Using your BlackBerry as a stopwatch

I don’t know how many of you enjoy playing board games or running relay races with friends, but sometimes you just need a stopwatch. While we were in high school, we could count on someone in our group having a stopwatch on their wristwatch. Now? Not so much. They have these fancy silver analog watches, which just aren’t conducive to time-keeping. Some are like me, who refuses to wear a watch because I can just pull out my BlackBerry to tell me the time. Thankfully, it can also act as a stopwatch. All it takes is an application. I really do wish there was some native client that could take care of it — after all, enough software comes preloaded on a BlackBerry that you assume they could add a program as simple as a stopwatch. Yet, we’re left with just third party applications. There are a ton of them, which I don’t think makes the choice any easier. A stopwatch is a stopwatch is a stopwatch, right? So now that we’ve determined that, let’s take a look. Over at the BBGeeks Store, you can find a few stopwatch applications. On the expensive side there’s Vorino Timer / Stopwatch, which runs $7.95. A cheaper alternative is the simple Stopwatch for BlackBerry, which checks in at a penny under three bucks. Or, you know, you could check out a free version. As with all freeware, there are no guarantees. Worth a shot, though, in my opinion.

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Joe Pawlikowski is the Senior Editor at MobileMoo.com and has been covering the mobile industry full time since 2007. When he's not writing about the tech scene, he can be found discussing his personal love - baseball (and more specifically the New York Yankees) as well as writing on his personal blog.