Pandora & BlackBerry Messenger Battle for Top Free BlackBerry App

On 11/14/2009, in blackberry apps, by Brian

Ahh, it’s time for my favorite weekly series, Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps. As previously mentioned, this list is now published at BlackBerry Enthusiast, but I’ll continue to post an excerpt here to ensure noone misses out. To read the entire listing, please do continue reading Pandora & BlackBerry Messenger Battle for the Top Free BlackBerry App.

Happy Saturday! It’s time for the next installment of the Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps, quantified by the most downloaded Apps at BlackBerry App World. Last week’s Top 10 featured version upgrades of #1 Pandora, #2 QuickPull Lite, #3 Ka-Glom and #5 Drive Safe.ly. the arrival of an exciting new App in Drive Safe.ly, which has taken the BlackBerry world by storm. Also making the top 5 was #4 BlackBerry Messenger, which has been a staple in the top 10 lists.

This week, 2 weather Apps make the list, Pandora and BlackBerry Messenger again dominate and I’m happy to see one of my favorites Snaptu get some love. The Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps are as of 14 November 2009. Be sure to check back next Saturday to see which Apps make the cut.

10. (NR) Snaptu 1.2.5 (Social Networking) 3.5, 171 reviews, 151KB

“Snaptu is a fast stylish suite of social networking and lifestyle services including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, News from all major providers, Accuweather, Sports (cricket, soccer…), Movies, Sudoku and much more…”

9. (8) Facebook 1.7.0.18 (Social Networking) 2.5 Stars, 1659 reviews, 1394KB

“Stay on top of your social life with Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones. This free application makes Facebook services – like sending messages, poking friends, writing wall posts, inviting friends to join and uploading photos – available on the go! Take Facebook wherever life takes you and don’t miss a beat!”

8. (2) QuickPull Lite 3.5.4 (Utilities) 3.5 Stars, 1981 reviews, 86KB

“Schedule to run a QuickPull at a certain time each DAY, or multiple times each WEEK with NEW convenient scheduling features to keep your memory and performance running at its best. You can even set a MEMORY threshold that will allow QuickPull to alert you when your available memory drops too low. If the memory drops, memory monitoring will prompt you to run a QuickPull. QuickPull is extremely easy and convenient to use.”

7. (NR) Weatherbug 1.0.0.874 *recent version upgrade*(Weather) 3.5 Stars, 762 reviews, 978KB

“Stay informed and prepared with live local weather, severe weather alerts, in-depth forecasts, camera views, detailed radar maps and international weather. The features of the WeatherBug application for the BlackBerry Storm include live neighborhood weather from over 8,000 weather stations in the U.S, Current weather, forecast and NWS alerts for your GPS location, Current conditions icon and outdoors temperature on your BlackBerry desktop, Always on” NWS weather alerts such as Tornado warnings, 7-day and hourly forecasts, Detailed radar and maps.
* Daily National Weather Outlook broadcasts provided by WeatherBug meteorologists & more.”

6. (6) BlackBerry App World 1.1.0.20 (Shopping Tools) 3 Stars, 589 reviews, 720KB

“Personalize your BlackBerry smartphone with games, social networking, personal productivity applications and so much more. BlackBerry apps can take full advantage of proven features like BlackBerry push technology and GPS to name a few so you can experience apps like never before. Put more of your life on your BlackBerry smartphone.”

To see this week’s top five, please continue reading Pandora & BlackBerry Messenger Battle for the Top Free BlackBerry App.

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