PhoneFace has now added Twitter support, enabling you to call, email, or send an SMS to your contacts by flipping through  photos.

You have the choice of loading a photo you’ve taken with your smartphone’s camera, or by selecting the option to use either their Twitter or Facebook profile pic.

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For some reason the selection of Twitter clients for BlackBerry devices is – to put it bluntly – awful. There’s Twitterberry, SocialScope (beta) and brute force text messaging. All three of these options leave out something from the Twitter experience when compared against the more robust clients available for the iPhone.

Now there’s a new Twitter for BlackBerry beta – UberTwitter which builds on the above functionality and adds one of my most used features – the Twitter Trendline. This feature shows the topics that many people are talking about on Twitter and can be an early signal to breaking news. You can also use UberTwitter to update your GTalk status. Currently in open beta for devices running OS 4.2.1 and higher.

UberTwitter

Just yesterday Dan introduced you to GVdialer for iPhone. For those of you who are using a BlackBerry , here’s a version of GVdialer that integrates your device with Google Voice. Most impressive about GVdialer is that you can have it automatically intercept any type of outbound call whether it’s dialed from the keypad, phone book or recent calls – and route the call through your Google Voice account.

What’s the big deal about Google Voice? There are three primary reasons I think you’ll soon see a flood of applications offering to integrate your cell phones to Google Voice.

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By default BlackBerry devices are equipped with only two user definable keys. This can be limiting for anyone wanting fast one key access to additional programs or features on the BlackBerry. Fortunately a third party developer, Nikkisoft, has created a solution. Their recently updated QuickLaunch 1.4 offers shortcuts to almost any program imaginable on your BlackBerry 9500, 9530, 8900, 9000, 83xx, 81xx.

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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

BlackBerry Storm touch screen support, ability to add events and tasks from an email and Outlook sync via USB are but a few of the enhancements that have been added to Pocket Informant version 1.5 for BlackBerry.

Today we are announcing version 1.5 with some major improvements all around. First up is full BlackBerry Storm support with toolbars, touch screen gestures (swipe the months to move between them) and many other Storm specific user interface features. This interface was drafted by our interface experts and then polished by our private and public beta testers over three months and we hope you enjoy it.

Next we’ve added Direct USB Outlook Sync to Pocket Informant so that all the extra fields that Pocket Informant supports can be synched directly to Outlook! This is an exciting feature as some of the things we are doing for 1.6 (full Franklin Covey support) are based off this. We’ve also added integration with the BlackBerry email view, smart URLs, and many more features – all of which solidify Pocket Informant’s place as the best PIM you can find on the BlackBerry today.

Pocket Informant for BlackBerry 1.5