So if you want to use this slimline and stylish take on the cross-platform messaging tool you have to install it yourself outside of the BlackBerry World app store.īut it's worth it, as OpenWS provides a vastly better experience on BB10 than the official WhatsApp BB10 app, featuring a slick, native design, integrated sharing, group chats and everything else that made WhatsApp such a winner. Or you can continue with the free experience for Inbox, Calendar and Launcher, which is supported with in-app advertisements. Evernote on the BlackBerry lets you create notes in text, voice. The maker of Open WA (previously known as OpenWhatsApp) is a little bit angry with BlackBerry, claiming it courted him, encouraged him to create a version of WhatsApp for BB10 - then went cold on the idea and refused to publish it on the BB app marketplace. When your trial is up you can choose to subscribe to the ad-free BlackBerry Hub+ suite from within the BlackBerry Hub+ Services application, to continue using all the BlackBerry apps like Contacts, Notes and Tasks. This is the BlackBerry version of a nifty free note-taking service that’s available for most common desktop and mobile platforms. It monitors all text fields, populating a database with your words, presenting the option to miraculously save the day by searching for text you've previously entered - which you can then fling out through email or other apps via BB10's usual sharing tools. One of the biggest challenges when it comes to doing serious stuff on a phone is managing your clipboard content.Įven in BlackBerry's latest OS it's pretty fiddly to copy and paste text between apps, making this clipboard manager an essential for looking after your text snippets.

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