AT&T’s BlackBerry Bridge app now available in App World

By on Jul 1, 2011 at 9:01 PM
mobile July 1, 2011

When RIM launched the BlackBerry PlayBook earlier this year, AT&T was the only carrier that didn’t provide a BlackBerry Bridge application out of the gate. As of Friday, the application is now available for PlayBook owners with AT&T BlackBerry phones. The app provides free email, calendar, and BBM sync between your PlayBook and BlackBerry smartphone, but you’ll need to subscribe to a $20 monthly plan to share data, too. BlackBerry Bridge is available immediately for free in BlackBerry App World.

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  • Anonymous

    They might as well include some Vaseline mail-in-rebates as well. I guess data must be such a scarce commodity at AT&T that they have to charge for it twice on a platform that is touted as using the least data due to its architecture.

    • http://twitter.com/jj_hh1 J Hamburg

      To me it rather looks like ATT only did this due to some corporate pressure and not because they want to push this solution to a sucess. And honestly it’s hard to blame ATT – chances are really pretty slim that the Playbook/BB-ecosystem will gain traction anytime (soon).

      • Anonymous

        You have two completely unrelated thoughts thrown into some disjointed last sentence.

      • http://www.droiddoes.com/ iNorm

        @twitter-21785192:disqus u dumb?

  • Doug

    There it is! I was waiting to see which carrier would do it first. You can count on AT&T! Now, will Verizon follow suit in three months?

    • Anonymous

      It’s crazy how so many are into jailbreaking their iPhones and rooting their Androids but aren’t willing to download the bridge app from an alternate place as recommended by the manufacturer.

  • http://twitter.com/jj_hh1 J Hamburg

    I’m honestly sorry for RIM – but this is all 2 years too late. They could have been the ones to lead this revolution but for some reason they really fell asleep at the helm. Not sure if they will get back again :/

    • Anonymous

      Are you aware of a prototype tablet that they shelved 2 years ago?
      What about Palm/HP, and all these Honeycomb tablets are they 2 years late as well?

      • Anonymous

        agree with BMAZ. Every tablet is rockin’ a buggy version 1.0 and the tablet race is still wide open. I think RIM and HP are in the best position OS wise. They could really do some incredible things with QNX or webOS. The question is:

        Will they?

      • Sweet James Jones

        How could Android not be the best positioned? They have the biggest smartphone base along with already mildly successful tablets in the Galaxy Tab, Xoom, and Transformer. The market is a hot mess, but every useful app is already there, and between crackle and Google movies you can stream all the video you want.  It just lacks (some) games so not the best for extreme gamers, and that gets fixed with Onlive.  RIM and HP are at an extreme disadvantage already, and both Apple ane Google are moving the ball forward working to shut everyone else out.

  • max

    Well I’m sure you BB Morons will love this….all 3 of you who bought one.

    • Anonymous

      It’s cool that they got this thing out of vaporware status.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZX7I3VN423YBFEWTEQOQ5JR5ME Retro

      X’s your 3 by 2 and you get the number of people that have commented on this thread.
      Is it my imagination or is this site losing followers?

      Too bad. It was an objective and informative site back in the day.

      • TuhTuhTourrr!!!

        It’s your imagination.

    • Anonymous

      BB morons? Subtlety is indeed the art of true gentlemen.

    • Applesucksfatties

      Oh maxi.. you at it again?  I can’t believe you don’t have anything better to do other than RIM bash on your iMaxipad at Starbucks….   

    • Applesucksfatties

      Oh maxi.. you at it again?  I can’t believe you don’t have anything better to do other than RIM bash on your iMaxipad at Starbucks….   

  • Jdlnmia

    OMG now my PlayBook can run like a Palm Foleo!

    • Anonymous

      Stop lying, you don’t even have a playbook.

      • TUPAPI

        LOL

  • Robertoabreum

    Why everybody here hates the PB? Because is not an Apple product? I got one and I love it, yes needs apps, but it is a really very solid tablet.

    • http://profiles.google.com/spinach.chin C N

      Not everyone hates it.  Most have probably not used it extensively outside of a display at Best Buy.  I’ve got one myself, and while it surely has its many faults, it really is a solid piece of hardware, and works very well at what it CAN do.  The PB has one very important feature out-of-the box that essentially sold it for me above all other tablets – the ability to use my phone’s data instead of having to buy an expensive tethering data plan from Verizon.  If an iPad had this feature, I may have considered it, but it doesn’t.

      QNX is a promising piece of software, so I can live with the incomplete-ness of it for now.  RIM definitely has their work cut out for them if they hope to turn their ship around.  I love the PB, but the current crop of phones is… disappointing to say the least.  Their lack of innovation in this respect is appalling, and I probably won’t buy another BB phone until the QNX powered models come out.

      RIM isn’t dead, but there’s a few nails in the coffin, so I hope they can get their shit together.  People forget that Apple was one in RIM’s position, but they managed to turn things around.  So can RIM.

      At any rate, this article is really a knock on AT&T, and not RIM, so all the misdirected hate is a little stupid…

  • Anonymous

    RIM will be gone in ~5 years. It’s a shame too. They used to actually be something good and revolutionary. Now they are playing catch-up – and doing it very badly.

  • Mavricxx

    Another reason why AT&T must NOT take over T-Mobile! They are a bunch of thieves.

    • RICO

      RIM, this is why you are going down as well. How could you let that scum get the best of you, now we’re stuck trying to pay twice for slow as data! I should just sell my pb online…

    • RICO

      RIM, this is why you are going down as well. How could you let that scum get the best of you, now we’re stuck trying to pay twice for slow as data! I should just sell my pb online…

      • Doug

        if they didn’t have a contract agreement w/ at&t ahead of time they were selling something they couldn’t promise.  On the other hand, perhaps AT&T misunderstands what RIM CAN promise here and AT&T will have to retreat.  If it wasn’t locked in though, I’m back to my comment earlier that Verizon WILL follow suit.  

    • RICO

      RIM, this is why you are going down as well. How could you let that scum get the best of you, now we’re stuck trying to pay twice for slow as data! I should just sell my pb online…

  • Anon

    Does anyone think Apple would have ever agreed to a demand like this from AT&T?  I’m a huge RIM fan but this is a low point.

    Now in a corporate setting, if a user wants to access an intranet site through the Bridge it will require a $20 monthly fee… just great.

    • Deathstar

      Working in Technical Consumer Data support for AT&T I can tell you it gets better! Whomever wrote this is WRONG! as of 7/3/2011 there is no plan of $20 to allow you to share your data with your BB mobile phone to your BB Playbook. What they probably meant is it is $20 MORE on top of your existing AT&T Smartphone plan. Sharing the data via Bluetooth is just Tethering only it is being done on BB phone to BB PB via BT not a physical cable. That plan is $45 monthly and has a data limit of 4GB. The highest BB personal data plan is $25 with 2GB add $20 and what do you get $45 4GB…do you see how that works. That is where this $20 comes into play it is $20 MORE not just $20. Sorry folks AT&T is forcing you to grab your ankles!

      • Applesucksfatties

        Regardless, why should I have to pay for data on my Playbook that is coming through by BB device?  Just another way for the greedy money grubbers at AT&T to squeeze another penny or two out of it’s customers to line the pockets of it’s execs and shareholders…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JEWD5DZW227XZOESL66JC4TBJI Mia Kline

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • CMC

    This was supposed to be free of tethering charges.  AT&T needs to understand that their unreliable and slow data network isn’t the liquid gold that they think it is.  They want an extra $20 a month for something you’re already paying for…that works only sometimes adequately?  I hate these bastards with a passion.  

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