Courtesy of the helpful folks at BlackberryGuy.com (nice folks – I’ve met them when speaking in Nashville, specifically Andy Bailey – at NationLink, the home of BlackBerryGuy.com), there’s important news about a planned Blackberry service outage starting tonight and ending tomorrow morning while a major OS upgrade is distributed. Here’s the announcement:

“BlackBerry Service Interruption Notification
Begins Tonight (6/27/08 At 11:00pm CST Until 7:00am CST Tomorrow (6/28/08)!

Summary: BlackBerry Internet Service v2.4 upgrade to v2.5
Start Date and Time: June 27th; 11:00pm CST
End Date and Time: June 28th; 7:00am CST
Duration Of Service Interruption: 8 hours
% Of Affected Subscribers: 100%

Impact: Subscribers will be unable to send or receive messages, use the BlackBerry Internet Service Website, use the BlackBerry smartphone internet browser, view email attachments, PIN message and use 3rd Party Applications which require a data connection.

BENEFITS OF THE NEW UPGRADE

Attachment Downloading In Native File Format*
Users will be able to save, edit, upload and transfer attachments in their native file formats

HTML E-Mail Message Viewing*
Users will be able to view HMTL e-mail messages on their BlackBerry smartphones, including:

Graphics and Pictures
•    Embedded images and tables
•    External Images
•    Active hyperlinks

Paragraph Formatting
•    Numbering
•    Bulleted Lists
•    Justification
•    Indentation

Font Formatting
•    Font type
•    Color
•    Size
•    Effects (bold/italic)

NOTE: HTML content cannot be created when forwarding, replying or composing a new email message.

Support For Windows Live Mail Integration
•    Real-time delivery of email messages replaces the 15 minute polling interval
•    No restrictions: All Windows Live Hotmail accounts can be integrated

NOTE: Current Windows Live Hotmail Account must be deleted and re-added to the BlackBerry Internet Service Account in order for enhanced features to be active.

*Feature requires Operating System v4.5.”

Thanks BlackBerryGuy.com!

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