.

I'm anxious to see how well this is maintained, how quickly it grows, how useful the reviews turn out to be, etc. So far, nothing's really caught my eye and prompted a download. The last app I've downloaded was the App World client.

You need a internet browsing plan and you cannot connect via WiFi >.>

You need a internet browsing plan and you cannot connect via WiFi >.>

so..downloaded the app, shazam, and worldmate. Now I have "BootFreeStub" and memory cleaner in my apps, but I can't turn off the memory cleaning. the options won't let me. anyone??

DELETED

Wow! Very impressed! Very easy to use and runs smoothly.

All you people saying it works for the storm try choosing anything in the menu other than tag now and see how well that works? Not working on my end...if all you want is tag now thats great

I really like it

paypal only? seriously? come on. what a way to turn off coustomers. i ahve paypal but only use it to send money. i will not store my bank account info online anywhere. i guess i wont be buying anything from the app store

Ure better off running shazam with compatability mode enabled. this allows u to scroll but lacking the full screen mode. if u disable compatability mode u get the full screen but cant scroll through the menu to close the app and select other functions

Is it WiFi enabled?

no not wi-fi enabled. u need to have a data plan

appstore and shazam!!! this day cant get any better

That's not FAIR! US AND CANADA ONLY!??!?!?! How can I install this?! :D. Can someone upload the Jar for the Bold? :D

Been looking through everything so far and overall its great. Nice design and pretty smooth. Do agree with some and think being able to distinguish between phone models to find apps compatible with your phone would be great. Still great job by RIM only finally getting it up and running.

its an april fools day miracle!

this is cool! I'm totally thinking this is the postive step in the right...heck any direction. I can't wait for a new OS and some much needed functionality. .109 was the best i've seen yet and now add APP world in there, i like where things are going...Shazaam is cool too, i jumped on the wagon and found it to be very good at getting even the strangest of songs correctly. It does work on the storm in non-compatibilty mode but as mentioned before you do lose the ability to scroll between the menu's. I find it MUCH easier to leave it on compatibilty mode and just scroll like the pearl/curve for now until it's updated.

Not crazy about that. Would like to be able to use whatever credit card I wish to use -- as I do with CrackBerry App Store, Handango, Bplay. Hopefully they will realize a lot of people will not want to deal with PayPal.

I'm very pleased with app world.. Too bad I don't know how to post my own thread or else I'd be posting about the people who posted saying that it was just a April's fools joke and RIM wasn't going to have it out in time or it would've sucked etc.. Well jokes on you RIM came through... Nice clean interface and easy to use..

Only supports USA, Canada, UK what about the rest of the world RIM??? Bah..

anyone else getting an error msg saying "blackberry app world having trouble connecting to server...verify network connections..."

Shazam was my first. Thank you, thank you, thank you...;)

YEAH! Shazam's on there!

Shame only for US and Canada, nothing for Europe........

I guess I'll wait and try tomorrow a.m.

Slick interface, small app size, easy to read layout, quick (no long loading times), lots of categories and seemingly lots of programs. I would like to see something like Apple's iPhone app store with the top 25 free and top 25 paid, but that's no big matter.

Great job RIM!

I have a Bold on OS 4.6.0.247, Orange UK and it says that my device is not supported! WTF!
Can anyone email me the file?
gd@gdnetwork.co.uk
cheers in advance!

April's fool

THATS A BUNCH OF BULLS#¡7

CMON!!!

No European Users Allowed! except UK. Nice Rim

Only 3 countries allowed to use appworld?

UK, USA, Canada, whys it called appworld?

i emailed kevin to update article because when rest of world wakes up on the 1st of april going to have alot of sad noobs spamming forums saying why cant i download this? minimum specs fail error.

i downloaded it with in minutes of recieving the email. woohoo

Is brave. The app stinks on the iPhone for free, and on BB World they think it's worth 2.99 ?!?!??

Does this work for Berry's on Orange UK? I noticed someone with a Bold couldn't get it to work, I have a Curve and it says my phone does not meet the system requirements.

Guess they forgot that they sell their phones in places like Australia.

Is it supposed to take a long time to load? My screen has been saying that it's downloading to the phone for about half an hour and there's no progress in the progress bar. WTH? I need my app world!

