- 01-10-12 01:48 PMLike 2
- Great stuff, native e-mail, calendar, and that pro grade multi-tasking within the social networking apps is over the top. Adding that predictive, intuitive, contextual keyboard, and it's time to change your BVD's.
Time to call the broker and pick up another 500 shares.01-10-12 01:52 PMLike 0 - Great stuff, native e-mail, calendar, and that pro grade multi-tasking within the social networking apps is over the top. Adding that predictive, intuitive, contextual keyboard, and it's time to change your BVD's.
Time to call the broker and pick up another 500 shares.alnamvet68 and Serkle K like this.01-10-12 01:54 PMLike 2 - Loving the new features, and I'm loving where they're going with the integration between the phone and tablet platforms, but...
Am I the only one that sees that there's still going to be a gap in the email experience between phone and Playbook for folks using any of popular webmail services? My issue right now is that checking my Gmail account from anywhere BUT my Torch 9810 results in it being out of sync with every other device that has that account configured and the webmail interface. The lag and lack of true sync associated with having a Gmail account on BIS is still a killer. Your choices to work around this still come down to a couple of options:
1) Leave Gmail BIS configured on the phone and deal with only checking from your phone (or bridge mail on the PB) and/or cleaning up the mess on the phone manually after checking elsewhere
OR
2) Use the old, now-unsupported Gmail app to check gmail on the phone, remove from BIS, and enjoy having all devices in sync at all times. The downers here are that the Gmail app hasn't been updated in ages, is incapable of real HTML email, and provides a sub-standard experience compared to native BB messaging.
Anyone else feeling this pain?01-10-12 02:27 PMLike 0 - Loving the new features, and I'm loving where they're going with the integration between the phone and tablet platforms, but...
Am I the only one that sees that there's still going to be a gap in the email experience between phone and Playbook for folks using any of popular webmail services? My issue right now is that checking my Gmail account from anywhere BUT my Torch 9810 results in it being out of sync with every other device that has that account configured and the webmail interface. The lag and lack of true sync associated with having a Gmail account on BIS is still a killer. Your choices to work around this still come down to a couple of options:
1) Leave Gmail BIS configured on the phone and deal with only checking from your phone (or bridge mail on the PB) and/or cleaning up the mess on the phone manually after checking elsewhere
OR
2) Use the old, now-unsupported Gmail app to check gmail on the phone, remove from BIS, and enjoy having all devices in sync at all times. The downers here are that the Gmail app hasn't been updated in ages, is incapable of real HTML email, and provides a sub-standard experience compared to native BB messaging.
Anyone else feeling this pain?01-10-12 02:29 PMLike 0 -
I'm hopeful it's decent though! If not, I'll probably just use Bridge for most of my emailing needs. Hopefully the Bridge Emails "app" also gets the fancy features of font editing, etc as the new Native email app!01-10-12 02:53 PMLike 0 - Not sure if this has been posted here already but here's another video from the BB facebook page...
BlackBerry - Wall | FacebookSerkle K likes this.01-10-12 02:55 PMLike 1 -
- Serkle K likes this.01-10-12 03:09 PMLike 1
- Loving the new features, and I'm loving where they're going with the integration between the phone and tablet platforms, but...
Am I the only one that sees that there's still going to be a gap in the email experience between phone and Playbook for folks using any of popular webmail services? My issue right now is that checking my Gmail account from anywhere BUT my Torch 9810 results in it being out of sync with every other device that has that account configured and the webmail interface. The lag and lack of true sync associated with having a Gmail account on BIS is still a killer. Your choices to work around this still come down to a couple of options:
1) Leave Gmail BIS configured on the phone and deal with only checking from your phone (or bridge mail on the PB) and/or cleaning up the mess on the phone manually after checking elsewhere
OR
2) Use the old, now-unsupported Gmail app to check gmail on the phone, remove from BIS, and enjoy having all devices in sync at all times. The downers here are that the Gmail app hasn't been updated in ages, is incapable of real HTML email, and provides a sub-standard experience compared to native BB messaging.
Anyone else feeling this pain?Last edited by undone; 01-10-12 at 03:12 PM.
