Great find! It seems to work well although it's a multi-step process to setting it up. I got a warning that keeping the light on will impact battery life. I guess it wouldn't be a good thing to keep on for any length of time.
Set one of the side convenience keys to VIDEO and then press it and press the space bar and you have a usable flashlight; at least for indoors (bedroom, hotel room, reading menus in dark restaurants, etc). It won't let you work under your car, but it is great as a standy and much brighter than the screen.
Oh man! thanks guys! I had a similar app for my Nokia and was kind of missing this with my BB. I'd rather have this app than a silly light-sabre effect everytime an iPhone is moved! Haha. iPhone users.. take that! :-D
I just realize it is a free app haha neways I downloaded it and first time turning it it damn near blinded me bb was so close to my face haha well I just did a test in my dark room and the flash is still a tad bit brighter
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Here's a solution: use both! Just not at the same time (because you can't).
I like Freelight as its not too bright. When I'm trying to get my clothes on and ready for work @ 04:30 it won't be so bright as to wake up The Wife. The flash I believe is a tad brighter.
Someone should really write a program for this! I don't know if it's the same type of programming but on one of my old windows mobile phones a guy found the flash light API and just made a simple program to trigger it and bind it to a hardware button or software launcher.
Freelight is indeed quite bright but the light does not "project" very well. It will light up a room though.
If you want to see in the dark in front of you, the flash light does a better job of projecting light in the direction it's pointing as opposed to just lighting up a dark room.