Few days ago I was upgrading my Bold's firmware to latest version and while I was preparing for upgrade, I noticed that RIM's Desktop Manager was also updated to next major version - v5.

As you might remember, there were times (with Desktop Manager 3.x) when synchronizing with Outlook (calendar, contacts, tasks) was fast. Oh yes, fast! My first contact with desktop manager and blackberry (after i was using Sony-Ericsson's P900 for few years and syncing data with outlook there), was: "WHOA- something is not working, this was done too fast"…

Then RIM managed to reaaaaaallly slow down the sync process in Desktop Manager 4.x, but guess what surprise RIM had in store for its Desktop Manager 5 users? Outlook synchronization is FAST again. Now it is done within 20 seconds (vs. v4 which stumbled for more than 1,5 minutes with my 1200 contacts, and 100+ calendar dates, and many tasks…)… Good work RIM! Now please just repeat this pleasant surprise with OS5 firmware for our blackberries…

Btw… i just read that RIM finally announced to release MAC version of Desktop Manager software suite in Q3 this year! Hooray!