So looking at my twitter feed, I noticed that Yelp! finally gave BlackBerry users some love. They upgraded to 2.0, which gives us the ability to "check in", submit pictures, and even draft a review. On the previous version all we could do was read existing reviews. Now BlackBerry users have the same ability as other platforms.
didn't receive the notification for the upgrade yet, but looking at the reviews on AppWorld it seems like the location issue I am having is hitting a few other users as well. Hope that the update fixes it.