I doubt many cable companies, when faced with a loss of TV subscribers, will turn around and alienate their ISP subscribers with limitations on their service
Yeah, I just discovered the BIS to ActiveSync capability like two years ago when a user brought in their own Blackberry and complained that it wouldn't pull their work email anymore.
With BES being free now though, that's a pretty compelling solution, I'm surprised RIM hasn't advertised that more. It will co-exist just fine on the existing Exchange backend server with less than 50 BES users, so it's not like you need to sink money on hardware either if you're a small business.
Why people want to continue going down the BES route is a mystery.
First of all, there's a common misconception amongst a lot of people that BlackBerries require BES, they do not, BlackBerries can hook directly into ActiveSync just like other smartphones without a BES.
I just had to do a smartphone comparison at the company I work for, as much as I hate the BB browser and it's laggy OS, there are quite a few compelling features for businesses on BES:
- BES Express is now free and doesn't require a corresponding BES data plan, the only feature the free version is lacking is MVS (VoIP via WiFi hooked into your corporate phone system).
- If you have the full version of BES, MVS can save your company a ton of money on phone calls
- OTA Backups and Restores
- OTA OS Upgrades and App deployments/upgrades
- RIM provides top notch support, and (Canadian) support people that actually speak decent English. Of course, support isn't necessary on other smartphones when their connectivity isn't dependent upon the BES.
- Fine grained control of application and device security policies
BlackBerry Benefits:
- All the carriers will eventually implement tiered data plans, BlackBerries have the lowest data consumption of all smartphones since most data is proxied and compressed by BES/BIS.
- Arguably the best battery life amongst all smartphones and the ability to charge them wherever USB is available
- BlackBerries are well made and pretty tough
That said, for a personal smartphone, Android or iOS devices are definitely a better choice. I don't think OS6 is even enough to keep consumers on BlackBerry with the app availability on the other smartphones being so much better.
iPhone email is probably going down when an aloof admin allows the SSL cert to expire on the OWA server(s), ActiveSync depends upon it, whereas BES does not.
My Pearl 8220 needs a faster processor. I can type faster than this damn thing can display the characters; which is highly frustrating when you try to use they sym key to insert punctuation and the damn symbol palette pops up three fucking characters later.
Not that I agree with hollystupid, or think this is a good idea; but I thought Blueray was supposed to downsample the video to a lower resolution when it detected that the DRM support wasn't up to snuff on the display device. So it would at least still play the video, just in standard def on your instantly obsolete (because hollystupid says so) HD display.
1.7.0.22 is the latest version, it was last updated on 11/18/2009. A quick Google search reveals other people complaining about the imfamous scroll issue here.
The new OS6 fixes all the problems with the web browser so all in all I cannot see any downside.
Oh, because you've used OS6? Sorry, I remain skeptical. RIM claimed that there would be numerous improvements to BB Browser in OS5 which was not the case when it came release time.
I would not count BlackBerry's Facebook integration as superb by any means. The BlackBerry Facebook app (which is written by RIM btw) works about as well as their POS browser, it fails to scroll reliably amongst other glaring bugs, check it's less than stellar 2-star rating in BB App World. It hasn't been updated in almost a year either, which should tell you something about their commitment to the average consumer.
60 seconds!? Lucky! My POS 8820 stuck on lowly OS 4.6 takes 6 fucking minutes to boot with a 2GB MicroSD card in the slot, with no progress indicator, just that annoying blinking clock on a white background.
Preach it. Really all we are waiting for (us blackberry admins) is a good management server for Android or iPhone. Really all we want to do is be able to put policies on our phones so they automatically lock and encrypt. We could do these one at a time but when you have more than 10-20 phones this becomes problematic. Are there any projects out there for this?
I know of no such thing for Android yet, but there is centralized management with onboard encryption and remote-kill/lock capability available for iPhone/iPod Touch, see the Apple marketing speak here for more info. On the bottom-right of that page there are PDF links for Deployment Resources.
I'm currently researching all of this because our BES users are fed up with BB OS and it's useless browser, so we're looking to jump ship possibly to either iPhone, Android or *shudder* Windows Mobile 7.
Does anyone know of some management tools available for Android? All I can find are articles saying it's coming.
I feel bad that she's stuck with a "full sized" device that probably requires it to be plugged into the wall because flash just ate all the battery
With more or less recent versions of Flash, it's perfectly usable on Windows, and not at all a "battery eater". All the complaints seem to be coming from other OSes.
