The usually way to access e-mail, monthly calendar and meeting data on the BlackBerry PlayBook without using a browser is with an app called BlackBerry Bridge, that links Research in Motion's inscription to BlackBerry smartphones.
Too bad that ATT subscribers can't use it yet.
BlackBerry users on ATT's network are out of fitness when it comes to Bridge, as ATT is now the usually conduit that does not encouragement the app on BlackBerry smartphones. That means they're stranded with possibly e-mail access around web browser on the PlayBook, or adhering to their phones for local e-mail access.
As a Crackberry.com user remarkable , the flagship BlackBerry smartphone on ATT - the BlackBerry Torch - can't even be bridged.
Initial conjecture on ATT's insufficient of encouragement referred to the firm didn't wish BlackBerry users to take value of tethering the PlayBook to their phone's data outline without profitable for it, as Crackberry.com's Adam Zeis wrote .
But ATT supposing Wired.com with a statement, quashing the speculation:
ATT is using RIM to make the BlackBerry Bridge app existing for ATT customers. We have just received the app for contrast and before it's done existing to ATT customers you wish to make sure it delivers a high quality experience.
When asked if ATT would assign its BlackBerry smartphone customers for using Bridge as a data-tethering connection to the PlayBook, ATT would not criticism further, restating that it "just received the app for testing."
RIM has already taken slam for rushing the PlayBook to marketplace without major features .
There is, however, an unaccepted workaround for ATT subscribers. Apparently, ATT is usually restraint the download of the app itself from App World, and not the real bridging routine between devices, as Crackberry.com points out .
RIM's PlayBook has been heavily criticized for its insufficient of local e-mail applications. The firm has attempted to downplay its stress in press interviews, as evidenced by CEO Jim Balsillie's explanation in a new Wall Street Journal interview:
"A lot of people who wish [the PlayBook] will span it openly and safely off their BlackBerries [by tethering it around Bridge]. Because it's a full web [environment], you do not need a definite letter customer for all your Webmail, and many people do you use Webmail."
Though RIM is still hedging its bets is to throng that wants that definite letter client: A "a standalone, nonweb, nonpaired e-mail client" will be done existing to the PlayBook inside of the next 60 days, Balsillie told The Journal.
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