The Blackberry Smoothie

Why Tap when you can Talk? Try Vlingo!

This is another one of those Free Apps that are totally worth the price to upgrade to Pro...

Vlingo lets you control your mobile phone with the power of voice. With Vlingo, you can simply speak to your phone to send a text or email message, call a friend, search the mobile web, update your social status, and more. As the inventor of the mobile phone voice user interface, Vlingo is the only technology that allows you to open and use virtually any application on the phone simply by pressing a button and speaking to the phone.

Basic Features Include: Searching the Web, Dialing your Phone, Updating Twitter & Facebook Status, Create "Notes to Self", Opening 3rd Party & Native Blackberry Applications, Sending and Replying Txts to other Vlingo Contacts. The upgrade allows you to send Txt Msgs to Any Contact (not just those who also have Vlingo on their Blackberry), Reply and Forwarding Capabilities to any Contact, Send Emails to Any Contact and Reply and Forward Any Email. The IOne-Time-Fee Upgrade costs $17.99.

If you are on Alltel, AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon you can download Vlingo by Texting the word "VLINGO" to 95495.

Point your Blackberry to http://vlingo.com/vlingo/blackberry.jsp to Download Over The Air or if you're on your Desktop go http://www.Vlingo.com to read all about this impressive piece of software.

What is your Favorite Piece of Blackberry Software?
~The BlackBerry Smoothie

Living Life Untethered - Viigo

Imagine one click access to News, Weather, Entertainment, Live Sports Scores and Schedules, Markets, Stock Portfolios, Flight Schedules and Status, Movies, Shopping, Twitter, delivered quickly, efficiently and intuitively in a format specially designed for your BlackBerry. Tell Viigo what your interests are and it keeps itself up to date, so your information is available immediately, wherever you are and whenever you need it. No waiting for the browser to load, no typing URLs. just the information you care about, instantly available, one click away.

• News & RSS: One click access to news, insights, blogs and more helps you stay current with what's going on in your world anytime and anywhere.
• Weather: Viigo's Weather module allows for the immediate viewing of the current temperature and forecasts for cities around the world. Fully customizable so that addition and removal of cities can be done as travel plans are made or events take place.
• Sports: Viigo's Sports module will elevate you from a casual fan to a true a fanatic. With live event updates, schedules, results and more, you can follow your favorite team or player while on the go.
• Stocks & Finance: With features that include the ability to create and follow your own stock portfolio, calculate exchange rates, or even manage your online accounts, the Stocks & Finance module keeps you current with your financial matters.
• Podcasts: Wirelessly browse, subscribe, download, and listen to your favorite audio podcasts, wherever you are, whenever you wish. Choose from a selection of thousands of podcasts in a wide range of categories.
• Local Interest: Viigo's Local Interest module allows you to select a city of interest, either your home town or a place you plan to travel to, and make restaurant reservations, get traffic information, or even search for a job and much more.
• Shopping: Whether you're looking for that special gift or wanting to spruce up your smartphone, Viigo's Shopping module makes it easy for you to make purchases direct from your mobile.
• Social Networks: Stay connected to social networks including Twitter, FriendFeed and identica while you are away from your computer. All the functionality, such as posting to your microblog, following or unfollowing, retweeting, replying, and so much more is supported.
• Entertainment: Find out what movie is playing at the local theatre, read a book, or get the gossip on your favorite celebrities. All this and more is available in the Viigo Entertainment module.
• Flights & Travel: See what time a flight to your destination is scheduled to depart, track the flights you've booked to be sure it is leaving on time or manage your itinerary straight from the Flights & Travel module.
• Politics: The Politics module provides poll results and commentary during election times while also delivering political oriented news on a daily basis.

Get Viigo now: Point your Blackberry to http://getviigo.com

Visit http://www.viigo.com/ for more information.

How do you keep up to date?
~The Blackberry Smoothie

Google Mobile

When it comes to Google I can't help but sing its praises. I love all things Google...I have Gmail, iGoogle, Grandcentral (now GoogleVoice), Picasa, Google Earth, the Google Toolbar, the Google Chrome Web browser...I could go on but I will spare you...

Naturally when I found out that Google has their own Mobile Apps for the Blackberry (and many other phones too!) and it was Free it quickly became the first item on my Must Install to My Phone NOW list.

http://www.google.com/mobile/

This one little application has everything you could possibly every need to stay in touch and have quick access to all of your Desktop Google Applications.

Google Mobile App for your phone

Google Mobile App gets you the information you need quickly, with instant access to Google Search, and launches your favorite Google products.

• Start a search without waiting to load a mobile browser.
• Search suggestions and your search history appear as you type.
• Access Maps, Gmail, News and more all from one place.

Features

Instant access to search. Start a Google search without loading a mobile web browser and navigating to Google.com. With one-click search you can begin your search quickly and easily.

Google Suggest and search history. Get rapid access to your previous searches and see popular completions for your query - just click to repeat them without having to retype.

Easy access to other Google products. Launch other Google mobile products including Maps, Gmail, News and more.

Featured Free Google Mobile Products

Mobile App - Search faster, and launch other Google products

Search - Find the information you need quickly and easily

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Maps - Locate nearby businesses and get driving directions

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Gmail - Stay connected with Gmail on the go

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YouTube - Watch videos from anywhere

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Latitude - See your friends on a map and get in touch


These services are free from Google; carrier charges may apply.

I could go on but you should really just visit the website and see for yourself.

I <3 Google and You should too! 

~The Blackberry Smoothie

p.s. What's on your Blackberry?