BlackBerry Nice Not Naughty List Round 2: Apps, Games & Accessories!
There’s plenty of products and ads waving around during the holidays, but what’s really going to make a great gift? And what Christmas games should you gift or buy yourself? Enter our BlackBerry Nice Not Naughty List Round 2: Apps, Games & Accessories!
And yes we’ve been busy testing games, apps and plenty of high quality accessories. So we figured better we shared some tidbits with more products as opposed to doing full reviews of just some select one’s. Hope you find a few goodies!
First products I’d like to show off is the BlackBerry Leather Pocket for smartphones and the Leather Sleeve for PlayBook. I had never actually owned one of my own, but I noticed a lot of developers had them for their new BlackBerry 7 devices at DevCon this year.
I picked up the BlackBerry Bold 9930/9900 Leather Pocket and fell head-over-heals for it. This is the type of case for users who love to hold their Berry’s bare like they were built to be caressed. Plus the LED shows and looks amazing if you’ve got Bellshare’s BeBuzz installed!
If your going to drop your BlackBerry in your pocket without a case your better off putting it in one of these babies first. Full access to audio jack, visible LED, and power saving technology built-in.
Description: Custom-designed for your BlackBerry® smartphone, the BlackBerry® Leather Pocket keeps your smartphone looking good. Keep it in your purse or briefcase, the pocket features a smooth, soft lining to help keep your smartphone safe from bumps and scratches. What’s more, the case includes intuitive technology that helps preserve battery power, while also recognizing your in-holster notification settings and preferences.
Price: $34.99
Purchase link: BlackBerry Bold 9930/990 Leather Pocket
BlackBerry Curve 9370/60/50 Pocket, Black w/Black Liner, also available in a White w/Grey Liner color here. Includes access to power saving technology, visibility to LED message indicator and full access to audio jack.
Description: Custom-designed for your BlackBerry® smartphone, the BlackBerry® Pocket keeps your smartphone looking good. Keep it in your purse or briefcase, the pocket features a smooth, soft lining to help keep your smartphone safe from bumps and scratches. What’s more, the case includes intuitive technology that helps preserve battery power, while also recognizing your in-holster notification settings and preferences
Price: $24.99
Purchase link: BlackBerry Curve 9370/60/50 Pocket w/Black Liner
BlackBerry PlayBook Leather Sleeve, can’t rock your smartphone in a Leather Pocket without giving your PlayBook the same business professional look.
Description: Crafted in premium-grade leather, the BlackBerry® Leather Sleeve offers exceptional protection and distinctive style for your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet. And, with external access to the Micro-USB and media ports, you can charge the battery or listen to music while your BlackBerry tablet stays safe inside.
Price: $49.99
Purchase link: BlackBerry PlayBook Leather Sleeve
BlackBerry Torch 9860/9850 Leather Pocket is a little different aesthetically but still keeps things nice and pro all the same. But there’s not a lot of coverage for this awesome Leather Pocket and the Torch 9860/9860 deserves it’s class!
Description: Custom-designed for your BlackBerry® smartphone, the BlackBerry® Leather Pocket keeps your smartphone looking good. Keep it in your purse or briefcase, the pocket features a smooth, soft lining to help keep your smartphone safe from bumps and scratches. What’s more, the case includes intuitive technology that helps preserve battery power, while also recognizing your in-holster notification settings and preferences.
Price: $34.99
Purchase link: BlackBerry Torch 9860/9850 Leather Pocket
Games are huge with the BlackBerry PlayBook right now! And even BlackBerry 7 devices are beginning to grow up to some very addicting games. And with the new BlackBerry App World beta here, users can beg for gifts from their BBM friends. But more importantly sites like ours can buy our fans games/apps/themes at random. 
Enough, let’s dive into some of the best products out now!
Snuggle Truck by Union for BlackBerry PlayBook is pretty much too good to be true. Your only set back by $1.99 and the hours of awesome gameplay you get out of it are unforgettable. You’ll be happy to hear this title is compatible with PlayBook 2.0 beta tablets as well.
Description: Snuggle Truck is an over-the-top physics-based driving game where you must save your cargo full of fuzzy animals from extinction by delivering them to the zoo in the least amount of time. Tilt your truck, catch cute fuzzies, drive over armadillos, and rocket your way through hills, caverns, deserts, and forests to save the animals!
Features:
° More than 40 levels of challenging physics-based gameplay
° Fuzzy spawners, rocket boosters, backflip achievements, cargo covers, roadkill, moose, teeter-totters, TNT, and more!
° Beautifully hand-painted backgrounds and high resolution graphics
° Built-in level editor allows you to make crazy-fun levels and share them with others!
Price: $1.99
Purchase link: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/64279
Polar Slide by dustyroom for BlackBerry PlayBook is one of the highest quality products and puzzle games I’ve ever played in my life. I’m still mad at myself for not buying it the day it launched in App World. You control this tiny bulldozer by solving clever puzzles that get increasing more difficult as you progress. Each one you solve leaves you feeling proud and accomplished. The game is also packing 9 awesome achievements in the realm of your favorite console or iOS games. It’s a must-have for any puzzle game lover.
Description: A fun puzzle game with the aim to move all marked blocks to the designated destinations. Push and crack ice cubes with your bulldozer on your way to the goal!!
Features:
° More than 60 beautiful addictive brain teasing levels!
° New level selection menu with large buttons with levels thumbnails. Much easier to find wanted level.
° Level skipping. You can skip up to 5 levels. If you can’t finish the level you can postpone solving it and start playing the next one.