Exactly, Adobe can't seem to make Flash work well anywhere else other than Win32, it hasn't even been officially released on 64-bit Windows yet. It's a barely useable resource hog on MacOS and Linux. So do you actually think that Adobe can make Flash work well on mobile devices?
I hope the web browser and OS are radically improved on it, because if this tablet is running anything like what runs on the BlackBerry phones it will fail miserably. BlackBerry Browser is hands down the worst browser out there amongst the rest of the webkit based browsers on modern smartphones.
Write performance through FUSE on Mac OS X is pretty disappointing, several orders of magnitude slower than direct filesystem access in my experience. Transferring an 80GB file to a FUSE mounted filesystem would be painful.
but they do cover as much of the remote and rural as Verizon.
I don't know what rural areas you're basing your observations on. But I've personally observed Verzon > AT&T in rural OH, IN, KY, WV, and TN in every instance.
Their admins must be completely incompetent. It's ridiculous that weeks later they can't figure out what's going on.
We had an issue earlier this year with emails going to Network Solutions hosted domains being bounced because:
"205.178.149.7 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 550 5.6.0 Lone CR or LF in body (see RFC2822 section 2.3)"
Pretty self explanatory, except there WEREN'T any lone CRs or LFs in the message body! Some googling revealed that misconfigured Domino servers are prone to falsely reject certain "rich text" emails coming from Outlook with a legal disclaimer appended to them. The temporary workaround was to re-send the message in plaintext format since NS wasn't in any hurry to fix the problem. Our spam filtering provider argued with them for a while and it was eventually resolved, several freakin months later.
And it's not just Yahoo. None of them (Yahoo, Hotmail, Google) allowed you to use https for the entire email session, including Gmail, until the recent Google hack incident.
Gmail has offered the option to use HTTPS for your entire session for several years now, I remember discovering it back in '05 while perusing the preferences. It just wasn't the default.
To demonstrate the problem of relying on power-assisted brakes in the case of sudden and uncontrollable acceleration, the attorney for Guadalupe Gomez explained the details of his client’s case, “He [Gomez] was held hostage for 20 miles on a Bay Area freeway by a 2007 Camry traveling more than 100 mph. Gomez was unable to turn off the engine or shift into neutral and then burned out his brakes before slamming into another car and killing that driver.”
The root cause, of course, is too much control of the car has been given to a computer. I should be able to DECIDE to take the damned car out of gear if I choose to. But at least this software fix appears to disable the gas pedal if the brakes are mashed down on, which sounds like a good idea if you want to give that level of control to a computer.
Personally, I'm sticking with manual transmissions.:)
The brake system isn't completely electronic electronic (besides the ABS solenoids that kick in as necessary). I suspect what's happening, is at WOT (wide open throttle) there isn't enough vacuum in the intake manifold to operate the brake booster, thus the brakes become very hard to apply.
Ditto on the automatic transmissions, I HATE an automatic.
Great, how are people supposed to brake torque their Toyotas now!? Seriously though, there are situations where "spirited" drivers actually want to apply the brakes and throttle at the same time. It probably doesn't happen often in a Camry or Prius; but I'd rather have the car drop to idle if the e-brake is engaged (light is illuminated) or actually respond correctly to any other number of inputs (transmission selector, ignition position).
Like the Honda Insight Hybrid I drive now. Even if my Honda experienced the same bug as Toyotas have, I can disconnect the engine from the wheels, and coast to a stop.
You're joking right? That is, unless you have a 1st gen Insight with a manual transmission.
My primary SSID is WPA2 encrypted, but I have an open one called I HATE your fucking yappy-ass dogs! that redirects all requests to daisy.com; as a shoutout to all my dumbfuck neighbors that buy multiple dogs and leave them outside yapping for hours at a time. Thanks DD-WRT!
Well see, all those fancy sensors and solenoid controlled mechanics allow you to have features like: anti-lock brakes, traction control, electronic stability control, adaptive cruise control, parking assist, collision avoidance, etc. ABS is already mandatory; ESC (and inherently TC) will be mandatory on all new vehicles as of 2011. Despite their quirks, these features have probably saved many more lives and injuries than they've risked.
Me too, except my car, which also had a sudden acceleration problem, never got recalled. '85 Caprice Classics were famous for their cruise control systems engaging spontaneously, and at an arbitrarily high speed level, meaning that one day when I was driving around the campus loop, my car suddenly accelerated. I sped through a 4-way stop, nearly hit a few pedestrians, brakes didn't respond (because the accelerator was down) and I had a very panicked few seconds of driving until I just turned the car off and stomped both feet on the now non-power braking brakes. Fortunately I didn't hit anyone or even get a ticket, but the car company never acknowledged it as a problem, though you'll find accounts of similar stories all over the internet.
