That outage you BlackBerry BIS users may have experienced last night was the March 28 BIS 3.0 upgrade happening—in real time!
https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-internet-service-3-0-coming-march-28-with-gm-5498076
Details:
– Additional language support for Basque, Catalan, Galician, Romanian
– Increased attachment compatibility for OpenDocument presentations (.odp), OpenDocument spreadsheets (.ods), OpenDocument text (.odt), OpenDocument text templates (.ott), Windows Media® Audio (.wma)
– Improved email setup flow for HTML access that will allow BlackBerry uses to “reclaim their email address if their BlackBerry Internet Service account is ever deleted.”
– xHTML Support for non-Thick Clients (allows for the use of buttons, additional fonts and color controls when users access and toggle their user settings)
– Device switch revalidation
– Hosted email address passwords
The Gmail functionality alluded to in the link above are still listed as “coming soon.” Probably the 28th. [BlackBerry via BGR]
