Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps – Pandora, Movies and Drive Safely Get Version Upgrades

I hope everyone is having a great weekend. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps. This week, version upgrades for Pandora, Movies and Drive Safely drive each App higher in the pecking order. No change in the number 1 App, as BB Messenger continues it’s dominance. Returning to the top 10 is ScoreMobile, an outstanding App to track sports scores. Let’s jump right into it and see which Apps made the cut.

10. (10) Facebook 1.7.0.22 (social networking) 2 Stars, 2533 reviews, 1397KB

“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!”

9. (8) XENOZU YouTube Player 1.0.15 (Video & TV) 2 Stars, 1396 reviews, 578KB

“Enjoy your favourite YouTube videos on BlackBerry® now with FULL SCREEN SUPPORT !
With XENOZU FREE YouTube® player for BlackBerry® you can stay in touch with your favourite videos while on the go !

NOTE: video and audio format/quality is controlled solely by YouTube itself, the app has no control over it.

Videos are categorized by Featured, Most Viewed, Most Recent, Top Rated, plus you can search for the videos of your choice. You can also bookmark a video, view the history of the videos you ve watched and get additional video details. “

8. (2) Poynt 1.5.2.36 (Maps & Navigation) 4.5 Stars, 2764 reviews, 750KB

“Use Poynt to find people, businesses, movie theatres, retailers and restaurants near you. Poynt uses GPS or cell-site locations to pinpoint you and quickly deliver the information you need whenever and wherever you need it.
- Find phone numbers and connect with one click, browse websites and map directions
- Plan a night out – book movie tickets and dinner reservations, add it to your calendar and invite your friends
- Add listings to your BlackBerry® Address Book, add movie and restaurant events to your BlackBerry® Calendar, share listings using BlackBerry® Messages
- Poynt is free and available in Canada, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and now in France, Italy and Spain”

7. (4) Drive Safe.ly 1.12.3 *recent version upgrade* (Utilities) 3.5 Stars, 954 reviews, 571KB

“DriveSafe.ly reads your text messages and emails out loud so you can concentrate on the road.  Eliminate the temptation to reach for your phone by letting DriveSafe.ly read to you and automatically respond for you.

Stay connected by listening to your messages without texting while driving or reading emails in your car.  DriveSafe.ly is the answer to texting while driving  TWD .

For even more functionality download DriveSafe.ly Pro – also available on BlackBerry® App World.  DriveSafe.ly Pro adds the ability to use additional voices, listen to text messages and emails without sponsor messages and much more!

Features include:
-It is free to use DriveSafe.ly
-Automatically plays incoming text  SMS  and email messages
-Play messages on demand through menu
-No complicated software to install  easy to use
-Small footprint  lightweight app does not slow down your phone
-Customizable auto-response and timeout duration
-Human sounding text to speech powered by iSpeech.org .”

6. (5) Movies 1.2.01 *recent version upgrade* (Entertainment Gadgets) 3 Stars, 524 reviews, 1847KB

“Movies by Flixster, the top movie app for Facebook is now on BlackBerry®!
- Get details for the top box office movies
- Browse the DVD catalog of over 50,000 movies
- Watch high quality trailers (currently only available on some devices)
- Read reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
- View theater info with maps, phone number, ticket info and showtimes for theaters in the USA, UK or Canada
- Buy movie tickets from movietickets.com
- Search for movies by title, director or actors”

5. (NR) ScoreMobile for BlackBerry 1.3.1 (News and Scores) 4 Stars, 1973 reviews, 402KB

“ScoreMobile for BlackBerry® is a true application that’s been built from the ground up for BlackBerry smartphones.  We provide up-to-the-minute sports scores, boxscores, fantasy player stats, betting odds, game previews, recaps, top stories, and league standings. In addition we publish exclusive live blogs for key games.

Coverage currently includes: Football (NFL, NCAAF, CFL), Baseball (MLB), Basketball (NBA, NCAAB), Hockey (NHL), Golf (PGA), Auto Racing (NASCAR Sprint Cup) and Soccer (EPL, MLS).”

4. (3) BlackBerry App World 1.1.0.24 (Shopping Tools) 3 Stars, 906 reviews, 827KB

“Discover a world of possibilities at the BlackBerry App World™ storefront. 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.”

3. (7) Imaging Theme 1.0 (Abstract Themes) 3 Stars, 505 reviews, 317KB

“The luxury imaging theme reflect the prosperous of modern city life!

Features:
1. Dedicated background with splendid feeling!
2. A theme can be used for long time and wont feel tired!
3. A theme will not drag system performance.”

2. (6) Pandora 1.1.3.1 *recent version update* (Music & Audio) 4.5 Stars, 4394 reviews, 350KB

“Pandora.  It s radio that is personalized just for you, playing only the music that you love.  Simply enter one of your favorite songs or artists and Pandora creates a radio station that explores just that kind of music.  With your BlackBerry® smartphone, Pandora brings an effortless personal soundtrack right to you whenever you want to listen to music.

Pandora plays all your current and old favorites and introduces you to new songs that you ll love.  Rate songs as they play because Pandora caters your radio stations to your tastes and adapts the playlist to your feedback on the spot.  Pandora has all styles of music – from hip-hop to jazz, country to classical, latin to rock, dance to pop, and much more.”

1. (1) BlackBerry Messenger 5.0.0.57 (Instant Messaging) 3 Stars, 3316 reviews, 3213KB

“Battery life has been improved with the latest BlackBerry Messenger.  This version also addresses some of the issues identified in BlackBerry Messenger 5.0.0.33, such as file transfer not working or working slowly, no file preview, and file transfer requests expiring after a short period of time. This version does not include any new features. The Check Spelling As You Type feature has been restored for all devices.”

“Share your pin or unique barcode to connect with friends anywhere, anytime. Take comfort in knowing your friends are only a BlackBerry Messenger message away whether you want to make plans for the night or ask a quick question. Chat and share funny stories, pictures, videos and more with individual contacts or groups of friends instantly. Stay in touch like never before with BlackBerry Messenger”