Bellshare GmbH has just announced that the BerryBuzz 2.0 private beta is now open and includes some great new features!

BerryBuzz extends your default Blackberry alert system allowing you to customize the LED color for many alert types and keeps the LED flashing for longer than the default 15 minutes, in addition to customizable vibrate options for incoming calls (like vibrate + ring).

The BerryBuzz 2.0 Beta includes new features like support for BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook, custom LED colors, a new ‘Disco’ color, controlling your LED’s flashes and many more!

The currently available version of BerryBuzz goes for $5.95 in the store with a free trial available, just in case you don’t like using beta applications.

To join the BerryBuzz 2.0 private beta send an e-mail with the subject as ‘BerryBuzz 2.0 Beta’ to customerservice (at) bellshare.com. Visit the Bellshare forums for more info or check out the changelog after the jump.

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The same people who created Instango have created an awesome application called BerryBuzz. BerryBuzz extends your BlackBerry’s functionality, allowing it to do things it should already be able to do.

From the description:

The essential alert tool for every BlackBerry.

BerryBuzz extends your default Blackberry alert system. BerryBuzz allows you to customze the LED color for many alert type and keeps the LED flashing for longer than the default 15 minutes your BlackBerry does.

It will repeat alerts until acknowledged so you will never miss an alert again.

Plus it adds customizable vibrate for incoming calls. Finally you an have your BlackBerry vibrates while it is ringing.

BerryBuzz is a product from Bellshare, the creator of instango, the popular free instant messenger for Blackberry and Java smartphones. Connects to ICQ, AIM, MSN, GoogleTalk and Yahoo! anywhere, anytime.

Features:

• Customize the LED color and set an individual repeating alert for
• - E-Mails (individual for each account or one for all)
• - PIN Messages (sent via the default e-mail messaging application)
• - SMS
• - Calendar Events
• - Missed phone calls
• When multiple alerts are active at the same time, every color will flash in a repeating pattern. SEE WHATS GOING ON WITH YOUR BLACKBERRY FROM ACROSS THE ROOM!
• Customizable rapid flashing LED for incoming phone calls
• Customizable vibrate for incoming calls. Vibrates while ringing.
• LED will keep flashing until acknowledged (BlackBerry defaults to flash only for 15 min).
• Optional slow down of LED flashing after specified time to save battery life
• Optimized for minimum battery and memory usage
• Support for instango custom colored LED (instango 2.2.83 or higher)

Minimum Requirements:

• Blackberry OS 4.2.1 with color LED

Price: $5.95 – Trial available

• Download/Info: BerryBuzz