{"id":38627,"date":"2011-11-22T09:48:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T07:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=38627"},"modified":"2011-11-22T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T08:40:46","slug":"dstv-mobile-comes-to-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/38627-dstv-mobile-comes-to-blackberry.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv Mobile comes to BlackBerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DStv\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/383647-DStv\">DStv<\/a> Mobile will be launching a public beta of the <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> application for their Drifta devices today (22 November 2011).<\/p>\n<p>The mobile broadcaster warned that it couldn\u2019t guarantee minimum performance as the application was still in beta and added that customer feedback on the beta version is important to them.<\/p>\n<p>To collect bug reports and comments from users, <a title=\"DStv Mobile Decoder for BlackBerry - Beta Feedback\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/viewform?formkey=dDBjaEhUUWUyQnpLZllDRFVoVk45cXc6MA#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">DStv Mobile has set up a feedback form<\/a> where users can inform them of errors or give their suggestions on how to improve the application.<\/p>\n<p>This beta release of the application is compatible with the following BlackBerry devices, DStv Mobile revealed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bold 9000<\/li>\n<li>Bold 9700<\/li>\n<li>Curve 8520<\/li>\n<li>Curve 8900<\/li>\n<li>Curve 9300<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The application comes with a disclaimer typical to a beta release which states: \u201cDStv Mobile indemnifies itself from any loss or damage that may occur to any devices as a result of downloading the beta version of the DStv Mobile Decoder Drifta application for select BlackBerry devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to DStv Mobile, a beta version of the software is being released because BlackBerry users have expressed interest in the service and it would like to include subscribers\u2019 input into the product.<\/p>\n<p>DStv Mobile said that it is also working closely with BlackBerry maker <a title=\"Research in Motion (RIM)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313525-Research-in-Motion-%28RIM%29\">Research in Motion<\/a> to ensure a good user experience.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related links<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"DStv Mobile Decoder for BlackBerry - Beta Feedback\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/viewform?formkey=dDBjaEhUUWUyQnpLZllDRFVoVk45cXc6MA#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">DStv Mobile Decoder for BlackBerry &#8211; Beta Feedback<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry beta application now available for DStv Mobile Drifta users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":38347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,1539,35,475,937,99],"class_list":["post-38627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-cellular","tag-blackberry","tag-dstv-mobile","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-research-in-motion","tag-rim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38629,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions\/38629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}