After being rumored for few weeks finally RIM confirmed to release the BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac on October 2nd. The new desktop software will be available to download for free at www.blackberry.com/mac at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Mark your calendar so you won’t miss it.

With the BlackBerry Desktop Manager, Mac users will be able to sync data from Mac applications like iCal, Address Book, Microsoft Entourage and others. It also integrates BlackBerry Media Sync to sync the iTunes music collections with the BlackBerry device.

The BlackBerry Desktop Manager is intended for Mac computers running Mac OS 10.5.5 or higher and supports BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry OS 4.2 or higher.

[via: Marketwire]

Basically the BlackBerry Desktop Software v1.0 will come with the following features and options:

• The Welcome Sheet – Just like other Desktop Sync software, the Welcome sheet will come up when you connect your smartphone to the computer. In the Welcome Sheet you will be able to select whether to sync your device to one or multiple computers. Besides you can also set the location of the Music storage.
• Summary Screen and Device Options – In the Summary screen you can see the quick overview of the device connected to the computer. This summary includes the info about the latest sync and backup. There’s also the Device Options button on the summary screen to let you go to the more advance settings of the device such as changing the name as well as configure the device to sync automatically when the BlackBerry smartphone is connected and check for software updates. Besides you can also set the backup options and the media files storage from the Device Options screen.
• Synchronizing – The synchronizing screen divided into two sections. The left panel contains all information categories and the right panel reflects the settings for each category.
• Updating Device Software – Just like the Windows version, in the Mac version users won’t need to install anything on their computer to update their BlackBerry device software. The notification will pop up when a new update is available. The Update Device Software also includes the option to install/remove applications
• Backup and Restore – The Backup screen comes with the option to choose whether to have a full or a partial backup including to set the encryption of the backup file. The backup files now have a new extension, .bbb, stands for BlackBerry Backup file which will be used by the new and upcoming version of BlackBerry Desktop Software. However users are still able to restore any previous format with .ipd extension.

For more details and screenshots you may visit the BlackBerry blog. We don’t know the official release date yet but seems like it’s coming very soon.

And later BlackBerry made an announcement on Twitter apologized about that mistake and confirmed that the BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac is NOT yet launched.

It’s a little bit unacceptable that a company like RIM can make a mistake like that. But anyway, Vodafone Ireland in their forum also did the same thing about the Nokia N97 Mini few weeks ago. So it becomes such a trends anyway, just kidding. At least from this we know that the software is not so far away before it official release.