Welcome yet again to the Mobile Nations Community Update! Around Android Central, CrackBerry, iMore, Smartwatch Fans and Windows Phone Central, it’s been a fun start to 2014. Lots of events with boatloads of new devices to talk about. We recently wrapped up our coverage of Mobile World Congress, and the event has left us with a legacy of devices, devices, and MORE devices to discuss...
We announced recently that Disney had released Toy Story: Smash It! for BlackBerry 10 and as it looked such a beauty, I thought it was well worthy of taking a quick look at it on video for those of you that were wondering whether to part with a dollar for the game. You certainly don't need to be a Toy Story fan to enjoy this one and it isn't just for kids. I myself became quite...
If you need to be able to record calls from your BlackBerry 10 device, there are a few options available in BlackBerry World. One of those is Phone Tap that comes from the developer of Hub++. You may have seen the app in our list of headless apps, something that has made the app even more appealing to some people. Phone Tap has a simple interface and has the same design features as...
Welcome to the second edition of the Mobile Nations Community Update! I’m James Falconer, Community Manager at Mobile Nations. If you hang around the forums at Android Central, CrackBerry, iMore, Smarwatch Fans or Windows Phone Central, chances are we’ve crossed paths. If you haven’t, keep reading and I’ll bring you up-to-speed on some of the most awesome stuff going on in our...
What a show, #CESlive. The 2014 edition of the International CES was just as wild and crazy as we'd expected, and our coverage was more wild and crazy than we'd ever done before. From curved UHD TVs and OLED displays to smartwatches and smartphones, the millions of square feet that comprised the show floor of CES 2014 was full of the insane, the amazing, and the just plain cool. Up here...
There are two things that have been a huge deal at this year's CES: curved UHD TVs and gadgets that you can wear on your person. While we might blog about television sets on occasion here at Mobile Nations, we just so happen to have an entire site dedicate to the latter: Smartwatch Fans. Editor-in-Chief of Smartwatch Fans Adam Zeis was joined by Kevin Michaluk, Rene Ritchie and Phil...
It's only the second day of CES, but things didn't slow down in the slightest. Between everything happening on the #CESlive stage and the ongoing insanity of the show floor, day 2 of CES 2014 was, for lack of a better term, insane. Kevin checked out the BlackBerry-aping Typo keyboard for iPhone, John Legere insulted the competition, WWE dumped everything they've got on the web, and...
One of the fun things about CES is that we get to bring a good portion of the Mobile Nations team together. Being that we're out around the world, it's rare to have two of us in the same room, let alone 20. So we take that as an opportunity to do fun things, like in-person podcasts. Our first podcast came by way of Phil, Alex, Richard, and Andrew of Android Central. You can expect that...
CES officially kicks off on Tuesday, January 7th, but when it comes to the big press announcements, Monday's the day. Today saw press events from Sony, Audi, Samsung, Huawei, LG, and more. The day wasn't short on drama or hilarity, nor new product announcements. Lots of TVs, lots of phones, lots of tablets, and an impending avalanche of smartwatches and fitness trackers. CES hasn't even...
"The smartwatch kind of snuck up on us." I'm sitting with Eric Migicovsky in his office in Palo Alto. Even seated he towers over me, which might help explain his extraordinary vision. Or maybe he’s just that far ahead of the rest of us. Earlier attempts at making watches smarter, everything from the classic Casio calculator watch to the Sony Ericsson MBW series, didn't do it for...
CRACKBERRY PRESENTS THE BEST OF 2013 AWARDS 2013 was a crazy year for BlackBerry. BlackBerry 10 launched to start off the year we got a few new devices, plenty of great apps, and rounded out the year with a fresh raft of corporate drama and a new CEO. We're not quite sure what 2014 will bring for BlackBerry as a company, but we do know that we'll see...
I'll be totally honest and admit that when Angry Birds Go was released for BlackBerry 10 I had no idea that it was going to be any different from the previous Angry Birds games. Maybe I had my head buried in the sand at some point but either way what a nice surprise I had when I loaded it up on my BlackBerry Z30 and discovered the birds are going racing! Don't get me wrong - I love...
So here we are, we made it... to the very first Mobile Nations Community Update. I'm James Falconer, Community Manager for Mobile Nations. If you've seen me around the forums on Android Central, CrackBerry, iMore or Windows Phone Central, it's good to see you again. If this is the first time we've met: Howdy! This is the first of what will be a monthly series of Community Updates...
It’s not often the rules change, especially when it comes to aviation. Since the Wright brothers first propelled their wood-and-fabric plane into the sky in 1903 we’ve been banned from using electronic devices below 10,000 feet. (They had iPods back then, right?) Of course, there was reasoning behind the ban, or at least reasonable fear. Electronics by their very nature emit...
Music streaming has been hugely popular on mobile devices for some time now and things certainly aren't slowing down. Us BlackBerry 10 folk in the UK and Ireland now have another option - in the form of Psonar which has been natively built for us. It's kind of like a pay as you go service, as you buy credits and then use them to listen to the songs you want. Prices start from just 1p/1c...
George Carlin said it best when he set forth his classic routine, a place for my stuff. Now we can all relate to this having accumulated numerous items over the years, especially if you're a tech addict like me then you really have a collection. So how would one go about recording and organizing all of this information? For example, if you were moving or perhaps cataloging items...
While it has been quite a few years since my college days, that doesn't mean my recollection of the chaos that ensued in the classroom faded. Having to adjust to a syllabus and varying lecture and discussion schedules can be daunting. However, if you are three Greek students it is as simple as attending a BlackBerry Jam Camp in Madrid. It offers a rather straightforward and simple UI...
While SoundCloud may have officially come to BlackBerry 10 in the form of an Android port, not everyone is fond of Android ports -- even if it is available through BlackBerry World. If you're looking for something native then you many want to take a look at SoundNine. You get the awesome BlackBerry UI but still get the SoundCloud experience of browsing and streaming. SoundNine...
Ever watched a video on YouTube and wished you could save it for later to watch offline? You can now thanks to Down Tube which will please many folk including myself. The beauty of the app is that it will allow you to cache the video on your BlackBerry 10 device to view whenever you like - with none of this buffering business that we quite often see. Using the app is a piece of cake...
BlackBerry developers have been busy creating native apps that allow us to easily download APK files from Google Play. As you know, the recently leaked OS 10.2.1.1055 allows you to install APK files directly onto your BlackBerry device. So, people are looking for ways to easily obtain APK files. We've already seen Snap drop in the forums and a second app has been developed now too....
The judges worked long and hard going through the hundreds of submissions in this year's Halloween Photo Contests, and they have finally narrowed it down and chosen the winners! There were so many incredible entries, from funny to scary with everything in between, and all of them were super creative, so this was a really hard contest to judge! It took a little bit longer than we had...
When it comes to currency convertors for BlackBerry 10 we certainly are not short of options. I recently stumbled upon FX Rates from S4BB (they are not short of apps either!) and I was pleasantly surprised. Not only is the app 'Built for BlackBerry', but it is also free to download. You can get rid of the adverts with a paid option, but for me this free edition does the job perfectly...
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We've seen a few Pebble apps for BlackBerry 10 already, but Talk2Watch looks to be one of the most full-featured apps yet. It's a simple free app that connects your Pebble watch to your BlackBerry 10 device complete with notifications and music controls. It only works with OS 10.2 at the moment which is the one downside, but if you are running and older OS and really want to give this a...
