Comments on: BIS 3.0 Upgrade Successful with OpenDocument Support

By: Do BlackBerry® smartphones support Open Document Formats (ODF)? | B is for BlackBerry

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:00:37 +0000

[...] 23, 2012 3:04 pm According to BlackBerryCool.com (March 29, 2010), it does. So I decided to see for myself. As mentioned in a previous post I am [...]

By: Kix Cash

Kix Cash — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:21:06 +0000

The ODFs (OpenDocument Formats) are alternative file formats to Microsoft's "Office" file formats, such as Excel Spreadsheet (".xls") and Document (".doc")... Used as the default file formats for Google Docs and OpenOffice.org, the ODFs are becoming popular at such a rapid rate that even Microsoft has committed to supporting these formats in their "Office" products, along with countless other companies!

It is widely expected that in the long-term future, these formats will become the dominant file formats used...

Here's some more information on Wikipedia (fair warning though - parts of this are pretty technical!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odf

Google Docs is a free, Web-based alternative to Microsoft's "Office" products:
http://www.google.com/docs

OpenOffice.org is a free, software-based alternative to Microsoft's "Office" products:
http://www.openoffice.org

By: Links 30/3/2010: Document Freedom Day 2010, More GNU/Linux Tablets | Techrights

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:39 +0000

[...] BIS 3.0 Upgrade Successful with OpenDocument Support With BIS 3.0, your BlackBerry now supports the following: OpenDocument presentations (.odp), OpenDocument spreadsheets (.ods), OpenDocument text (.odt), OpenDocument text templates (.ott) and Windows Media Audio (.wma). [...]

By: Kix Cash

Kix Cash — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:21:06 +0000

By: artiesberry

artiesberry — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:52:30 +0000

where do i log in

By: artie

artie — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:47:59 +0000

Can you please explain what you mean by “OpenDocument Support”?

By: fluxx

fluxx — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:49:26 +0000

Pffff, OpenDocument support. I want contact and calendar sync via active sync or owa. Apple already cannibalized an impressive amount of former blackberry and nokia users simply by providing a proper active sync support.