[EcC]

Does anyone have any info on when Cingular is upgrading the BIS?

[yunone]

upgrading to what?

cingular doesnt run BIS, its hosted by RIM


cingular is a vendor for BIS, you can look at it that way




what do you think the BIS needs to be upgraded to?

[EcC]

upgrading to BIS 2.0

Here are some of the upgrades

Improved integration with your e-mail accounts
-All Yahoo! Mail accounts, including free accounts, are now supported. No need for Yahoo! POP3 access to get your Yahoo! Mail delivered.

-E-mails to your Yahoo! Mail account are "pushed" to the handheld in real time.

-E-mails sent, received, or deleted on your handheld will reflect changes at the original e-mail account – no need to manage the same e-mail account from two different places.

-E-mails sent from your handheld will show the correct "Sent From" e-mail address, even with multiple e-mail accounts consolidated to the BlackBerry device.

-All account management functions like adding new e-mail accounts, managing filters and auto-signatures, can be performed directly from your BlackBerry handheld by clicking the Set Up Internet E-mail icon.

-There will be no storage space limitation on e-mails sent to your BlackBerry Internet E-mail mailbox (username@tmo.blackberry.net), but those e-mails will be removed from the server after 30 days. You will have full access to e-mail content including attachments for the 30 days, regardless of the size of the files. After the 30 days, you will still have access to e-mails that are on the handheld, but not to attachments.

-Filters have been re-designed based on customer feedback. Filters are an optional feature to control which e-mails are sent to the handheld. Existing filters will need to be re-created after the upgrade.
Based on customer feedback Out of Office Reply and Auto Forward features have been eliminated.

-The Auto BCC feature will not be eliminated as part of this upgrade, and your Auto BCC settings will be automatically saved during the upgrade.

[MrKyoo]

It would be nice if Nextel would implement this new BIS.

*Sighs*

-MrKyoo

[Stinsonddog]

Rumor is end of April. I have heard that on the Cingular board and here too. I know it's in testing. It should would be good to know for sure. See my gmail/yahoo page which reflects some of the reasons in the third post here.

[whsbuss]

Seems Verizon has already implemented the new BIS (although they are waiting until Monday 4/10 to announce). When accessing the BIS via the web or on the BB you are being asked about upgrading. Discussion in the General and 7100 forum.

[Stinsonddog]

Tried asking Cingular tech support last night and they were clueless.

[whsbuss]

Here's the link for BIS 2.0 information

http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgec...owse&sort=name

[bbgirl]

anyone know where I can get some documentation on "Rover?"


its for a cingular blackberry...

[danbedford]

So I logged into my Cingular account this morning and the original link:

https://webclient.blackberry.net/Web...ite=mycingular

now forwards to:

https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=mycingular

BUT, upon logging in, it's the same old web client we know and "love". Could this mean the upgrade is coming VERY soon?? I surely hope so!!

[whsbuss]

Originally Posted by danbedford

So I logged into my Cingular account this morning and the original link:

https://webclient.blackberry.net/Web...ite=mycingular

now forwards to:

https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=mycingular

BUT, upon logging in, it's the same old web client we know and "love". Could this mean the upgrade is coming VERY soon?? I surely hope so!!

I think yes. That's what happened when Verizon upgraded.

[danbedford]

YES!!! They have done it!! Cingular has upgraded to BIS 2.0!!

I have just logged into my account and gone through with the upgrade. If anyone is hesitant on the upgrade, I will be your guinea pig and answer any questions and report any bugs/annoyances I find.

Enjoy!!!

[CountZero]

Looks like the upgrade has overloaded the server. I can't even log in now...

[chipster]

I have been considering the upgrade, but wanted to see if other users would recommend the upgrade and if there were any comments. I am using BIS 1.8 on Cingular with POP access to my gmail account. It has been pretty good up until the last week and for some reason I went about 5 days with no e-mail then went into my BIS profile and deleted my POP account and then created it again. About an hour later I got all the email that I had missed.

Thanks,
CHip

[Stinsonddog]

Originally Posted by chipster

I have been considering the upgrade, but wanted to see if other users would recommend the upgrade and if there were any comments. I am using BIS 1.8 on Cingular with POP access to my gmail account. It has been pretty good up until the last week and for some reason I went about 5 days with no e-mail then went into my BIS profile and deleted my POP account and then created it again. About an hour later I got all the email that I had missed.

Thanks,
CHip

I have not upgraded. See my tips page where I discuss some of the differences. I really like folders and you loose those with 2.0. If you are not on Cingular/Yahoo like me, you get instant push from Yahoo/Gmail etc so you have to decide.

[jungleland]

Originally Posted by yunone

upgrading to what?

cingular doesnt run BIS, its hosted by RIM


cingular is a vendor for BIS, you can look at it that way




what do you think the BIS needs to be upgraded to?

Could have been one the most WRONG statements I have seen on the forums thus far

[BigA]

Originally Posted by jungleland

Could have been one the most WRONG statements I have seen on the forums thus far

Really..

*.blackberry.net is owned by RIM.

WHOIS - blackberry.net


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