Blackberry Adds HTML Email Rendering To Its Bag Of Tricks

In order to keep up with ground-breaking mobile devices such as the iPhone, the developers at Blackberry have announced that "users will be able to view HTML and rich text email messages with original formatting preserved including font colors and styles, embedded images, hyperlinks, tables, bullets and other formatting." The update is apart of the Enterprise Solution v4.1 Service Pack 5.

Along with the email rendering improvements found with the update, users will also be able to "Download and edit email attachments in their native file formats" which allows users to "save file attachments to their BlackBerry smartphones, work on the documents and include them in replies to colleagues".

Sources:
Research In Motion
BlackBerry

Our Mobile Addiction

In a recent study conducted by Bright Hand, it was concluded that the majority of people with mobile email-retrieving devices (Blackberrys, iPhones, etc) are "addicted to email", naturally. The average user checks their email regularly: 5 times a day, while the majority checks their email every time they receive a new message. Some are even so obsessed with their mobile device, that they sleep next to it, just in case an important email arrives in the middle of the night.

To further prove the obsession, 83% check their email while on vacation, 53% in the bathroom and 12% while at church. Ridiculous.

You can read the entire report here.

Thanks to Dylan at theemailwars for bringing this survey to light.