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RIM's Blackberry Connections Client - First Impressions - Part 1

So, once installed, I was greeted with a really slick v8-esc Connections Client icon:

Check out Chris's article to get the how-to on connecting with your BleedYellow credentials.

Once in, we see the Connections Client home page - giving us access to Profiles, Dogears, Communities*, Blogs*, and Activities*.

Profile Search is pretty slick, allowing us to use the Profiles as a Mobile Directory, with call-out capabilities - very cool!

Dogears - this can be useful for the maintenance of mobile device client-friendly links and resources.

The rest of the client - and this is what loses me - is simply links to the web implementations of Communities, Blogs, and Activities.

Yeah - Activities isn't handled in this local client - W.T.F?!

So, to sum up:

1. RIM doesn't know how to get me the app.
2. Thankfully, our community rocks!
3. It looks purty...
4. Profiles and Profile Search will give you a pseudo-mobile directory on your device - pretty slick.
5. Dogears... ok, I can see where this might be useful.
6. Communities and Blogs - meh, grab a feed reader.
7. By far the biggest let-down: Activities are not maintained in the device.

That's my "First Impressions" having used this for the past few days, and while it's looks slick and I'll certainly use the Profiles - I'm looking forward to the next release in hopes that they'll include Activites.

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name:Chris Miller
url:http://www.IdoNotes.com
time:05/19/2008 04:42:54 PM

Sounds vaguely familiar as I had the exact same impressions...

http://www.idonotes.com/idonotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/05072008063319PMCMIVME.htm

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