A Canadian First – Blackberry Application Featuring People Search

Canada 411 - Canadian People Search

Released over this past weekend was a very cool blackberry application from Yellow Pages Group. The application can be downloaded directly to your blackberry at InstallYP.ca/Blackberry (http://installyp.ca/blackberry) – please note that this link is blackberry specific, if you try to access through a web browser it will tell you that your devise is not supported.

This application features the leading directory services in Canada, YellowPages - for finding a business, Canada411 for finding a person, and a blended Reverse Lookup for finding both people and businesses.

Compatible with the newest blackberries and backward compatible to previous generations, this application automatically detects your device and installs the features that are compatible. For example, GPS search is enabled on devices with GPS, non GPS blackberries won’t see this option.

Lastly, the application auto detects your language settings and is available in French and English – pretty cool stuff.

Some of the high-level features include:

- tab between Business, People and Reverse Lookup
- save listing information through MyFavs or directly to your blackberry address book or both
- people search with integrated find businesses nearby (surprise your date with flowers on the way)
- GPS search (for devices where this is enabled)
- direct connect to Voice Search (no charge usage) if you are on the go

Application is completely free to download and overall is pretty cool and puts the most up to date Business and People information in Canada at your fingertips.

If you are interested, check out other neat local Canadian search applications.

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  • Very nice app! The integrated reverse lookup is a bonus.

    Well we're on the topic of Canadian firsts in mobile apps:

    This Blackberry Salat application (www.salatapp.com) is the first of its kind specifically designed for Blackberries. It was designed by a Canadian Muslim friend of mine.

    Salat computes the correct prayer times based on GPS location, shows Qiblah (direction to the Kabbah in Mecca). It also includes a beautiful athan (prayer call).
  • Very cool app, works for well for me on my BB Curve.

    One slight improvement would be to remove the yes/no to close the app. I think the behaviour for most BB apps is to just idle in the background so this could be eliminated.

    The collection of local search applications is impressive too. Good to see YPG working on innovative stuff.
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