Users can access BlackBerry App World over traditional cellular networks as well as Wi-Fi, and can be used with various BlackBerry models. As well, users will be presented with a catalog of relevant apps for their specific mobile phone model automatically. The front page features a carousel showcasing several applications that will vary from week to week allowing users to discover new applications across all categories.

The types and number of application should continually increase with time, and the current list of application categories include:

- Entertainment
- Games
- Maps and Navigation
- Music and Video
- News and Weather
- Personal Finance and Banking
- Personal Health and Wellness
- Productivity and Utilities
- Professional and Business
- Reference and eBooks
- Social Networking and Sharing
- Sports and Recreation
- Travel

If you’re more comfortable finding applications on your own, then you can make use of the search feature to track down the apps that you want. If you really like an app then you can review it and star rate it for the benefit of others as well see reviews, descriptions and screenshots of apps before downloading them. Find an app that you really want to recommend? You can recommend applications to others through email, PIN, SMS message or BlackBerry Messenger. As you may very well end up with dozens of apps; you can keep track of your applications with the My World folder that lets you store, uninstall reinstall and transfer applications to a new BlackBerry smartphone.

BlackBerry App World supports both free and for-purchase applications. It’s expected that nearly 1,000 applications would be posted by partners on BlackBerry App World in the first week, including applications from popular brands such as:

- Bloomberg
- ClearChannel (iheartradio)
- Gameloft
- Hotel Reservation Service
- LIVESTRONG.COM
- Lonely Planet
- MTV Networks
- New York Times
- Pandora
- salesforce.com
- Shazam
- Slacker
- Viigo
- WorldMate

Currently, BlackBerry App World is only available to users in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, but service in more countries will be sure to follow. Don’t let iPhone owners have all the fun! Find and download the apps you want for your BlackBerry by visiting BlackBerry App World.

BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone (Verizon)

We loved how Apple just completely changed the game in mobile phones due to the introduction of the iPhone with its amazing touch screen, and many other phones have followed suit. The benefit of a large touchscreen is that you can have a larger screen on a small device with interface functionality as well. However, there was always the inherent benefit of having a phone with actual buttons in that they provided you with a physical response from those buttons, but touchscreens could not reproduce that feeling until now. RIM has raised the bar with its introduction of a mobile phone that had the big bright touchscreen, and went further by making sure you got a tactile response from pressing the buttons on the screen. This is more than just amazing, and we think that BlackBerry has now changed the future of handsets when it comes to touchscreen mobile phones.

For the die-hard BlackBerry user, you’ll be happy to know that you will get all of the same functionality out of the Storm that you’ve become accustomed to with previous BlackBerries. The Storm is no slouch when it comes to providing both the business user as well as the casual user a solid phone with work and leisure functions. Having 8GB of microSD storage, you’ll have no reason not to snap tons of photos with the 3.2 megapixel camera as well as listening to MP3s and watching videos on the big bright screen. You’ll also be able to make great use of its multi-connectivity through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for data downloads and file transferring. Along with the GPS location function, this phone has some very impressive features other than the cool touchscreen. If you think that you might like the idea of a touchscreen mobile phone, but prefer the tactile response of physical buttons then compromise and buy the BlackBerry Storm for it’s physically responsive touchscreen as well as its great features.

Blackberry – 8300 Curve – Unlocked GSM PDA Phone

For those that are looking for a phone that is curvaceous and smart, then you’ll get both with the Curve 8300. This phone offers more than just style and elegance, because this Blackberry is a true smartphone and has everything you need including email, BlackBerry maps, address book, calendar, memo pad, task list, web browser, and can act a modem for your laptop. Unlocked and ready to go where you go, this Quad-Band phone features a full QWERTY keyboard with a 2 megapixel camera and is also a media player of both audio and video. Buy the Blackberry – 8300 Curve – Unlocked GSM PDA Phone and you’ll be connected with all the business and entertainment features you want in any mobile phone, and others you never thought you might want or need.