The BlackBerry allows you to associate a picture with your contacts so that picture pops up when they call. This is a nice feature but it's painful to manually set all these pictures and match them to your contacts.
Vringo offers a cool Facebook application that offers to automate this task. A "pre-release" version is available for early adopters to evaluate. Go to their site and register to get an email with instructions. Basically you need to add their Facebook application to your account and then download the client to your BlackBerry (or your Windows Mobile). Their Facebook application is easy to use. After configuring your phone number, you can upload your contacts and then they are matched to your Facebook friends in order to link their profile picture. Run the client on your BlackBerry and it will download the pictures to your BlackBerry and you are done. Next time one of your friends calls you will see their profile picture on your BlackBerry!
The BlackBerry client doesn't actually update the image of your contact, instead it just displays the image (from the Vringo application) when there's an incoming call (causing a little delay). I think it would be better to actually update the image instead but this is also nice for now.
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