BB Connect on Symbian E-Series (E70-2)

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Melani

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I've been using the BB Connect app for the Nokia E70-2 for about 2-3 weeks now.

I put down my favoured 'brown' k790a and sacrificed a reliable, quality camera with a real flash, refined O/S and SE's superior T9 messaging for another look at Nokia's Symbian product using the BBC software.

WHY THE NOKIA E70-2:
I think the E70-2 is the quintessential device for an application review because it:has both the full QWERTY and the regular T9 keypad along compatibility with any app you can run on any other Symbian v3 deviceIt pretty much has the best features in every respect except for:screen real estate (E65 and E61 outperform)RAMAged Hardware Components (uses an old albeit solid BL-6C, old standard Nokia charger, old look; in general, the hardware seems older than the technology but this isn't a hardware review)
None of those 3 shortcomings affect (BB connect) actual performance.

While i've seen a lack of RAM close my browser or music player, it's never closed my BBC app.

THE BB CONNECT EXPERIENCE:
BlackBerry Connect is good, I've used Vista, I've used Microsoft Exchange (Mail2Web), I've used the Stock application and am now using BBC and I can honestly say that I'm having the best experience with BBC in terms of push speed.

BBC is always connected (as was Vista & Exchange) to GPRS but it's inactive so you're not going to hear noises or any similar activity when around speakers or monitors.

Email is pushed to the device quick and responses are instantaneous. You control your account using the standard Blackberry Internet Service portal.

What I really appreciated was that the icon for messages in your inbox will change if you've sent a reply or forward (like Sony Ericsson) whereas neither the stock messaging application in the E70-2 nor the Blackberry models up to and including the 8100 can show that.

ATTACHMENT SUPPORT:
I don't know if RIM/Nokia's BBC Client supports attachments or not. Plus I'm using an unsupported phone (E70-2) on my carrier with a foreign version of BBC (Vodafone) so I'm not drawing any conclusions here.

Messages sent to me on BBC with attachments are indicated in my inbox but I am not able to open them; whether it's a pic file, or an .xls.

I can't send messages with attachments either, I don't even have an option to 'attach' anything.

My work around is that I simply create another email account using the stock email application and, if I need to send an attachment, I can easily designate the E70-2 to compose a message from the stock email app and not the BBC email account.

PIN MESSAGING:
Unfortunately, even though you get assigned a PIN when you're registering your BBC service, you can't use the PIN to send or receive PIN messages.

Many people never use PINs regardless but for those who do, you wont have the option on any BBC client.

SUMMARY:
Doesn't make sense to mention anything here because everyone's (or company's) assessment is going to be different and based on custom needs. BBC over BIS is a good alternative.
 
The only thing that annoys me is it's handling of attachments when it applies to html emails. The default email client allows me to view certain html emails while the bbc on my e62 acts like it did on my pearl. Rather than showing the report in it's original format it shows up with all the line garbage that excel reports seem to breed. It's annoying as hell and making me wish you could have 2 seperate email clients installed at the same time. If anyone knows of a way to utilize both, I could create a generic email account specifically for those emails in question.
 
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Not sure if I totally understand your experience but I can say that:
-i can open documents and excel attachments but I can't open jpg attachments.
-I can't send attachments via bbc. To get around that I setup another email account for the same address but in the native client to send attachments.
 
Thanks JP. I'll give it a shot but afaik the Cingular branded E62 is preventing me from using BBC and the native client. I'll give it a shot as the same attachments opened without a hitch on my old unbranded E61.
 
I tried bbc on my e70-2 and didn't like it so much. Mind you I only needed something for personel email push from my yahoo acct. It seemed to take more battery power and it also slowed down the device alot. and having the icon on my screen bugged me. So instead I downloaded the free nokia exch.mail app and use it with my forwarding service. Works for me as I have so many devices. When changing devices I don't have to change any settings , my email always follows me. I like it way better as it gives me more what I'm looking for, better than bbc because it's works on all my phones.....I put it on my 9300 since I lost bbc with the f/w upgrade. ...just my .02
 
i don't understand the difference between installing bbc in every phone vs installing exchange mail in every phone (even more limited to nokias)....
 
I'm certainly not bad mouthing bbc. I've used it in other phones and loved it. Just not on my e70. Won't work on my 9300 post f/w upgrade. Nokia exchange mail works great. It's a good alternative thats all.
 
I personally had no issues using the native email client and allowing it to check every 15 minutes or so for new emails....unfortunately work requires I have BBC and the way emails have been flowing i'm forced to have a constant connection. I certainly like the ease of use with bbc as you go to the website and input an address and, voila it appears on your phone without the hassle of inputing the proper server information. It certainly slows down the device but I guess that's the give and take i'm forced to deal with.

....if anyone has had success installing bbc on an E62 and also utilizing the built in email I would certainly appreciate a quick walkthrough if you've got the time.
 
None of these replica applications can ever handle email as well as a real Blackberry.

Even BBC / Mail For Exchange, all experience little lag issues here and there that you just never see on a Blackberry
 
I'm not sure if BBC works the same as BIS, but basically I've used BIS verses mail exchange and I like mail exchange better and here's why. Mail exchange syncs all my emails to one mailbox while BIS did not. Also, the timing issue is actually the same between BIS and mail exchange the download times are the same. As BIS also checks email every 15 minutes from server. Lastly no annoying sync and calendar and contacts are always up to date. Now this is just my experience with BIS as I've never use BES before.

Both great applications, but BIS is only great if you use a BB device and not when you want to use a Nokia. This is just my opinion of course.
 
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