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Air Canada Wins Race For First North American Airline BlackBerry App
Having been the first North American airline with an iPhone travel application, Air Canada has now become the first one with a Blackberry app. The software allows travelers to get flight status updates, confirm their reservation, and even generate a 2-D boarding pass that locks in their seats and sets them up to board the plane. That last feature is the kind of thing that separates airline travel apps from the ever growing list of hotel travel apps. Generating a preexisting boarding pass earlier is better.
We've long been confused by airlines that leave Blackberry users behind while rushing into the iPhone market. Do people with Blackberries not travel a lot? Are companies afraid that Blackberry users aren't as tied to their phones? Have they heard of the word "crackberry?" Air Canada definitely has, per their press release:
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The Blackberry Storm is Not The Susan Boyle of International Phones
Perhaps feeling a tinge of jealousy in response to those ubiquitous Top 5 iPhone Travel Apps posts, the advertising company tasked with pushing the Blackberry Storm has put out a list of 49 reasons why the Blackberry Storm is the ideal travel gadget. Or as we've taken to describing it, "too many reasons to mock in one post."
The entire thing is written in that peppy "we know you're going to love..." and "we just love..." tone. It's peppered with cutesy rhetorical questions like "... but who really wants to wait for 20 minutes?" and "who can live without IM these days?" And by "peppy" and "cutesy" we obviously mean "obnoxious." As for the actual content of the top-49 list: it leaves a little bit to be desired.
