BIS 2.5 for att 6/29
 

I have it from two different att sales reps that the server upgrade will be on the 29th of June....YES we will finally have html emails along with some other goodies....(y) I do take any rumours with a grain of salt...lol

Wirelessly posted (positive thoughts!!!)

I have a whole shaker of salt!

after doing some searching, i'm still a little confused. when/if we upgrade to 2.5, will they also officially release 4.5 OS, so we can take full advantage of the html emails plus newly integrated hotmail? or, can we stick with 4.2? i just want hotmail pushed in real time.

why not upgrade now? it has been released by VodaFone.de

yeah... i'm kinda weary about upgrading right now after reading the reviews. I'm totally cool with 4.2... just really want to know if we need 4.5 to use 2.5?

no, you dont need it to be able to access emails like you do now, but you need it to get the added benefits of 2.5

gotcha thanks. i'll probably wait to download and install the ATT version 4.5.

OS versions aren't any different between carriers. The brand of device is what determines what is loaded to the device during the OS loading process. So, a Vodafone OS is no different than an AT&T OS.

I have the AT&T GPS app on my BB 8820 so if I use the Voda OS udpate I will lose that right?

This BIS 2.5 will effect all carriers not just AT&T right? (Even though we won't see anything on our side till we we get 4.5)

for north america it would be all carriers

BIS 2.5 is HERE! In Italy, TIM carrier, this morning as i powered up my BB i started to see crazy html mail from my Yahoo account...so....guess what? followed the instruction found in the wild...Deleted all accounts from BIS, created again and on my 8310 OS 4.5 the HTML option is here.

I assume they have upgraded all during the night betwen friday and this saturday morning. Works great and fast, html is great!!!

Ciao,
Alex

You should be able to add any Hotmail email address to blackberry, too.

Sure! Both @msn.com and @hotmail.com works perfectly.

below 3 screenshoot of html email on my 8310 OS 4.5.0.42 and HTML Mail config fot hotmail account.

Ciao,
Alex

very nice! thanks.

no you won't it will be pushed back to your device via service books

I don' recall Vodafone have the 4.5 OS released yet,. for the 8820.

Rim is updating all US servers on June 28th which is a prereq to anything that VZ or anybody else does. That's probably why you are hearing the June 29th date.

[Bb-Outage] BIS 2.5 UPGRADE - RIM scheduled maintenance June 28

We'rer hearing the June 29th date because of this notice;

BIS 2.5 Upgrade Scheduled for June 28 | BlackBerryNews.com

Yeah, that's what I was referring to. What I haven't seen is a similar one for VZ or any other carrier. They would have to release 4.5 and upgrade their servers all in one day after RIM does theirs. Seems highly unlikely.