The Engadget app for BlackBerry gets updated to 1.0.1
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted March 3rd 2010 7:45PM
posted March 3rd 2010 7:45PM
Hey BlackBerry friends -- we've got some news for you. The Engadget application (which is also available for the iPhone / iPod touch and webOS devices) has gone and gotten itself a little update on RIM's platform. It's nothing crazy, but we've made some bug fixes, and more importantly, added support for 5.0 devices (Bold, Curve, and Tour)! The devs also thoughtfully included keyboard shortcuts (T, B, N, P, and the spacebar) in this version for your convenience. All you have to do to get your hands on this baby is point your phone's browser to our download page, or if you've already got the app installed, it should prompt you for an update automatically next time you open it. Storm users -- we are working on a version for you as well, and everyone who is curious about the Android app: you should see it released this month!
Now what about WinMo?
@dundem2k2 WinMo is basically an abandoned OS at this point. Doesn't make much sense to invest money into developing a WinMo app.
@jonnythan
Except for it's not. Microsoft has said time and time again that there will be two lines: Windows Phone 7 Series, and Windows Phone Classic
@jonnythan Didn't they say that a WinMo, Android, and Storm app are all coming? Really it wouldn't be the first time current WinMo owners were abandoned. And as a recent switchover from Android to BB, I have to say, having apps that don't crash(finally) is much less stressful.
@dundem2k2
How about Maemo?
@EGOvoruhk Thats exactly what Nintendo said about the Game Boy line when the DS was released.
@jonnythan
As a current WinMo developer, I can safely say that anyone interested in developing for WinMo is sitting on their hands and pursuing other projects until we hear what's what at MIX. And even then, we'll be building for WP7S, not Classic.
And WATF ABOUT ANDROID!!!!!
@creepin aaaaaaaannnd the Storm......
i don't get it.
Blackberry is java based, and so is Android. You can use similar code between the two, we did it on my companies mobile app.
Also WebOS has 0.7 market share in the world and you make an app for it.
DROOID does not do Engadget app :(
@treats That was the whole selling point of WebOS -- for better or worse, they built their apps development around web standards so programming apps for WebOS is about as easy as developing a website.
fake Donald Melanson says: No WinMo or Android love?
@Donald : I just use Google Reader through Opera Mini to keep up with Engadget, works great. To me the app seems kinda pointless.
jeez... my BB Tour had an error called Reload Software: 552
when I rebooted my phone after installing the update.
I'm now restoring the OS and getting all my 3rd party apps. deleted. :/
@koolerz1569
No need to go through all that...
http://forums.crackberry.com/f141/error-552-out-memory-resolution-417139/
@koolerz1569 Install 5.0
Seriously, I got 552s all the time on 4.7 but not anymore.
It's not out officially on VZ yet (assuming that's who you're with since everyone else has it), but you can download the Sprint version and delete the vendor.xml
@KeegdnaB am I gonna lose my warranty if I did that? I got verizon. I also heard that some apps aren't ready yet for 5.0
and... can you help me how to install 5.0? like deleting the vendor.xml stuff?
@koolerz1569 Yes it does *techinically* void your warranty but they really don't care. My friend had to replace his and they didn't even bother checking to see if it was a supported OS, and the official one will be out soon enough...hopefully.
As for installing, just download the installer from blacberry.com or sprint (or your mirror of choice if you want to test a newer beta build, although I'd stick with Sprint's .484) make sure all other OSs are uninstalled off your computer then install it. Go into C:\ProgramFiles\CommonFiles\ResearchInMotion\AppLoader and delete the file "vendor.xml" If you're running 64-bit it'll be in Program Files (x86). Then use AppLoader (which is on that same file) instead of DM (if you're using Vista/7 run as admin) and it should take you through the rest. Just remember to backup beforehand though.
There's a whole guide on crackberry that explains it (except the running as admin. I had to figure that out the hard way, it would never show the new OS available in the apploader).
As far as compatibility, the new Curve and 9700 have been out long enough that most devs have upgraded to make them work, and even if they haven't "techinically", I haven't found one yet that doesn't.
Overall it's so much better than 4.7 Faster and extremely stable (the threaded SMS and an actual bootscreen are pretty much just bonus)
@KeegdnaB thanks so much for your help!!! I download the OS from sprint. I like the new transitions
thanks again :D
BREAKING NEWS! lol xD
@BubblegumBalloon Actually, whoops. Wrong tag!
Android app coming ????? Please??? Thanks...
WHERE IS MY DROID APP!!!
Its BS that there isn't Windows Mobile or Android.
@technickul Android is coming this month, and we will have an app for Windows Phone 7.
@Joshua Topolsky
Yeah!! Android!! Finally an update!!
Thanks Josh!
@SorryIJustDroided It's not an update, when the app is first released. DERR!
@Snow Tech
No, I mean an update about news on the Android app.
DERR!
@Snow Tech
I think he was referring to finally being updated about when the app will be coming, not about the app itself.
@Joshua Topolsky Sweet, cannot wait. You better deliver Josh!
Thanks.
@Joshua Topolsky
Here's to hoping the WP7S app will support live streams.....please?
Also, any chance for us using IE8 to get comments fixed? I'm still seeing all 4 buttons stacked on top of each other in some kind of crazy button monster death machine when I look at the site on IE 8.
Awesome, I was trying to tell a muggle about Engadget, but the app had an error, so I looked like a muggle too, but now I can seperate myself from the masses once again. Thanks Engadget!
do people not read the article before commenting??
"everyone who is curious about the Android app: you should see it released this month"
Where is the WinMo love?!
is the webOS update still on track?
theres a weird page that flashes for a split second everytime you goto a page
What's "Blackberry"?
@OmegaThirteen
hahahahaha! OMG you are f'ing hilarious! I've never heard that one before!
Yay for the android App.
And the Symbian app is where?!
@Jordanaous in your mind, the most useful place for it.
@Snow Tech Why would the Number 1 Mobile OS have to stay in my head? :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smartphone_2009.svg and still growing? okay more OS's are coming into the mix but analysts still believe Symbian is going to be no.1.
@Jordanaous that would require that engadget acknowledge that its a smartphone platform.
and no one at engadget wants to do that. right josh?
@Jordanaous Well it's pretty smart to have the ability to multitask unlike a certain phone with an i in it somewhere? :)
I'm sure your 11 BlackBerry users are rejoicing.
Android. Gimme.
Actually, it makes no odds to me really. I just use NewsRob.
@DestrictoEnse
Don't you mean the users of the bestselling smartphone brand in the USA
Can we get an update to the webOS app? Mine doesn't even fully load up half the time.
Sorry to reiterate something that I say every time you mention an Engadget app for any platform, but
WHERE IS THE ANDROID ONE!?!
How about you guys at engadget release a Storm version.
@Snarf101 This.
Wasn't the Android app originally scheduled for January when the rest of them came out. What exactly happened; did you run into problems?