Saturday, August 29, 2009

Yelp for Blackberry

I am always a big fan of Yelp. Finally they have released a blackberry app! I played with it a bit and while the app is still useful, there are a few areas that can use some improvement:
  • The app detects your current location and displays entries close to where you are. However, the detected location was not exact. My guess is that they are relying on the cell phone signal triangulation instead of leveraging the GPS on the phone. So unfortunately, the shops or restaurants the app display may not be the closest to your current location
  • Also, the app only returns results from a relatively small radius and there is no way to adjust the radius size.
  • The app is not integrated with Google Map. So a bit hard to map the address directly if you find something you like.
I am hopeful Yelp would continue to improve the app. Download it from here.