For most peo­ple, the main mo­ti­va­tion for in­stalling mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tions (or apps) on their Black­ber­ry is to keep in touch with their per­son­al life, hob­bies or pas­sion with­out miss­ing a step in their ca­reer or pro­fes­sion­al life. Clay­ton East, Prod­uct De­vel­op­ment Man­ag­er at Dig­i­cel Trinidad has short­list­ed what he be­lieves are the most note­wor­thy mo­bile apps for smart phone users that can be use­ful, while bring­ing some bal­ance to our every­day lives.

Top­ping the list is:

1. Bolt Brows­er: LIGHT­NING FAST MO­BILE BROWS­ING; loads com­plete Web pages in sec­onds. This patent­ed nav­i­ga­tion and dis­play tech­nolo­gies get you where you're go­ing faster. WATCH. CON­NECT. SURF. View stream­ing videos from sites like YouTube, My­Space and Google; en­joy full desk­top PC-style Face­book and so­cial me­dia func­tion­al­i­ty; BOLT Wid­gets be­ta al­lows stream­lined ac­cess to web apps; Tweet di­rect­ly from BOLT while you browse; Shop se­cure­ly. East said the brows­er ef­fec­tive­ly of­fers an un­com­pro­mised web ex­pe­ri­ence: Full desk­top PC-style brows­ing on all types of mo­bile phones; web con­tent is nev­er re­for­mat­ted, re­pur­posed, or re­moved; browse any site with the best page ren­der­ing avail­able.

2. Google Talk

Google Talk­TM for Black­Ber­ry Smart­phones al­lows you to chat in vir­tu­al re­al time with your in­stant mes­sag­ing (IM) con­tacts when and where you want to! Not just when you're in front of your com­put­er. It has many of the same fea­tures you al­ready use with Google Talk on your desk­top.

3. Quick­Pull Free: Un­like the red pow­er but­ton on your phone which mere­ly re­loads your de­vice, Quick­Pull will ac­tu­al­ly re­fresh the de­vice, free­ing up mem­o­ry and in­creas­ing per­for­mance!

4. Ama­zon: Shop over 40 Prod­uct Cat­e­gories avail­able from Ama­zon.com and thou­sands of oth­er mer­chants. Ac­cess to your ex­ist­ing Ama­zon ac­count cart, wish lists, pay­ment and ship­ping set­tings, or­der his­to­ry, 1-Click, and Prime mem­ber­ship ben­e­fits. All or­ders placed on the Ama­zon App are processed by Ama­zon's se­cure servers.

5. Uber Twit­ter: Uber­Twit­ter is a full fea­tured lo­ca­tion aware Twit­ter client which sup­ports all of the fea­tures of Twit­ter as well as ad­vanced ca­pa­bil­i­ties such as: pho­to in­te­gra­tion, em­be­d­ed videos in tweets, tweet shrink­ing, URL short­en­ing, twit­ter lists, chang­ing your twit­ter avatar, and a pletho­ra of oth­er fea­tures.

6. Weath­er Bug: Stay in­formed and pre­pared with live lo­cal weath­er, se­vere weath­er alerts, in-depth fore­casts, cam­era views, de­tailed radar maps and in­ter­na­tion­al weath­er re­ports.

7. Look­out Se­cu­ri­ty: Pro­tect your phone with FREE Look­out Se­cu­ri­ty for Black­Ber­ry. In­cludes Mo­bile An­tiVirus, Back­up and a quick and easy way to find your Miss­ing De­vice.

8. Bud­dy Guard: Bud­dy­Guard al­lows you to re­mote­ly ac­cess and con­trol your Black­Ber­ry us­ing com­mands sent by SMS or email mes­sages. With Bud­dy­Guard you can lock your Black­Ber­ry, re­trieve its GPS lo­ca­tion or play a tone to help find a mis­placed de­vice, or even wipe your per­son­al da­ta if your phone is un­re­cov­er­able.

9. Vlin­go: Tell your phone what to do. Vlin­go is the safest way to use your Black­Ber­ry on the go.

10. Reuters In­sid­er: Imag­ine hav­ing your own per­son­al mul­ti­me­dia chan­nel that knows ex­act­ly what's im­por­tant to you... That de­liv­ers the news, in­sight and analy­sis you care about, 24/7...No mat­ter where you are... It's here. It's Reuters In­sid­er and it's avail­able on your Black­Ber­ry.

11. Google Sync: Keep your Gmail, Cal­en­dar and Con­tacts in sync.

12. Ya­hoo Mes­sen­ger: Ya­hoo! Mes­sen­ger for Black­Ber­ry Smart­phones al­lows you to chat in vir­tu­al re­al-time with your in­stant mes­sag­ing IM con­tacts when and where you want to not just when you're in front of your com­put­er.

13. Learn Span­ish: Learn ba­sic Span­ish with au­dio and oth­er re­sources

14. Hon­da Safe­ty Dri­ving: "Hon­da Safe­ty Dri­ving is very easy and quick to use. Just a sim­ple set up in the be­gin­ning, you can man­age in­com­ing calls while dri­ving. Once it's set up and turned on, Hon­da Safe­ty Dri­ving can au­to­mat­i­cal­ly re­ject in­com­ing calls and send au­to re­ply SMS to the caller, or di­rect the caller to the voice mail, while you are dri­ving. You can turn on and off just by do­ing a cou­ple of clicks. With Hon­da Safe­ty Dri­ving, you can be a more re­spon­si­ble dri­ver."