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Sky Sports Football Score Centre app for BlackBerry hits one million downloads

The Sky Sports Football Score Centre app for BlackBerry smartphones, which has a 5/5 star rating, has proved a hit with football fans across the country. The app allows fans to track their team’s performance, and any number of other teams wherever they are. Passing the million download milestone was aided by a BlackBerry/Sky Media online awareness campaign where the BlackBerry app supported the online version of the Football Score Centre on skysports.com. The Score Centre is visited by circa 500,000 users a day over a weekend.

The application is an extension of the successful multi-platform Sky Sports Football Score Centre and configured specifically for Blackberry devices.  It can add fixtures direct to the user’s BlackBerry calendar and, for when fans are not able to follow the action live, the app pushes the latest score and results direct to the users inbox in real time, as well as providing a live commentary feed as the action happens, keeping fans up-to-date with their team whilst on the go.

“Football is all about community and tapping into people’s passions. We see real value in facilitating this for our customers inside the BlackBerry application. It creates more opportunities for us to offer value to our customers,” says David Gibbs, Director of Mobile Services & Applications, BSkyB.
“The Sky Sports app is a great example of how brands can offer more value to their customers and we’re pleased to see it doing so well,” said Stephen Bates, UK MD for Research in Motion. “With over three million downloads every day from BlackBerry App World it’s clear there’s a huge demand for compelling experiences on BlackBerry smartphones that’s only going to keep growing.”

With in-app advertising opportunities, the Sky Sports Football Score Centre also allows brands to talk a dedicated football audience across multiple phone formats.
For more information about BlackBerry visit uk.blackberry.com
To download Sky Sports Score Centre visit BlackBerry App World: appworld.blackberry.com

For more information on advertising with Sky visit www.skymedia.co.uk

Posted by: James

A Blackberry Theme for the Partially Sighted

Available for free in BlackBerry App World, this theme is designed to help meet the needs of users who may have visual impairments related to partial vision loss and/or colorblindness, and even customers new to smartphones.

The Clarity theme for BlackBerry smartphones includes the following features:

• Simple, easy to use home screen
• Clickable header on the home screen, enabling customers to choose between seeing Date and Time or Network and Battery information
• High contrast application screens
• Large, text-based application icons on the home screen
• Supports devices running BlackBerry Device Software version 5.0, including BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, the BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone, and the BlackBerry Bold series of smartphones. BlackBerry 6 OS and touch screen enabled BlackBerry smartphones are currently not supported.

Find more information or download the theme today at BlackBerry App World.

Posted by: James

Extended batteries from Mugen Power

With Smartphones becoming more and more advanced we are still let down by one piece of technology and that is batteries. Some devices are better than others but getting through a full day seems to be an issue with some handsets with Android being the most problematic these days.

There is a solution though and that is purchasing an extended battery. The guys at Mugen Power were kind enough to send me over a couple of batteries to put through there paces.

First off was a battery for the HTC Incredible S. Mugen offer two different batteries for the Incredible S. First is a 3600mAp battery which comes with a new battery cover as the battery is clearly bigger than the stock one. The second, and the one I had , was the 1800 mAp extended battery which has the same dimensions as the stock battery and therefore does not require a new battery cover. The stock battery that comes with the HTC Incredible S is 1450 mAh so if you are struggling to get through the day it may be a good option to get this one as it will give you an extra 350 mAp but without any extra bulk.

Amazing camera-phone photos

And you thought phones were just for talking to your mates. These amazing photographs prove how technologically advanced the current wave of smart phones have become.

Renowned aerial photographer Jason Hawkes travelled around Britain in a helicopter, taking aerial photographs of landmarks and the landscape using only the 12-megapixel camera of a Nokia N8 smartphone.

Hawkes set out to capture the UK’s most stunning locations in five days using only the Nokia N8 as his main camera for Nokia’s HD Horizons project. The campaign was launched to prove that the best camera you have is the one you have on you all the time – and we think that Nokia proved their point.

Visit www.thenokiareview.com to see all the amazing shots for yourself.

Posted by: Tracy

Handy BlackBerry GPS apps for the Easter break

It’s always a scramble to get out of town at Easter, with millions of people hitting the roads and airports. However, GPS, location based services and apps are making the journey a lot easier. Now we can receive up-to-date traffic information or find the best route from A to B after we’ve left the house, without having to buy one of those over-priced petrol station or city maps that are virtually impossible to fold back into a neat little shape. So, here are a few of our favourite apps that help you get your bearings on where you are.

All of the below apps are free to download so why not give them a try.