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Last week, on December 17th, the BlackBerry Internet Server service had a nationwide outage<\/a> for a few hours, depriving BlackBerry users across the US from getting their email (though other internet services were working fine). It was an event notable primarily because there was a lot more shoulder-shrugging than I expected – it has become par for the course that BlackBerry email goes out for some users from time to time.<\/p>\n It got me thinking – back when something similar happened in February, 2008<\/a>, Palm had a little fun and pointed out that if you use Exchange with Windows Mobile, you don’t have to worry about a third-party point-of-failure.<\/p>\n What about now, though, where presumably more data gets channeled through Palm’s online cloud service, the Palm Profile? We checked and have good news, folks: everything will pretty much work. If the Palm Profile goes down, here’s the set of things that won’t work:<\/p>\n Unlike the Sidekick, data you’re syncing to the Palm Profile is stored locally on your webOS phone. Unlike the BlackBerry, your push email happens directly via Exchange or IMAP Idle, unlike the iPhone, Palm has yet to release a push notification service so there’s nothing to go down there (yeah, that last one cuts both ways).<\/p>\n Of course, both the Pre and Pixi need to talk to Palm’s servers for their first-use setup, so if there’s an outage that will be a problem. Otherwise take heart – if your email or data goes down on your webOS phone, you will know exactly who to complain to – your email provider or your carrier.<\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: We totally aren’t taking Last week, on December 17th, the BlackBerry Internet Server service had a nationwide outage for a few hours, depriving BlackBerry users across the US from getting their email (though other internet services were working fine). It was an event notable primarily because there was a lot more shoulder-shrugging than I expected – it has become par […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
credit<\/strike> the blame for this, but not long after we posted, sister-site CrackBerry.com is reporting that the BIS is acting up again<\/a> for some North Americans, breaking the BBM service and even all data. Don’t get too<\/em> cocky bragging about your service, kids — it’s not like Palm hasn’t had the occasional server problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/img><\/a>
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