Looking to improve the functionality of your mobile phone? We’ve compiled the most recently released applications and program updates for smartphones to help business travelers maximize the potential of their mobile devices.
New Titles For Android
Google Shopper (free; www.google.com/mobile/shopper) lets you use the camera on your Android phone to scan the barcode of a product to find prices, reviews, and detailed specifications. Google Shopper can also recognize the covers of books, CDs, DVDs, and games. You can also speak the name of a product to search Shopper for a product. The application saves a history of your searches, which you can share via Gmail or a social networking site or reference when you’re offline.
Adobe announced AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime; www.adobe.com), a platform for developing mobile applications that can interact with both online and phone resources. For example, with Adobe AIR on your phone, you could run Flash-based and Web-based applications without using a Web browser that takes up valuable computing power necessary to play videos and run video-intensive content. Recently, Google announced that Adobe AIR would be available on Android before the end of this year.
 The updated version of the NPR News App lets you connect to more than 1,000 on-air, HD, and on-demand streams from the 600 NPR stations. |
If you’re a fan of NPR, you’ll enjoy the new 1.2 update to the NPR News App For Android (free; www.npr.org), which lets you connect to more than 1,000 on-air, HD, and on-demand streams from over 600 NPR stations. Listeners can place the NPR News App in the background and listen to a news stream while they work on another application. They can also listen to programs and read news from NPR at the same time. For those individuals who like to check out headline stories, the News section lists NPR’s top topics of the day.
The Best Buy Android App (free; www.bestbuyapps.com), developed by Best Buy, gives you the ability to search through and purchase items from the electronics giant. Best Buy hopes to soon integrate special offers, a store locator, and Add Reward Zone features to the application.
New Titles For BlackBerry
Does your company have a Microsoft Exchange Server or Windows Small Business Server but not a BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server)? Those businesses looking to connect their employees’ BlackBerrys to the work server can now use BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (free; www.rim.com). The program lets employees securely access and synchronize their email, calendar, contacts, and tasks stored on Microsoft servers. There are no license fees, and it works with any Internet-enabled BlackBerry data plan. The application is particularly useful for small and midsized businesses that want the security of BES without the costly advanced features.
Just10Minutes ($3.99; www.ademendo.com) from Ademendo is based on a concept where you schedule 10 minutes of work (and only work), and when time’s up, you get a two minute break. After the break is done, you work for another 10 minutes and move to the next task. Just10Minutes provides a task manager and to-do list as well as a timer to help you use the technique to stop procrastination and improve your productivity. You can also set your own times for work and breaks in the program.
The Best Buy Android App (free; www.bestbuyapps.com), developed by Best Buy, gives you the ability to search through and purchase items from the electronics giant. Best Buy hopes to soon integrate special offers, a store locator, and Add Reward Zone features to the application.
New Titles For BlackBerry Does your company have a Microsoft Exchange Server or Windows Small Business Server but not a BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server)? Those businesses looking to connect their employees’ BlackBerrys to the work server can now use BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (free; www.rim.com). The program lets employees securely access and synchronize their email, calendar, contacts, and tasks stored on Microsoft servers. There are no license fees, and it works with any Internet-enabled BlackBerry data plan. The application is particularly useful for small and midsized businesses that want the security of BES without the costly advanced features.
Just10Minutes ($3.99; www.ademendo.com) from Ademendo is based on a concept where you schedule 10 minutes of work (and only work), and when time’s up, you get a two minute break. After the break is done, you work for another 10 minutes and move to the next task. Just10Minutes provides a task manager and to-do list as well as a timer to help you use the technique to stop procrastination and improve your productivity. You can also set your own times for work and breaks in the program.
 Manage all of your tasks and notes in Outline Tracker For Palm webOS. |
Fans of Amazon’s Kindle, or the 420,000 books available for Kindle, will want to consider downloading Amazon’s Kindle For BlackBerry beta (free; www.amazon.com). The application lets you search and purchase ebooks from the Kindle store for reading on your BlackBerry. And if you own a Kindle, you’ll be able to access your Kindle ebooks even if you don’t have your Kindle with you. Kindle For BlackBerry also syncs with the last page read and annotations using Amazon’s Whispersync. You can also read the ebooks purchased via Kindle For BlackBerry on your Kindle or PC. Kindle newspapers, magazines, and blogs were not available on Kindle For BlackBerry beta at this writing.
Version 6.0 of CrossRiver Systems’ PocketDay Professional ($24.95; www.pocketday.com), a customizable today screen interface, introduces forecasts from AccuWeather.com and the ability to use your own pictures for backgrounds. Other popular options include an email inbox that you can read and reply to directly, stock quotes, a calendar, tasks, and hotkeys for BlackBerry apps. PocketDay Professional’s configurable interface lets you organize content into sections that collapse or expand to maximize space.
Version 6.0 of CrossRiver Systems’ PocketDay Professional ($24.95; www.pocketday.com), a customizable today screen interface, introduces forecasts from AccuWeather.com and the ability to use your own pictures for backgrounds. Other popular options include an email inbox that you can read and reply to directly, stock quotes, a calendar, tasks, and hotkeys for BlackBerry apps. PocketDay Professional’s configurable interface lets you organize content into sections that collapse or expand to maximize space.
With the ability to create an unlimited number of alarms, timers, and world clocks, SwooshAlarm ($4.99; www.mobihand.com) from Swoosh Software lets you use your BlackBerry phone to improve your time management. Additionally, the beta version of SwooshAlarm includes a Location Alarm feature that allows the program to alert you when you’re entering or leaving a given area—ideal to help you remember to do something as soon as you get to the office or out of the airport. You can also assign notes to your alarms.
New Titles For webOS
New Titles For webOS  PocketDay Professional can help you organize the tasks you need to accomplish. |
OrgOrganization’s Super Contacts Plus (www.orgorganization.com) lets you group contacts to quickly locate the person you want to call or to send out a group email or text message. The contact list is also alphabetized, so you can jump to the contact you want. There’s no limit to the amount of groups you can create, and personal information is automatically transferred from the contacts on your phone. After you select a contact, you can simply flick the contact icon to the left or right to initiate a phone call. Super Contacts Plus is available for $1.99 from the Palm store (developer.palm.com/webChannel/index.php?packageid=com.orgorganization.app.supercontactsplus).
Saving Web pages for later reading is nice if you’re traveling on an airplane or heading to a destination where you won’t have access to the Internet. PDFMyWeb Pro (www.it-dimension.com) from It-Dimension lets you save Web pages on your Palm WebOS phone as PDF files. To copy a page, enter the URL and press the GetPDF button. You can read the PDF version of the Web page at any time. You can download PDFMyWeb Pro for $1.99 from the Palm App Catalog.
People looking to help organize projects will want to check out Outline Tracker For Palm webOS (outlinetracker.com). The interface lets you arrange jobs into color-coded tasks and subtasks, and all items can be collapsed or expanded. With the dynamic to-do lists, items with a due date appear on top, and reminders through the webOS Calendar will alert you to upcoming tasks. A Who’s Responsible feature and Date feature will help you keep track of jobs others are working on. The app is available for download for $23.50 from Palm’s App catalog (www.palm.com).
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