RIM BlackBerry Internet Service 4.1 documents leak

By George Wong on 07/11/2011, filed in Home > CellPhones

If you’re a BlackBerry user, you’d be interested to know that an updated version of the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) will be making its way to you in the coming months. First heard about in the leaked RIM roadmap that was leaked earlier this year, more details about the update have been recently discovered, this time by the folks at N4BB as well.

According to the leaked documents, the next version of BIS – 4.1, will feature enhancements such as an improved email experience, inbox priming, account management updates (Security Wipe Email Control and SIM Swap Experience), QQ and 139.com integration, carrier reporting, UI changes, and support for additional languages. Hit the source link to check out the slides yourself.

The update will rolled out in the USA on October 8^th. Asia Pacific on September 10^th and Europe on September 23^rd. Anybody excited?

RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

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