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Managing Notifications in BlackBerry Torch A Challenge

Aug 31, 2010 News

When Android phones are getting the larger market share, what Blackberry needs is a superb product to regain its lost place. Unfortunately, the BlackBerry Torch is not the one which can do the job for RIM. At least managing the notifications are bit difficult in this Smartphone.

The Torch comes with a universal message center which can store all the updates from your e-mail, Blackberry Messenger, Facebook, and the online presence. That sounds pretty interesting right? But it’s actually a tedious task to acknowledge the updates without reading the full e-mail or the Facebook message.

Even though the e-mail and messages are acknowledged, read or deleted on the Web, using a service like Google’s GMail, the notifications still stay in the message center as if they have never been read on the phone.

However the short welcome note, slide mechanism, a great physical keypad, a full-featured web browser etc. Are the plus points of this set.

BlackBerry app developers are expecting a quick update from RIM to fix this glitch.

Tags: BlackBerry Torch, Message notification, RIM