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BBM doesn't seem like much of a win but a blackberry email client would be smart. As far as I know they're the only ones that have an efficient mobile email cli
by pedrocr 13y ago
BBM doesn't seem like much of a win but a blackberry email client would be smart. As far as I know they're the only ones that have an efficient mobile email client that does things like not download a huge file just to upload it again when you forward a message with an attached document. That's the only reason I've heard for people keeping Blackberrys instead of switching to iPhones or Androids.
- brk 13y agoReally? That's a reason for staying with Blackberry? Curious who/what these users are. Is there some case where users are primarily dealing with email on a mobile device AND forwarding around lots of attachments? I'll admit, I like that idea, but not enough to stick with an (IMO) highly antiquated platform just to get better attachment forwarding.
- pedrocr 13y agoWell, these days the reasons for staying with Blackberry are getting slimmer and slimmer. In corporate situations forwarding around documents in emails does tend to be a pretty big use case. We really need "pass by reference" in emails but no one has really cracked the "dropbox for enterprises" use case. Nomadesk is supposed to be that and so far seems pretty buggy (the "lose your files" kind of buggy). Maybe the aerofs guys will fix that.
- omh 13y agoThey recently released this for the corporate side of things. "Secure Workspace" is a self contained BB-based email app, which connects to the BES stuff on the back end. Looks very nice from a corporate security point of view. But I'm not sure how good it is if you're looking for a "Blackberry UI". Anecdotally that seems to be as much about the old (non-touch) BB devices and their physical keyboards.
- pedrocr 13y agoThat sounds awesome. I need to check with corporate IT to see if they'll provision that with the BYOD Android program.