Announcing BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0

[Bob Hillesum]

Announcing BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0


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03-05-2010 11:47 AM
BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0

 

 
Product Overview

 

The BlackBerry® Internet Service is designed to provide individuals access to email messaging, instant messaging, Internet browsing, and more. BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers can receive automatic delivery of email messages for up to ten email accounts on their BlackBerry smartphones.

BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 is the latest version of the BlackBerry Internet Service offered by RIM.

 
Features

 

    * Updates to the Enhanced Google Mail™ plug-in for BlackBerry smartphones
          o Google Mail account to BlackBerry smartphone synchronization of read/unread status and sent items
          o Create and delete labels using the BlackBerry smartphone
      Note: The Google Mail plug-in requires BlackBerry® Device Software 4.5 or higher and a Google Mail integration, using GIMAP, within BlackBerry Internet Service.

    * Additional language support for Basque, Catalan, Galician, Romanian

    * Increased attachment compatibility
          o OpenDocument presentations (.odp)
          o OpenDocument spreadsheets (.ods)
          o OpenDocument text (.odt)
          o OpenDocument text templates (.ott)
          o Windows Media® Audio (.wma)

    * Improved email setup flow for HTML access
          o Allows BlackBerry smartphone users to reclaim their email address if their BlackBerry Internet Service account is ever deleted.

    * xHTML Support for non-Thick Clients
          o BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 is designed to support xHTML for non Thick Client users and provide BlackBerry smartphone users with a richer user experience, allowing for the use of buttons, additional fonts and colour controls when users access and toggle their user settings.

    * Device switch revalidation
          o BlackBerry smartphone users are required to revalidate all email accounts upon PIN changes. This includes username/password users who log in to their account through HTML, Thick Client, or xHTML (previously WAP).  It also includes PIN changes that are completed through BlackBerry Internet Service Administration.

    * Hosted email address passwords
          o Hosted email address passwords, secret questions, and secret answers are now extended to ‘username/password’ BlackBerry smartphone users.

            Note: After BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0, only newly created hosted email “Username/Password” accounts will be prompted to create a password, secret question, and secret answer.

 

    * Carrier Friendly Names
          o BlackBerry smartphone users will be instructed to contact their specific carrier and will be provided with carrier contact information in HTML and WAP error messages.

Zie ook:
http://blackberry-nl.com/index.php/topic,7252.0.html
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