BlackBerry: the push email service dedicated to improving individuals

By admin at 2 April, 2008, 7:12 am

So far the gap is wide between business users and the general public users of the BlackBerry. Because if the fleets of terminals deployed in companies tend to rely on a dedicated server (BES: BlackBerry Enterprise Server) all other smartphones of the mark rely on servers A (BlackBerry Internet Service) RIM.

In practice, the functionality hitherto much smaller version on BIS used by individuals. But with the new version of the BlackBerry Internet Service 2.4 stamped things are improving greatly, and functionality gradually move closer to the professional version of the service.

A simplified interface

Firstly, it is no longer necessary to travel regularly on the BlackBerry webmail to check that the maximum capacity of your mailbox is reached. Now, the synchronisation takes place between the BlackBerry device and your various e-mail accounts. In other words, when you read a message or you choose to delete, it is immediately marked as read or deleted from your account “real”.

Thus, the website BlackBerry is limited now to the addition of new email accounts - up to a maximum of 10 type POP, IMAP, Gmail or Yahoo Mail - and allows you to choose any filtering rules. It is also possible, directly from the BlackBerry, to add or delete e-mail accounts.

As such, the addition of new accounts was further simplified: addresses and passwords usually enough to set automatically.

Finally, PDFs and PowerPoint presentations now enjoy a new landscape mode, which makes it easier to read, while Word files, Excel, JPEG, BMP, TIFF are always downloaded very quickly. Recall also that this is a major specifics of the BlackBerry, it has a system of data compression very powerful.

Emphasize to finish a sporadic conflict with the Firefox web browser - tests with version 2.0 software - which generally require users to go through Internet Explorer when you want to access the portal BlackBerry Internet Service… a step that can now be totally done since smartphone.