I had to cancel my first download attempt ... hung about halfway done ... retried the download and all went very fast ... clean interface ... needs some device-specific improvements like when I connect with my Storm please don't show me apps that won't run on it until after I buy them ... Paypal must be ELIMINATED as the only way to buy apps ... I have had problems with them in the past ... nice to see Shazam ... they are off to a good start ... I've had good luck on April Fools Day ... bought my now 4 year old Dodge Magnum RT on 4/1/05 and it has been the most reliable and trouble-free vehicle I've ever owned ... told my wife "I'm going over to Longhorn Dodge to buy the HEMI Magnum now dear." She said, "haha, good one, April Fool to you too." And 2 hours later I pulled it into the driveway.

i am getting this error "sorrry your device does not meet the system requirments that are needed to support blackberry app world " .i am using a bb bold in india mumbai on vodafone.my OS version is v4.6.0.247.can someone pls help thnx

it's because you don't live in the US, Canada or the UK.
Seems like we've been left out of the party.
Oh well, back to wordmole i guess....

they call 'APP WORLD' for RIM the world is USA and UK only?

i can't believe that its is only available for USA, canada and UK

WTF hell?

d

Didn't work for my 8900 US English in Belgium :-)

The device is said to be unsupported at this time.

Only avalible in US, UK and Canada???

EPIC FAIL RIM!!!! :(

Granted, I am extremely happy that RIM finally got with the program and centralized apps into one location.

I think it's kinda pointless given that we still have to be extremely critical with choosing apps, seeing that we are working with limited memory here. Especially, for us Storm owners who are dealing with an OS with severe memory leaks.

In a matter of hours I went through and added a bunch of apps that I had normally been too lazy to find the .jad on the web, only to find that i had put a serious burden on my memory resulting in slower performance.

My point to this rant? RIM re-adjust your priorities.
I think I speak for many, when i say i'd gladly hand back the app world for a stable and efficient OS for my storm. Next, create a way for me to save and run apps from my memory card and then I will be a much happier recipient of the app world seeing as how then I'll be able to use it to it's full potential.

Thanks

P.S. I'm running .113

this sucks... ony uk, us and canada :-(

Major issues in the UK - Does not work over here yet. Some error regarding required internet package. Vodafone saying that this is not their issue that its a RIM failure..

So launch does not included UK..... yet!

Please fix this quick! (can I ask the UK get an official firmware release. Vodafone confirm testing .118 - please tell us its stable!)

Not much to ask really

I get a "Sorry, your device does not meet the system requirements that are needed to support the Blackberry App World"

just spoke to the Vodafone NL customer support, they know Jack S*** and will include it into their monthly meeting, they know more in a month time :(

I dont understand why the app store from blackberry is not supported by my carrier. What has my carrier to do with this??

Still not availble here... Have a storm with Vodafone and simply doesnt work!! Was really looking forward to this!!!

:(

Sorry, your device does not meet the system requirements that are needed to support Blackberry App World.

Bold, latest OS.
ARGH, *punches computer*

i get the same device unsupported message on my Bold os.247. i don't see any peeps from the UK on the thread so far saying they have this working either. sort your shizznit out RIM.....

why won't work outside USA?

RIM has done another stupid campaign

Pretty nice program...I was hoping to see Facebook 1.5 :o(

I got it, flipped through a bit - I dig handy , so far easy to use
cool app :)

App world is not available outside the US, Canada and the UK. So us irish customers will lose out. What a load of Boll*x. Very Disappointed

There's no app store for Guam. Arghhhhh!!!! Technically were supposed to be a Territory of the US.

APP world looks great. But as others have said, these have all pretty much been available. On top of that, what good is app world when your phone can't consistently run the apps. Way to go RIM on app world, but tsk tsk on the OS. So a big FU Verizon for releasing the phone way too soon and a big FU to RIM for not updating us even once about the new OS. (FU stands for ummmm Fudge Umbrella)

Verdict. App World is Great, but there is no excuse for no new OS. I have my fingers crossed the new OS will drop some time today but I am not holding my breath. There is absolutely no excuse not to have a new OS by April. This is retardickulus.

As I type this, it's downloading and.. oh its done.. installed...
Wait a second, why do I still have my application Center?
Skipping through user agreement..

