An update just went up on the BlackBerry Developer’s Blog alerting to the latest release for the WebWorks SDK to version 2.1.1. While this may not be earth-shattering news for most BlackBerry users, it’s a great update for those of us out there that develop for the BlackBerry platform. Some great features have been implemented in this update for developers, which in turn will trickle down into the end-user experience in the form of better applications.

• BlackBerry® 7 OS simulator – a BlackBerry® Bold™ 9930 simulator running BlackBerry 7 OS device software is now included in the WebWorks SDK download.
• Web Inspector – As promised in a previous blog post, developers can now use WebKit Web inspector to debug, test and profile Web browser or BlackBerry WebWorks application content running on a live device or simulator.
• Microphone API – The same API that was recently made available for the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for Tablet OS can now be used to record WAV audio files in BlackBerry WebWorks applications running on BlackBerry smartphones.
• Auto injection of Gears-to-HTML5 shim – BlackBerry WebWorks developers that wish to use HTML5 features on BlackBerry 5.0 smartphones no longer need to manually add the Gears-to-HTML JavaScript toolkit to their projects. The BlackBerry WebWorks SDK automatically does this for you.

Good news for BlackBerry developers and users alike, as the BlackBerry development environment takes another step forward.