Update: Overzicht van nieuwe Versie 2.3

Update: De update van het overzicht met ontwikkelaarscommentaren bij deze verbinding

De Kijker van SmartView E-mail van BlackBerrySmart Bèta - een „Revolutie van het Blackberry E-mail“
Het schatten: 9/10
Verbinding: http://www.blackberrysmart.com/
Kosten: 24.99
Verenigbaarheid: v4.0.2 Blackberry OS of hoger
De modellen van het Blackberry van steunen nieuwer dan 7230

Goed beloofden wij om een overzicht op de nieuwe Slimme E-mail Kijker van het Blackberry te leveren, zo hier is het. De kijker van BlackBerrySmart E-mail is één van de meest innovatieve verbeteringen op de manier u uw e-mail op uw Blackberry bekijkt. De meeste gebruikers van het Blackberry hebben bij ooit het bekijken van beelden of menselijke vriendschappelijke verbindingen in hun e-mail opgegeven. Tot slot is er een oplossing uw inheemse cliënt van het Blackberry e-mail aan meningsbeelden en menselijke vriendschappelijke verbindingen in uw e-mail kunnen vormen. Aangezien u van mijn commentaren onder de oplossing kunt zien bent nog niet perfect maar het goed op zijn manier a te zijn moet toepassing voor alle gebruikers van het Blackberry hebben is. Laat zo nu neer aan het overzicht worden.

Het eerste ding u in mening moet houden is dat dit geen oplossing die door Blackberry wordt onderschreven is. De ontwikkelaars moesten binnen de grenzenRAND werken heeft geplaatst om dit werk E-mail van de Kijker te maken. De stroken van de RAND uit al HTML, behalve hyperlinks en beeldverbindingen, van uw e-mail vóór e-mail wordt zelfs aan uw apparaat. Aldus is enig HTML u in deze e-mailkijker zult zien beelden en betere menselijke vriendschappelijke verbindingen. Reqwireless had eerder tot een cliënt van HTML e-mail voor Blackberry en verlaten geleid aangezien zij niet dergelijke functionaliteit binnen de inheemse cliënt van het Blackberry konden verstrekken e-mail. Eerder moest uw e-mail door hun servers overgaan en in hun programma zonder duwsteun worden bekeken, waarbij het beroep en de veiligheid van hun programma worden verminderd. De cliënt van BlackBerrySmart e-mail slaagt erin om de veiligheidshindernis te mijden door de inheemse cliënt te gebruiken maar zij moesten de volledige verenigbaarheid van HTML offeren die de stroken van de RAND uit.

Installatie:

eZainny van BlackBerrySmart me een verbinding OTA heeft verstrekt om deze software te installeren. Er zijn twee versies één voor 4.2 OS apparateneigenaars en één voor alle andere apparaten. Het enige verschil tussen de twee versies volgens BlackBerrySmart is dat in oudere apparaten er geen optie om, antwoord, of antwoord aan allen van de kijker door:sturen zijn. Vermoedelijk in versies van OS vóór 4.2 waren er geen betrouwbare systeemfuncties om deze acties uit te voeren. Once you install the software you will be prompted every time you open an email with a message along the lines of “Do you wish to view this email with BlackBerrySmart Viewer. Your options are obviously yes and no but they also give you the option to never be asked this again. This will remember you selection and apply it to every other email you open.

On to the configuration:

As you can see from the images above you have quite a few options to customize how the viewer looks on your BlackBerry. First of all you have the option to show or not show images. If you just want to have the cleaner interface of the viewer without images then remove this option. The next option is my favorite. You have the option to set the viewer as the default email viewer. This means that every email you open on the BlackBerry will open with the viewer. I personally liked to uncheck this option. If the option is unchecked then you can open every email normally and then if a HTML viewer is necessary you can alway choose to use it in the options menu. Preferable this would be a hotkey you could press when you view the email in the native email client. Next you have the option of showing the full details header on every email you open with the viewer. When this is unchecked you will only see abridged details on the sender and subject of the email. You can always view the full details by clicking that option in the menu. Last of all you have the option to view full email links in your viewer. When this is unchecked all links default to the link titles. When it is checked you will actually see the full hyperlink.

