I've set up a 9930 on hosted BES with several additional IMAP accounts. Struggling with lack of full sync on gmail (compared to iPhone), but I can live with it.

Can someone tell me if the IMAP accounts are run using the BIS? If so, is the security/encryption routed through the NOC as with my BES account? My understanding is that while the BES account is the most secure, the BIS (IMAP??) accounts are secure to a certain level.

Is this an improvement over the Active-sync I used on the iPhone? I'm hoping it is, because the trade off in IMAP sync efficiency would be worth the bump in email security.

Also, is all internet traffic (browsing, etc) originating on the BB handset handled by the BIS?

Or have I got it wrong?

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I've now had my iPhone 4s for about a month and I notice more and more things each day that it does worse than BB. It's been well documented what the iPhone does better than BlackBerry, so I'm not going to mention those things. I'm only going to talk about the stuff that most people don't bring up when comparing these devices. This is all from the opinion of a 4 or so year BlackBerry owner that has owned Android devices and iPhones before.

-First of all, the iPhone handles WiFi horribly. If I get out of range of my router, it takes close to a minute for the iPhone to realize it needs to switch to 3g for data. It's terribly annoying when I walk my dog and want to listen to music using Audio Galaxy.

-Also, Bluetooth is not only annoying to turn on and off, but like WiFi, it is horribly unintelligent. I had a bluetooth headset on and went into a store to get something and left my phone in the car. I was out of range of my bluetooth. When I got back in the car, my bluetooth reconnected and Siri worked through it fine, but when my wife called me, the phone decided I didn't want to use Bluetooth anymore and redirected the sound to the headset and not my ear peice.

-Email is not nearly as good. If my phone is sitting idle next to me, it stops getting emails until I start using my phone again. This is horrible when I'm deep in project and don't realize that I've gone 2 hours since checking my email

-Reception SUCKS! I get complaints almost every day that people I'm on the phone with can't hear me. I've never had this problem with any BB I've owned which were used in the same locations as I'm having problems with my iPhone.

-Battery is decent at best. I can get through the day without charging, but it's cutting it VERY close, usually going to bed with about 8% battery left. My 9930 wasn't any better, but every other BB I owned was MUCH better.

-I miss my physical buttons. I like having a menu button always located in the same location as well as the back button. With the iPhone, each app has these buttons located differently which is more annoying than people would think.

-The lock screen is annoying. I like how with my BB I can press the lock/unlock button on the top of the phone to unlock my phone and it's ready to use. The iPhone I have to press the unlock button (or home button) and then slide the unlock bar to start using my phone. After years of not having to do that, it slows me down noticably.

-iOS5 doesn't recieve Twitter notifications for new tweets. I use Twitter a lot and have to manually check for new tweets instead of getting a notification every 30 minutes. It's a known bug on iOS 5 that is annoying.

I know some of that stuff seems like I'm nitpicking, but combined, they are a big deal. The iPhone 4s is incredibly smooth and fast, but it doesn't do the imporatant things well.

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On one of my email accounts it can take up too 15min for my 9930 to get new mail. It's a roadrunner email account. If I send a test email my computer gets the email in under 10 sec but my BB takes 10-15 minutes. Not sure why....

Also, does having the BB on a wi-fi network slow down BB push email?

thx

Answer:

WiFi makes no difference in delivery of push e-mail to your device. Chances are that your roadrunner e-mail account is setup under POP3 rather than IMAP. Accounts setup via IMAP (like Gmail) give you near instant delivery of your e-mails to your device. When an e-mail is setup via POP3 it does not provision for instant e-mail delivery. The BIS server will poll your e-mail inbox every 10-15 minutes to see if there is new e-mail. If there is, it will automatically push it to your device.

This is how it works for Outlook Web Access accounts (which I assume are similar to Roadrunner e-mail accounts). On my OWA e-mail setup, I get messages about 10 minutes after they hit my inbox. Not ideal, but it gets the job done...

I'm going to get my 1st BB ever next month when I'm due for a new phone. I really like the Bold 9930 on Verizon. I've been using a Moto Q for many years and prefer a phone with a physical keyboard. From reading all the posts here it seems the Bold 99xx has the best one.

I'm a big gmail user and would really like to have the BB gmail app on my 9930. Unfortunately I just read that google will no longer be offering this app after Nov.22. Since I won't have my 9930 until after this date is there anyway to download this app now while it's still available and then transfer it from my Mac or PC to the 9930?

I know some people don't like the BB gmail app and will tell me to just use the BB email. But I'd really like at least to give the gmail app a try for a while.

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You can probably set it up so that your emails come straight to your phone. I don't that with my college account and my hotmail account. 9900 is a good phone, lots of good things. Only thing i heard was battery isn't up to the usual BB standard. Its like that because they made the phone so thin.

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