Ahh, the infamous GM turn-signal/cruise control/wiper/kitchen sink stalk.
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Well we can all thank your cheapskate friend for supporting the spammers that flood our networks, servers and inboxes with junk.
Oh no, cable companies would never do such a thing!
I hope you're being sarcastic.
Yeah, I just discovered the BIS to ActiveSync capability like two years ago when a user brought in their own Blackberry and complained that it wouldn't pull their work email anymore.
With BES being free now though, that's a pretty compelling solution, I'm surprised RIM hasn't advertised that more. It will co-exist just fine on the existing Exchange backend server with less than 50 BES users, so it's not like you need to sink money on hardware either if you're a small business.
First of all, there's a common misconception amongst a lot of people that BlackBerries require BES, they do not, BlackBerries can hook directly into ActiveSync just like other smartphones without a BES.
I just had to do a smartphone comparison at the company I work for, as much as I hate the BB browser and it's laggy OS, there are quite a few compelling features for businesses on BES:
- BES Express is now free and doesn't require a corresponding BES data plan, the only feature the free version is lacking is MVS (VoIP via WiFi hooked into your corporate phone system).
- If you have the full version of BES, MVS can save your company a ton of money on phone calls
- OTA Backups and Restores
- OTA OS Upgrades and App deployments/upgrades
- RIM provides top notch support, and (Canadian) support people that actually speak decent English. Of course, support isn't necessary on other smartphones when their connectivity isn't dependent upon the BES.
- Fine grained control of application and device security policies
BlackBerry Benefits:
- All the carriers will eventually implement tiered data plans, BlackBerries have the lowest data consumption of all smartphones since most data is proxied and compressed by BES/BIS.
- Arguably the best battery life amongst all smartphones and the ability to charge them wherever USB is available
- BlackBerries are well made and pretty tough
That said, for a personal smartphone, Android or iOS devices are definitely a better choice. I don't think OS6 is even enough to keep consumers on BlackBerry with the app availability on the other smartphones being so much better.
iPhone email is probably going down when an aloof admin allows the SSL cert to expire on the OWA server(s), ActiveSync depends upon it, whereas BES does not.
My Pearl 8220 needs a faster processor. I can type faster than this damn thing can display the characters; which is highly frustrating when you try to use they sym key to insert punctuation and the damn symbol palette pops up three fucking characters later.
Apparently SureType needs more processing power.
Not that I agree with hollystupid, or think this is a good idea; but I thought Blueray was supposed to downsample the video to a lower resolution when it detected that the DRM support wasn't up to snuff on the display device. So it would at least still play the video, just in standard def on your instantly obsolete (because hollystupid says so) HD display.
1.7.0.22 is the latest version, it was last updated on 11/18/2009. A quick Google search reveals other people complaining about the imfamous scroll issue here.
Oh, because you've used OS6? Sorry, I remain skeptical. RIM claimed that there would be numerous improvements to BB Browser in OS5 which was not the case when it came release time.
I would not count BlackBerry's Facebook integration as superb by any means. The BlackBerry Facebook app (which is written by RIM btw) works about as well as their POS browser, it fails to scroll reliably amongst other glaring bugs, check it's less than stellar 2-star rating in BB App World. It hasn't been updated in almost a year either, which should tell you something about their commitment to the average consumer.
60 seconds!? Lucky! My POS 8820 stuck on lowly OS 4.6 takes 6 fucking minutes to boot with a 2GB MicroSD card in the slot, with no progress indicator, just that annoying blinking clock on a white background.
Preach it. Really all we are waiting for (us blackberry admins) is a good management server for Android or iPhone. Really all we want to do is be able to put policies on our phones so they automatically lock and encrypt. We could do these one at a time but when you have more than 10-20 phones this becomes problematic. Are there any projects out there for this?
I know of no such thing for Android yet, but there is centralized management with onboard encryption and remote-kill/lock capability available for iPhone/iPod Touch, see the Apple marketing speak here for more info. On the bottom-right of that page there are PDF links for Deployment Resources.
I'm currently researching all of this because our BES users are fed up with BB OS and it's useless browser, so we're looking to jump ship possibly to either iPhone, Android or *shudder* Windows Mobile 7.
Does anyone know of some management tools available for Android? All I can find are articles saying it's coming.
