thanks to everyone who has been beating the hell out of our RIM Blackberry Mobile Feed Reader - there is clearly demand for this application on this platform so stick with us and the official release will be worth the wait.
we released this basically to test on which networks the blackberry can access the network and where it cant - and the good news is most enterprises do have their gateways configured to allow access, and consumers who puchase directly from the carrier are in good shape as well. Verizon is the one exception, but we have a solution for that which will be available in the next build.
Most of the comments have been around the UI, which was a straight port from our MIDP1 version for mobile phones with a couple key tweaks for the blackerry.
Although MIDP runs on the blackberry, i don't think it's totally appropriate. blackberry users expect the user interface to act a certain way based on their experience with the other blackberry applets, and a lot of these things you just don't have control over on the blackberry MIDP1 platform.
With that in mind, we will look seriously at putting a native blackberry UI on the application, which should give you a lot more control over the menus and defaults and such.
this is an emerging trend anyway - your UI has to be custom for the device whether you are developing on BREW, J2ME, Symbian, etc. I was at a meeting at Verizon last week where they were looking at a bunch of application prototypes - and any application that looks remotely like a WAP stack met with high criticism. custom studio looking UIs - apparently, the people have spoken.