The next configuration options are all about the style and background of the text in the viewer. You can modify the font, font size, font color, and background of the viewer. I found this extremely useful in configuring my email viewer to my tastes. Next you have to setup which transport you want the BlackBerry viewer to use to connect to the internet. Your options are BES/MDS, TCP, and WAP. The last option is a matter of cache for the viewer. The default setting of 1 week was fine in my experience.

Now on to the actual viewer:

As you can see from the examples above the first thing you will notice is the large header that is added to every email the viewer. This is one of my major complaints with the viewer. I could live without seeing an advertisement for the BlackBerrySmart.com website that takes up a fifth of the screen when you first open the email. Now on to the goodies. You can see how clean and organized the emails look compared to the native BlackBerry email client. Links like the ones in the screenshots above do not show up in the weird double fashion that they do in the native client. Rather they show up as the text that is meant to be shown. The viewer also add a bit of flair to the original message break line as you can see in the image to the right. One of the issues with this viewer is that once you open the email, if you hit back you will go back to the native email viewer. This just another step of having to hit two key presses to get back to the message list. All in all the viewer is a vast improvement that will improve your BlackBerry email experience, all it needs is a few tweaks here and there.

Hotkeys and controls:

BlackBerrySmart has added shortcuts to the common functions such as reply, forward, and reply to all. They have also put in support for hitting the space bar to go down a page and the “T” and “B” buttons go to the top and bottom of the page respectively. User might notice the fact that you cannot delete emails by hitting the delete button, rather you have delete it through the menu or by hitting back to go to the native client and then delete. Also selecting text in the viewer cannot be done by just hitting the select key and scrolling. Rather you have to go to the menu or back to the native client to select. You will automatically be taken back to the native client when you choose to reply or forward an email.

Images and Links:

As you can see in the screenshots above, images have a progress bar when they are downloading an email. This can be canceled during image downloads. Images are resized to fit the screen of the BlackBerry and I found no option to see the full image without going to the browser. One of the issues with images is that 90% of the images I receive in emails are just spacers titled “Spacer.gif”. In one email from Dell there were over 30 of them. An example of this is on the right. BlackBerrySmart should provide an option to exclude such images in later versions. Also when you open an email with many images that you have previously opened you will run into a progress bar like the one on the left. This is quite annoying sometimes and is the main reason that I configured the viewer to not automatically open every email. Otherwise images in the email has been a great benefit of the program with a few tweaks here and there. As you can see the email is formatted in a clean and concise manner that is not possible with the native BlackBerry client.

Pros:

• HTML Image and Link support for BlackBerry emails
• Clear and concise viewer for emails
• Configurable interface to your tastes and style
• Ability to cancel image downloads
• Option to not use the viewer as the default email viewer
• Basic hotkey support such as reply, forwarding, and page scrolling

Cons:

• Missing extensive hotkey functionality found in the BlackBerry email client such as delete and select
• Spacer image downloads
• Large banner on top of every email
• Slow opening of previously opened emails with many images

Verdict:

The BlackBerrySmart Email Viewer will revolutionize the way people can view emails on their BlackBerry devices. There are a few pain points when compared with the native email client but hopefully they will be addressed by the developers soon. I recommend this software since it is an evolution to the BlackBerry that has been a long time coming. Hopefully one day RIM will wake up and provide us such functionality out of the box. They have made great strides including a spell checker in the Curve so this may just be a possibility. The BlackBerrySmart Email Viewer addresses the security concerns that Reqwireless could not years ago. The only security concern I can see is that many mailing lists and spam lists use images that track if the email is opened. This may lead to increased spamming of your address that would previously not report the opening of the email with the native BlackBerry Client. It may seem like I beat up the Email Viewer in my review but my intentions were to point out the areas for improvement on this pioneering software. I personally think users will be delighted with the BlackBerrySmart Email Viewer when it is released this Monday.

Read more at these links:

• http://www.blackberryforums.com/aftermarket-software/78287-revolution-blackberry-email-coming.html
• http://www.blackberryforums.com/aftermarket-software/78758-teaser-2-join-email-revolution-smile-smile-smile.html
• http://www.blackberrysmart.com/products.html

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 14th, 2007 and is filed under BES, BIS, BlackBerry Service, Email, Internet, News, Reviews.

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