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According to BerryReview, BIS is scheduled to be upgrade to 3.0 on March 14th, or next Sunday. This is only scheduled for EMEA, which is Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Soon thereafter (March 21st) North America should follow. With this upgrade to BIS 3.0 comes two-way Gmail syncing. This is great news for all of us, and it is a greatly anticipated update. Part of the email can be read after the break.
Along with the upgrade to BIS 3.0 comes some additional updates like, the Enhanced Google Mail plug-in will have an update, OpenOffice support, and WMA (Windows Media Audio) support. Here is part of the announcement as stated byBlackBerryRocks.
BlackBerry Internet Service v2.8 upgrade to BlackBerry Internet Service v3.0 – EMEA – 14 March
BBCHG45911 (Update) S1 Severity Maintenance for BlackBerry Internet Service (v2.x) Email service for subscribers of *EMEA BIS (MULT)
This message is to inform you of scheduled network maintenance.
Maintenance Summary: BlackBerry Internet Service v2.8 upgrade to BlackBerry Internet Service v3.0
Impact: BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers may be unable to send or receive messages, use the BlackBerry Internet Service web site, or perform activities such as creating new accounts, accessing their Internet mailbox, integrating third-party email accounts, or viewing email attachments during the maintenance.
Wireless service providers and device resellers may be unable to use BlackBerry administration web sites or perform activities such as creating subscriber accounts or provisioning services for subscribers during the maintenance. [0214]
Ticket Number: BBCHG45911
Change Window Start Date and Time: 14 March 2010 02:00:00 (GMT)
Change Window End Date and Time: 14 March 2010 06:00:00 (GMT)
Estimated Duration of Service Impact: 4 hour(s) and 0 minute(s)
% of Subscribers Affected: 100.00 (estimated)EST = GMT – 5 hours
EDT = GMT – 4 hours
AEST = GMT + 10 hours
Hopefully with this upgrade they will have fixed the contact sync as well, the current BIS contact sync has seriously messed up my address book. I tried to use it once with my 9700 backing up my contacts to my Gmail account through BIS. Somehow, the process was interrupted or something went wrong during the process and all of my contacts first names were replaced with “Insurance”. That was a headache to fix. Not only did the first names get replaced, but some peoples last names got flip-flopped as well, numbers randomly migrated from one entry to multiple entries, and thus there was pure address book chaos.
Since none of the dogs here for BBerryDog are from any of the scheduled EMEA areas, when the upgrade comes feel free to let us all know.
via: BerryReview | BlackBerryRocks