RIM has announced via their BlackBerry Support Forums that the Enhanced Google Mail Plug-in for BlackBerry is now available!

The Enhanced Google Mail™ plug-in for BlackBerry® smartphones introduces an advanced level of email service integration for BlackBerry smartphones. It supports additional Google Mail™ features that provide BlackBerry® Internet Service subscribers with broader access to their Google Mail accounts while on the go.  The Enhanced Google Mail plug-in is optional. Existing and new Google Mail integrations will continue to function without it.

Features:

• Add and remove labels and stars on email messages
• Report spam email messages
• Perform local and remote searches
• Archive email messages
• View related email messages as a single conversation (threaded view)

Synchronization only happens from your BlackBerry to your Google Mail account, meaning some changes made through your Google Mail account won’t sync to your BlackBerry. Your BlackBerry must be running at least OS 4.5 (get your latest OS here) in order to download the Enhanced Google Mail plug-in, and your Google Mail account must be associated with BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) through your carrier.

Once you associate your Google Mail account you will receive a PIN with instructions on how to download the plug-in. If you already have your Google Mail accounts associated with your BIS you will need to re-associate them. In addition, your Google Mail account must have IMAP enabled, not POP. Detailed info available in the following RIM Knowledge Base articles:

• System requirements and installation of the Enhanced Google Mail plug-in
• Features of the Enhanced Google Mail plug-in
• Limitations of the Enhanced Google Mail plug-in
• How to associate email accounts with the BlackBerry Internet Service
• How to remove an integrated email address from the BlackBerry Internet Service

Let me know how this works for you in the comments!

RIM has updated the BlackBerry App World to v1.1.0.11 with some nice new features:

• Enhanced Performance
  BlackBerry App World 1.1 features faster image and icon loading, giving you the information you want – faster.
• Sort Your Searches
  Search and find exactly the apps you want. Look for “free” or “paid” apps, or search by category: music, games, weather and other apps. Sort your results by most popular, newest, highest rated and more.
• Archive Your Apps
  Load even more of your favorite apps onto your microSD card – ensuring that no matter where you go, or even if you change BlackBerry smartphones, all your applications come with you.
• Memory Indicator
  Always know exactly how much memory you have with the new memory status bar. When you’ve exceeded your memory, a message will appear guiding you on how to free up more space.
• More Language Support
  Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal and the Channel Islands

Inside BlackBerry has posted a helpful tutorial on how to properly archive applications onto your microSD card,  just in case you have any problems or want to set it up the right way from the get go.

You can find more information and download the new version of the BlackBerry App World at blackberry.com/appworld.

Skydeck let me know that their service is now out of beta and available for BlackBerry smartphones.

Some Skydeck highlights include:

• Skydeck moves all the functionality of your Blackberry device onto the web, and lets you track, archive and search VoIP and wireless calls, voicemail and text messages online.
• Skydeck keeps a complete record of your activity by capturing every incoming and outgoing call and lets you search them and attach call notes. It also captures full text of text messages and incoming voice mails.
• Skydeck organizes the address book on your Blackberry device based on who you interact with most, putting the people you talk and message with the most right at the top.
• If you lose your phone, or are traveling and want to avoid costly roaming charges, you can use your smart phone from Skydeck on the web.
• Skydeck lets you initiate VoIP calls and text messages that look like they are coming from your cell phone.

Some of the new features include:

• All of your calls – including missed calls and voicemails, which never showed up in the original version of Skydeck.
• All of your text messages – including the content of your text messages.
• All of your voicemails – including the audio of your voicemails, plus a transcribed version that gets sent to you by text and by email, all stored on Skydeck.com.
• All of your contacts – sync your cell phone directly to Skydeck.
• In real time – not one day late.
• Search – including the content of your texts and the content of your voicemails.
• Reply – take advantage of your broadband connection, your headset, and your keyboard to place calls and send texts from Skydeck that appear to be coming from your cell phone.

Price: Starting at $9.95 per month

Be sure to leave some comments if you decide to try this service out!

Check it out: http://skydeck.com/