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My Blackberry Feature Wishlist

Posted on January 30, 2008

The Blackberry has been so successful as a mobile email device in part because it offers good enough completeness of experience and integration with corporate email systems (Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes being the canonical examples). By “completeness of experience” I’m referring to the fact that most of what you can do natively in the email lifecycle in Outlook/Exchange and Notes you can do on the device. There are a number of gaps - gaps which force me to use the native email client to accomplish basic tasks - and I’d like to see them addressed.

In no particular order (and from a Lotus Notes-centric point of view):

• Rich text support including the bare basics like bold, italics and support for colored text
• Usage of the Notes Drafts folder from the Blackberry, so that the Notes client and the Blackberry have equal access to message drafts
• Usage of the Notes Trash folder from the Blackberry, so that the Notes client and the Blackberry have equal access to deleted items. This would support undelete from the Blackberry as well.
• Ability to copy and paste attachments between messages, or for a functionally equivalent result the ability to forward a message containing an attachment and then delete all text except for the attachment
• Ability to edit portions of existing messages when replying to or forwarding them. The message body is immutable.
• Tab, indentation and bullet support

Any Blackberry/Notes experts out there that can comment?

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