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Browsing the BB App World, I came across the BB app which I downloaded for my BB Z10. It pretty much mirrors the mobile portal, but has some shortcomings, which I believe should be adressed.

1) It feels like a ported Android app (might just be), because it's very slow and lags badly. It's not a typical Z10 app in terms of performance. Loading is much slower than accessing/ loading the mobile portal

2) It asks for a username and password each time I login, which the mobile app does not. As a result, I can get to and execute on the mobile portal way faster than if I were using the downloaded app. It should allow the user to store the username and password if so chosen. If I lose my device, I can always kill it remotely.

If login security is the concern here, to prevent unauthorized access to the D2/3S in case the mobile device is lost or stolen, would be to add the ability at the mobile portal whereby the user can view a list of Mac addresses (on the D2/3S) that have accessed it and offer the option of including/ excluding access to the actual device via Mac address blocks, just like a firewall or router, then a reset of the device at the portal, in case users accidentally delete all of the "allowed" Mac addresses.

I deleted the app, as I found I can perform everything through the browser much faster than the local app. If this is a ported Android app, I get it, if it's a native BB app, I will say it needs work to get it running at least as fast as the mobile portal., and it should be faster and smoother.

Here's the link to the app --

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore ... /20407217/

This app has nothing to do with Eyezon.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It will be "dealt" with.

So then it must be a ported Android app, which would explain my post!

It's not an app at all. It's just a link to our mobile website.

No, there's something else going on - because I had run it a few times before deletion and it does not show a browser open anywhere on the Z10, in addition to which, colours are not exactly the same - and...it runs very slow when compared to the mobile portal. It also reports as being 180k as a download and has some bulk to it when installed on my Z10. If what you say is correct, the link I have on my Z10 - and this app should run and look exactly the same, and on my Z10, they are not, nor does my browser ask me if I want to remember the user_name and password, which it always does in the browser. I do not think it's just a link...not from my experience with it anyway. It looks like it is an app that was designed to mimic the mobile portal. Try it!

Steve, I just checked and indeed this is just a browser wrapper. I can see in real-time the URL requests come into the mobile server as I use this "app".

The browser reports to the server as a "PlayBook".

...was thinking about why it doesn't show up in the native browser on my Z10 and figured it might be its own browser. Not sure what the point was for whoever developed it to do so...

Ran into one of the eyez-on team at the Security Canada expo last week, and mentioned about the "app" being broken. He suggested logging in from a browser to "refresh" the credentials.
Just reporting that it didn't work on the Z30.
Will use the standard browser from now on.