{"id":36498,"date":"2011-10-20T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T06:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=36498"},"modified":"2011-10-20T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T06:43:04","slug":"free-blackberry-apps-first-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/36498-free-blackberry-apps-first-now-available.html","title":{"rendered":"Free BlackBerry apps, first now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Research in Motion (RIM)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313525-Research-in-Motion-%28RIM%29\">RIM<\/a> promised to provide customers affected by the three day <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> outage earlier this month with access to premium apps free of charge and the first of these is now available.<\/p>\n<p>iSpeech DriveSafe.ly Pro, which normally retails for $19.99 (R161.24) reads text messages and emails while you drive, and allows you to use voice commands to reply to text messages, replay a call, or initiate a call.<\/p>\n<p>RIM has promised they will offer at least a dozen premium apps for free, including SIMS 3, Bejeweled, N.O.V.A., Texas Hold&#8217;em Poker 2, Bubble Bash 2, Photo Editor Ultimate, iSpeech Translator Pro, Drive Safe.ly Enterprise, Nobex Radio Premium, Shazam Encore, and Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by the company, the above apps \u201cwill become available over the next four weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"PC Mag news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2394942,00.asp#fbid=HPb-Uim9ZAU\" target=\"_blank\">PCMag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first free application, promised by RIM as compensation for the BlackBerry outage, is now available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":30320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[97,937,99],"class_list":["post-36498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-blackberry","tag-research-in-motion","tag-rim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36502,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498\/revisions\/36502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}