01-10-12 03:09 PMLike 0 - You may want to delete and re-add your Gmail account in BIS. While it's not perfect the issues were largely resolved. When I read emails on my phone they become marked as read in Gmail almost instantly. Going the other way is a little slower (anywhere from 5 mins to an hour), but reading emails online does always result in them becoming read on my phone.
Last edited by taylortbb; 01-10-12 at 03:50 PM.
01-10-12 03:31 PMLike 0 - Loving the new features, and I'm loving where they're going with the integration between the phone and tablet platforms, but...
Am I the only one that sees that there's still going to be a gap in the email experience between phone and Playbook for folks using any of popular webmail services? My issue right now is that checking my Gmail account from anywhere BUT my Torch 9810 results in it being out of sync with every other device that has that account configured and the webmail interface. The lag and lack of true sync associated with having a Gmail account on BIS is still a killer. Your choices to work around this still come down to a couple of options:
1) Leave Gmail BIS configured on the phone and deal with only checking from your phone (or bridge mail on the PB) and/or cleaning up the mess on the phone manually after checking elsewhere
OR
2) Use the old, now-unsupported Gmail app to check gmail on the phone, remove from BIS, and enjoy having all devices in sync at all times. The downers here are that the Gmail app hasn't been updated in ages, is incapable of real HTML email, and provides a sub-standard experience compared to native BB messaging.
Anyone else feeling this pain?01-10-12 03:41 PMLike 0 - Wish BB had realised that the playbook needs a quality book/PDF viewer and developed a decent rss reader more than spending time on the silly remote function. No developer is going to develop a quality book/pdf or rss reader for them. Even apple had to design their own.01-10-12 03:53 PMLike 0
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- ThunderbuckRetired ModeratorIn the end, a Playbook's only worth what people are willing to pay for it.
That said, this update adds value to ALL Playbooks, I believe, and I think RIM is in a great position to re-boot the product. A few minutes ago, I got the shipping confirmation for the 64 GB that I ordered last week for $299; I'm EXTREMELY happy.
I'll likely hold off on selling my current 32 until after the update drops; it will be much easier to sell then!hpjrt likes this.01-10-12 04:04 PMLike 1 - ThunderbuckRetired ModeratorLoving the new features, and I'm loving where they're going with the integration between the phone and tablet platforms, but...
Am I the only one that sees that there's still going to be a gap in the email experience between phone and Playbook for folks using any of popular webmail services? My issue right now is that checking my Gmail account from anywhere BUT my Torch 9810 results in it being out of sync with every other device that has that account configured and the webmail interface. The lag and lack of true sync associated with having a Gmail account on BIS is still a killer. Your choices to work around this still come down to a couple of options:
1) Leave Gmail BIS configured on the phone and deal with only checking from your phone (or bridge mail on the PB) and/or cleaning up the mess on the phone manually after checking elsewhere
OR
2) Use the old, now-unsupported Gmail app to check gmail on the phone, remove from BIS, and enjoy having all devices in sync at all times. The downers here are that the Gmail app hasn't been updated in ages, is incapable of real HTML email, and provides a sub-standard experience compared to native BB messaging.
Anyone else feeling this pain?01-10-12 04:09 PMLike 0 -
Again, my real point is not that the Playbook implementation is flawed but rather that the improvements to the Playbook (which are moving in the right direction) don't do anything to address the core flaws of the messaging system design on any of their current smartphones (which assumes that the Blackberry is the end-all, be-all of your email world as opposed to the "accessible anywhere" direction that the rest of the world has been moving toward).Last edited by bassoprofundo; 01-10-12 at 04:24 PM.
01-10-12 04:19 PMLike 0 - Native email, contacts and calendar are great. Issue I have is awful connectivity to non Blackberry phones. I love my playbookand have great respect fro RIM, but its inability to bluetooth correctly to my Sensation is annoying....and the remote is great if you have a blackberry, which no-one will have in a year or so unless they move out of the dark ages.
So good and bad for me...but some of the good is truly magnificent01-10-12 04:25 PMLike 0
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