The Defender BlackBerry App by Escort!

[EscortRadar]

We are pleased to introduce the Defender application for BlackBerry Smartphones.

ESCORT, the leading manufacturer of radar and laser detectors, brings its expertise to your BlackBerry® device with our exclusive Defender™ application! The Defender application is loaded with the latest threats, including red light cameras, high-risk intersections, speed cameras and the hottest speed traps in North America. And since camera locations are being constantly installed all across North America, regular updates are provided automatically to help you become more aware of your surroundings.
ESCORT’s Defender application provides audible and visual alerts for the threats you choose. And now for a limited time, you can test drive ESCORT’s Defender application for 30-days absolutely free.
Protect yourself from being targeted with ESCORT’s proprietary Defender application.

Don’t just drive…….Drive Smarter™

Available exclusively at BlackBerry's Appworld

[Vingengo]

Is the iPhone app in the works?

Thanks!

[CJR238]

Forget the iPhone, i want it for my Droid!

[69 Charger RT]

Kwel!!! I will give it try.

[kupcake]

Is Escort ever going to release this application for the Droid or Apple Platform?

[EscortRadar]

Originally Posted by kupcake

Is Escort ever going to release this application for the Droid or Apple Platform?

It is very possible that we will develop Defender applications for both Android and iPhone platforms.

[jjm]

There is a deep seated phobia at Escort when it comes to any Apple products. Probably starts with the Chief of Command and trickles down the pyramid. My guess, is a tried and true Windows fan. As you may or may not know, the 9500ix can be compatible with a wide range of computer platforms including Apple. But remains a product for a segmented market. And they could have been done cross platform a long time ago. But the muckity-mucks at Escort don't want to take the leap due to fear of the unfamiliar territory. Fear that they well find the Apple platform a much easier and more stable platform.

They've been promising for over a year now to work with Apple and they have come no closer to appease the many Apple cliental, then to string them along. To bad - since Escort will continue to be limited until they think outside their insulated box.

[Riptide]

Originally Posted by EscortRadar

It is very possible that we will develop Defender applications for both Android and iPhone platforms.

How about windows mobile?

[jjm]

Interesting how Escort writes a program for the nearly dead in the water, Blackberry before writing RD software for the fast growing Apple base.

[MBTC]

Originally Posted by jjm

Interesting how Escort writes a program for the nearly dead in the water, Blackberry before writing RD software for the fast growing Apple base.

Well Blackberry goes out of their way to make developing certain types of BB apps quite easy (or relatively easy) compared to Apple, and in the US the corporate use of BB versus iPhone is probably like 100:1, not because its a nifty phone but because the administration tools for the RIM BB are so good.

And now, every day we are reading about Android quickly overtaking iPhone. Microsoft's true competitor is not even out yet. My point here is that the same reason Apple is seeing "overnight" success in the smart phone space makes it very easy for a competitor to come along and change the mobile landscape "overnight". Coming out with a new phone platform is nothing like getting the lions share of enterprise OS marketshare (like Windows currently has), and with the way the general public always wants something shiny and new, I think the smart phone industry is destined to become very fragmented.

Now, if someone comes out with a software development kit that lets me write the app once, and deploy it to all smartphones with little hassle, it makes a good case to go that way. Right now Apple has made every part of developing iPhone apps painful, I have to test BB apps on a gazillion different phone models (and that last statement applies to Android as well).

Microsoft is where it is today because of the emphasis on the developer experience (Apple has yet to find a clue here). That's what attracts app writers to a platform, and because of that I expect MS's offering long term will catch up (and if history repeats) surpass the competition.