This matches my thoughts and experience exactly. In fact, when I click on one of the other 3 services, my Curve (using the updated 4.5 beta browser) locks up trying to chew on the non-mobile connections web page and associated scripts that it is sent to.

Profiles should have less clicking, easier search, and show the picture.

Dogear seems to work OK, but this service is not something I would use a lot when mobile.

I have heard that Activities is next up, and to me should have been top priority along with Profiles. Accessing my team's action list could be very useful and really add to the overall value of Connections.

Finally, they demonstrated all of this way back at Lotusphere. I realize the need for testing, but with the nice REST services of Connections our Blackberry team here could have written what has been delivered in a matter of days. Release early, release often!

Humorously? I was using a BleedYellow blog to let other Yellowbleeders with BlackBerries know where to snag the client OTA and how to tie it in to the community's Connections server. Those same steps could be used for ANY Connections server - just substitute URLs... I felt no need to re-hash everything the other bloggers had already posted.

I can't figure out why it's not complete either. Lotus 911 wrote a full LotusScript API in under two weeks and this Client has been under dev for how long?

"Lotus 911 wrote a full LotusScript API in under two weeks"

Not really a fair comparison. That was me and Colin.

@Handly - I would have pictured Activities much sooner also. I guess we wait and see what they come out with on the updates

@Chris - I meant as in how you didnt go into promoting the client itself or features, but let people know how it worked. As the others seemed to pump it up, you just said, here, take this.

@Nathan - teamwork man, teamwork ;-)

@3 - tru, tru... ;)

@4 - gotcha - well others already described it. It's hard enough to keep up with twitter - much less find time to blog!! :)

Yep. browsing on BBs isn't the greatest delight in the first place, and being forced to use a browser interface that completely ignores your device's form factor seems almost regressive.

But, most of our customers (many of them non-Lotus shops) who have or will be using Connections are primarily focused on Profiles. Also, since Dogear can become a de facto "poor man's" search engine for an organization, since it's filled with stuff human beings have found useful recently, RIM most likely focused on bringing that to market first as well.

And for the record, most of the customers I talk to (again, majority of them are non-Lotus shops) do not "get" Activities. I'm forever explaining the differences between it and Quickr/SharePoint. Since I'm in sales, I prefer to focus on the parts they DO get right away, which is usually Profiles and Dogear, which I present as a potential salve for intranet (and internet) search dissatisfaction. Blogs: everybody gets, and nobody wants to deploy, for fear of what people might post. :) Communities: everybody gets, and they're intrigued that they might function as a directory of communities, rather than yet another "place" to commune.

Anyway.

I hear ya, but RIM is doing what the market suggests.

@Gia - I agree with some parts, but I don't agree that RIM is doing what the market suggests. RIM is putting out an application for a specific market that doesn't do all the pieces yet. Yes, they can ship parts at a time, but why not eliminate those or make showing the links and optional part for now until they are ready. I would think the market would want Activities and Profiles (in that order) before Dogears, sicne Dogears takes time to grow to become useful (as with any social bookmark service)