BlackBerry App World 1.1 unleashed, makes welcome improvements to store navigation
By Ross Miller 
posted August 1st 2009 7:41PM
posted August 1st 2009 7:41PM
This mobile client update includes:
Enhanced discovery
- View the catalog by free vs. paid top downloads
- Additional categories and sub-categories
- Newest
- Highest Rated
- Price (lowest/highest)
- Developer (alphabetical)
- Application Name (alphabetical)
Archive apps: Customers can now archive their apps to SD Card or on-device storage memory and reinstall when they want to use them.
New customers can go to Mobile.BlackBerry.com or BlackBerry.com/AppWorld to download BlackBerry App World 1.1. Current users will be notified of the new version a red star (splat!) on the BlackBerry App World icon.
Available to download in five languages (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish), BlackBerry App World 1.1 is also now available to customers in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal and the Channel Islands, as well as those in the U.S., UK and Canada.
This makes me want a blackberry.
WANT ONE please come and take my BOLD!! I really cannot stand the fact that I have a total of 9GB memory ( 8Gb on microSD) which I cannot use for programs!!!!!!!!!!! I really loved it at the beginning, way better than my ex-IPhone 2G but now...I really hate it..always running short on memory
Bold is snappy: check
Bold can multitask: check
RIM has good apps: check
RIM figured out how to allocate memory for apps: UNcheck
Unfortunately, I can only read about how good apps are and salivate over them but cannot install more than a handful.
WHY DO I HAVE to keep uninstalling apps to use new ones is beyond my understanding. Oh, I heard it is for safety, sorry but that is not a good enough reason (it is like ditching the phone for safety reasons).
Sorry for being harsh but I feel bitterness when blackberry apps are mentioned.
That's a little odd. I would gladly gain a few millimeters in dimensions for a larger flash memory chip, or maybe dual sd card slots. A blackberry with a 120gb hard drive would be a bad idea, so I think we're limited to flash memory.
Maybe they should take a chip off the iPhone's block by adding in a 32gb memory option.
The only reason i'm not getting an iPhone is the lack of multitasking.
Oh, hell yeah! I was able to go through all 2,100 apps in, like, ten minutes with this new layout. It used to take me eleven minutes before the change. 2,100 apps, snort. These guys are just killing Palm.
@ iphonerulez:
This constant tallying of App Store apps vs. everyone else's apps is nonsensical at best, hypocritical at worst. We Mac users readily dismiss the argument that Windows is better than Mac OS X because Windows has more software available, so it really doesn't make sense to equate number of apps with quality of the platform for mobile devices. I believe the iPhone is the best platform out there currently, but it's not because of the quantity of apps.
zingo75, update the firmware on your Bold to a newer version that AT&T hasn't released yet. It will take a few tweaks to get it going exactly right, but it will make your phone much faster and free up a lot of memory.
@Jeff
About the "Windows has more software available", there are LOTS of little Mac apps. Whereas for my old PC I had to buy most of the software, on my new Mac, I've discovered so many useful little apps ranging from iTunes controllers to sleep alarms!
Anyway, that wasn't even your point, but i felt I had to include my say.
About your actual point, yes, I believe that the quality of apps is better than a billion apps that are all cheap 1 dollar wonders... remember the fart machine app?
@ Em-Peg:
I've discovered many useful Mac apps as well, but there are lots more apps available on Windows (all of which can be used on a Mac through virtualization or Boot Camp). This is just a fact. Doesn't make me want to use Windows, just as the current app count doesn't make me want to use the iPhone either. It's the overall quality of the platform that's made me choose both a Mac and an iPhone.
@ Jeff
It was the overall quality that made me choose Mac as well, not the quality and/or quantity of the apps. The apps I found were purely the icing on the cake. Also, since you can run Windows and Leopard on a Mac, and just Windows (or Linux or Ubuntu, I wouldn't use those) on a Windows PC, I chose the Mac because it supports many OS's and does what I need. I've used both Windows and Leopard, an Acer and a MacBook Pro, and I wouldn't dream of switching over to Acer+Windows again. Not because of the brainwashing Apple ads, because my experiences using Leopard+Mac were far better than the others.
Engadget how could you get the screen shot wrong! Thats App Center not App world. they are different
I have a question for eveyone. Why is the blackberry app world not preinstalled on the ATT blackberry curve?
Is your phone set to automatically update over the air? My Pearl on Verizon updates itself... App World literally just popped up one day for me.
AUSTRALIA??????????!!!!!!!
NNNOOOOO!!?!?!
SPAAAARRTAAAA!!!
I've got a blackberry storm but I don't see the update.
Neither do I. Perhaps they meant the Application Center (pictured above) and not Application World (which is an entirely different program).
same here.
Well you have a BB and a Storm on top of that. You expect it to work right? You probably need to do the usual pull the battery and restart.
I don't see it either, but it is App World cause I was able to manually update it.
Just go to the App center and click on App World and reinstall it, even if it doesn't see the upgrade, it'll download 1.1 when you reinstall.
