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BlackBerry BES & OS 5.0 Info
By: Jonathan S. Geller | Apr 11th, 2007 at 02:29PM
If your one of our readers that constantly refreshes BGR, waiting to the see the latest tips and scoops we can offer, you won’t be disappointed with the below BlackBerry intel. A BGR insider has just told us some details that will clear up a lot of the surrounding rumors regarding the 4.2 OS for the BlackBerr 8700, and 7310, while also giving us a peek into RIM’s BES plans.
- BES Service Pack 4 will be released in June
- The 4.2 OS for the BlackBerry 8700, and 7130 is completely ready on RIM’s end. It is now up the carriers to decide whether to release it or not
- The "Wireless Upgrade" feature we showed you in our BlackBerry 8300 will at first be hosted directly from RIM, and will be completely available OTA with a possible release in June (it could infact be a little later though)
- BlackBerry OS 5.0 is in the works with a talked about release during the "end of this year, or early next year" coinciding with RIM’s planned release of the BlackBerry 9xxx series
- BES Admins will have updates automatically show on their screen in "pop-up ballons, sort of like current Windows Update do". This way they won’t have to keep checking for BES updates, and Service Packs.
That’s it for now, and a special thank you goes out to our mobile insider of the week, a high-level exec at RIM who shall remain nameless.
Jonathan S. Geller
Jonathan Geller is the founder of Boy Genius Report, now known as BGR. What began as a column on popular gadget blog Engadget quickly grew into one of the site’s biggest draws, and Jonathan soon detached the wildly popular column to create what has since become the biggest mobile news destination in the world.
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