ScoreMobile review

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Simon Bisson

We review ScoreMobile, a sports information and statistics app for the dedicated fan

Published on Mar 9, 2010

It’s not easy to forget that the BlackBerry is Canadian – after all, many of the applications in App World come from Canadian developers.

One of the more interesting is the free ScoreMobile, from the Canadian TV sports channel.

You’ll probably only want to download this app if you’re a fan of American sports.

You won’t find the Premier League here and the only truly international sports covered are the PGA gold tour and Formula 1 (you’ll have to wait until 2012 for the next batch of Olympic coverage!).

However, if you’re into ice hockey, American football, baseball, or basketball, then this is the application for you, as you’ll get results from the NHL, the NFL, from MLB, and the NBA.

Expat-Canadians will be pleased to see CFL results, while fans of the US College Basketball tournaments will get the March Madness results delivered straight to their phone.

The application is simple enough to use. Pick the league you want to follow (you can customise ScoreMobile to just display the sports you enjoy).

You’ll then be shown the last few days’ results, as well as upcoming fixtures. For each game you’ll get the score in each quarter or half – and if you understand the annotations for the sport in question, you’ll get full scoring statistics for e2ach player.

There are also game summaries, so you can quickly see just what happened during a game.

You’ll also get details of the current league standings of each team, which can be broken down by conference and by division.

One useful feature of ScoreMobile is the various statistical views.

If you’re taking part in a fantasy league, then you’re going to want to know the scoring percentages of each player in your team – though you’ll have to manually transfer them to your spreadsheets.

One useful feature is ScoreMobile’s integration with the core BlackBerry applications, so you can add a fixture directly into your calendar.

That means you’re able to schedule your time in front of the TV for the next Grand Prix, and make sure that everyone knows you’re going to be busy then…

This is an application for the dedicated sports fan, and it knows just what its audience wants.

In delivering it, ScoreMobile takes advantage of the BlackBerry’s unique features, and gives you a clean and clear view of the information you want in a timely manner.