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For those of you who are patiently waiting for Documents To Go to be available for your BlackBerry, we thought we'd take a moment to give you a taste of what its going to look like. Here are a few screenshots:
Be sure to take a look at our website for more screenshots and to get signed up for our Documents To Go for BlackBerry Announcement List!
Including integration with Documents To Go!
Last May DataViz attended the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) and announced our intention to bring our Documents To Go application to RIM’s BlackBerry handhelds. Since that time, thousands have flocked to our sign up list to make sure they’re among the first to know when it’s ready.
Fast forward to today; Documents To Go is still in development for BlackBerry and many want to know why it’s not yet available. As mentioned on our website, the project is taking longer than we originally expected. There are a few reasons for this, not the least of which is the fact that BlackBerry devices are currently not equipped to allow native downloading and editing of Office files.
However, that will change very soon as RIM announced some scheduled performance enhancements for their BlackBerry enterprise platform. These enhancements include HTML email support, remote search, new instant messaging features, and integration with Documents To Go! To take advantage of these enhancements, you will need an update for your BlackBerry Enterprise Server (version 4.1.5) as well as an OS update for your BlackBerry smartphone (version 4.5)
Our goal has been to provide the BlackBerry community with an attachment viewer and editor that is on par with our solutions for other handheld platforms like Palm and Windows Mobile. This integration will allow us to do just that by providing a way to view and edit Office attachments natively on your BlackBerry smartphone.
RIM says these features will be available later this year. If you want to get a sneak peek at the new/improved features, RIM is showing them off at Lotusphere in Orlando (booth #516).
Stay tuned for more updates throughout the coming weeks and make sure you’re signed up with our BlackBerry announcement list so you can stay up to date with everything DataViz has planned for your BlackBerry!
Nathan at InsideMicrosoft has apparently gotten his hands on some documentation outlining the features/changes planned for an update to the Windows Mobile operating system (Windows Mobile 7); looks like they’re going through quite an overhaul this time around.
You’ll notice many similarities to the iPhone interface when it comes to things like the on-screen keyboard and multi-touch interface (one would assume they’ll include very similar flick, zoom & double-tap interactions). However it would appear they’re also planning to offer motion based controls (via turning, shaking, etc.) probably similar to what Sony Ericsson recently implemented in the w910i.
There’s a lot of speculation here at this point, but it’s always nice to take a look at what might be coming down the road. It looks like Microsoft is doing what we all would expect; pulling what they consider the best elements from the best phones on the market and using them to their advantage.
More screenshots and in-depth discussion can be found at InsideMicrosoft.
It’s impossible to create one smartphone that will appeal to everyone. Michael Mace wrote a great piece roughly a year ago comparing the smartphone industry to the automobile industry in that there will never be one model that everyone agrees is best.
Nokia always seemed to understand this and put it into practice by (among other things) dividing their Series 60 smartphones into two categories: Eseries & Nseries. The idea was that Eseries devices would appeal more to the enterprise user who needs things like a QWERTY keyboard and corporate email support and Nseries devices would appeal to those looking for lots of multimedia features like high end cameras and quality music support.
However, according to Boy Genius Report, it looks like Nokia might break slightly from this recent tradition by offering an N Series device with a QWERTY keyboard. This yet-to-be-named device will reportedly be similar to the E61i with a 5+ megapixel camera and DVD quality video recording capabilities.
It’s still in speculation mode (perhaps we’ll hear something more formal at CES). BGR says we can expect to see this device on the market in late 2008.