Blackberry and the stars, satellites & planets

**André Dup** · 2011/12/30, 05:30 PM

Does anyone know off an app for a Blackberry to look at the night sky?

**SimonB** · 2011/12/30, 05:44 PM

Can't help you with BB but I'd suggest lose the BB and get an iPhone. Starwalk is perhaps the BEST reason to own an iPhone.

**André Dup** · 2011/12/31, 10:08 AM

Thanks for the advice Simon but just got the BB, I have to make it work before 20 Jan 2012 (going on holiday Upington, Augrabies, Cederberg, Lamberts Bay, Paternoster Light house & Blouberg) If I don’t find an app, I will shoot a hole in the screen and then look through the hole.

**SimonB** · 2011/12/31, 11:24 AM

Andre

This is the only thing I can find, but because of the general absence of accelerometers and compasses in Blackberry, these aren't all that useful.

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/smartp...ht_review.html

**André Dup** · 2011/12/31, 11:51 AM

Ok Simon thanks, it’s fairly new according to Nashua, and I know for sure there is a compass and a GPS in the BB 9810, will have a look for the accelerometers. My mother tongue being Afrikaans what is an accelerometer? (I’ve asked “Word” for synonyms but Word don’t know any)