![]() There are two version of WorldMate Live, one of which can be downloaded free of charge. WorldMate Live simplifies travel by automatically delivering content and services to BlackBerries and other smart phones. We've covered WorldMate Live on numerous occasions in the past - we even filmed a video on how to download and use the app - and like us, these RIM executives strongly recommend it. Heit and McDowell both had only good things to say about the WorldMate Live travel application. The base version of the software goes for $6.99 per month or $69.90 per year, and the Elite edition costs $9.99 per month or $99 per year. The Executive edition of the software offers everything mentioned above, plus a round-the-clock MobileConcierge service to help answer questions or make reservations. Two version of Pocket Express are available: Express Executive and Elite. Pocket Express works on the vast majority of smart phones, including BlackBerries all the way from the 7100 to 8830 handhelds, on most of the world's leading wireless carriers. It's an all-around mobile companion for smart phones, provides easy access to travel information, news, weather, maps, sports scores, games, quick Web search, multimedia and more, all within one single app. One such app is Handmark Inc.'s Pocket Express. Though McDowell was careful too stress the fact that he didn't want to play favorites - he is, after all, a vice president of RIM's global alliances business, which fosters relationships with the developers and vendors who create and market BlackBerry applications - he did offer up a few of the downloads that he uses on a regular basis. And folks without GPS can pay an additional $50 for a puck from Garmin Ltd. Users with internal GPS pay $99 for access to Garmin Mobile for BlackBerry (that covers you for the life of the device) and $99 per year for TeleNav GPS Navigator. And the Garmin Online service provides traffic information, weather forecasts, local gas prices and more.īoth services are compatible with a variety of BlackBerry devices, including Pearl, Curve and 8800-series handhelds, and they can be combined with an external GPS "puck" to enable devices without built-in GPS functionality to utilize the service. It also has some 6 million "points of interest," or preprogrammed locales of note. Like TeleNav, Garmin Mobile for BlackBerry offers voice or text turn-by-turn navigation throughout North America. (For related coverage, check out our review of TeleNav's mobile workforce management product, TeleNav Track.) ![]() And TeleNav provides traffic alerts and rerouting information based on those notifications. It can also help you find and navigate to nearby restaurants, Wi-Fi hot spots or any other of the company's 10 million business listings. TeleNav's GPS Navigator offers users a choice of voice or on-screen driving directions. Global Positioning System-based apps such as TeleNav Inc.'s GPS Navigator for BlackBerry and Garmin for BlackBerry help him get where he needs to be on time and as painlessly as possible. It would be a huge hit if you could do it.Like many executives, Heit is frequently on the move, but he rarely goes anywhere without his BlackBerry. I really, really hope you're able to implement 2-way syncing with google reader at some point because as of now, no other storm-specific app does it. Newsgator Go! has syncing capabilities but they have not made a storm-friendly version yet - it's unusable in compatibility mode IMO. Viigo does not sync, so even though it's UI is nice, I use google's mobile reader site instead because I hate reading the same article twice. ![]() Google reader has the biggest market share and people would switch from whatever service they have on their desktop to google reader, if 2-way syncing was available on your app. Honestly, though, if you locked it down to google reader, tons of people would download and buy this. Once I get the core functionality working I'll probably look at adding sync services for some online readers.Understandable. I thought about making it for Google Reader, since that is what I use, which makes things easier.but I wasn't sure how many people use online readers and because of the effort it would take to implement the syncing I didn't want to lock the app down to just one service.
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