Ohhh slick interface!
Wow, really happy with this up until now, thanks RIM, looks great on the Storm!
Oh, and thank you Crackberry, I wouldn't have checked if I didn't get reminded by you =)

Yeah!! Finally! Even a few hours early! Nice

The App World is great, I downloaded it on the train this morning on my way to work and have downloaded a few appliations so far. I've noticed, however, that so far all of the applications I've downloaded were not built for the Storm, so they all run in that annoying compatability mode with the keyboard up at all times, etc. A quick update to make them Storm compatable would really make me happy, but for now I'm happy with what I've got.

Much better than I expected! pretty slick UI
Lots of new stuff here that has not been released before!

first impression is i like it, smooth format and very clean

I agree i do like the interface that app world provides...RIM DID A GOOD JEORB!

I was able to download successfully, but receive the error when loading, "BlackBerry App World is having trouble connecting to the BlackBerry App World server. Verify your network connections and try again." I am on a Verizon Storm. Any help appreciated.

OK, so it happened on schedule now WHERE is OS 5.0 for older devices!!!??

downloaded this morning and played around and definitely thought the UI was very easy. Works pretty quick and has plenty of options already. Definitely enjoying some free options too. I guess I'm glad I got my Storm less than a week ago. Now for that firmware update...

Really didn't think this would happen today, Kudos to RIM! Now please get back to work on perfecting (fixing) the Storm. :)

Just downloaded and it is great very clean fast now only if they can get the OS for the storm to be as good or better.

BB App store only available under IE?
Come on RIM, you can do better than that!

Has anyone contacted Orange UK yet, or is this a RIM issue?

So how long before Blackberry makes apple stop playing those "only on the iphone" commercials? Regarding shazam seems to be a limited use application before you have to pay. I would also like to see a filter that would allow you to view storm specific apps. Huges surprise last night and im happy with the interface but we will have to see how they run with this.

In this broke economy, they want to charge so much for pointless apps. Good job RIM!

SHAZAM is now on the blackberry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

see above!

Any idea when this will be available to the rest of globe?

At least something did come out for the Storm. I am tickled to death to have this on my phone. All I am hearing this wont work, that wont work man get a life. This shows me that rim is ready to take the Storm to the next level glad I kepted it. Some peopleare never happy.

I went to download the App World Client on my Rogers Curve 8900 and I got an error telling me my system doesn't meet the minimum requirements. What a joke!

This is niiiiice!!!

Stop complaining and comparing to the apple store guys!

But I cannot find the ticketmaster app that is in the pic.

The UI is top notch. Way to get it right!

WHY IS THE ONLY WAY TO PAY IS THROUGH PAYPAL........SOME PEOPLE DON'T USE THAT SERVICE

so this isn't that big of a deal, you can't sort by price or by name or anything it's just there...on top of that when i go to the icon on the home screen i can't pull up the menu!!!! I can't move the freaking icon and i have mine grouped by category in a way...and this just sits in the middle of the screen and i can't move it or put it in a folder or anything!!! WTF RIM!!!

Whenever I try to open this up, I get the above mentioned error. Anybody know why / how to fix?

For us Storm users does this mean we do not need the "Application Center"?

What was the point of signing up for advance notification to "be the first to know"? I still haven't received an e-mail from RIM.

This thing is very nice, and fast. Although I think it's a little slow on the app images ... still playing around, but so far very happy !!

This is very nice, I got some free games installed with no issues.

Could they make it any longer? Storm needs a scroll to top/bottom feature.

Hey is anyone else having problems downloading this? I'm on my Pearl and it takes me to download page but doesnt have a link......

Do I have to pay a subscription for their website? NO. so why charge for the mobile version. I guess I will be keeping the free on.

Runs a little slow here on my 8320 with 17mb of free space. I'm sure they will work it out hopefully

I won't be buying anything from the App store because the only method of payment is PayScum, I mean PayPal. Too bad. I would highly suggest that blackberry add another method of payment otherwise a lot of Crackberry members won't be doing business with them. my 2 cents

I'm pissed that I paid for apps on crackberry and now they are F'ing free!!!! wtf?! and ones that were free i.e. talklock you have to pay for!