Today's development in technology in mobile devices has almost split the population into two. The Blackberry or Apple IPhone. Personally, I am all over Blackberry, mainly because I prefer the aesthetics, the way the messenger is set up and I like the QWERTY button keypad, none of this touch screen malarky! But there is only one aspect of Blackberries which really bug me... is the apps. I find that the BB apps aren't as good as the iPhone ones. (I don't have an iPhone but I have an iPod Touch mp3 player)
In this blog post I am going to show you my favourite apps on both Blackberries and
iPhones which are design related.
There are some great photo editing apps on both phones but I feel that the iPhone is the winner on this one!
If I had an iPhone, this would definitely be my most used app, this app enables you to add a filter on your photos for example Lomo, contrast and Black and white filters.
I looked through all the Photo and Video apps on Blackberry app world and found a couple of apps which are quite similar but not as good as the iPhone app.
Instaphoto is a free BB app and the similar to Instagram, however it doesn't have the range of filters like the iPhone app. A few screenshots of this app...
However both of these apps, give you the option to upload your edited pic to Twitter or Facebook, which is a quick and easy way to share pics taken with your friends.
Another photo editing app is photoshop (for iPhone) Adobe Photoshop Express
This app features most of the basic photo editing skills like brightness and contrast, crop, and some effects like soft focus, pop art and negative filters. Like the other apps, you can upload straight to your Adobe account or other Social Networking sites.
On the Blackberry, the best I could find was Photo Editor Ultimate - costing £2.99 wheresas Adobe Photoshop Express is free. And is no where is near as good as the iPhone app.
Facebook apps on the phones are similar but personally I find that Facebook for Blackberry is more reliable seen as the chat works most of the time, where as the iPhone app chat was knackered, all the time and always you to get bugs and not many app updates to fix them.
There are a few more apps which are good but they all do similar things, with the
photoediting apps and SNS, it allows people to connect with people on the go, anytime of the day here's an example...
In the summer, I went to the cash point for my nan, and drew some money out. When I was counting the money, I found this £10 note.
My family and I found this very amusing so with the technology of mobile phones and
SNS's, I uploaded it to Facebook, to share the joke.
This new development in technology will have to biggest impact on design because it makes it more effecient to have the ability to upload and share, now, now, now.
