Official: New Features Of BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) 4.1

By Mauricio

RIM recently made details official for BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) 4.1 in the BlackBerry Technical Solution Center. It’s been a while since BIS was updated, the last update to 4.0 happened in May. Here is a summary of the changes for BIS 4.1:

Improved large email and native attachment support
No interruption to email flow on SIM swap
Inbox priming for new account integrations
Additional language support

RIM doesn’t mention when BIS 4.1 will roll out but now that the details are official I’m sure we won’t have to wait much longer. Check out the full knowledge base article with more info below!

The BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) is designed to provide BlackBerry smartphone users with access to email messaging, instant messaging, Internet browsing, and more. BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers can receive automatic delivery of email messages from up to ten email accounts on their BlackBerry smartphones.
The following is a list of new features being introduced with BlackBerry Internet Service 4.1:
Improved large email and native attachment support
Subscribers using BlackBerry smartphones with BlackBerry® 7 installed can:
receive email messages that are up to 11MB in size
download attachments in their original format that are up to 8MB in size
view up to 300KB in an HTML email message
No interruption to email flow on SIM swap
Subscribers who insert a new SIM card in to their BlackBerry smartphone, including SIM cards from a different wireless service provider, no longer experience email flow interruptions. The BlackBerry Internet Service only stops sending email to a smartphone when the subscriber deletes all data from the smartphone, not when a new SIM card is inserted in to the smartphone.
Due to this change, before selling a smartphone, subscribers must delete all data from the smartphone (security wipe) to protect personal information, including email messages and synchronized contacts and calendar events. For more information on performing a security wipe, please see KB28225.
Note: This functionality will be available when BlackBerry Internet Service 4.1 is released in all regions.
Inbox priming for new account integrations
When a subscriber adds an email address to a smartphone, the inbox on the subscriber’s smartphone is pre-populated with up to 20 existing email messages from the email account.
Additional language support
Latvian and Lithuanian are supported by the BlackBerry Internet Service. Emails received in these languages can now be viewed on BlackBerry smartphones.