The winner of the 2010 BlackBerry Super Apps Developer Challenge comes to the Playbook, helping you find businesses, restaurants, movies, and events near you. It also retrieves phone numbers and map directions with one click. It’s great for planning nights out – You can read reviews of restaurants and make reservations, and watch movie trailers and buy tickets.
A must download for the movie buffs, MovieNews shows you the latest DVD and theatre releases, upcoming films, and cast and crew listings.
Plan your week by checking the forecast for multiple cities around the world. It’s got a great layout but it is a bit laggy. Hopefully that will be corrected in the next update.
Get breaking news on the playoffs including schedules, scores, analysis, and tweets from the Hockeycentral panel. We’re hoping to see the Canucks face off with the Habs in the finals for the Stanley Cup!
This handy app is great for tackling your to-do list. You can create unlimited tasks or projects and include info such as the time needed to finish a task and filtering criteria like tags. It doesn’t require an internet connection so you can access your 'to do' list anywhere.
Heading to Japan, Russia, or France? Download this speech recognition app and let it translate words or phrases for you. Translate text by either speaking or typing and the translation will appear in the text box. You can translate by speaking text in seven languages and listen to translations read aloud in 18 languages. It currently supports Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese and more languages are on the way.
Stuck for dinner ideas? Use this app to get access to over 700 recipes. Mouth-watering photos accompany the recipes, as well as nutritional information. Search by keyword or categories and bookmark your favourites with a star.
Display your photos in this easy to use virtual photo frame. Show them off them individually or as a slide show.
Access your DropBox account with this simple to use app. You can create folders, copy, cut and rename files. The functionality is still very basic at this point. For example, you can’t upload files to Dropbox. It has promise though, and the developer is planning on adding the ability to upload and download files using the Playbook’s shared file system.
It’s no Doodle Jump but this entertaining puzzle game is pretty addictive. The gameplay involves drawing a line in order to get the balls to fall and roll into the container and features some pretty creative graphics.
Let us know if you have any favourite Playbook apps!
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