I'm running OS 5.0. and BBM 5. Wonder if it'll work...
Some of those search features would be welcome in the iPhone app store. Way to go RIM.
And it'll be touted as "revolutionary" in the app store. Just like any other feature Apple decides to slowly include in their products and milk people of their money.
nice
The main complaint I have with app world and android market is that it only works on your device. There is no way to view and search these app stores from your computer like apple's store.
I think it is a lot easier to look through apps on a desktop and too much of a pain to do it on a handheld device. This is a huge weakness compared to apple.
uhh but you can view the android marketplace on your computer
Not really.
They just have a page where you can view the names and descriptions of some featured and top selling apps. You can't search, see all the apps or read reviews like apple. It isn't close to fully featured.
oh really?
last i checked this was exactly the same as using the actual app on the phone
has reviews, search, and has ALL the apps
http://www.cyrket.com/
Well, I stand corrected then. Thank You!
I was using this google's on android market page:
http://www.android.com/market/
This is a direct quote from it:
Check out our site for some of the more popular applications and games available in Android Market. For a comprehensive, up-to-date list of the thousands of titles that are available, you will need to view Android Market on a handset.
The site you link to isn't even on the first page when you google "android market" or "google android market". Which is how I looked. It seems rather obscure, but it solves my problem.
Looks like Blackberry is the only one that sucks now. (WinMo might, but it isn't out yet)
What are you talking about? You can view the apps on over 100 different sites... Check out crackberry.com or blackberry cool, or magmic, or any other sites.
You don't have to download apps through app world. You don't even need to download app world. I downloaded tons of themes, games, apps from normal sites.
Though crackberry.com gives discounts if you buy through their store.
I'd say the ability to view and download apps from anywhere is amazing. All App World does is have all of them in one place.
I disagree. Some new apps are only appearing in app world.
It is an amazing feature to have all the apps in one place downloadable on mobile, but competitively it sucks, because other app stores are available from a desktop and there's isn't.
can has wm marketplace?
i have a motorola q9c running winmo 6.1 and although there are times i think it's alright, most of the time i despise it.... the outdated operating system and lack/delay of app store are the key reasons why i want to kiss windows mobile good by and never look back... don't get me wrong the htc touchflo3d phones are pretty good compared to barebones winmo, but i think that when i move on from my q, i will probably pick up on of the array of modern blackberries, android phones, or the iphone. With that said, I agree. Where is the Windows Marketplace?
It's coming for 6.5.
I, for one, am not looking forward to the Marketplace. XDA has everything I need. It's free and easy to find what you are looking for. I have a feeling many of these apps will get shoved into the Marketplace and then cost money.
Oh come on RIM, you're a big company making lots of money, you could at least afford to buy some icons of your own, you didn't need to use the ones from Synaptic (a Linux software installer) even if the license lets you.
No, common Engadget...thats I believe a screenshot which came out before the launch of what app center (a carrier controlled marketplace) would look like. I'm not 100% sure but I don't think the release version looks like that, and the App World (the subject of the post) looks nothing at all like that.
LOL, I came here to point that out. I thought I was nuts or something.
I've never used a BB, but if this is indeed not a screenshot of the actual deal, then I sure hope they changed those icons
app world is broken for my curve 8330 on vzw after the update
App World was broken on my Vz 8330 BEFORE the update too. Nothing lost, nothing gained.
Verizon is not going to be happy about this.
This is not new. Its an update to the Blackberry app store.
Wow, you can store apps on a memory card but not run them. Thats some modern technology there! Even Palm has done this for years.
Second that!
Apps for the world to see and browse then wish they could use their phone memory to actually install apps.
Hey RIM, the last time I checked it IS 2009 some come and live with us in our world!
If you aren't seeing the update then browse to the following URL on your device:
http://www.blackberry.com/appworld/download
Worked for me to get 1.1. Let me know if it works for you.
-James
http://www.jamesward.com
Voted down for selfish promotion.
okay so i just downloaded it and got an error "Blackberry App World is having trouble connecting to the Blackberry app world server. Verify your network connections and try again." any one else getting this error
Yeah, I'm getting that too. Curve 8330 Verizon.
Might just be RIM's servers overloaded from the update for some reason.
yea same phone
I had a one additional thought on the "Archive" feature to the SD card to free up memory...
Although it may seem obvious to some, for those who may be storing DATA on an app, and then are opting to archive it..BEWARE! I did this with a calorie counting app (Brio Calorie Counter - FREE app) I thought it may free up more memory to archive it and only reinstall when I am tallying up the food items to calculate my calorie intake later in the day. When I archived it, it was no problem at all, but when I chose to re-install it to re-run it again, all my previous days data was wiped out...all (6) days worth of data and graphs! I failed to think through that an archive will erase the data and perform the re-install as a new install...SO, the lesson is: only archive programs that are NOT storing data in them!!
My Curve was having massive battery drain issues today so I figured something was going on... I opened app world, no option to upgrade. I deleted it and went to the site and downloaded it directly and I got the new version, however, I also get the error about checking the phones connection or whatever...sever must be overloaded?