BlackBerry... now with full TCP/IP support
I'm sure this is old news for some of you, but like I mentioned last week, AT&T Wireless released version 4.0 of the BlackBerry client on 12/23/2004 so I'm just catching up to with this one. The new BlackBerry client software (as of version 3.8) includes an option for configuring TCP/IP (Main Menu --> Options --> TCP) which is big because there are a number of users who don't have the MDS and would love to be able to use IRC, IM, SSH, etc. Basically all you need to do is enter the APN name in the appropriate TCP setting and possibly a username / password (you can find all the names here) and you should be up and running (note: T-Mobile will not work, read why here).
The bottom line is that if you were frustrated because you weren't able to use some of the great network enabled J2ME applications that just seemed to have BlackBerry written all over them... you can thank the guys at BlackBerry Forums for the detailed notes and then take another look at apps like veriChat, webMessenger, and midpssh. This is great news!
January 01, 2005 in News by ajohnson
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yup this made my life a lot easier.
Posted by: Hayden James on July 28, 2005 10:16 AM