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BIS 3.0 Officially Announced

by Munish | March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment

BIS 3.0 Officially Announced

We have already heard about BIS 3.0 before but today it’s officially announced on BlackBerry Support forums with posting of knowledge base articles related to BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0. It surely brings some Gmail juice and more attachment compatibility with added security when you change the device pin to switch over emails to other BlackBerry device. There are no words on official release date but it should be anytime in this month for sure.

Features

  • Updates to the Enhanced Google Mail™ plug-in for BlackBerry smartphones
    • Google Mail account to BlackBerry smartphone synchronization of read/unread status and sent items
    • Create and delete labels using the BlackBerry smartphone

    Note: The Google Mail plug-in requires BlackBerry Device Software 4.5 or higher and a Google Mail integration, using GIMAP, within BlackBerry Internet Service.

  • Additional language support for Basque, Catalan, Galician, Romanian

  • Increased attachment compatibility

    • OpenDocument presentations (.odp)
    • OpenDocument spreadsheets (.ods)
    • OpenDocument text (.odt)
    • OpenDocument text templates (.ott)
    • Windows Media® Audio (.wma)

  • Improved email setup flow for HTML access

    • Allows BlackBerry smartphone users to reclaim their email address if their BlackBerry Internet Service account is ever deleted.

  • xHTML Support for non-Thick Clients

    • BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 is designed to support xHTML for non Thick Client users and provide BlackBerry smartphone users with a richer user experience, allowing for the use of buttons, additional fonts and colour controls when users access and toggle their user settings.

  • Device switch revalidation

    • BlackBerry smartphone users are required to revalidate all email accounts upon PIN changes. This includes username/password users who log in to their account through HTML, Thick Client, or xHTML (previously WAP).  It also includes PIN changes that are completed through BlackBerry Internet Service Administration.

  • Hosted email address passwords

    • Hosted email address passwords, secret questions, and secret answers are now extended to ‘username/password’ BlackBerry smartphone users.
      Note:       After BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0, only newly created hosted email “Username/Password” accounts will be prompted to create a password, secret question, and secret answer.

  • Carrier Friendly Names

    • BlackBerry smartphone users will be instructed to contact their specific carrier and will be provided with carrier contact information in HTML and WAP error messages.

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