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Must-have Blackberry apps for the summer holidays
Summer holiday means long days, warm nights, and lots of travelling. To make your vacation more enjoyable we have selected a dozen of our favourite vacation apps for your BlackBerry smartphone. These little gems will help with flights, weather forecasts, social networking, restaurants, sightseeing, and more.
Download these apps from BlackBerry App World and you will be prepared for your best vacation yet.
WorldMate Live can turn your BlackBerry smartphone into a personal travel assistant taking the stress out of travelling. The application gives you instant access to all trip details including flight details, hotels, itineraries, weather updates, currency converters and more. It enables you to create itineraries that sync between your BlackBerry smartphone, Outlook Calendar, personal website and WorldMate Live website, making sure you keep up to date with your schedules. Get weather forecasts, currency rates, and more – WorldMate Live is a terrific tool for summer travel.
2. WeatherBug
WeatherBug keeps you informed and prepared for a day at the beach with live local weather, severe weather alerts, in-depth forecasts, camera views, detailed radar maps and international weather.
3. BlackStar
Using your BlackBerry device and BlackStar, you will be able to keep track of your current latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, direction and the distance to your destination. As long as you brought your GPS capable BlackBerry, you’re all set.
Share your pin or unique barcode to connect with friends anywhere, anytime. Take comfort in knowing your friends and loved ones are only a BBM message away – forget that postcard, go with the BBM instead. You can chat and share experiences such as funny stories, holiday pictures and videos with individual contacts or groups of friends instantly.
5. Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones
Stay on top of your social life with Facebook for BlackBerry throughout the Holiday. This application makes Facebook services – like sending messages, poking friends, writing wall posts, inviting friends to join and uploading photos – available on the go. But don’t overdo Facebook this holiday.
Sitting on the beach and got nothing to do? Easily create your own ringtones directly from your BlackBerry smartphone. All you need to do is choose a song, select a starting point and save your new ringtone file.
7. DriveSafe.ly
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.
In a medical emergency while on holiday it is best to be prepared. This simple app has saved lives, and it could save yours in case of an emergency, providing emergency personnel with critical personal and medical data: Your name, who to contact, important notification telephone numbers, blood type, allergies, your physician’s name and number, the meds you take, existing medical conditions — even the name of your health insurer. It’s a vital, handy app to make sure you stay safe on the roads.
9. Navita Translator
When things get lost in translation in a foreign country, you can turn to Navita Translator for help. It can translate more than 50 languages and read words aloud in languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
You can make your travels even easier by using a currency converter like OANDA Currency converter on your BlackBerry smartphone. You simply need to select the currency you want to convert from and to, fill in the amount, and OANDA Currency does the math.
11. Flickr
Share your summer vacation with the world! Snap a picture and post it to your Flickr account right from your BlackBerry smartphone. Never again will you have to worry about losing your favourite holiday snaps.
