Weirdly named, but challenging platform game with good graphics. There are no key mapping problems on either my i776 or Rambler.

The object of the game is to collect all the energy without getting zapped.

This is an ad-free, full version game but you have to go through a rather annoying unlock procedure. When you first play the game you are given a unique numeric code. Go to the activation site at http://www.xtremegamex.com with a PC or mobile browser and enter the code. You will be given another code which you have to key into the game's activation screen. If you have problems with the code check for confusion between the numbers one and seven. The font used in the game makes them look similar but the seven has an extra slash through it. You only have to unlock the game once, it stays unlocked until you uninstall it.

Keys: 4, 6, left, right = move; 2, up = jump; 8, down = down, 5, OK = use transport; down + left = left jump; down + right = right jump; down + up = long jump.

Type: Freeware
Author: XtremegameX - Product Page
Data Connection Required: No
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 2.0
Screen Size: All
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler) Yes
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776):  Yes
Supported Boost Phones: All (i475, i856, Bali, Rambler, Rant, Juno, Mirro, Innuendo, Rumor Touch, etc.)

The app "DevilsFatIncubation" (70 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename: "DevilsFatIn".

Tested on the Moto Rambler and i776.  Works well on the Rambler. Loads  on the i776 but when you try to play the game locks up with the screen flashing uncontrollably.

Keys: 2, 8, 4, 6, arrows = move; 5 = use the worm as a whip or grappling hook; 0 = pauses the game and lets you scroll around to see the entire current level.

Type: Ad-supported
Vendor: In-Fusio
Data Connection Required: yes
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 2.0
Screen Size: All
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler) Yes
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776):  No
Supported Boost Phones: All CDMA (Bali, Rambler, Rant, Juno, Mirro, Innuendo, Rumor Touch, etc.)

The app "The Penguin Menace" (218 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename:"PenguinMena".

Here's the latest version of the Facebook app. The version number is 2.5.1. According to Facebook, the new features in this release are:

• Support for more languages including  Thai, Arabic, Vietnamese, Devanagari and Hebrew.
• Photo tags are now displayed
• Added ability to "Like" comments and photos
• Photo uploading supported on more phones including the Samsung Seek

I'm not sure which Boost phones it works on.  On my Rambler and i776 it installs and runs but most of the keys don't work and as a result there's no way to get past the login screen.  The previous 2.3 version didn't work on my phones either but BoostApps readers reported that it worked on the Incognito, Juno, Factor, Rant and Seek, so I'm hoping this one works on at least those phones.

Type: Freeware
Vendor:  Facebook
Data Connection Required: Yes
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 2.0
Screen Size: All
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler) No but probably works on the Incognito, Juno, Factor, Rant and Seek 
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776):  No, runs but key mapping issues make it unusable
Let us know in a comment if it works or not on your Boost phone

The app "Facebook" (130 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename:"FB251s"

A flash card app to help you learn Spanish or English.

Publisher's description:  Spanish / English learning software.
memoWords allows you to learn Spanish / English vocabulary with your mobile phone or PDA at any time.
Now you can learn foreign words in a bus, train, underground, on board a plane (offline mode).

The app "memoWords.ENES" (63 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename:"MemoWordsEs"

Has some key mapping issues on both the Motorola Rambler and i776. Usable on the Rambler using alternate keys as a workaround. Not usable on the i776 as the arrow keys, which are the only way to navigate the menu, do not work.

Keys: If the soft keys or the OK key don't work use these alternate key workarounds: 5 = OK; 1 = left soft key; 3 = right soft key.

Type: Freeware
Vendor: Alanges
Data Connection Required: no
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 2.0
Screen Size: All
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler) Yes
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776):  No, runs but key mapping issues make it unusable
Supported Boost Phones: All CDMA (Bali, Rambler, Rant, Juno, Mirro, Innuendo, Rumor Touch, etc.)

A well designed mobile version of the classic casino card game Baccarat. It's a game between two hands of three cards each called the "Player" and the "Banker". This is the modern casino "Punto Banco" version of Baccarat where you can bet on either the Player, the Banker or for a Tie.

In Baccarat the Ace, Jack, King and Queen have no value, only the number cards count.  Each hand's score is the rightmost digit of the sum of the cards in the hand. So 2, 3, 4 is worth 9, but 6, 7, 8 is only worth 1 because 6 + 7 +8 = 21 and the rightmost digit of 21  is a one.

This is a free "play for fun" game that was created as a promotion for several online mobile casinos. There are links to the casinos in the "More fun" menu. If you value your wallet stick with playing for fun!

Keys: 1, 2, 3 to bet on Player, Tie or Banker;   Left softkey = Bet or Deal; Right softkey = Menu

Type: Ad-supported
Vendor: Spin3
Data Connection Required: no
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 2.0
Screen Size: 176x20
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler) Yes
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776):  Yes, runs but screen is t0o small
Supported Boost Phones: All with 176 x 220 px or larger screens (Bali, i475, i856, Rambler, Rant, etc.)

