Most days I use this daily post to feature a BlackBerry tip, application, or accessory that I think will be of use to BBGeeks readers. We don’t post multiple times per day because that would just saturate things. One useful item per day. It sounds like a reasonable goal. Sometimes, though, I’ll come across something that irks me. It’s usually a bit of premium software that could probably be included natively with the BlackBerry, but isn’t. In browsing for useful applications yesterday I found one such application. It’s useful, sure, but it’s not something I’d spend $5 on. It’s so simple, really, that RIM would do well to include the functionality in OS 6.
The application is called PhotoNote, and no, I won’t do my usual call to action at the end of the post. This comes from the same developer that brings you SwooshContact, an application I have actually enjoyed. I think I’d enjoy PhotoNote, too. In fact, I’m 100 percent sure I would. The application allows you to add notes to pictures you take on your BlackBerry. Since I have made a habit of taking at least one picture per day, I think that adding a caption or note would be a nice feature.
Despite my new photography habit, I am not willing to pay $5 for a text add-on. It just doesn’t seem at all worth the price. I’d rather just make a note in memo pad and manually make the link. It’s not that $5 is a lot. It’s just that there are so many BlackBerry applications and not nearly enough money to buy them all. If I’m going to spend $5 on an application, it’s going to be on one that provides a completely different experience than my BlackBerry does natively.
On the natively front, I wonder why RIM doesn’t just include this in the OS. It makes sense. It doesn’t sound like a feature that would take much to add. It’s just text that links directly to a photo. Yet it would be pretty useful. I’m sure Swoosh has sold a few copies of PhotoNote. I won’t turn you away from the application — I did, after all, link to it above — but I just don’t see the sense.
