Blackberry Review – OS 5 on Javelin 8900

Posted by Santo on 5.26.2011

Intrigued by the OS 5.xxx, finally dared to experiment with, because my device is a javelin 8900, the trial carried out with OS 5 2 OS leak is: 5.0.0.93 and 5.0.0.130, OS 5.0.0.100 I could not try because they do not get download link :-) OS rata2 leak this link does not last long, so fast so anyone who can, not to mention having to compete with the trial of other countries, so the chance to download the very small. anyway, in general, OS 5, an improvement on previous OS versions, in which (supposedly) faster (Snappy), a small memory leak and have additional features / fixes. for this leak version, frankly stability of each OS version (including leak on the Bold and Storm) is still lacking, and sometimes devices can freeze for no reason.
Overall, OS 5 is very interesting, especially for feature2 such as:
  1. flag email
  2. multiple tab browser
  3. Blackberry Messenger 5 which is better
  4. google gears
  5. etc.
because the beta version, then the OS that there is certainly still has shortcomings, such as:
  1. applications facebook can not be used
  2. messenger application can not be used (there are some users managed to inject Yahoo Messenger on OS 5.0)
  3. Random Freeze on applications such as browsers and mail
based on the information I found on the forum pinstack.com, OS 5 will be released before the Christmas holiday and new year 2009 (hopefully not stretch) and the latest blackberry type2 be directly installed with OS 5.0, unfortunately, I did not get a confirmation whether OS 5 can Blackberry devices were installed on OS 4.5 (curve 83xx, 88xx Huron and Pearl 81xx series). I guess, OS 4.5 can not be upgraded to OS 5 with 2 reasons:
  1. Small RAM memory (64MB)
  2. increase sales opportunities and the latest series to end life cycle support on OS 4.5.
once again, this is just a guess, hopefully this does not happen.
nah, the text below will show some features / changes that occur in OS 5.0 is interesting to observe.
Browser multitab
yup, like the development of a desktop browser on a PC, then in OS 5, the browser has the ability to open multiple pages at once, ie you want to direct to browse kompas.com, detik.com and lewatmana.com.
Multitab browsing on OS5
Multitab browsing on OS5
Menu New Tab untuk mengakses link situs lain
New Menu tab to access the other site links
browsing speed is very significant increase in OS 5, but hopefully the official release has brought a shortcut to switch tabs without having to use menus.
One more new one, is Google Gears is integrated with the blackberry, not too obvious for this menu on the blackberry, if the google myself " That extension allows to navigate on compatible websites offline and synchronize Pls going back online. "but to find out more, please go to the gears . google . com
Google gears yang diintegrasikan dengan blackberry
Google gears are integrated with blackberry
BlackBerry Messenger ( BBM )
Well, the most interesting feature of this second, fuel version 5, bringing major changes, most changes are:
  1. view listing our friend who now can display the icon image of our choice, including the recent activity of the fuel we - like on facebook highlights.
    home of blackberry 5.0
    home of blackberry 5.0
    BBM recent activity over all contacts
    BBM recent activity over all contacts
  2. the ability to backup / restore listing our friend and conversation history, so when we do upgrade / downgrade, all the data id fuel our colleagues can easily be restored.
    Backup and restore contact BBM
    Backup and restore contact BBM
  3. besides the function of 'manual' above, our handsets will be connected with RIM's servers, so that our PIN data id numbers automatically backed up by RIM, I several times tried to upgrade / downgrade WITHOUT restore contact id fuel my colleagues, because the fuel auto-restored OS 5 by RIM server when connected to a network BIS.
  4. the QR barcode to make it easier on the inside to add id fuel us.
    QR barcode identifikasi blackberry baru
    QR barcode identification of new blackberry
  5. rekan2 a worry for the PIN numbers distributed to the wrong people, or the difficulty to remember your PIN number, RIM brings new solutions, namely QR barcode (which is a combination of PIN + IMEI), which can be distributed to others, or if you meet with colleagues who want mengadd your PIN, simply display the page QR barcode and your colleagues who also use the fuel 5 live to add a camera via blackberry.
Email
  1. In the email application on the OS before, there is no feature to mark where the emails that require follow up or further attention from you, well in fuel 5, there is a new feature called Flag for follow-up that we can define on the basis of the existing options and can be marked with a color / colors are different. very helpful especially to remind us when I had to concentrate on is another.
    flag your email to follow up latter
    flag your email to follow up latter
    flag within your category and color mark
    flag within your category and color mark
  2. if you're careful, every email received, especially the email had an attachment has a status bar during download. function well in OS 5.0 was added to each of us SUBMIT, so that we can know how far the process of sending her an email attachment. one simple improvement is good.
    email sending status bar-simple but usefull
    email sending status bar-simple but usefull
Profile
one of the most striking changes in OS 5 is the profile management or we used to know as a feature to change the ringtone for various conditions. The biggest changes are:
  1. Profile properly categorized by type email, phone, instant messenger, IM functions. entirely to the drill down. in my experiment, this function is even already integrated with berrybuzz without any problem, especially for the reminder function that will be added to sound settings and led blinkingnya in Profile.
    new profile interface more options and simple to access
    new profile interface more options and simple to access
  2. There is a function of the volume of ringtone, you can set soft to the loudest sound ringtone us, there are 10 levels of volume that we can choose. In OS 4.6.1.xxx, blackberry Javelin experiencing one weakness, namely the sound of a ringtone that is not optimal and the small volume of his voice, then in OS 5 it does not happen again.
    No more: low,medium and high, specific 1 through 10
    No more: low,medium and high, specific 1 through 10
Options
On the Options menu, there are some features that used in the other option is to have separate options, one of which is:
Applications
if this function was seen in advanced functions, so now appliations has its own page, and it looks very nice and easy to use when trying to delete an application or change permissions.
applicaition menu with listed applications
application menu with listed applications
new way to delete and edit permissions
new way to delete and edit permissions
then in every field in the options, changed and shaped a bit like OS 4.7.xx on 95xx series devices (storm), prominent and-bevel effect.
interesting font with interesting new field interface
interesting font with interesting new field interface
also adding option2 that has never existed in the previous OS, I estimate until the official release, this option will increase.
Media
The last but the interesting feature is the addition of the functions of the Media, namely:
Icon Video
Direct access functions such as audio functions, direct access list of videos we have, so no need to go into the Media had to access the video menu.
icon access direct to video collections
icon access direct to video collections
Image view
If the OS before, in reviewing previous / next picture must be done manually, then in OS 5, just move the trackball left / right to go to previous / next picture, cool feature.

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