As This is my next reported from RIM’s official blog page, the Bridge Application is finally available for AT&T customers. The Playbook came out in late April to tepid reviews with the lack of a native email/calender/contact applications cited as major points of failure. IF a Playbook owner owned a RIM BB phone, and had a contract with Verizon or Sprint THEN a Playbook owner could use the Bridge Application to allow the Playbook to host the phone’s data.
AT&T owners however have had to wait until now, as AT&T had to ensure that no unauthorized data usage could be taking place….especially since users can connect to the internet through the Bridge App. I understand that AT&T’s network is a creaky aging collection of towers that desperately need new hamsters to maintain the laughable semblance of a network that is currently running (try and use the iPhone in a major market…say New York), but adding the vanishingly few Playbook owners should not imperil the piss poor network ad hoc mishmash. RIM should be seething behind closed doors that AT&T took this long to approve an application that should be baked into the OS at the lowest level.
So, if ( A & B ) or for the math majors out there ( A ∩ B ), means the few who have a Playbook AND a RIM BB AT&T can now use a feature that should have been there date and day of release is now available.
Otherwise, disregard and go about your own business.
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