Feb 12 2009
RIM Announces BES 5.0
Posted by Brendan Zivcic
RIM has finally announced the long awaited BES 5.0, which sports a few interesting features including
- Retrieve corporate documents behind firewalls
- Add, read, rename and delete folders on the handset and have those changes be applied to the desktop email client
- Create rules within the inbox to filter email and have those changes be applied to the desktop
- View attachments in calendar entries and meeting requests
- Download and store emails and email attachments onto microSD cards
They are a fair while behind schedule, although, I do believe that HTML email and remote server search were originally going to be implemented in BES 5.0 too, however they were included in a service pack. I will be interested to see the pricing schematics they have in mind for it – perhaps in order to upgrade to BES 5.0, it may be a one off fee, similar to going from 4.0 to 4.1. I hope they don’t increase the CAL prices.