The team over at BGR are all over this news like a rash. Seems AT&T have pulled their latest BlackBerry Bold firmware upgrade citing issues affecting the interaction between device and network enhancements being deployed.
There’s no news of when a replacement will become available but (sarc) “rest assured, the technicians over at AT&T and RIM are putting in some overtime to get this issue sorted”… Give us a break…. Just release v5.0 already and be done with it RIM…
Tends to add more fuel to the fire in Ronen’s letter to RIM yesterday. I Have A BlackBerry Dream – An Open Letter to RIM
(Courtesy: BGR (original article link: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/09/04/att-pulls-blackberry-bold-software-upgrade/)
DavidB ( View Profile) Guru - Posts: 1751
Posted: September 5, 2009 at 7:47 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9530
Right. Ronen advocates carrier’s not being involved or being less involved in the firmware release process. So here we have ATT releasing a firmware and it breaks stuff. Yeah, so what’s the point RIM? You waited for a carrier to release this and it still broke stuff. So RIM needs to a) do a better job of internal QA/QC and b) don’t wait for a carrier ok since that obviously doesn’t matter.
Luis Merlos ( View Profile) Moderator - Posts: 1231
Posted: September 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM EST
I find it that OS usually works a lot better when I use a beta than when I use one thats officially released by a carrier, for example 4.6.1.250 work great when it leaked, upgraded to the official release from Rogers I believe, OS worked like crap, so decided to bump it up to 5.0 my phone works great besides the fact that some apps don’t work, but performance wise is awesome. Carriers wait a century to release it anyways by that time the best stuff out is the leak versions, so what’s the point. I haven’t really used carrier issue OS more than a few times so what’s the point on waiting for their approval anyways.