° New Choco Ice Block. Now you can find levels with five ‘tasty’ icy blocks.
° New Rough Cells. the block stuck on them without touching any borders.
° New music. Two new chilly-windy tracks are mixed with the icy one from the previous version.
° Improved controls. Now you can choose between tapping and swiping the screen. Tapping itself is now more comfortable than in previous version. Touch and hold the screen for the constant movement.
° Addicting brain puzzle and much more!
Price: $0.99
Purchase link: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/35440
FREE Lite version: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/62242
LensBoost by mblware, Inc is still rock solid for those of you who like to add just the right amount originality to your photographs. Unlike most filter apps LB actually makes your pictures look better than before and not worse. An app that gives BlackBerry cameras a much deeper layer without a bunch of fake paint or childish clip-art.
I’ve used this app to make avatars for my Twitter, Facebook and foursquare clients and I love them. They add a real dynamic that’s next to nothing else I’ve seen on a BlackBerry ever before in this category. I’m constantly snapping pictures of urban alleyways, bright settings and random pics on the fly.
Description: LensBoost adds unique, vintage, and retro filters to your photos, and lets you share them with your friends over Twitter, Facebook, and BBM!
Features:
° Apply filters in SECONDS, not minutes!
° Filter fullscreen images, no cropping needed
° Share photos over BBM, Facebook, and Twitter
° TiltShift – Create depth of field in your photos
° 12 Unique vintage, and retro style filters
° 6 Frames/Borders
° More to come in the very near future!
Price: $1.99
Purchase Link: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/65623
Scrapbook FREE for BlackBerry PlayBook by Research In Motion has got to be my absolute favorite PlayBook app ever. I still can’t believe it’s Free and yet perfect for every one of life’s events. Big or little it doesn’t matter, your going to love building scrapbooks out of your PlayBook & BlackBerry pictures. I like to pull images off the web, chop em, crop em and maximize my options with other applications then pull em through here. The latest update makes this app 4 times as rich as it was previously. There’s tons of content to use. From stickers (holidays, cartoony, postcards, travel, the 50′s) to wallpapers (60 total in the same categories), now from the 3 new packs (Travel, Christmas & The 50′s).
Description: Create Scrapbooks from wallpapers, photos and stickers with playful multi-touch gestures. Save your creations or share them on your Facebook wall. Browse your saved and sent Scrapbooks from a cool “clothes line” list. Create, share and enjoy!
Features: as of v2.0 update..
° Scrapbook Content Packs - It’s now possible to download new, fresh content to the Scrapbook application
° BlackBerry Bridge - You can now download Scrapbook Content Packs and connect to Facebook via BlackBerry Bridge
Price: FREE
FREE Link: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/42721
BeBuzz by Bellshare for BlackBery smartphones recently received a very nice update to version 5.0 and it’s just a ton better and filled with features like custom BBM Contact settings, custom Phone/SMS/E-Mail settings, new Text-to-Speech features (free till Dec 31st 2011) then an optional $0.99 per month. New toast settings, choose from seeing on-screen pop-ups in 6 different areas of your homescreen, show or hide them in notifying apps and more.
Description: Control your BlackBerry front LED color to see who is contacting you without picking up the phone! Green for calls from your boss, pink for e-mails from your girlfriend, blue for BBM messages from your kids and red/yellow when your battery is low.BeBuzz is the most feature packed and customizable LED notifier app. Only BeBuzz adds unique features like Repeating Audible Notifiers, On-Screen Popup Notifiers, Text-to-Speech and Vibrate-While-Ringing.
*** As a thank you for your continuing support of our products we are giving away a FREE copy of BePopup, one of the leading popup notifications apps, (a $4.99 value) to all customer who purchased or upgraded to BeBuzz 5 before Dec 31st, 2011. You can get your FREE copy of BePopup at http://www.bellshare.com/bebuzz5thx ***
Features:
° Choose from 20 predefined solid LED and 12 rapid flashing DISCO LED COLORS
° Assign colors for E-Mails, SMS, BBM and Calls from your FAVORITE CONTACTS
° This FULL version gives you UNLIMITED CONTACTS
° Assign colors for BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook, Twitter, Missed Calls, Calendar, Tasks, Battery and many 3rd party apps (see list below)
° Create an unlimited number of CUSTOM LED COLORS and DISCOS
° STACK 2 LED COLORS for even more color variations
° Repeating Notifiers: Keep your phone’s audible notifiers repeating until you acknowledge them
° On-Screen Popup Notifiers: Unobtrusive on-screen messages (“toasts”) for messages and events
° Text-to-Speech: BeBuzz will read your messages out aloud, fully customizable (subscription only service, $0.99/mo, free until Dec 31st, 2011)
° Vibrate-While-Ringing: Have vibrate while ringing for notifiers and incoming calls.
° Vibrate/sound on call connect/disconnect
° Fully customizable and doesn’t drain your battery!
Price: $2.99
Purchase link: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/534
Now I know there’s tons more products, accessories, games and themes we can mention. Some of my personal favorites like Blaq for PlayBook, Twitter for BlackBerry, ACTIVE Case for Bold 9900 by Seidio etc. But our goal this time is to post a best of before 2012 to show off what got to most attention from our thumbs and hearts this year. Aside from the negativity a lot of blogs, and media outlets are feeding the masses, here at Berryfication we still love RIM and have the only the warmest thoughts about their future, PlayBook 2.0, BlackBerry 10 and whatever else the future may hold.
Happy Holidays from Berryfication!
