BlackBerry Internet Service 3.1 gets detailed

By on May 18, 2010 at 7:23 AM
Services May 18, 2010

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Hot on the heels of the release of BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0, RIM has just posted the details for BIS 3.1 in the BlackBerry Technical Solutions Center. The main enhancement to be brought forth in BIS 3.1 is wireless contact synchronization support — something which Gmail users have been enjoying for a while now — but for Alt-N, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts, things get a little murky (the latter two require OS 6.0). Synchronizations will be scheduled to occur every four hours. Less noteworthy but something that people who constantly swap ‘Berries should take note of, is that you’ll no longer be able to log into your BIS account through a computer, swap your PIN and then use a different device. From BIS 3.1 onwards, you’ll first need to insert the SIM card currently tied to your BIS account into the new phone, log into BIS, swap the PIN and then proceed as normal. CDMA users will have to contact their carrier. Happy? Sad? Wondering when you’ll be able to wirelessly sync your calendars? Let us know your thoughts!

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  • Will Williams

    CDMA users will will to contact their carrier.

    ??

    • robnhl

      What the source actually says is:

      “For CDMA users, customers are required to contact their wireless carrier to have their new BlackBerry smartphone provisioned prior to setting up a BlackBerry Internet Service account on their new device.”

      As far as I see, that just means your device needs to be active before you enter the PIN on the BIS site.

  • Kobepwningsuns

    Synchronizations will be scheduled to occur every fours

    wtf

  • rusty

    What three year old wrote this?

  • los

    Yawn, I can’t wait to dump my blackberry and jump to the Android Army.

  • Hollaman

    ABOUT F-ING TIME!

  • wbj

    Yes, this article needs a little re-tooling.
    1) What is Alt-N?
    2) “scheduled to occur every fours???”
    3) Will we not be able to log into our carrier’s BIS website from a PC/Mac anymore?!

    • http://www.mdaemon-mail-server.com/ Kevin

      Alt-N Technologies is a subsidiary of RIM.

  • Sonic

    GMail Contact Sync hosed address fields on my BlackBerry. It moved city, state, zip, country into the first address field: 1122 your st city state zip USA. While all the info is there, it breaks the hyperlink to BBmaps.

    • gquaglia

      I had that problem. When you are entering the address in gmail, you have to skip a space between the street address and city for it to be formatted right on the BB.

  • mommysays

    wow blackberry….BIS sucks.

  • Stephen G

    I thought Blackberry was going out of business?

  • Jack

    Insane! What is email without contacts? Who’s running the show here? A bunch of monkeys. Hopefully someone will figure it out.

  • Smokin Al Koken

    My BlackBerry Bold 9000 is collecting dust at home as I am typing this.

    • jp1961

      I love myFunambol also

  • Jeff

    Just use myFunambol and you can sync calendar, contacts, tasks, etc. on your BB.

  • Tony

    Am I the only one who ISN’T experiencing the great new gmail contact sync? It still doesn’t work for me.

    • block pajama

      Use Google sync and be done with it.

      • Tony

        Good idea.. if Google Sync didn’t screw up my phone.

  • Jeff

    So does that mean when we contact the carrier to change devices, this is one less thing we will have to do to get back operational (for us CDMA users)??

  • AdamR

    WTH?

    They haven’t even got 2-way sync for GMAIL working yet. Horrible idea to take away the BIS PIN switching.

  • Darrell

    I’m more and more satisfied every day that I finally kicked blackberry to the curb and went to Android!

    • rugbyua9

      I agree… same here.

  • biasedboygenius

    hey 2006 called and it wants its Borat joke back….uncreative biased tards.

    • mommysays

      hey 2006 called and it want’s all its Blackberries back. :)

  • youcantread

    “Alt-N, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts, things get a little murky (the latter two require OS 6.0)”

    Not really, if you knew how to read, you’d know that only Windows Live Hotmail needs OS 6.0 — not both Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail.

    From the provided link:

    Note: The use of wireless contact synchronization with Yahoo! Mail and/or Alt-N requires BlackBerry Device Software 5.0 or higher and a Yahoo! Mail and/or Alt-N integration with BlackBerry® Internet Service.

    Note: The use of wireless contact synchronization with Windows Live Hotmail requires BlackBerry Device Software 6.0 and a Windows Live Hotmail integration with BlackBerry Internet Service.

  • Luke in DC

    “From BIS 3.1 onwards, you’ll first need to insert the SIM card currently tied to your BIS account into the new phone”.
    Obviously someone didn’t think this through. What happens when you lose your phone or switch carriers?

  • Sonic

    @gquaglia: Thanks!

  • felix

    If Internet and browsing experience do not go at least 3 times faster, RIM will be the next Palm… to be a good smart phone is not enough to compete with excellent Android and Apple’s iphone… If Blackberry internet browsing do not smash the iphone/ Android internet experience now… it will be time to sell my RIM stock options… before it is too late.. (for OS 6 do not seem to be enough to hold it..)

  • http://rossmanngroup.com Louis Rossmann

    Yawn.

    Still no IMAP subfolder functionality on the “best phone for email” out there.

    I got an android phone this month. I see all my subfolders on 8 accounts and can search through them all, and with K9 have push mail.

    Yawn.

    • yourmom

      Yes that is correct Louis, email on BB is actually subpar. :P

  • Vinny

    Google sync rules. What a bunch of bull shi-. Google sync mastered this but BB still hasn’t figured it out. I use google sync every hour during the day. That app works flawlessly with every BB I have. Very simple to set up.

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