One thing that BB still beats everyone in, is their messaging client.
Hmmm. I don't feel this way ... not on the Blackberry HH platform, and I've been using BB's, troubleshooting BB's (BES inclusive) for a number of years. There are serious gaps in productivity that only come to light in a corporately deployed (BES) BB.
Remote search emails - slow
Folder Redirection is NOT automatic, has to be user enabled, and by design ONLY from that moment onward.
You can ONLY look at 1 mailbox at a time - EVEN if Domino/Exchange/GroupWise shows you as a user have full permissions (or specific folder permissions); not to mention calendar, contacts or tasks: iOS & Android offer this for over 12mths now if not longer.
This will probably replace my iphone. After having the playbook which was designed so no home or sleep button is needed going back to the ipad/iphone metaphor is just annoying.
^ Is it me or does that statement NOT make ANY sense at all?
So you leave your Playbook on the meeting table with outside partners to get at the information within (think OS 2.0.x+) BEFORE the 90 seconds minimum for it to auto lock?! Wait till you have corporate impacting sensitive data that can be used by the competition and basically render your corporation/business obsolete and without funding.
I do like the predictive text keyboard. Would be nice on my iOS stuff.
YES! However I'd ilke to see something more powerful ... something ALL platforms are lacking, yet hints of it in this demo from RIM's BB 10 Dev Alpha OS.
- imaging typing and not only predictive text, nor even AutoText (iOS: Shortcuts in keyboard) presents auto word completion ... but I'd like the previous think-tank research to come into this.
>> Think about typing and when you begin to type 3 words (works in longer sentences) ... that the auto complete does this:
present the next word that most likely matches in a sentence,
then when selected presents the complete likely scenarios for a FULL sentence!
>> Make this language sensitive, for example those that speak in their native tongue typing a sentence has different structure thus basic google translation doesn't quite work, but suggestive sentencing actually works more like human sentencing. IF THIS can be done ... then this is the NEXT big $$.
