“The Facebook app for BlackBerry 10 has seen a number of updates since we’ve launched and it keeps getting better with every new iteration. The Facebook app v10.2 for BlackBerry 10 is no exception. It brings a refreshed new design and many features that are designed to make your mobile Facebook experience on BlackBerry 10 amazing,” says BlackBerry’s Donny Halliwell.

Here’s what’s new in version 10.2:

• Create an album: You can now create a new albums from your photos page, so organizing all those great shots you capture on your BlackBerry 10 device is easy.
• Upload to a specific album: now you can add a new photo to an existing album on your Facebook page, or to that new album you just created.
• Enable tagging in existing photos: Want to tag a photo that already exists on Facebook from you BlackBerry 10 device? Now you can with this feature that’s new to the app.
• New ways to toggle and easily view photos: Easily toggle between all your photos and Albums. All photos comprises of all the photos with you in them. Album photos are photos you have uploaded yourself.
• Newsfeed design refresh: The newsfeed has been refined with a few visual tweaks that make navigating the Facebook app for BlackBerry 10 that much more enjoyable.

Considering that the app currently sits with a 2-star rating in the BlackBerry World Store, it’s prime for an upgrade. The last big update came back in late March.

You can grab the new Facebook for BlackBerry 10, v. 10.2 in the BlackBerry World store today.

Clocking in at 10 minutes, the short film isn’t going to win any awards. In fact, you may not even be able to get past the first five minutes. But hey, it’s a free Rodriguez film paid for by BlackBerry. What else would you expect?

Let’s just hope that Sin City 2 isn’t this bad.

Bloomberg reports that BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins called the future of tablets into question at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles. During an interview, he said that there will be no reason to have a tablet in five years. He topped that statement off by saying that “tablets themselves are not a good business model.”

So, what does BlackBerry see as the future? Heins suggests that a “big screen in your workplace” will replace the tablet. That big screen may be part of the company’s future plans as he says BlackBerry is aiming to be “the absolute leader in mobile computing” in five years.

It’s no coincidence that Heins wants the death of the tablet to coincide with his company’s resurgence as a leader in mobile computing. Of course, that resurgence will only come if BlackBerry can produce hardware that convinces people to drop their iPads, Nexus 7s and other tablets in favor of whatever “big screen” the company can come up with.

That “big screen” may actually end up being a new PlayBook, but Heins says that any new tablet from BlackBerry must set itself apart. Maybe BlackBerry is looking at creating a desktop computer that can double as a large tablet. We’ve already seen this kind of stuff in the works at OEMs like Lenovo, but a BlackBerry-branded PC/tablet hybrid could prove interesting if the company could pull it off.

Of course, people are right to be skeptical as BlackBerry hasn’t really innovated on the hardware side of things in recent years. The BlackBerry Z10′s only claim to fame is that its software is somewhat unique while the hardware itself is nothing new. BlackBerry could easily sell a “big screen” device with a great software backing, but Heins makes it sound like BlackBerry wants to start innovating in hardware again as well.

At this point, we can only with the once mighty company all the luck in the world. Compelling hardware is hard to make and even harder to market after a strong incumbent has been on the scene for a few years. You only need to look to Microsoft for evidence of that.

Rodriguez announced this week that he’s now accepting submissions for the monster that the two hunters will fight at the end of the film. Unlike the past few contests, aspiring designers don’t have to do a lot here. All they have to do is create a simple sketch of the monster. After that, Rodriguez’ designers will take over and bring it to life.

For a chance to have your monster appear in Two Scoops, you just have to submit your design to BlackBerry’s Keep Moving promo site.

In the first episode, Rodriguez had called on amateur actors to submit audition tapes for the role of the hunters’ boss. The actor would be added in post production, and now Rodriguez is looking for submissions for a weapon that the monster hunters will use in the second act of the film.

Unlike the first act, those interested in creating a weapon for the film will only have to tweet their weapon idea to Rodriguez with the #keepmoving hashtag. The winning idea will be designed by Rodriguez’ team of prop designers, and inserted into the final film.

If you’re interested in the creative process behind the film, check out this short featuring Rodriguez talking about his approach to filmmaking.

If you fancy yourself a Facebook user, the latest update for BlackBerry 10 is sure to delight with its latest features:

Twitter users are getting a few less new features, but those that are being added still contribute to a better experience:

You can download Facebook for BlackBerry 10 here, and Twitter for BlackBerry 10 here.

In its Q4 results, BlackBerry reports that it had shipped 6 million smartphones through March 2. Out of that lot, 1 million were the new BlackBerry Z10. To ship 1 million BlackBerry Z10s in a little less than month is no small feat, especially for a company that’s recently been down on its luck.

Beyond smartphone sales, BlackBerry had a decent fourth quarter. Here’s the full breakdown:

The company notes that revenue is still down, but it’s not bleeding cash like it once was. From Q3 to Q4, the company posted a $49 million loss, or a loss of two percent. Compare that to the $1.5 billion loss it suffered from the same quarter last year, and its current losses don’t seem as bad.

It will be interesting to see what BlackBerry’s results for the current quarter look like as it has just launched the BlackBerry Z10 in the U.S. The company notes that 61 percent of its revenue comes from hardware sales, and the U.S. market might provide the kick its premium hardware needs.

BlackBerry announced that Amazon Kindle is now available on BlackBerry 10. It’s part of a larger collection of apps that will be hitting BlackBerry World as it crosses 100,000 app threshold.

Kindle for BlackBerry 10 won’t be adding any new features, like Pandora for Windows Phone 8, but it does have all of its usual features intact:

Getting Kindle on BlackBerry 10 is obviously a pretty big deal, especially for a platform that has thus far missed out on other high-profile apps. It’s just a little unfortunate that BlackBerry 10 is not yet available on the BlackBerry Playbook as eBooks are not very user friendly on smartphones.

If you already have a BlackBerry 10 device, you can grab the Kindle app from BlackBerry World. While you’re at it, you can check out the other new apps hitting BlackBerry 10 today – OpenTable and The Wall Street Journal.

BlackBerry announced today that the BlackBerry 10 platform now has over 100,000 apps. The company says that it added 30,000 apps over the span of seven weeks, which is pretty impressive no matter how you look at it. The platform isn’t slowing down either with BlackBerry 10 adding a number of new apps to BlackBerry World over the next few weeks:

“The response to the BlackBerry 10 platform and applications has been outstanding. Customers are thrilled with the applications already available, and the catalog just keeps growing, now with more than 100,000 apps,” said Martyn Mallick, Vice President, Global Alliances at BlackBerry. “Top brands and application providers are joining us every day and are seeing the benefits of being early supporters of the new platform. We constantly hear from developers that the BlackBerry 10 tools are easy to build with and that we provide opportunities for app differentiation that they do not see on other platforms.”

So where does BlackBerry 10 stand in comparison to the competition? WIndows Phone 8 has only just recently passed the 130,000 app mark so BlackBerry 10 could very well eclipse Microsoft’s platform if the Redmond giant’s current plan to spark app development doesn’t work out.

As for Android and iOS, it’s a little unfair to compare at this point. Both platforms have around a quarter of a million apps as they’re both well established. As Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 become more established themselves, expect their respective app stores to grow.

BlackBerry got its band back together for a final performance in honor of BlackBerry 10′s launch. We won’t be seeing BlackBerry 10 until March 22, but at least you have a song to listen to until Friday’s launch.

Let’s hope that BlackBerry doesn’t use this as its TV ad in the U.S. unless it intends to market to the hipsters whom ironically like bad things.

[h/t: AllThingsD]