A Revolution in BlackBerry Email is Here!
 

Update 15th June '07

BlackBerrySmart Email Viewer has GONE GOLD!!!!

Well, I promised a surprise didn't I?

Head to the following store to pick up a trial version & purchase a copy!

BlackBerrySmart Email Viewer - MobiHand Software

Or, if you prefer another site, you can also head to:
BlackBerrySmart Email Viewer
or
BlackBerrySmart Email Viewer - Blackberry

Thanks all for your tremendous support during this whole process. You guys have been amazing. We never expected to receive a response like this!

We hope you all enjoy using this program as much as we here have enjoyed creating it. But we are not resting! Expect more amazing things up and coming with future releases and other products from BlackBerrySmart!

Beta testers who provided feedback, I'll be getting back in touch with you over the next day or so to set you up with your free full copies as promised! If you haven't emailed me yet, please do so.

Have a great day all. It's midnight here in Australia, but I think it's time to party!

Cheers,
eZainny



Update 14th June '07

BlackBerrySmart Email Viewer is set for release for this coming Monday! Mark it in your calendar!


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- No setup fuss. No pain. It Just Works.
- Tired of cluttered, ugly, unreadable emails? See emails the way the way they are supposed to be seen. Never miss an important detail!
- Improve the look & readability of ALL your emails
- Complete integration with the existing email program.


PM me to participate in the limited trial for this application - Starting soon :smile:

Don't know what you're missing out on? Check out the before and after images...

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4) BEFORE
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5) BEFORE
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6) ATTACHMENTS

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Coming Soon...

I am interested to participate in the trial. pm sent.

Hi Guys,

I've been inundated with PM's :) Thanks for your support!

Just to clarify also, this is in beta at the moment so you'll be signing up for a beta trial.

As an added bonus, I'll be giving everyone who provides feedback a free full copy when I do finally release it (soon, I promise).

I've already had a large number of people interested so I'll close off accepting any more testers when the number of people hits the magic number in my head. I'll let you all know when I'm not accepting any more.

Again, thanks for your interest. Made my day :)

Cheers,
Zainny.

pm sent =)

Hi All,


Alright, I've received an amazing number of PMs over the last couple of hours and I think I've probably got enough trials now so I'll have to close it.

Sorry if you missed out, but don't worry, the full version will be out on the market soon so you can pick it up then! I'll let you all know when it hits the market. :smile:

In the meantime, feel free to ask me any questions you may have regarding the app, etc.

Cheers,
Zainny.

I would like to try it out also.

Rats, missed it by a few hours :cry:

Always too late....

Wow, 1/3rd or the way there. I've said this before, but I think it bears repeating, if you had a seemless, run-in-the-background type program that gave you a preview pane, HTML (sending and receiving, if possible), AND folders (to segregate BES/BIS email from one another as well as the other different types), I'm telling you, people would line up around the block, and I'd be at the front of the line!

Can't wait to give this a go when it comes out!

--Mav

To lucky beta-testers: Make it QUICK!! Ha!

I am interested to participate in the trial.
 

I am interested to participate in the trial. pm sent.

I cant wait for this to come out thanks for the PM

so is this program legit>? when will a trial be out?

can i just tryout and not receive a full copy when its ready? free beta testing from me? if its a good prog i will shell out the money for it when its complete.

Oh yeah, you'll definitely be able to use the trial version when it is released. On all the sites I'm going to be listing on (anticipating handango, crackberry, pinstack, allblackberry, etc.) they'll be a trial version available for you to play with to see if you like it.

As I mentioned however over the last couple of days I've been inundated with requests from people to beta test. I absolutely appreciate this and am a bit humbled by it actually. However, there have been so many, taking on everyone might become a bit difficult for me to manage so I cut it off early.

I'm anticipating releasing it very soon if beta testing goes well so don't worry, you'll be able to check it out soon :smile:

PM Sent.. I can't wait :)

Hi All,

I just wanted to clear up a misunderstanding some people may have about how my program works.

This is not a HTML email viewer. I know that seems like a bit of a let down, but in my opinion this is actually not so bad...Read on and I'll explain why.


Firstly, I'll lay this out on the table: The BlackBerry cannot (through standard email) receive HTML email. Before your BlackBerry even gets its hands on your email it passes through RIMs servers which detect HTML email and strip it all out. A sad state of affairs in my opinion.

What you do get left with however is image links, html links and otherwise something that looks like a bit of a train wreck.

A couple of years ago a company called Reqwireless came out with a full HTML email viewer for the BlackBerry. The way this worked was to have your email actually redirected through to their servers and then your email is downloaded.

This is bad (and dangerous in my opinion) for the following reasons:
1) Security. Your potentially sensitive business email is forwarded to an unknown third-party server with who knows what kind of security in place. I know I wouldn't want that happening to my sensitive emails.

2) Painful setup for the user. To get this to work, the user would have to setup forwarding of all their emails to Reqwireless' server.

3) Support. Reqwireless found this one out the hard way. Managing everyone's unique email requirements is an extremely hard thing to do. They eventually took their product off the market because the support costs involved became too prohibitive.

4) When it's gone, it's GONE. Because your email is going through their server, if their server is down, no email for you.

5) It didn't integrate with the default email program.

The above is my understanding of how Reqwireless' product worked. If anyone wants to correct me feel free to jump in.




So what does my product do?

It works with what it is given. In general, my aim was to make email reading a good experience not the pain it is now:

- When it detects image links in the email, it goes off and retrieves those images (completely configurable too - you can turn images on and off, etc.). And it caches them for instant viewing later, etc.

- It cleans up email addresses and hyperlinks so they are still usable, but short, concise, pleasant to look at.

- It tries to detect replied to parts in an email (not an exact science) and handle them nicely.

- It makes the email look good (nice anti-aliased fonts, etc) not the ugly chunk of text it looks like now.

- It integrates with the existing email viewer


So not only does my program fix emails which were once HTML, it improves the look and feel of ALL of your emails.

Once I did this, I was amazed by how dramatic the change in appearance was (and how much easier it was to read email!) that I forgot all about this HTML business :smile:


Pretty nifty in my opinion :smile:

Finally, another teaser screenshot :)

Teaser

Cheers,
Zainny.

Oh and if I haven't replied to your PM yet, Sorry! I'm working my way through them as fast as I can :smile:

You guys/girls have a very vibrant community here :smile:

Sounds good, can't wait for the release to try it out.

No kidding. Talk about a teaser, this is almost as bad as waiting for the darn 8830 itself.

Very nice and we have a ton of clients that would be interested in this.

Please keep us update on your progress, and feel free to email us and touchbase with us for possible opportunities to offer this to our clients.

Our email addy is

Thanks,
TheBlackBerryGuy Team