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I have had a Blackberry (crackberry) Curve for about three months now and yes I have been accused of being a "Crack' Addict. Mine did come with a GPS application but to use it you had to subscribe ($$) and since I have a turn by turn GPS I didn't see the need to buy it.

Yahoo Go! is really neat and has lots of features. I didn't install the new Beta version as I heard it was not as good. Google mobile updater lets you install several cool tools... including Google maps and Goggle Docs. With both the yahoo Go maps and the Google Maps you can get your current location and it shows up as a blue "blip" on the screen. You can use the satellite view as well as the streets. Your current location does update real time also. As you drive the blip changes to show where you are. It is pretty accurate even inside some buildings. It is pretty cool to be in a restaurant and it shows your location to even the section of the building you are in. It is good to search from the maps because it does plot what you are searching for on the map and you can get driving directions to addresses etc. I used it once to find a friend's house when I left my gps at home and it took me right to his house.

Also Google Docs is a neat application that lets you store Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on the Google server to retrieve and view on your Blackberry... helping me to overcome one of the big disadvantages of the Blackberry... no local file storage! Storing them on Google Docs at least lets me access them for reference it just takes a little longer to pull them down than it would if they were stored locally, and if I get out of coverage they are not available.