{"id":913,"date":"2015-08-23T18:13:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T16:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/?p=913"},"modified":"2015-08-23T18:13:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T16:13:47","slug":"using-the-ibm-verse-app-on-a-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/using-the-ibm-verse-app-on-a-blackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"using the IBM Verse app on a BlackBerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yeah.. why would you do that? there is no solution which comes close to the BlackBerry Hub and I&#8217;m certainly not moving to an app with less functionality. Still, out of curiosity I wanted to know how the IBM Verse app would behave on a BlackBerry.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not getting into details about how to install an Android app as there are plenty of &#8220;how-to&#8217;s&#8221; but will share some of my findings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Security \/ Device password<br \/>\n<\/strong>The initial sync didn&#8217;t work at first because of a security issue.<br \/>\nBasically Traveler didn&#8217;t recognize the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.blackberry.com\/2014\/02\/how-to-use-picture-password-in-blackberry-10-os-version-10-2-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Picture Password<\/a> as a device password and therefore refused to synchronize because a device password is a requirement set in the policy.<br \/>\nAfter the initial sync I changed my device password back to a Picture Password and the sync continued to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Functionality<br \/>\n<\/strong>I didn&#8217;t see any issues here. The notifications for mail\/calendar work, same with the Actions (Needs Action\/Waiting For) or the synchronization of data. Creating mails, answering them and any interaction with calendar items, i.e. the creation of events out of an email, were OK as well.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Negative&#8221; points<\/strong> (bearing in mind that it&#8217;s not a native app)<br \/>\nThe app is a battery drainer! I&#8217;m using a BlackBerry Passport and I rarely need to charge it but since using the Verse app it was a daily activity.<br \/>\nThere is no control\/separation of work data. I can freely copy data from my business mail and paste it anywhere I want. This is something I can control with BES and don&#8217;t want to miss as a security feature.<br \/>\nOn the positive side, the uninstall worked like a charm \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-913-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ponte.ch\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/Verse-Dashboard-1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;919&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Verse Dashboard&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ponte.ch\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/uninstall-1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;918&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;uninstall&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ponte.ch\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/mail-actions-1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;917&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;mail actions&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yeah.. why would you do that? there is no solution which comes close to the BlackBerry Hub and I&#8217;m certainly not moving to an app with less functionality. Still, out of curiosity I wanted to know how the IBM Verse app would behave on a BlackBerry. I&#8217;m not getting into details about how to install&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/using-the-ibm-verse-app-on-a-blackberry\/#more-913\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,38,100],"tags":[18,109,118],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackberry-2","category-domino","category-ibm","category-mobile","tag-blackberry","tag-ibm-traveler","tag-ibm-verse","clear"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HetC-eJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}