With my current obsession with exploring various BlackBerry Apps, I thought I’d cover some of the best Apps in the Business Tool category. The Apps below were my subjective choice for the 5 best Apps within BlackBerry App World. Descriptions are taken from the App description on BlackBerry App World.
To download these apps, you must first install BlackBerry App World onto your BlackBerry. Visit BlackBerry App World from your PC and enter your e-mail address to have the download link e-mailed to you or visit www.blackberry.com/appworld/download from your BlackBerry Browser. Once you’ve download BlackBerry App World, you’ll have the ability to download Free or Pay Apps from their collection of 1300+ BlackBerry Apps.
Email Context Alert 1.0.2 ($6.99) – 5 Stars, 1 Review, 16KB
“Would you like to be alerted on emails with a specific text…Simple text search criteria now supports multiple keywords (seperated with commas). Search is done on the From, Subject and Message fields. Configurable alerts using your profile settings.
Nice Office 4.2.1 (FREE) – 4.5 Stars, 17 Reviews, 373KB
“Turns your BlackBerry into a virtual mobile office. Manage your email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. Store forms and documents online and send them directly to your customers. Track sales and lead activity by workflows and status levels. Create custom sales fields and record sales activity. Manage all of the information needed to keep on top of your business”
myCall Logs 2.0 ($4.99) – 4 Stars, 5 Reviews, 28KB
“Automatically save all incoming, outgoing and missed calls to the Calendar application. Supports conference calls too. Keep track of monthly billing information such as minutes for incoming and outgoing calls and the number of calls. Each call is identified as incoming or outgoing and the duration of each call. When you synchronize with your Outlook or your corporate server, your call logs will be transferred automatically.”
DUB Contact Card 2.5 (FREE) – 5 Stars, 6 Reviews, 537KB
“DUB is your mobile business card. DUB sends your contact information from any mobile phone directly to the address book of your recipient’s mobile phone with the push of a button. Your address book is always up-to-date and backed up. Whether changing jobs or just a phone number, DUB automatically updates your mobile phone’s address book whenever a contact’s information changes.”
Exgis Time and Expense Pro ($14.99) – 4 Stars, 5 Reviews, 308KB
“Track your time, expense and vehicle mileage entries against clients, projects, locations, and for international travelers, even foreign currencies. Export your data from your BlackBerry smartphone to a spreadsheet and send it as an email attachment to your office or save it to your computer for future reporting.”
Do you use any other Business Tool BlackBerry Apps you’d like to share? Any great third party Apps you’d like to share? How about the list above? Did I miss any must-have Apps?




