The Blackberry may be the smartphone standard for business users, but most of the applications in the BlackBerry App World store are distinctly consumer-flavored. So we hunted down the top choices for small and midsize businesses.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Research in Motion's BlackBerry. Now ensconced as "the" business smartphone -- thanks to industry-leading e-mail capabilities, robust security, and RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) system -- new designs are increasingly pushing the Blackberry into consumer markets as well.
While most of the 32 million Blackberry users come from the business world, BlackBerry adoption is now hovering 50-50 between enterprises and what RIM calls "non-enterprise" users, such as consumers, pro-sumers, and small businesses.
That has greatly expanded the range of what people are doing with their Blackberries. So while the 7-month-old Blackberry App World now stocks more than 3,000 programs, only a fraction of those apps are SMB-oriented. Here's a breakdown by category:
Business (102); Entertainment (227); Finance (89); Games (907); Health/Wellness (101); Instant Messaging/Social Networking (78); Maps/Navigation (135); music/audio (61); News (129); Photo/Video (56); Productivity (199); Reference/E-Books (345); Shopping (21); Sports/Recreation (93); Travel (169); Utilities (304); and Weather (20).
To help Blackberry users at small and midsize companies find the best, most useful programs, bMighty worked with RIM to identify the top SMB choices.
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