Additional features include:
- GPS support for setting geographic coordinates
- Advanced text search including phonetic search
- Multitouch gesture support for zooming and panning
- Innovative "Quick Links" providing seamless integration with Wikipedia articles
You can grab a free trial of What's Up that will give you full functionality for 5 days, after which pinch-to-zoom and search will be disabled. The full version is just $.99 and definitely worth it if you ever look up in the sky and wonder what it is you're looking at. My kids especially love it, and I think it's an awesome tool for teaching them about all those mysterious twinkles in the sky. Download or purchase What's Up from the links below, and check out a few extra screenshots after the break. (Unfortunately, the screenshots don't really do the app justice due to the reduced size.)
More information/screenshots and to purchase What's Up
More information/screenshots and to download the trial of What's Up
Reader comments
What's Up for the BlackBerry PlayBook gives you all the stars in the sky, and more!
I have seen a similar app to this on the iphone which is great! I hope they bring something like this out for OS7!
Intresting app ... too bad i dont own a PB yet -.-
when are you getting yours? I'm in love with my playbook right now :)
Was thinking early of next year :) ... i just got the 9900 and still in love <3
Awwww <3
lol :)
does it use the PB magnetometer?
yeah. they should have a lite version for os7
Highly recommend this app! It works great. The developer is active in our forums and is responsive to feedback. I know as soon as RIM gives him the tools (!) to enable the magnetometer he'll implement it :)
A++, and well worth the cost.
Purchased! :D
Been waiting impatiently for Starry Night to come out with a BlackBerry version (they've had iPhone forever). This is promising, but it would seem to me that there are more people with BlackBerry phones than there are with PlayBooks.
I wonder why RIM won't give him access to the M? I think they shuold be helping developers make top notch apps not holding them back.
To the comment above it seems the phones are harder to program for and probably couldn't handle an app like this. Maybe the news phones can. For sure QNX.
One would think that'd be the case. check out the forums. He was understandably miffed when apps in the android player had access to the M but not native apps. Obviously now a non-issue.
http://forums.crackberry.com/blackberry-playbook-f222/whats-up-1-2-star-...
I downloaded the free version, and the star names are so small I can't read them without a magnifying glass. I don't see where there is an option to enlarge the names. I even tried to zoom in, but in doing that the lettering stayed the same.
Has anyone else had this issue, or am I just blinder than a bat...? LOL
Big deal. How about delivering the Android player and email/PIM app RIM? Cutting the "end of summer" promise a bit close, don't ya think? I'm done with this company.
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It's just like the free Google Sky Map on Android
Great for a young person or anyone having both distance and close up vision. Not good if your close-up vision has deteriorated. The red font against the dark background makes it difficult to read the names of stars and planets. Only two font settings - 'tiny' and 'large'. I looked at Mars tonight, knew where it was, pointed the device at and could see the 'dot' for Mars. But I could not read it, partly because the 'a' in Mars was covered up by another star. But it is a strain to read anything on this app and that takes the fun away for me.