Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps – Carbon Fiber Theme, WeatherEye & Animated Screen Savers Return

Welcome to another edition of the Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps. After this week, I may change the weekly listing to every two weeks due to few changes in the weekly listings. I’ll keep you posted.

This week, we have no version upgrades for any of the top 10 Apps. Returning to the Top 10 are Carbon Fiber Theme, WeatherEye and Animated Screen Savers.  BlackBerry Messenger and Pandora continue their dominance as the two absolute most downloaded and popular BlackBerry Apps.

10. (7) Drive Safe.ly 1.12.3 (Utilities) 3.5 Stars, 1000 reviews, 571KB

“DriveSafe.ly reads your text messages and emails out loud so you can concentrate on the road.  Eliminate the temptation to reach for your phone by letting DriveSafe.ly read to you and automatically respond for you.

Stay connected by listening to your messages without texting while driving or reading emails in your car.  DriveSafe.ly is the answer to texting while driving  TWD .

For even more functionality download DriveSafe.ly Pro – also available on BlackBerry® App World.  DriveSafe.ly Pro adds the ability to use additional voices, listen to text messages and emails without sponsor messages and much more!

Features include:
-It is free to use DriveSafe.ly
-Automatically plays incoming text  SMS  and email messages
-Play messages on demand through menu
-No complicated software to install  easy to use
-Small footprint  lightweight app does not slow down your phone
-Customizable auto-response and timeout duration
-Human sounding text to speech powered by iSpeech.org .”

9. (6) Movies 1.2.0.1 (Entertainment Gadgets) 3 Stars, 549 reviews, 1847KB

“Movies by Flixster, the top movie app for Facebook is now on BlackBerry®!
- Get details for the top box office movies
- Browse the DVD catalog of over 50,000 movies
- Watch high quality trailers (currently only available on some devices)
- Read reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
- View theater info with maps, phone number, ticket info and showtimes for theaters in the USA, UK or Canada
- Buy movie tickets from movietickets.com
- Search for movies by title, director or actors”

8. (10) Facebook 1.7.0.22 (social networking) 2 Stars, 2605 reviews, 1397KB

“Stay on top of your social life with Facebook® for BlackBerry® smartphones. This free application makes Facebook services – like sending messages, poking friends, writing wall posts, inviting friends to join and uploading photos – available on the go! Take Facebook wherever life takes you and don’t miss a beat!”

7. (NR) Animated Screen Savers Free 2.0 (Personalize) 3.5 Stars, 106 reviews, 154KB

“Animated Screensavers for BlackBerry® smartphones.  This Free version is Ad supported. If you have any suggestions or requests for new screensavers, please send them to ani@getempower.com, and I would try go incorporate them

This free pack includes the following screensavers:
1. Starfield – A simulation of travel through the stars, based on the popular windows screensaver.
2. Snowfall – White snow falling across a beautiful country house. Feel the chill.
3. Dull Jack : Keeps typing “All work and no play makes jack a dull boy” and makes typing mistakes. You can change the text to make it type whatever you want.”

6. (3) Imagining Theme 1.0 (Abstract Themes) 3 Stars, 600 reviews, 317KB

“The luxury imaging theme reflect the prosperous of modern city life!

Features:
1. Dedicated background with splendid feeling!
2. A theme can be used for long time and wont feel tired!
3. A theme will not drag system performance.”

5. (NR) WeatherEye 2.0.1.1 (Weather) 3 Stars, 1846 reviews, 850KB

“WeatherEye BlackBerry® provides you the following information and allows you to select from any city The Weather Network provides content for Current conditions, Hourly forecasts, Short-term forecasts, Long-term forecasts, Radar Maps, and Warning updates. Search cities using GPS.”

4. (4) BlackBerry App World 1.1.0.24 (Shopping Tools) 3 Stars, 929 reviews, 827KB

“Discover a world of possibilities at the BlackBerry App World™ storefront. Personalize your BlackBerry® smartphone with games, social networking, personal productivity applications and so much more. BlackBerry apps can take full advantage of proven features like BlackBerry push technology and GPS to name a few so you can experience apps like never before. Put more of your life on your BlackBerry smartphone.”

3. (NR) Carbon Fiber Theme 1.2 (Transportation Themes) 2.5 Stars, 183 reviews, 720KB

“CUSTOMIZE YOUR BERRY WITH THE SLEEK LOOK OF TODAY’S DREAM SPORTS CARS!  This theme requires OS 4.5 OR ABOVE or it will not work. Please see more important info below before purchasing! Themes WILL change the order and visibility of your device icons and downloaded apps. If you have questions or need tech support please contact us before posting a review – we can’t see who you are and therefore cannot respond in reviews: support@motekmobile.com Themes do not appear under “Applications”. To activate themes go into Options – Themes and choose it from the listing.

CUSTOM THEME ELEMENTS INCLUDE:
* Background on main and lock screens
* New message icons
* All system icons including messages, browser, contacts, calendar and more
* Call screens
* Lock screen and icon
* Menu colors, highlights, alert icons and popup buttons
* Alarm icon
* Fonts and colors
* Profile icons
* Quick link to free content, more downloads, rewards points and more!”

2. (2) Pandora 1.1.3.1 (Music & Audio) 4.5 Stars, 4473 reviews, 350KB

“Pandora.  It s radio that is personalized just for you, playing only the music that you love.  Simply enter one of your favorite songs or artists and Pandora creates a radio station that explores just that kind of music.  With your BlackBerry® smartphone, Pandora brings an effortless personal soundtrack right to you whenever you want to listen to music.

Pandora plays all your current and old favorites and introduces you to new songs that you ll love.  Rate songs as they play because Pandora caters your radio stations to your tastes and adapts the playlist to your feedback on the spot.  Pandora has all styles of music – from hip-hop to jazz, country to classical, latin to rock, dance to pop, and much more.”

1. (1) BlackBerry Messenger 5.0.0.57 (Instant Messaging) 3 Stars, 3438 reviews, 3213KB

“Battery life has been improved with the latest BlackBerry Messenger.  This version also addresses some of the issues identified in BlackBerry Messenger 5.0.0.33, such as file transfer not working or working slowly, no file preview, and file transfer requests expiring after a short period of time. This version does not include any new features. The Check Spelling As You Type feature has been restored for all devices.”

“Share your pin or unique barcode to connect with friends anywhere, anytime. Take comfort in knowing your friends are only a BlackBerry Messenger message away whether you want to make plans for the night or ask a quick question. Chat and share funny stories, pictures, videos and more with individual contacts or groups of friends instantly. Stay in touch like never before with BlackBerry Messenger”