Social butterflies on RIM’s BlackBerry platform have some new and exciting things to look forward to in Facebook 2.0. Pictures of the new v2 app leaked out onto the interwebs tonight showing among other things, a much needed UI redesign that makes the app more pleasing on the eyes overall, and less like a 2003 mobile app. But besides the added eye candy, v2 of Facebook for BlackBerry adds in support for Facebook Chat, the ability to view friends’ profiles,...

When Facebook Places first debuted, it was an iOS-only affair. Android joined the game not too long after. But BlackBerry users have thus far been left out. Thankfully, that streak of solitude now comes to and end. Facebook Places is now live for BlackBerry! The news comes on the heels of news regarding the Facebook for BlackBerry standalone application being updated to version 1.9. Perhaps the greatest thing BB users will enjoy is a pretty similar feature set compared...

While all the news of RIM’s keynote today may be centered around the PlayBook, RIM has many other fish in their basket. One aspect of the BlackBerry OS that has constantly grown year after year is that of themes. Custom themes give the aging OS a fresh face that can at times, hide the wrinkles and blemishes. With that said, the BlackBerry Theme Development kit has been heavily tweaked. Theme developers can look forward to new added support for BlackBerry OS 6...

If you haven’t heard yet, Dropbox is a great cloud storage solution accessible by many different traditional desktop and mobile platforms. In most cases, dragging and dropping (or highlight copy, highlight paste) are the only commands to get your important files to and from the all knowing cloud. Simple. East. Fast. Today we’ve finally gotten a look at the official Dropbox for BlackBerry app. Much the same as other Dropbox apps, the BlackBerry version is...

Apple may have sidestepped the issue by calling out other manufacturers’ devices, but that doesn’t mean other manufacturers are taking the issue lying down. The humorously titled “Death Grip Meter” developed by Xtreme Labs and Fixmo does just what one would expect — tests the resilience of your BlackBerry’s signal when putting that strangling hold on it. It’s nice to see RIM at least allowing the software to exist and not going...