http://www.blackberrycool.com/2005/12/08/notify-technology-provides-an-alternative-solution-for-blackberry-users/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Tue, 21 May 2013 07:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.blackberrycool.com/2005/12/08/notify-technology-provides-an-alternative-solution-for-blackberry-users/comment-page-1/#comment-14161 Michael Veach Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:32:06 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2005/12/08/001170/#comment-14161 Due to a corporate restructuring I was just forced from a BlackBerry Enterprise Server to the NotifyLink Enterprise Edition solution. That move has ensured I will not be having a happy New Year! Using NotifyLink on a BlackBerry is like replacing the suspension, drive train, and interior of a BMW 745 with parts from a Yugo. It still looks like a BMW, but that is all. The NotifyLink interface is immature, invasive, unintuitive . . . just plain crap. It doesn’t use the default folders (you have dig down through the applications menu to somewhere below Brickbreaker), no nice little icon to tell you how many new messages you have, no useful configuration options or any other niceties offered by the BlackBerry solution. One real pet peeve is that every time you read a message you have to tell it whether to mark it read on the server; what a pain. And the web based client side of the application looks like my 12 year-old’s first attempt at an interactive web interface; just not as good. This may be an acceptable solution for Palm and Pocket PC phones that lack an integrated push application, but it is just plain cruel to foist it on BlackBerry users who have experienced a quality product. Maybe this is a cost cutting tool, because I am going to save the company some money and ditch mobile messaging if NotifyLink is my only choice.

]]> http://www.blackberrycool.com/2005/12/08/notify-technology-provides-an-alternative-solution-for-blackberry-users/comment-page-1/#comment-481873 Michael Veach Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:32:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2005/12/08/001170/#comment-481873 Due to a corporate restructuring I was just forced from a BlackBerry Enterprise Server to the NotifyLink Enterprise Edition solution. That move has ensured I will not be having a happy New Year! Using NotifyLink on a BlackBerry is like replacing the suspension, drive train, and interior of a BMW 745 with parts from a Yugo. It still looks like a BMW, but that is all. The NotifyLink interface is immature, invasive, unintuitive . . . just plain crap. It doesn’t use the default folders (you have dig down through the applications menu to somewhere below Brickbreaker), no nice little icon to tell you how many new messages you have, no useful configuration options or any other niceties offered by the BlackBerry solution. One real pet peeve is that every time you read a message you have to tell it whether to mark it read on the server; what a pain. And the web based client side of the application looks like my 12 year-old’s first attempt at an interactive web interface; just not as good. This may be an acceptable solution for Palm and Pocket PC phones that lack an integrated push application, but it is just plain cruel to foist it on BlackBerry users who have experienced a quality product. Maybe this is a cost cutting tool, because I am going to save the company some money and ditch mobile messaging if NotifyLink is my only choice.

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