The September 30th deadline for my BlackBerry Bounty has arrived, and unfortunately I haven’t seen a working solution from any of the folks who are working on it.
I have, however, been in touch quite a bit this week with Daniel Pasco. Daniel has been working feverishly to meet the bounty deadline, and I’ve used a pretty darn interesting looking proof of concept app he put together.
He’s confident that he can get the kinks worked out and have a solution within a week or so. He’s looking at a few different solutions to the main issue he’s run into, and I believe he’ll be able to solve it and get things working.
If he succeeds within the next week, I plan to award him the bounty money. If you contributed to the bounty and wish to receive a refund instead, let me know and I will honor my promise to refund per the terms I originally stated.
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Jason adds this Comment:
This is very exciting; if Daniel’s looking for another guinea pig to help test this out, I’m game. My email address is attached to this comment, and yep, it’ll get to me.
October 1st, 2006 at 2:16 pm
John adds this Comment:
I am also willing to test.
October 3rd, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Henry adds this Comment:
Perhaps when OS 4.2 is released for the 8700 that the Bluetooth modem script for the 8100 might work?
October 3rd, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Daniel Pasco adds this Comment:
That’s a good point, but it presupposes that RIM is interested in making that feature available to the rest of its product line.
The 8100 series is definitely a consumer model. The qwerty line is targeted primarily at business and government customers, which have strict policies regarding this kind of functionality.
I could be wrong, obviously, but the functionality would be trivial for RIM to add to the Blackberry series and they could have done it a long time ago. The absence of BT DUN is conspicuous and implies a policy of intentional omission, at least, to date.
To put it another way, I think that it’s worth risking the effort to develop it myself, which is why we are doing so.
-Daniel
October 4th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Craig adds this Comment:
So how is the development coming, I’m dying to see something actually work under native 10.4. This is the only thing that is making me consider a switch to HTC… Do you think you’ll have something fairly functional by the end of the week? Thanks.
-Craig
October 4th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Joshua Karp adds this Comment:
This is exciting indeed….I too am willing and eager to help with this test if need be…my email is in this post..
Josh
October 5th, 2006 at 10:27 am
John adds this Comment:
So,
How it goes? what’s the status? I am very very interested.
October 10th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Information is only being passed along to those who contributed to the bounty, as it is available, at the moment.
October 10th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
John adds this Comment:
Well,
Still would be fair to share info? We all want the same thing here. and, some of us can help.
If needed, I can help code. C,C++,perl,java,asm. few others.
October 12th, 2006 at 4:53 am
Alex adds this Comment:
When there is public information to share, I will share it.
October 12th, 2006 at 7:43 am
Alex adds this Comment:
I’m closing comments here, please add any questions, etc. to the FAQ post.
October 19th, 2006 at 11:59 am