Beyond411 Local Search for the RIM Blackberry

Beyond411 (previously known as Berry411) provides free and convenient mobile search on your Blackberry. It’s cheaper, more effective, and more complete than calling 411.

Install Beyond411
New: Beyond411 now supports GPS lookup on GPS enabled blackberries. Learn more.

Key Features

Beyond411 provides instant access to Yahoo Local Yellow pages, maps, and driving directions. Some of it’s unique features are:

Speed: Beyond411 launches instantly and has some of the fastest search times available.
GPS support: Beyond411 can do searches and give driving directions based on your current location on compatible phones.
Blackberry address book integration: Add results directly to your address book, email search results as a vcard.
Interactive search suggestions save typing and include links to relevant yellow page searches, 1-800 numbers, mobile optimized web pages, podcasts, and reviews.
Local prices search using Yokel shopping search.
Web search using yahoo.
Local sports, weather, and news.
search plugins allow you to add and share new kinds of searches.

Testimonials

“arguably the best free BlackBerry download of all time…” Rimarkable

“The best White Pages and Yellow Pages search software for the BlackBerry…” Mark Rejhon’s Killer Software Thread

Instructions

Here are instructions on how to use Beyond411 once you’ve installed it.

You can also read blog posts about recently added Beyond411 features.

Screenshots

Credits

Beyond411 was built with the help of Ruby on Rails, the Yahoo Local Search APIs, and the geonames.org reverse geocoding web service.

Thank you for working on this software. I appreciate it when folks do something that is good and then share it.

Have to say bye to BB to embrace my unimpressive Q. Any chance to get Berry411 on my Q - coz it is SUCH a WONDERFUL tool to give up!!

Well keep me posted if you have the plan to roll it out to Q… thanks for all the work

I absolutely loved Berry 411 when I had a Blackberry but my new company uses Windows Mobile devices (mostly Treo). Any chance of this getting ported?

Phil - I have been a huge fan of Berry 411 for a long time. I tell everyone with a Blackberry about it. Quick question- can you do another ebay plugin that also searches auction descriptions?

Phil - You rock. This is THE killer app for the blackberry. Thank you for making this so easy to use.

p.s. Any way to load in many more addresses/cities, since I travel all the time?

Love this program. It helped out alot while traveling this past weekend.

I have to say that this is one of my favorite apps. I am a long-time user. I was wondering though, since BlackBerry Maps is now available for OS4.1 users, whether you are planning on integrating that with Berry411?

This looks awesome, especially useful with GPS navigation software, but I want to make sure that it will work on my Verizon 8703 e.

Thanks!

Great little utility to keep on the BB (8703e). Previously, I relied on Google Maps Mobile for locating restaurants and phone numbers. Incredibly slow compared to Berry 411.

Just as an update to the White Pages issue, I emailed Phil and he and I discovered that you can’t use the Zip Code as your City, State location if you want the White Pages to work. Apparently Google doesn’t do White Pages that way.

So:

name, city, state

will work, but

name, zip code

will not.

Once I changed my location settings to Palo Alto, CA instead of 94304 (the zip code), the White Pages works great.

Thanks to Phil for helping me out! :)

Need a reverse lookup for Canada, such as that at
http://411.ca/rl.htm

3.83 restores the ability to clear your history (”Search History : Clear History”)

I absolutely love berry411, it guaranteed that I would carry my blackberry with me on the weekends, which is a very high compliment for any program.

My company has switched over to Exchange Server and I now have a windows-based phone. I’d love to be able to use berry411. I’d be happy to pay a fee if you only port this app to the windows platform.

Thanks for providing berry411, a truly great app!

So I love the program but am dismayed that when I search for my company’s service category in the Yellow Pages, we don’t come up. (We even have an expensive ad.) Where is it searching and how do we ensure we are in the right database?

Thanks.

Terrific application!!!

One minor bug. If my work or home settings uses ‘St’ instead of street, I get unreliable results.

No complaints though :-)

Do you know if this works with the the BB Pearl?
Does it work in Ontario with Rogers Wireless? I am in Waterloo… home of the Blackberry!

I used to have this on my BB7100t, I loved it!! It helped me find places in the nick of time. But now I have Symbian based phone, and I miss this application badly. I hope you make it for Symbian based phones.

Not completely useful for Canada but some of the searches work, like google.

I tell everyone I see with a BlackBerry about Berry411. I think they all ignore me. Anyway, I had a BB a year ago and when I left the job, I missed the BB because of your product. I just bought myself a BB so I could have it back. Hey, RIM, pay attention. I bought your product for Berry411, whoops, I mean Beyond411…

Great work. The definition of killer app.

Just upgraded to the lastest version of Beyond411.
However I have lost my ability to Reverse Lookup from my address book.
Running a 7100i

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