What’s new about Blackberry?

The newest version of BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) introduces a number of new and improved features.

Advanced Mailbox Management

Added Support for Yahoo! Mail and Gmail
If you use Yahoo!® mail, in addition to enjoying virtual real-time (instead of poll-based) delivery of email messages you will now enjoy two-way synchronization of deleted messages and message status (read/unread). For example if you delete a message on your Yahoo Mail desktop account, the message is also deleted on your BlackBerry smartphone, and vice versa. If you use a Gmail™ account , you will now experience virtual real-time (instead of poll-based) delivery of Gmail messages.


Auto-Forwarding
A copy of email messages that are sent to your smartphone-based BlackBerry email address (i.e. username@carrier.blackberry.com) can now automatically be forwarded to another third-party web mail account (such as your Yahoo! Mail or Gmail desktop account). This feature is ideal when you want easy access to mail sent to your BlackBerry email address (which is only viewable from your smart-phone) from a desktop account as well.


Delivery/Read Receipts
You will now have the ability to know when an email message has been successfully delivered to, or read by, another user's BlackBerry smartphone.¹

Enhanced Attachment Services

Easy-Viewing Slideshow Format
PowerPoint presentations and PDFs can now be viewed in a convenient slideshow format.


Attachment Uploading
No need to wait until you're at your desk to upload and send files. Attach files up to 3MB in size stored on your BlackBerry smartphone (e.g. pictures saved to the smartphone internal memory or documents saved to the expandable memory card) to email or MMS messages.


Voicemail Attachment Playback
If you get voicemail messages from work or home sent as email attachments (mp3 and WAV), you can listen to these messages virtually anywhere on your BlackBerry smartphone.

Additional Organizer Functionality

Wireless Meeting Requests
Save even more time each day by sending, receiving, accepting and declining wireless meeting requests between BlackBerry smartphones.


Wireless Address Book Attachments
Open electronic contact attachments (vCard format) using your BlackBerry smartphone, and add these contact details directly to your BlackBerry Address Book.

Still an Older Version of BlackBerry Internet Service?

Some BlackBerry smartphone users have not been automatically upgraded to the new versions of BlackBerry Internet service as they have become available and may be using a much older version of BlackBerry Internet Service with less advanced features. To find out if you are on an older version, simply log into the BlackBerry Internet Service site for your wireless service provider. Once you've logged in, if you are not on the new version of BlackBerry Internet Service you will be prompted to upgrade.