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One of these days we’ll get around to reviewing some OS 6 themes. But, since the platform is available on just one handset, and a brand new one at that, we’ll hold off for the time being. Most readers have older devices, so we’ll continue to concentrate on them for our theme reviews. This week we brings you three relatively new themes from some well-known developers.

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Happy Monday theme junkies! This is the last theme roundup for August, it seems like the summer flew by, and school is right around the corner. Theme devs have been hard at work lately, filling up my tip line with tons of great themes, and I have some of the best to show you here today. Hit the jump and take a look at this week’s picks.

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Ever wish you could do more without needing to navigate away from your homescreen to find what you’re looking for? Love your wallpaper, but don’t want to sacrifice function to rock it proudly? You may want to take a look at this theme, the latest by BerryMobi, which combines a great look with tons of function. For touch devices, the homscreen holds 19 icons on the homescreen, 11 of them user-defined, and includes a hidden today. If you aren’t a fan of hidden today themes, you can opt for the non-today version, which amps the number of apps up to 24. Non-touch devices have the same setup, with a few more icons available, namely 19 (13 user-defined) in hidden today version and 23 (17 user-defined) in the non-today versions. The theme includes three fully hideable docks, a weather slot, and is chock full of shortcuts. Fully skinned, and including the OS 6 icon set, its also extremely appealing to the eye. Available in the CB store for multiple devices for $3.99.

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The above pic was posted to Twitter last night of what is claimed to be BlackBerry Theme Studio which shows off support for the BlackBerry Torch, Now, I’m sure a lot of theme builders are dying to get their hands on this and, I’m just as sure a lot of BlackBerry Torch owners are dying to see what theme devs can do with it.

The pic is cool and all but, unless this either leaks or Research In Motion starts distributing it through BlackBerry Beta Zone I’m not so certain we will see it before the BlackBerry Developers Conference. BlackBerry Theme Studio 5 was released there last year so logical analysis dictates Research In Motion sees Theme Studio as a developer tool. As such, it’s not likely to release it on it’s own but rather as part of a series of developer related announcements at DevCon 2010.Â

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A couple of weeks ago, I featured Belicious in the weekly Theme Roundup, and Alex from Ahaz tipped me off to another of his themes, Black Out. Both themes are clean and great-looking, chock full of custom work. If you want to read a little more on Belicious, catch my original write up here. Where Belicious is geared toward the female audience, Black Out is one for the boys, featuring a fully skinned "blacked-out" look that’s easy on the eyes. I particularly love the message lists, which are fully black with a light focus. The theme includes a full set of custom white icons, which show extremely well against the dark background.Simple and straightforward, the main addition to the homescreen’s function is a hideable weather slot that is controlled via hotkeys.Both are available in the CB store for $2.99 each for multiple devices including the Storm, Bold and Curve series.

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The first thing I’m going to do this week is adress a couple questions I am getting asked constantly. "How do I get my themes in the roundup?", "Where do you find the themes you include?". Simple. The answer to the first question, hit me up at themeroundup@crackberry.com and I’ll take a look. The answer to the second? Our theme forums here are a huge resource for theme junkies, and I cruise through them daily looking for the best. That said, hit the jump and I’ll show what I’ve dug up this week.

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If you’re looking for a uniquely styled BlackBerry 6 theme then Pooter Pro 2 is what you’ll want to be checking out. I typically try to avoid flashy themes, since I tend to like simple, easy to navigate ones. Pooter Pro 2 takes both those concepts and smashes em together for ya. Aside from the overall great look of the theme, Pooter Mobile has included some great features as well:

• 5 shortcut screen on the homescreen
• Scroll/Touch the bottom 5 icons for big status text
• 12 customizable icons
• Weather widget can be turned on and off
• No carrier
• Wallpaper friendly
• No transitions 

Personally, the no transitions sold me as often I find some themes have entirely too many transitions in them. Sure transitions are cool and all but, in excessive amounts they can be annoying I think. Pooter did a great job on this theme and it looks good on any device. Pooter Pro 2 is available for Storm, Bold, Tour and Curve 8900 series devices for only $3.99.

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