Customizing BlackBerry Applications
It doesn’t get too much press these days, but the BlackBerry platform still holds appeal for enterprise applications.
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
BlackBerry — alive and kicking
Before iPhone and Android came along to wage the Smartphone wars, the powerful BlackBerry platform from Research in Motion (RIM) paved the way and made mobile email a household term.
In addition to defining what mobile email should look like, the other thing BlackBerry made look easy was calendar and contact collaboration. I say collaboration because the BlackBerry does more than just “sync”.
Syncing is great when you are a single user, but when you can “sync” in real time to a shared database, you’re now collaborating. If you doubt the value of that, just try to make an appointment while you’re out at lunch with a colleague and then come back to the office and find out that your assistant put another client meeting at the same spot on your non-synced calendar. Ouch!
Today other platforms also offer synchronization with calendar and contacts,…
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