Comments on: Bad Day For Blackberry Lovers (Updated) https://techcitement.com/hardware/tablet/bad-day-for-blackberry-lovers/ get excited Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Tom W https://techcitement.com/hardware/tablet/bad-day-for-blackberry-lovers/#comment-1947 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:05:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=9901#comment-1947 I, for one, won’t really miss them if they go. I’ve done support for several of my clients (primarily law firms) who use Blackberry phones exclusively, and the initial setup is almost always a hassle because the phones require proper provisioning from the cellular carrier before they’ll work with a company’s Exchange mail server. (I’ve found that the menu option you need to select to configure one in this manner is physically not even present until the provider configures things on their end so it appears as a selection.)

Another issue I have with them is the current version of “Blackberry Desktop” for Windows no longer supports syncing email with a copy of Outlook running on the desktop. That means Blackberry users are now cut off from receiving their corporate email if the company’s Exchange server doesn’t have the BES plug-in installed on it so they can connect to it directly. Why would RIM remove a feature like that with a new release, instead of ADDING features?

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