Aug 24, 2010
Every week we will review a few apps from BlackBerry’s App World, the Research In Motion platform’s answer to Apple’s App Store. Apps both old and new will get the going over, and will be chosen and rated by me, MobiObie’s resident girl gamer and self confessed app addict. If you have an app that you want me to review, feel free to let me know in the comments below or fire off an email to me. So what apps have I been playing around with this week? Read on to find out….
Number Cruncher
Calling all math lovers! This is a fun game in which you have a 7×7 square board with all randomly mixed up numbers, and you have to find sequences of numbers such as 2,3 and 4 or 4,3,2,1 or double numbers (2,2 or 6,6).
When you have made a selection using the trackball, the numbers will disappear and new ones will replace them.
The graphics are nice and clear, not muddled like some games of this type can be, with a strong design that sooths you as you try to figure out the puzzles.
The app does seem to hog quite a bit of battery if you leave it on standby.
I quite like this game as it’s easy to play (although there are a lack of instructions) and addictive. You can save your scores to a local score table, but this would have been great with Facebook Connect functionality.
Overall, very good 4/5
Handy Logs Fitness
As you are probably aware, 98% of women are always on a diet (like me, for example!). So I thought I’d review a fitness app, and Handy Logs Fitness fitted the bill.
Basically, it’s like a virtual logbook to keep track of your fitness regime, with things such as card, gym workouts, your body weight and measurements all tracked.
Each part has to be entered manually, you select activity you have been doing such as walking, running or swimming, and how
long you have been doing it for with intensity and distance. You can also add your own notes.
The app then calculates your results and displays them in graph form, which is great for seeing how well you are doing over the long term.
You can also sync your results to Handy Logs website, which you have to register for. This is a brilliant little app to have as you can see what you are doing everyday, and to have the results on a graph really keeps you on the right track. 4/5
Tune Wiki
This is an app for expanding your music on your BlackBerry.
The first thing you do is fill in a few details about yourself, after you have done this the app then scans your phone you have stored. This may take a while depending on how big your playlists are.
When this is complete, you can select a song, or an artist etc, and it will then go online and look for the lyrics and song details 
and then display them on screen.
When the song is playing, the lyrics scroll along the bottom so you can figure out any lyrics you couldn’t understand before, or even sing along if you want to.
Pressing the menu button gives you options such as hide lyrics, lyrics language and you can share the song using Internet radio, and even find a YouTube video of it. The app has a great look to it, and is very smooth, with navigation easy and intuitive.
This is a fantastic app I was very surprised by it. 5/5
Nice roundup, I like the look of number cruncher