The app "SL Baccarat" (143 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename: "Baccarat".

Platform style action adventure game for 128x160 px screens. Sequel to Roboros. Plays well on myMotorola i776 with working sound and no key mapping iisues other than th OK key not working (use Call or 5 as OK). Also works on my Moto Rambler although it only fills part of that phone's 176 x 220 screen

Publisher's description: Roboros is an action jump-n-running game. Put yourself in robot`s Roboros place, who got fed up with being a prisoner in processor. This is second part of Roboros adventure. Help him to find the way out of there, shoot plenty of enemies, solve logical tasks or just do not get lost in complex circuits. Know how it is to be in harddisc, graphic card and CD Rom. Go, run, shoot, jump, teleport, hover, creep, hide but mostly show to Roboros that his journey was not vain, that computer is not whole the world...

Keys: Move: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, Arrows;  Fire: OK, Call, 5; Jetpack: 0; Select mine: *; Throw mine: #

Type: Ad-supported
Vendor: Inlogic Software Ltd.
Data Connection Required: yes
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 2.0
Screen Size: 128x160
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler) Yes
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776):  Yes
Supported Boost Phones: All with Java. Best with 128 x 176 px screens (i465, Factor, i296, i410, 1412, i776, etc.)

The app "Roboros 2" (145 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename: "Roboros2"

An app to help you give up smoking by tracking the you money saved and the increase in heart,  lung and brain function you have gained  by not smoking. It works well with no key mapping issues on  both the i776 or Rambler.

Publisher's description: “Give Up Smoking!” is a freeware “tamagotchi style” application designed for java enabled mobile phones. The main purpose of the application is to help people trying to quit smoking to achieve the goal. The application encourages the user to gain successive body purification levels allowing browsing statistics, providing visualizations and descriptions of positive changes that have occurred in the body since quitting smoking. The progress of body purification process is calculated every minute basing on data provided by user (start date, average number of cigarettes smoked daily and cigarette pack price).

Type: Donate-ware
Vendor: Rebelbit
Data Connection Required: no
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 1.0
Screen Size: all
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler) Yes
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776):  Yes
Supported Boost Phones: All with Java (LG 102, i475, i296, i412, Theory, Incognito, Innuendo, Juno, Factor, etc.)

The app "Give Up Smoking!" (46 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename: "GiveUpSmoke".

This game has nice graphics and a Mafia theme but it's mainly a driving game. Chase your and shoot at your rivals car while avoiding rear ending other cars. Collect machine guns along the way to increase your firepower.

The game is quick and responsive on both tested phones (Rambler and i776) requires a 176x220 or better screen. Not playable on smaller screens.

Publisher's description: A few years of relative peace amongst the Mafiosi, ensured by the iron hand of Sam Nitti was shattered by the young and upstart new arrivals from Sicily. With scant respect for the ways of the Cosa Nostra, these newcomers proved themselves to be more violent and bloodthirsty than any of their predecessors, killing Sam Nitti's daughter to gain dominance over the entire mafia operations. As underboss to Sam Nitti, you have been instructed to exact revenge. Sam Nitti's revenge.

Keys: 4, 6 to change lanes; 5 to fire, also Select in menus; * returns to the Menu; # is pause/resume

Type: Ad-Supported
Vendor: Mobitrail
Data Connection Required: yes
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 2.0
Screen Size:  176x220, not playable on smaller screens
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler) Yes
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776):  Yes but not playable as screen is too small
Supported Boost Phones: All, best on phones with 176 px wide screens (Rambler, Bali, Rant, i856, etc.)

The app "ChicagowarsII" (174 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename:"ChicagoWars".

TibaME was updated to version 2.0.5 several months ago.  I thought the small version number bump implied a minor change, but I guess I was wrong.  A post on the Tibia Forum lists the following not so minor changes:

• The islands Ashmor and Vargos got a new paint and the graphics were revamped. While traveling on the islands you will come across lots of new quests to be solved.
• Asmor revamped!  Also, we have added new monsters to Ashmor. You will now face nasty Liches, evil Acolytes and deathly Cult Tutors.
• Besides that, we reworked the Hornig Quest. Just visit the new NPC Roy who is the successor of the former NPC Ray and give him your Demonic Artefact. By doing that you will receive a unique item; a new weapon depending on your vocation.
• Vargos revamped! In addition, the difficulty of Vargos was raised from level 40 to level 48. Therefore, you have to be at least level 48 to get access to Vargos.
• New boss monster fights were added as well. You can now fight a Cylcop, an Eye and a Dragon. You can face all those bosses on Vargos on a daily basis, including Hieronymus. And a new reward will be given if you finish the Hieronymus quest. In addition new monsters were added to Vargos.
• Interface innovations! We have also improved the skill and spell descriptions. If you now look at a spell book or at the spell details in the shop, more information will be displayed: for example, the type of spell, the amount of damage, etc.
• From now on, a look at one of your skills will show your current amount of skill points.
• Now, you will be able to check when your next ReRolls will be added. The ReRoll menue in the Attributes and Skill dialogue will be accessable for you all the time even if you have no ReRolls left.
• New graphics! A new graphical effect will be shown if you fail to cast a spell.
• And last but not least, a new startscreen was added.

