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If you'll put down the champagne for just a second, I'll tell you all about it.
The Internet Evolution app is available from BlackBerry App World, BlackBerry (Nasdaq: RIMM; Toronto: RIM)'s store for BlackBerry applications of all shapes and sizes, including social networking, online shopping, organization tools, music, videos, etc. The store went live on April 1, 2009. Apps can cost anywhere from $2.99 to $999.99. But you'll get ours for a total cost of FREE.
If you've yet to download App World, here are some simple steps to bring you to Internet Evolution Application Nirvana:
1. Type www.blackberry.com/appworld/download into your mobile browser to download App World. (This app takes up 521.0 KB of space.)
2. Once it's downloaded, hit "Run."
3. Accept the terms, sacrifice a poodle, and sign your name in blood.
4. You'll come to a home screen: Scroll over and click the magnifying glass -- the search option -- and type in "Internet Evolution."
5. The first app that comes up is ours (12 KB). Click that puppy, hit "Download," and prepare to enjoy an infinitely better life.
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So if you're a BlackBerry user, please be sure to give our app a try. And don't forget to let us know what you think on the boards below.
Many of us .. especially in Asia & Europe use Nokia Smartphones, as they are quite popular here. Any plans for a Symbian app? I find it quite difficult to comment, so I have to settle myself for just reading when I am mobile.
I'm on the other side of DC from Reiter, but the Virginia perspective matches his Maryland thoughts.
You need to have a permanent link on the site. I initially missed this post an just sumbled on it in a search.
The bookmark is cool - but it is just that a bookmark. It will come in handy when I am on the train or caught in a doctor's waiting room - but it does not yet have all the flexibility of an application.
Alan's pinpointed some very valid points to take Internet Evolution to the next step,as well as to ensure that Internet evolutions massive popularity takes the next step onto the Burgeoning world of Mobile Internet.
I downloaded the Internet Evolution "app" on my BlackBerry Curve 8900. It installed quickly and does what it's supposed to do.
It is, in effect, a bookmark icon that points to the IE mobile page. That's fine, and useful for people who have bookmark icons, as I do, (CNN, The Washington Post, among others) on their screens.
But a bookmark icon doesn't leverage the power of an application.
Look at the BlackBerry news application from The Wall Street Journal and, most recently, Thomson Reuters. These are true apps, not bookmarks that open another Web page. They are the page.
They display navigational bars across the top that list multiple categories, and when the app is opened, headlines are automatically downloaded. Click on the headline, and you see a summary. Click again to download the entire article.
Also, the menu includes items for sending article URLs to yourself, Facebook, delicious, etc.
Yep, it's much more work to code this type of product. I understand that. But if you haven't seen the WSJ or Reuters app, you might find them interesting.
One suggestion: Might you want to put a "permanent" link on the IE home page to BlackBerry bookmark info. -- so people know it exists?
Thanks to the app, even President Obama can now get to read the cool IE blogs directly on his favorite BB, bypassing all the WH security screening.. I'm sure he'll get his newly appointed CTO to download and install the app for him... :)
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