Kevin (aka Ryan Seacrest): Solid review their Todd. Love the female counterpart at the end. That was a very comprehensive review of ScoreMobile, which is always a good thing for us enthusiasts at CrackBerry. Let's see what the judges have to say.

Dieter: Not bad dawg, not bad. Congratulations on your first review. I could definitely feel your passion for both BlackBerry and the ScoreMobile app coming through in both the video and written review. The quality and creativity of the reviews we are seeing so far in this competition are staggering. Your video was on par with what somebody like Adam might whip up for a quick A to Z review on CrackBerry, which isn't a bad thing. But if you want to win CrackBerry Idol I think for Round 2 you're going to have to push your game even further. 

Georgia: Todd, I could tell you were a bit nervous when you did the video because you were speaking very quickly at first but as the video went on you began to relax, nice job. I even let out a chuckle when you said, "get your drink on." Perhaps not as dynamic a video as your audition tape but again I liked the use of the female side kick. I enjoy your writing style, it is fun, relaxed and still informative. One small issue was that you mentioned some problems with the application in your review but then did not mention them in the cons section, which only had one con. I hope you continue with us to the next leg of the competition.

Craig: You have a lazy way of speaking which makes your voice "croaky". This is distracting. Projecting your voice will help with this. Otherwise the pace of the video was slow, causing a bit of boredom. The article was well written and covered the things a sports fan would be interested in plus the things a BlackBerry user would be interested in. Finally (and this is a criticism to all contestants). BlackBerry has 2 capital B's, not one.

Very crackily crack voice...

^Haha. I noticed that too!

It's BlackBerry not Blackberry

rookie mistake ;)

TWO Capitals. Got it. I don't think I've ever felt more stupid than when Craig pointed that out.

Although I'm not too pleased that I apparently sound like a congested bullfrog either......

of scoremobile, is if you put the icon on your homescreen and have a nifty theme like the Denali theme (shameless plug I know) if you open your game and then back out of it you can just hover your cursor over the scoremobile icon to get a score update in the title instead of opening the app.

Looks like a great program. I would love to try it out. However, at 570 kb, it is just too large for my old Curve 8310.

It would be nice if there were BlackBerry developers out there that concentrated more on speed and functionality rather than looks and fancy graphics.

I am currently using espn's mobile website, and would love a better alternative. Does anyone know of anything else in this realm or another mobile website that works better?

Excellent first review, btw.

That was an outstanding first review; it would have still been outstanding even if you had done dozens. No fluff, told me consisely exactly (almost...see below) what I wanted to know, and showed that your evaluation was thourough.

A few comments:

1) Only one spelling issue, but it really wasn't anything mis-spelled. You used "on" where I think you wanted "one." Trivial...yes!

2) Some people, myself included, will be very interested in how close to real-time the app is. You mentioned "occasionally" slow to update, but what does that mean? How close is it usually? If two or more leagues were active at once during your review, is it better for one, or generally the same average real-time'ness for all? I'd like to know more in this area. For me, this would be a bigger part of super-app status.

Thanks so very much for the awesome review!

sj

Sweet! I actually sent a request in a couple weeks ago to add TV listings to games. If this is a result of my request, that was a FAST turnaround! If it was already in the queue, well, it was still my idea, damn it! ;-)

Love this app.

It's not Crackberry, it's CrackBerry.

Also 2 capitals. Just as important!

Does anyone think that this guy looks a little like this thing?

http://media.funny.co.uk/files/2709.jpg

I have been using this app for quite awhile now and I love it! great app i would even have considered purchasing it! but its free!!!

Thanks goes to Kevin (aka Ryan) for showing even those who have years of experience writing still make mistakes. "Solid review their Todd". Their should be there. Although any typo that is viewed by the public is important you should always be sure the client which in this case is "CrackBerry" and any product "BlackBerry" is spelled and pronounced correctly. That can be a fatal mistake if working in advertising which is really what a review is all about.

I don't know why you chose to review ScoreMobile. Most of the CB users I know use that app, even the ones that are "casual users". You should have chosen a better application. So far, the Dragon app review was the best in terms of originality and delivery.

I don't want to sound rude because I give you a ton of credit for putting yourself out there, but I didn't like this review at all. I thought the written part was boring and read like an 8th graders research paper. The video was better, but you could hear the nervousness in your voice. I've been recorded while nervous, so I know that the raspiness in your voice is nerves and not your normal voice.

Again, I give you credit for doing this and it's not bad for your first review, but this isn't even close to the real reviews I read on this site.

Good luck though!

I enjoyed the written part better than the video. I always thought about getting this app, but you explained what it is and does. As far as "everyone on CB has this already" I don't and I liked the review. Everyone gets nervous! Good job.

I have this app as well and was disappointed to see that once I upgraded to the newer version, ver 1.4, Tennis was not included. Also, I agree that ScoreMobile is slow w/the updates.

Good review. I too enjoy ScoreMobile for all my scores. Didn't know it was from Canada. But who cares as long as I can keep up to date with my sports. Should I sing Oh Canada now? Haha!

I thought the review covered everything a user would want to know about the app, so bravo on that. The order in which you presented things was a bit disjunct though. It's usually easier to understand something when you look at it from a broad overview before drilling down into the smaller details. But in your video review you tended to focus on smaller elements first, such as the favourite team feature before you actually covered the basic premise of the app. You seemed nervous while speaking but that will improve with practice. Good luck!

i didn't like his voice i felt like i didn't want to hear it during a review. Voice is also a important factor as a reviewer who will give video reviews. Sorry bud maybe if it was written only you'd have a better chance you had some aspects better then others.

also he is too nerdy