I feel bad that she's stuck with a "full sized" device that probably requires it to be plugged into the wall because flash just ate all the battery
With more or less recent versions of Flash, it's perfectly usable on Windows, and not at all a "battery eater". All the complaints seem to be coming from other OSes.
Exactly, Adobe can't seem to make Flash work well anywhere else other than Win32, it hasn't even been officially released on 64-bit Windows yet. It's a barely useable resource hog on MacOS and Linux. So do you actually think that Adobe can make Flash work well on mobile devices?
I hope the web browser and OS are radically improved on it, because if this tablet is running anything like what runs on the BlackBerry phones it will fail miserably. BlackBerry Browser is hands down the worst browser out there amongst the rest of the webkit based browsers on modern smartphones.
Write performance through FUSE on Mac OS X is pretty disappointing, several orders of magnitude slower than direct filesystem access in my experience. Transferring an 80GB file to a FUSE mounted filesystem would be painful.
I don't know what rural areas you're basing your observations on. But I've personally observed Verzon > AT&T in rural OH, IN, KY, WV, and TN in every instance.
We had an issue earlier this year with emails going to Network Solutions hosted domains being bounced because:
"205.178.149.7 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 550 5.6.0 Lone CR or LF in body (see RFC2822 section 2.3)"
Pretty self explanatory, except there WEREN'T any lone CRs or LFs in the message body! Some googling revealed that misconfigured Domino servers are prone to falsely reject certain "rich text" emails coming from Outlook with a legal disclaimer appended to them. The temporary workaround was to re-send the message in plaintext format since NS wasn't in any hurry to fix the problem. Our spam filtering provider argued with them for a while and it was eventually resolved, several freakin months later.
Gmail has offered the option to use HTTPS for your entire session for several years now, I remember discovering it back in '05 while perusing the preferences. It just wasn't the default.
the brakes are not engaging because the signal is not transmitted from the pedal to the pads.
That doesn't jive with any of the articles I've read on the problem.
Example:
http://www.leftlanenews.com/a-closer-look-at-toyotas-sudden-acceleration-problem.html
To demonstrate the problem of relying on power-assisted brakes in the case of sudden and uncontrollable acceleration, the attorney for Guadalupe Gomez explained the details of his client’s case, “He [Gomez] was held hostage for 20 miles on a Bay Area freeway by a 2007 Camry traveling more than 100 mph. Gomez was unable to turn off the engine or shift into neutral and then burned out his brakes before slamming into another car and killing that driver.”
The root cause, of course, is too much control of the car has been given to a computer. I should be able to DECIDE to take the damned car out of gear if I choose to. But at least this software fix appears to disable the gas pedal if the brakes are mashed down on, which sounds like a good idea if you want to give that level of control to a computer.
Personally, I'm sticking with manual transmissions. :)
The brake system isn't completely electronic electronic (besides the ABS solenoids that kick in as necessary). I suspect what's happening, is at WOT (wide open throttle) there isn't enough vacuum in the intake manifold to operate the brake booster, thus the brakes become very hard to apply.
Ditto on the automatic transmissions, I HATE an automatic.
Great, how are people supposed to brake torque their Toyotas now!? Seriously though, there are situations where "spirited" drivers actually want to apply the brakes and throttle at the same time. It probably doesn't happen often in a Camry or Prius; but I'd rather have the car drop to idle if the e-brake is engaged (light is illuminated) or actually respond correctly to any other number of inputs (transmission selector, ignition position).
Like the Honda Insight Hybrid I drive now. Even if my Honda experienced the same bug as Toyotas have, I can disconnect the engine from the wheels, and coast to a stop.
You're joking right? That is, unless you have a 1st gen Insight with a manual transmission.
My primary SSID is WPA2 encrypted, but I have an open one called I HATE your fucking yappy-ass dogs! that redirects all requests to daisy.com; as a shoutout to all my dumbfuck neighbors that buy multiple dogs and leave them outside yapping for hours at a time. Thanks DD-WRT!
Well see, all those fancy sensors and solenoid controlled mechanics allow you to have features like: anti-lock brakes, traction control, electronic stability control, adaptive cruise control, parking assist, collision avoidance, etc. ABS is already mandatory; ESC (and inherently TC) will be mandatory on all new vehicles as of 2011. Despite their quirks, these features have probably saved many more lives and injuries than they've risked.
Ahh, the infamous GM turn-signal/cruise control/wiper/kitchen sink stalk.
Unless you're trying to run Microsoft's own GP 9 on Windows 7. I could site several other examples.
Anyone could point out small apps like PuTTY with little or no dependencies that still work, on pretty much any platform.