Comments on: OS 5.0 Also Bringing Time Zone Update & Mobile Backup?

By: John Salerno

John Salerno — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:16:49 +0000

“Time Zone Auto Update – Yep… frequent travelers have been begging for it for years. The Date/Time function in OS 5.0 will allow for your time zone to be updated automatically as you travel, or you can turn off the feature, or be prompted for the change in time zones. Everyone get ready for their calendar appointments to go whacky.”

Why should there be problems? Can’t the time zone update affect *only* the internal clock and not the times in your calendar? How would this be any different than manually changing time zones? The calendar entry would still have the option of selecting the time zone of the event you’re entering, so why wouldn’t it all stay synced?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:42:48 +0000

Do you know if OS 5.0 will be available for 83xx Curves? I would really like to see some of these new features on my BB. Thanks!

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:09:03 +0000

Does anyone have a “best guess” for the 5.0 release date?

By: PDM

PDM — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:53:13 +0000

Well, you can backup your Address Book, Task, Calendar and MemoList to your SDcard or have it mailed to an e-mail address by using “PhoneBAK”.

http://store.berryreview.com/product.asp?id=31559&n=PhoneBAKup–(BlackBerry)

Unfortunately, these updates/tweaks from RIM don’t really bring much to the party (well for me at least)!