There’s surely more than one way to view and interact with popular forums from a BlackBerry, but there’s one that’s really soared to the top of the superusers favorite list. The Tapatalk Forum App by Tapatalk is the one I’m referring to. It’s seen a great deal of polish and now even comes pre-loaded with the CrackBerry forum!

The Tapatalk Forum App does support every device that runs 5.x OS and up. It really does look great too. Seeing the CrackBerry threw their name on the promo and has some ownership really adds a lot of value to the application as well.
Prana is finally here. HedoneDesign has made a theme that truly shows originality and the acquired taste that style and design junkies crave. It’s been a very long time since they’ve done something like this. A lot of time and precision clearly went into the entire process.

For compatible devices HD generally covers the same each time. From 8350i to 9800. The only one’s missing are Pearl 9100 series and Style 9670 unfortunately. Maybe in a future update. But at the moment, if you own a compatible Berry you may want to throw down for Prana.
Her themes have become like classic films to my BlackBerry’s. It sounds like my Bold is constantly screaming for me to activate Mobster Mobile Design. Oh Bold, you don’t have to beg me! I love her too. Sepia is the brand new theme from MMD. Compatible with most everything from 8350 to 9800.

The go big or go home mantra must be embedded in her finger tips.. With all the highs (design, function, originality, devices available, appealing color palates, simple easy to understand icons, customer service) and none of the lows (over-priced, repeating icons, poor structure) I truly hope they remain successful.
I came across Apparatus, the latest theme from StaticFX Designs recently and just like all his themes I couldn’t let this one pass us by without sharing some words on it and just how sleek the construction of the homescreen, colors, and the little Today/Weather island are to me!

Apparatus is compatible with select devices. They are Storm 9500 series [5.0], Bold 9650, 9700, 9780 and Torch 9800 [6.0]. So if you have one of the mentioned consider yourself in luck.
And the award for most customizable BlackBerry theme goes to Russell Nash of Gray Matter Themes for Morph! WOW! I’m shook. I’ve seen it all before.. or so I thought. Morph truly let’s users build their own theme, layout, placement, hide anything and everything, or move it where you see fit. Yes I said you can move everything on the homescreen to new locations.

Again let me emphasize that I have seen themes that do similar “customization” options but never in 1000′s of themes have I been granted all this access before. Don’t like something? Fine hide it, move it, change the color, the width, there’s even things you can add if you’d like!
It’s not hard to tell that my favorite obsession is BlackBerry themes. And being such an obsession I’ve grown to know many in the Development industry. One of our newest friends Berry Glow Designs built a very cool theme called Naturize recently and let us know he’d love to share 20 copies with our readers!

Naturize is compatible with just about every device! Curve 8350, 8520, 8900, 9300 series, Bold 9000, 9650, 9700, 9780, Tour 9630, Style 9670, and Torch 9800.
Everyone knows TDM Designs. He’s mastered some of the most addicting styles in BlackBerry themes. But somehow he’s always got these extra rabbits he likes to pull into the design. His latest has us all loving that Evo style again. This is BB EVO complete with color changeable Big Clocks!

What trips me up about TDM themes, is that even when I think I know all the hidden hotspots, launchers, Big Clocks, the 9. He throws in another twist. Or he’ll just include a list of features in one of his famous beta update emails.
After Theia choked me up, I honestly didn’t expect Mobster Mobile Design to come so hard again for a little while. Well think again, because Demeter is one of the most incredible themes both technically and from a design standpoint that I’ve ever had the honor of using.

Because Demeter has a ton of gorgeous detail, Mobster coded for a specific list of devices. These devices are Curve 8900 series, Storm 9500 series, Tour 9630, Bold 9650, 9700, 9780 & Torch 9800 BB05 and 06 respectively.
drkapprentice designs proves once again just why having a BlackBerry with an Android style theme is still better than having an Android any day of the week with his latest DDDROID COMMANDO!

One of my favorite things about drkapprentice is that every theme he makes is almost a continuation of the previous, design evolution if you must. Basically he adds all his fancy tricks, hand-codes and then cleans em up to perfection. But always adding something I’d think was impossible otherwise.
Vision Mobility comes back in a big way with his latest theme Bridged! This is a different kind of PlayBook theme experience. It’s a custom-to-build theme that you can bring your own favorite photos into.

Bridged let’s you add custom photo’s to the 5 tiles that hold your apps in spots 21 through 25! These can be anything you want and take a minimal amount of know-how to create. Put a PlayBook image to your BlackBerry Bridge icon and/or your loved one with your BBM icon!
As soon as I saw this new Avatar Builder application from RIM I couldn’t help but feel like I had just opened one of the big presents on Christmas. This is one of those apps I would’ve thought RIM would have us testing in the BlackBerry Beta Zone a very long time ago.
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And now that the competition has struck a nerve with their new copycat Messenger service it’s only right that Research In Motion comes out with the guns, big and little!
Guess who’s back! This time Elecite has a brand new theme that’s very tough. These guys practically invented everything that’s manly about your BlackBerry. And now they’ve added power tools to the mix with Evolve..

They’ve selected only certain devices to build this complicated but clean new structure. And I still drop everything for these guys! Without Elecite I don’t think you’d even be reading our blog right now. They built up a lot of my interest and the influence of my need for the impossible!




