BlackBerry Tips Friday (oops)- Vlingo

Sorry I forgot to do a BlackBerry Tips Tuesday this week. Things have been busy at work. Here is an app that we have talked about before, but there is a new release. If you don’t have it you ought to check it out it’s pretty cool. I checked it out last year at WES (the global BlackBerry conference) in Florida and fell in love ever since. Here is what it does…

BlackBerry Cool writes:

The new version of vlingo includes the following additions:
· Voice updates to Facebook & Twitter status updates
· Full keyboard support including SureType
· Read-back of the full text or email message that was spoken
· Tell A Friend about vlingo

The ability to launch built-in programs:
o Address Book
o Alarm
o BrickBreaker
o Calculator
o Calendar
o Camera
o Maps
o Media
o MemoPad
o Messages
o Options
o Tasks
o Web browser

The ability to launch third party programs:
o Facebook
o Google Maps
o Opera
o Viigo

Vlingo 2.0 download links:
US & Canada – http://www.vlingo.com/v2
United Kingdom – http://www.vlingo.com