On my Motorola i776, Tibia takes a long time to update after you log in but runs pretty well after that. On the Motorola Rambler, the update takes just as long and then seems to lock up. I think it's a key mapping issue. I tried both the classic Java version and the Motorola one and they both had the same problem. I've posted the classic non-Motorola version as that's what the Tibia site's download wizard recomends for both the iDEN Motorola's, the Motorola WX400 Rambler  and other Boost phones like the Sanyo SCP-6760 Incognito.

Keys (iDEN): the OK key is miss -mapped and soft keys don't work. Use the Call key as the left soft key (OK, Yes, Menu); Use the OK key as the right soft key (No, Exit).

Type: Freeware with optional paid upgrades.
Vendor: CipSoft GmbH- Product Page, Online Help, Forum
Data Connection Required: Yes
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 2.0
Screen Size: all
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler):  No (loads and runs but unplayable due to key mapping issues)
Boost iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776): Yes
Supported Boost Phones: All iDEN (i776,  i856,  i9, etc.) May possibly on some CDMA phones.

The app "TibiaME" (145 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename: "Tibia205".

For as long as I can remember Boost Mobile users have been complaining of problems uploading photos to Facebook. Actually, for many users it flat out doesn't work.

Update: Thanks to tips from BoostApps readers we now have solutions for uploading photos to Facebook from iDEN phones plus  the Mirro, Rambler, Incognito, Innuendo, Seek  and possibly other CDMA phones.  Here's how:

For the Mirro and Rambler (tip by Shawn Grambo, aka shawn1g614 )

• Go to m.facebook.com with the phone browser.
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Photos.
• On the Photos page click Upload Photos, then click the Browse button.
• Click the My Pictures folder and choose the photo you want to upload. Hover over the filename to see a thumbnail.
• Enter a caption and click the Upload button.
• Uploading is slow. It takes about a minute on the Rambler.
• The Rambler browser has trouble keeping me logged into Facebook. Sometimes I get logged out while uploading and have to start over.

According to Facebook, users can upload photos by sending an MMS (a "picture message") to a special email address. Every Facebook user has a different address, you can see yours by clicking "Upload Photos" from the Facebook Mobile homepage or by going to facebook.com/mobile with a PC browser. I've used the email technique with a Boost iDEN Motorola i776 and it does work. Not so with the Boost CDMA Motorola Ramber. Every time  I try to send a picture message to my Facebook email with the Rambler instead of a picture, this is what shows up in my Facebook status:

You have received a Multimedia Message - You received a Media Mail from {TRIMMED_SENDER} Click to view. http://mediamail.boostmobile.com/share.do?invite=XEOrJBm1Yk7pqhOhzUeQ

That's all, no picture, just a link. Clicking the link does take you to the picture but that's not a satisfactory solution. Facebook users expect the actual picture they uploaded to appear in their status or album on Facebook, not a link.

Boost Mobile has a Facebook fan page which is updated frequently.  They also have a Facebook discussion board. Often a user will complain about the Facebook picture uploading problem on the Boost's Facebook Wall or on the dDiscussion board.  The official Boost Mobile account will typically respond with something like;

"Please try to send your pictures as an MMS to the Facebook short code 32665, as long as you have your phone registered to your Facebook account this should work."

The only problem is that it doesn't work. There is no error reported and it looks like the message is sent. If you're on the Pay As You Go plan you even get charged 25 cents for sending a picture message. However, the picture never shows up on Facebook. Maybe it worked at one time but it doesn't now.  You can send a text message to 32665 and it get's posted as a status message but sending photos to that short code does nothing.

One thing I've heard that does work is using the built-in email app found in some Boost phones. On the Incognito and Rant, the app allows you attach pictures to emails.  Several users, both here on BoostApps and on the Boost Facebook discussion forum, have reported that they are able to send photos to Facebook using the Incognito's email app and a Gmail account. However that doesn't help the users of phones like my Rambler whoose enail apps don't support attachments. If you have a Motorola i1, the official Facebook Android app does work for photo uploading  as well.

Facebook is the biggest Website in the US and the third largest in the world and is an important part of many Boost Mobile user's lives. Posting photos is a popular activity on  Facebook and the fact that is doesn't work with many Boost phones is inexcusable. I don't know if the fault lies with Boost or Facebook, although I suspect it's Boost as photo uploading (using your Facebook personal email addresses, not 32665) seems to work with every every other mobile carrier. Regardless of who is to blame Boost and Facebook need to work together to resolve this issue.  The current situation makes Boost look incompetent and I suspect causes more than a few Boost users to switch to a different carrier.

How about you? Can you post photos to Facebook using your Boost phone?  If you can leave a comment mentioning which Boost phone you use and how you upload the photos.