Mar 212012
 

Zinio brings your favorite magazines and newspapers from around the world to your PlayBook. Zinio has over 5,000 titles in more than 30 languages.

Key features include:

  • Access to your magazines on the go from a BlackBerry PlayBook
  • Read while online or download your favorite issues for easy offline access
  • Read magazines with rich color and imagery

The app itself is free – magazines within the app will require individual purchase. For a limited time, PlayBook users who download the app and register can enjoy access to free titles including Elle and Esquire.

Feb 032012
 

Alec Saunders, the VP Developer Relations, recently tweeted that for every registered BlackBerry App World vendor who converts their Android app to the BlackBerry Playbook and submits it to the BlackBerry App World any time between February 2, 2012 and February 13, 2012, you’ll be able to get a 16GB BlackBerry Playbook for free.

Check out BlackBerry’s Android tools site to see how you can go about converting your Android app.

For more information, go to “Latest BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet offer for Android developers“.

Jan 132012
 

The new BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 upgrade will enable customers to be even more connected and productive with heaps of new features including:

  • A powerful unified inbox that integrates with built-in messaging and social networking sites (Twitter, LinkedIn etc) as well as ‘tabbed email’ for managing multiple accounts. You can also compose and edit messages in rich text and manage you inbox with useful new tools (for setting out-of-office alerts, signatures etc)
  • Innovative people-centric calendar and contact apps that that connects and feeds from your social network to make organising your day and getting in touch with people easy and fast
  • Remote control your PlayBook using your BlackBerry smartphone, which really comes to life if your PlayBook is connected to a TV via the HDMI output – perfect for watching movies or typing out notes
  • Revamped and improved productivity tools with new Documents To Go, a Print To Go application for wireless printing and enhanced browsing, plus much more

Look out for the upgrade soon in February 2012.

Dec 262011
 

Angry Birds by Rovio seems to be still the hottest game that every platform needs to have, and now you can get all 3 versions of Angry Birds – Angry BirdsAngry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Season - on your BlackBerry PlayBook for USD$4.99 each (Apparently it’s also SGD$4.99  but I doubt it. Can someone verify?).

Are you one of those people waiting for the Angry Birds version on your BlackBerry PlayBook?

Dec 072011
 

Only from December 7th and 8th for the BlackBerry DevCon Asia, Gameloft will be offering a free copy of Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus HD for your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet!

To download the game, complete the following steps:

  1. Open BlackBerry App World on your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.
  2. Search for “DevConAsiaMC2″ within BlackBerry App World.
  3. Download and install this gift by Gameloft – a free copy of Modern Combat 2: BlackBerry Pegasus HD!
Please note that the game will only be available to download for free on December 7 and 8, 2011. Downloads are restricted to users in Singapore.
Dec 072011
 

Check out the root access for BlackBerry Playbook. Exciting! Now we can have some fun with the BlackBerry Playbook, like installing Android on it. The guys who cracked it are working on a simple tool to root your BlackBerry Playbook easily. Keep updated by following these guys on twitter:

http://twitter.com/xpvqs
http://twitter.com/neuralic
http://twitter.com/cmwdotme

Oct 312011
 

It’s Halloween and here are a bunch of BlackBerry apps to get you in the mood for Halloween.

Ghosty Party (also supported on the PlayBook)

Vaporize as many ghosts of the same color as you can to get a high score, with cute halloween theme animations, bonuses, and sound effects. The more ghosts you tap at once, the more scores you will get. The more same color ghosts combo, the more scores multiply.

The game features an autosave function on exit or phone call, and the PlayBook version also has global online support to post your scores on Facebook.

This app costs USD$1.99 and can be found on BlackBerry App World.

Count Munchula FREE – Screen Muncher Halloween Edition!

The world-famous Screen Muncher just couldn’t resist getting dressed up for Halloween as a blood-sucking vampire named Count Munchula! “Munch” your BlackBerry screen and capture it as an image to post directly to Twitter, share through email, or save for later!

