Car Buddy finally comes to the BlackBerry! Car Buddy for BlackBerry is a port of the most common and used features of Car Buddy for PPC. Car Buddy for BlackBerry is the ultimate assistant for tracking economy, maintenance and statistics for your vehicles.

Car Buddy finally comes to the BlackBerry! Car Buddy for BlackBerry is a port of the most common and used features of Car Buddy for PPC. Car Buddy for BlackBerry is the ultimate assistant for tracking economy, maintenance and statistics for your vehicles. Analyze economy trends, track service entries, track trips and more!

Ability to enter fuel entry details:
Date/time
Vehicle
Cost
Quantity and its respective type (gallons or litres)
Distance travelled and its respective type (miles or kilometers). This can be either entered directly or calculated by the Odometer Helper
Association of the entry to an existing trip
Whether to add this fuel entry's distance to the recorded odometer of the vehicle
Dynamic display of economy and price/unit
User-defined fuel stations
User-defined payment type
User-defined purpose
User-defined fuel type (e.g. regular, diesel, etc). Allows you to decide whether your economy is affected by fuel types
Personal/business purchase type classification, including area to include a client/project code (if applicable)
Notes specific to the fuel entry


Ability to enter service entry details:
Date/time
Vehicle
Cost - supports itemizing by parts and/or labour entries
User-defined purpose
Invoice number
User-defined service stations
User-defined payment type
Association of the entry to an existing trip
Ability to categorize entries of the service as warranty/recall
Ability to track 2 different kinds of taxes (via percentages or explicit values)
Notes specific to the service

Ability to enter schedule entry details:
Due by odometer and/or date
Set a corresponding calendar reminder
Set recurrence patterns based on time passed or distance traveled
Notes specific to the scheduled entry

Car Buddy allows association of its fuel and service entries with a trip so you can see how much a trip has cost in total. One or more vehicles can be included as well as trip-specific expenses.

Want to get a quick economy calculation? No Problem! The Quick Calc tab allows quick and easy economy calculation for your one-time economy needs!

Year, make and model and color of your vehicle.
Current odometer value that is optionally updated with each fuel entry.
Default fuel type.
Tag information, including Plate Number, Tag expiry date/cost, and an optional reminder for tag renewal.
Unlimited spec information, for things such as Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), oil type, filter types, etc
Notes specific to the vehicle.

Vehicle statistics

There's a handy dialog that shows various vehicle statistics:

Fuel Consumption
Best economy
Worst economy
Average economy
Total cost of fuel
Total fuel quantity
Total distance
Current odometer value
Lowest fillup cost
Highest fillup cost
Average fillup cost
Longest distance travelled
Shortest distance travelled
Average distance
High fuel cost/unit
Low fuel cost/unit
Avg fuel cost/unit
Last economy
Last fillup cost
Last fuel cost/unit
Last distance travelled

Cost of Ownership
Days in period
Distance in period
Cost/distance
Cost/day
Projected cost/month
Actual cost/month
Projected cost/year
Actual cost/year
Total cost

Miscellaneous
Vehicle creation date
Vehicle last updated date
Fuel entry count
Service entry count
Schedule entry count
Vehicle's trip association count

These statistics can also be copied to your device's clipboard for easy pasting into any editor!

Graphing is very useful in determining how a given service or fuel type may have affected your vehicle's economy.

There are 3 graph types available:
Consumption
Costs by entry
Costs per month

Ability to:
Plot by trip
Plot by date range
Select specific vehicles to use

Here are some key features of "Car Buddy for Blackberry":

· Sort by vehicle, date, entry type or cost.
· Filter by one or more vehicles.
· Group entry entries by vehicle, date or entry type.
· Filter by specific entry types.

Requirements:

· Blackberry OS 4.2 or later

Limitations:

· 1 vehicle.
· 3 fuel entries.
· 1 service entry.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added Start/End date to trips.
· Added "Is business trip?" data item to trips.