Loading ...RIM’s BlackBerry Desktop Manager software might not be as glamorous as a shiny new smartphone, but the ability to manage your handset from a connected PC is still a worthy one. The company is close to launching version 4.5 of the software, which gets a full GUI overhaul, and The Boy Genius has more screenshots than you could shake a pushed-email at. Interesting functionality changes are, annoyingly, all retrograde: in this beta at least, RIM appear to have removed the Roxio Media Creator Suite (leaving only the Media Manager in place), the ability to use the BlackBerry as a tethered modem is absent, and you can’t force-load an OS to a wiped device.
Of course, each and any of those features could be added in before the public release (which is expected to coincide with the launch of version 4.5 of the BlackBerry OS.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:53 am
I am by no means an Apple fan but I do think there needs to be a MUCH better example of a ‘desktop manager’ for Macs, by RIM. I use Missing Sync because of that, but I’m not going insane about how bad PocketMac is, mostly because I don’t sync my BB with my MacBook more than 2-3 times a month.