Comments on: RIM & Lenovo Team Up & Create Confusing Product: Lenovo Constant Connect, a Total Waste of 2 Years? You Decide…

By: RIM & Lenovo Release Constant Connect – Solves Problem That Does Not Exist… | BerryReview.com »

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:26:07 +0000

[...] Sorry guys I really cant help myself on this one. Constant Connect is just one of those ideas that must have sounded cooler on the drawing board but has an extremely limited purpose for existence. I really cannot see lines forming out the door for a product that forwards and caches email from your BlackBerry to your laptop while it is off. You would be better off spending money on a tethering plan or just plain tethering without a plan… Makes me wonder what RIM has been doing developing this with Lenovo for 2 whole years! [...]

By: AdamG

AdamG — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:06:46 +0000

Thanks, RIM. You really have your finger on the pulse of your customer’s needs and wants. Much more useful than a native OTA Calendar/Contacts Sync for BIS users.
I guess this is for reading html email on BES? Oh wait, 5.0 fixes that next month? Next project for you should be figuring out how to take the emails your just downloaded to your Lenovo card and put them back on the Blackberry device. Please don’t take longer than another 2 years.

By: Lonovo and RIM to deliver Constant Connect, who is it for? | BlackBerry Cool

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:04:55 +0000

[...] is off – without the user having to take any additional steps. However, my boy Ronen over at BerryReview seems to question whether or not Constanct Connect is too specific of an enterprise solution to be [...]

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:51:53 +0000

But seriously what were they thinking. This is just plain embarrassing… The funny part is that for $99 you may as well get the Bayalink now (1 year subscription)
http://www.bayalink.com/home.asp
Which lets you respond to emails and use your blackberry to go online

By: DavidB

DavidB — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:39:27 +0000

I suspect development on this idea was already a “sunk cost” before anyone high enough up at RIM to shxtcan it caught wind and realized just how dumb an idea this was.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:33:56 +0000

Sometimes product development people are allowed to exhaust their budgets in a vacuum.

By: smiley

smiley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:23:30 +0000

this is almost like the canceled Palm Foleo. basically it lets you sync the data from the handheld to desktop and you can edit document and stuff.