Aussie developer BigTinCan hits the big time with Blackberry app

David Swan
Thursday, 10 September 2009 10:44

Your IT - Entertainment

They’ve done what our cricketers and tennis players couldn’t… Blackberry developer BigTinCan are on top of the world, literally, after reaching the number one spot on the Blackberry App World chart.

Australian mobile developer BigTinCan is "ecstatic" after it’s BuzzMe Blackberry application climbed to the number one spot globally in the Blackberry App World last week.

BuzzMePro was the number one paid application on AppWorld, while its free counterpart was positioned a close second behind the hugely popular Pandora mobile music service.

The sudden popularity of BuzzMe and the company’s other Blackberry applications has seen the company rack up over a million downloads on the platform.

BigTinCan managing director David Keane said the company was winning between 10,000 and 20,000 new users every day.

BigTinCan's flagship application allows smartphone users to save up to 50 percent on local calls and messaging, and much more when dialing internationally. It also adds a raft of additional smart calling options like enabling true multimedia messaging and recording phone calls.

"The rate of growth we've been able to achieve with our mobile applications is simply phenomenal and having a registered user base of more than a million users gives us a really strong platform to extend the business." Keane said.

"These growth rates are not showing any sign of leveling off, so it's difficult to forecast just how high our registered user count will go."

With the BlackBerry Curve 8520 being released later this month, BigTinCan has also launched a competition in partnership with BlackBerry to give away five of the new handsets to its registered users.

"The challenge for all mobile developers is to get noticed amidst the thousands of applications users can choose from. However, once you make that break though and have a strong user base and a reputation for making quality applications, it becomes much easier. As we keep engaging with our users with promotions, giveaways and quality applications, they will continue to respect and identify with the BigTinCan brand."