Best Apps for BlackBerry, April 2012

Check out the latest and greatest in apps for your BlackBerry with our monthly app roundup.

Call Reminder Notes

Never again forget that thing you needed to tell that guy.

Call Reminder Notes is a handy little app that allows you to set a little note to appear the next time a specified contact calls you (or you call them). For instance, if you want to tell your friend holidaying in North Korea that you found her favourite chilli sauce on sale (if I had a dollar for every time that’s happened...) but don’t really need to interrupt her stay, you can have that information appear when she calls you upon her return.

Additionally, you can assign any note to multiple contacts. So, if you need to remind, say, all of your housemates that there isn’t any schnitzel left, you can have it appear each time you call one of them. Once you hang up from the call, the reminder is automatically cleared and an optional after-call window allows you to add a new reminder, create a calendar event or add a note to their contact in your phone book, which is rather handy in itself.

The app is a little expensive at US$4.99, but if you’re constantly forgetting to tell people semi-important information, it should be of great use to you. Call Reminder Notes is also available on Android.

US$4.99 > Finmouse > Link

Ziptrix Battle!

There are surprisingly few local multiplayer games in the mobile world, so it’s great to see such a classic given that most rare of treatments. Ziptrix is yet another trademark-friendly Tetris clone, but it gives it a new spin by adding the multiplayer-over-Bluetooth battle mode, where you earn power-ups that hinder the opponent.

I was once quite addicted to Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine on the Mega Drive, so it’s nice (or maybe dangerous) to have a Puyo Puyo-style block faller in my hands again.

US99c > Joyco Games > Link

Tank Recon 3D for PlayBook

The title of this app probably gives you most of the information you need. You drive a tank in a 3D environment on a PlayBook.

Further to this, though, you get two campaigns with four missions each (so the game could be longer) where you’ll battle 14 different enemy types, using six different power-ups. It’s challenging, but it comes with three difficulty levels so should suit most. Solid controls and the option of your own in-game music make it a winner.

US$4.99 > Lone Dwarf Games > Link

PinShare for BBM

With the release of the BBM SDK, we can start to expect more and more BBM-based apps to emerge. PinShare for BBM is one of the first off the rank, providing a sort of Chat Roulette without the randomised connections or unwelcome advances.

You are given a profile photo and description of the person, allowing you to decide if they’re worthy of your keystrokes and saving you from having to diverge your PIN to them. Once you both approve, you then chat through BBM, just as if they were a real friend.

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