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BlackBerry Outage Spreads To North America
iONiUM writes "With increasing pressure on RIM to catch up to the new phones, and the upcoming release of the iPhone 4S, could this three day outage of BlackBerry's service be a nail in the coffin? From the article 'The service disruptions are the worst since an outage swept north America two years ago, and come as Apple prepares to put on sale its already sold-out iPhone 4S on Friday.'"
This is the same outage as was reported Monday. RIM has released a few details on what's happened: a failed software upgrade brought the system down, and, after repairing the first issue, the backlog of traffic overwhelmed their network infrastructure taking things down a second time.
I use a BlackBerry specifically for security and I think a lot of others do as well. So it's unlikely any of us would want an Android phone with the consistent malware and security problems it has.
iPhones and Android phones have both been able to integrate into corporate networks for quite a while.
iPhones and Android phones have both been able to *UNSECURELY* integrate into corporate networks for quite a while.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
I have a new BB (9900) with OS7 (via. work) and have been completely underwhelmed by it. OS7 is really just OS6.1, and OS6 was more like 5.1, which was more like a 4.8 in real functionality. It feels like Windows 98 with a Windows 7 skin on top of it.
The web browser is a massive improvement, luckily, but I still find myself frustrated by it. Clicking on simple links doesn't work half the time, and I now fondly look back to my browsing experience on my iPhone 3G, a now 3 year old phone, and how it never faultered nearly as much as OS7. The app store is still more or less a joke compared to even android marketplace, and nowhere near Apple's App Store. RIM may be able to tout reasonable numbers of apps, but 95% of them are usually junk apps with very limited functionality. Not that I download many apps, seeing as a 2MB download takes about 2 minutes (and I have excellent coverage).
Even with a 1.2 GHz proc, the phone still stutters and lags, and in general, feels dated. It can't even play back HD video captured by its own camera without stuttering, despite it's new 'crystal hd' rendering engine, or whatever the hell it's called.
It's functional, it works, and gets stuff done, so I suppose I can't complain (except for today's outage, which I'm a part of). I'd easily prefer an android or IOS device, though.