It’s easy to get excited over the many announcements made during last week’s BlackBerry Developer Conference.  The second annual event unleashed big news for the platform.  Everything from more talk on a forthcoming WebKit browser to real 3D gaming to support for Flash and vastly improved developer tools to create a wider variety of applications. Mobile developers took notice.  RIM is actively looking to help anyone wanting to design applications for their devices. The big question, though, remains:  just how will these new services  actually run on a BlackBerry?

Is it possible to run 3D gaming, Flash, etc. on a BlackBerry’s limited device memory without causing memory leaks, forcing users to reboot the device?

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PDAir makes a case or skin for just about every mobile device currently available.  They have a wide variety of cases available ranging from leather to aluminum to silicone.  I was lucky enough to recieve a Luxury Silicone Case compatible with the BlackBerry Storm 9500/9530  to review.  Sporting a low $18 price and wide range of color choices, you could easily pick up one color — or several — to show off your individual style.

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I’ve often wondered why mobile device manufacturers don’t allow for an automated way to warm reboot our devices as we sleep. It seems that the cure for half of the problems with erratic application behavior can be resolved with either a quick battery pull or click of a hardware reset button.

QuickPull 2.0 for BlackBerry OS 4.2+ provides just that. It simulates a “battery pull” – freeing available system memory and reclaiming all the stolen resources that some naughty applications “forget” to return to your BlackBerry. The price is free. Now if RIM could just figure a way to reboot my BlackBerry in under five minutes.

QuickPull 2.0 via BlackBerry News