After tons of rumors and speculation, Research in Motion has officially announced a new social music sharing and discovery service that they’ve dubbed BBM Music. For $5 per month you can store up to 50 songs in your personal music profile and you can swap out up to 25 songs from your profile each month. That’s not a lot of music for 5 bucks, but, one of the features in BBM Music that is kind of cool is the ability for you to access up to 50 songs from each of your friends profiles who also use BBM Music. The more friends you have, the more music you can potentially access so long as everyone doesn’t have the exact same songs in their personal music profile.
Check out the full press release after the break…
After entering beta 10 days ago, BlackBerry App World 3.0 has been updated and is now available for BlackBerry Beta Zone members.
BlackBerry App World 3.0.0.59 features include:
- UI changes to the background and app details screen
- Further improvements to speed and screen transitions
- Various bug fixes
BlackBerry Travel, Research in Motion’s free travel companion app for the BlackBerry, has been updated to version 1.1.45.99, new with support for Austria, Brazil, Germany, and Italy. You can pick up BlackBerry Travel by heading over to BlackBerry App World…
Wikitude, the Augmented Reality app which comes pre-loaded on BlackBerry 7 devices, is now available for download via BlackBerry App World. Wikitude allows you to see places, points of interests and even your BBM contacts using Augmented Reality through your camera’s field of vision.
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Foursquare for BlackBerry v3.1.5 has been released and is now available for download in BlackBerry App World. There’s no change log, but, it looks like the update just contains bug fixes.
BlackBerry Messenger 6, which features the new BBM Social Platform allowing developers to add social Super App features to their applications, is finally out of beta and now available via BlackBerry App World.
BBM v6.0 features include:
- Support for the BBM Social Platform (Invite Friends, Update User Profiles, Chat and Share Content from within other applications)
- Enhanced Location Sending with customized search and sharing
- Send events and appointments to BBM contacts
- Draft BBM message support
- Updated support for sending links, podcasts, location in BBM Groups
BlackBerry Messenger 6 is available in BlackBerry App World
After a fairly lengthy beta period, Facebook for BlackBerry v2.0 has been officially released and is now available for download via BlackBerry App World. Facebook for BlackBerry v2.0 contains many new features including:
- Brand New User Interface
- Facebook Chat
- Improved News Feed
- Enhanced Profiles
- Core Integration with your BlackBerry smartphone (BBM integration)
Download Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones v2.0
A week ago Foursquare for BlackbBerry v3.0 hit the scene, but, without the BlackBerry Messenger integration that we saw when while in alpha. Today, however, Foursquare for BlackBerry v3.1 has been released and BlackBerry Messenger integration is back. The Foursquare for BlackBerry 3.1 change log indicates a few incremental updates to the user interface and application performance, so, you should probably download it even if you don’t care about the BBM integration.
Download Foursquare for BlackBerry v3.1 from BlackBerry App World