Screen Muncher lets you capture anything you see on your BlackBerry screen just like a desktop “print screen” on a PC. This funny, cute and useful app includes a very special “Count Munchula” sound effect, animation and vibrates every time you Munch a screen!

This app is free and can be found on BlackBerry App World.

Pumpkin Slider – Slider Lock with Halloween theme

Pumpkin Slider is designed to lock your BlackBerry and prevent any unwanted key press. Even if your BlackBerry is unlocked by accident, Pumpkin Slider still locks your phone and you do not need to worry about the Send key or any unwanted key pressed. Pumpkin Slider automatically locks your BlackBerry when the screen dims.

Pumpkin Slider is fast to setup, easy to use and works with the Lock button on your BlackBerry.

This app costs USD$0.99 and can be found on BlackBerry App World.

Jack-O-Lantern

Ever wanted your own Jack-O-Lantern but didn’t know how to carve one? This app is a virtual Jack-O-Lantern for your BlackBerry to help you celebrate the Halloween season. You can change the Jack-O-Lantern’s face by swiping from the left or right on the eyes, nose, or mouth. You can also change the colour by clicking on the screen. Happy Halloween!

This app is free and can be found on BlackBerry App World.

Halloween Photo Editor

Halloween Photo Editor is a powerful image processing app that turns your photos into unique Halloween themed art. Very intuitive and easy to use. even beginners will quickly learn how to create impressive Halloweenish effects! Gear up for your Halloween celebration with this amazing photo app!

The app features 4 awesome Halloween filters, 16 unique Halloween themed photo frames and 11 cute clip art images.

This app costs USD$1.99 and can be found on BlackBerry App World.

Halloween Haunt for the PlayBook

Zombies, Ghosts, Mummies; oh my! Halloween Haunt is a 5 Reel Slot Machine that features up to 15 credits per line (up to 9 lines) – Changeable credit values ranging from 1¢, 2¢, 5¢, 10¢, and 25¢. Once the ‘High Roller Gauge’ is completely filled, you will gain access to even higher credit values; 50¢, $1, and $5. Slot machine symbols include ‘WILD’ and ‘SPIN & WIN’ symbols, which trigger the FREE SPIN feature. Earn your way to 50 trophies, purchase the 10 items in the gift shop, and work your way up to piles of cash like candy on Halloween!

This app costs USD$1.99 and can be found on BlackBerry App World.

Halloween Sounds for the PlayBook

Wanna scare the guy in the next cube out of his wits? Look no further! With Halloween Sounds you can play endless pranks on friends and enemies alike. 15 spooky sounds and Spooky Soundtrack which plays a creepy soundtrack and adds scary sounds on top of it. The perfect soundtrack for handing out treats, or great mood music for a costume party.

This app costs USD$0.99 and can be found on BlackBerry App World.

Oct 192011
 

BlackBerry BBX is the next generation mobile platform that takes the best of the BlackBerry platform and the best of the QNX platform to connect people, devices, content and services.

The BlackBerry BBX platform will include BBX-OS, and will support BlackBerry cloud services and development environments for both HTML5 and native developers. BBX will also support applications developed using any of the tools available today for the BlackBerry PlayBook – including Native SDK, Adobe AIR/Flash and WebWorks/HTML5, as well as the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps – on future BBX-based tablets and smartphones.

Additional announcements and highlights from BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011 include:

  • BlackBerry WebWorks and HTML5 apps compatible with current BlackBerry smartphones and tablets will run on future BBX-based devices - http://developer.blackberry.com/html5
  • Native SDK for BlackBerry PlayBook goes gold; released for general availability
  • BlackBerry Cascades is a rich user interface framework coming to a future release of the Native SDK.
  • SDK for Adobe AIR Now Supports Adobe AIR 3.0
  • BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Developer Beta now available, includes BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps - https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/android/bpaa/
  • BlackBerry Open Source Initiative to port popular Open Source libraries to the BlackBerry PlayBook platform, like Bullet Physics and Box2DX, scripting languages like Lua, multimedia libraries like OpenAL and SDL, gaming frameworks like Cocos2DX and general-purpose libraries like Boost and Qt. - http://blackberry.github.com