In the BlackBerry world, there’s always something to look forward to. Most of the time it’s a new device — we’re currently waiting on the Onyx and the Storm 2, both of which should prove to be excellent additions to RIM’s lineup. Sometimes, though, it’s a bit of software, like the Skyfire browser. Right now I can’t find myself excited for anything else but the upcoming BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac. It used to be such a pain to find a PC on which to perform all my Desktop Manager functions, including OS upgrades, so having it come for Mac is a huge development. We’ve seen a bit of it before, but the fine folks at Boy Genius Report have played with it for a while and have now previewed it. So let’s take a gander.
That’s just one of the many screen shots you’ll find over at BGR. The application looks similar to the PC version, except, as BGR claims, it’s “a good 2-3x faster.” As they speculate, that could be because it’s a stripped down program. Regardless of the reason, speed is always a plus.
It doesn’t mean everything is smiles and sunshine. Apparently it might be tough with this to install unofficial OS releases:
One interesting thing we have to share with y’all is that there doesn’t appear to be an option to load different operating systems manually. This is probably RIM’s way of “blocking” unofficial OSes, but it’s not really just blocking it, it’s disallowing anyone from installing a BlackBerry OS who doesn’t have an internet connection as they are downloaded directly from RIM.
We’ll see how that changes when RIM officially releases the software. That still figures to be sometime in September. Just a few more weeks…
