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Top 20 Free Blackberry Apps

Sascha Segan
 & Sascha Segan Former Lead Analyst, Mobile

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    Contents

    The number-one smartphone platform in the US, BlackBerries had apps years before the iPhone was a twinkle in Steve Jobs's eye. What BlackBerries have never had, though, is an easy way to discover and install those apps.

    1. AP Mobile News 2.5.5
    2. BBNotePad 1.1.2
    3. Bloomberg Mobile 1.9.11.5
    4. BOLT 1.5
    5. Facebook 1.7.0.18
    6. FlashLight 1.0.2
    7. Gmail 2.0.6
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    Some of them are available on BlackBerry App World, which you can download onto any Berry by sending your mobile browser to www.blackberry.com/appworld. Some of them are available through the independent store GetJar, at getjar.com. Some are only downloadable from developers' Web sites. So you need to do a bit more digging to find great BlackBerry apps than you need to for, say, iPhone or Android apps.

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    That said, we've found some good, free apps for almost every recent BlackBerry. This list is by no means exhaustive. If you know of other great free BlackBerry apps, please tell us about them in the comments section below.

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    About Our Expert

    Sascha Segan

    Sascha Segan

    Former Lead Analyst, Mobile

    My Experience

    I'm that 5G guy. I've actually been here for every "G." I reviewed well over a thousand products during 18 years working full-time at PCMag.com, including every generation of the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S. I also wrote a weekly newsletter, Fully Mobilized, where I obsessed about phones and networks.

    My Areas of Expertise

    • US and Canadian mobile networks
    • Mobile phones released in the US
    • iPads, Android tablets, and ebook readers
    • Mobile hotspots
    • Big data features such as Fastest Mobile Networks and Best Work-From-Home Cities

    The Technology I Use

    Being cross-platform is critical for someone in my position. In the US, the mobile world is split pretty cleanly between iOS and Android. So I think it's really important to have Apple, Android and Windows devices all in my daily orbit.

    I use a Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 for work and a 2021 Apple MacBook Pro for personal use. My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, although I'm probably going to move to an Android foldable. Most of my writing is either in Microsoft OneNote or a free notepad app called Notepad++. Number crunching, which I do often for those big data stories, is via Microsoft Excel, DataGrip for MySQL, and Tableau.

    In terms of apps and cloud services, I use both Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive heavily, although I also have iCloud because of the three Macs and three iPads in our house. I subscribe to way too many streaming services. 

    My primary tablet is a 12.9-inch, 2020-model Apple iPad Pro. When I want to read a book, I've got a 2018-model flat-front Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. My home smart speakers run Google Home, and I watch a TCL Roku TV. And Verizon Fios keeps me connected at home.

    My first computer was an Atari 800 and my first cell phone was a Qualcomm Thin Phone. I still have very fond feelings about both of them.

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