RE: Re: BULK BUY - Blackberry - preliminary feeler.

["Christian Cundall \(Groups\)" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

Just out of interest, have any of you (Gerrard especially) ever used a
Blackberry in a corporate environment?

You will realise how these can become an extension of your arm and the
benefits they provide.


-----Original Message-----
From: PatrickLidstone [mailto:patrick@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 October 2002 08:22
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: BULK BUY - Blackberry - preliminary feeler.


--- In ukha_d@y..., "Gerard McGovern" <stuff@i...>
wrote:
> > gerard, you seem quite knowledgeable on this subject, perhaps
you
can
> > suggest a better way for the UK community?
>
> it all depends what you want to do.
>
> if you just want email on the move, you could argue that any phone
with
> WAP can offer that. taking that a step further, all recent
Ericsson/Sony
> Ericsson phones have a POP3 email client built in and that is my
> preferred method of access.
>
> at the moment, there isn't really a device like blackberry that is
> readily available in the uk. all of them tend to be much bigger
(ie
> 9210, ipaq etc). however, the danger device will be here soon and
palm
> have an interesting device in the pipeline that I can't really say
much
> about :-)
>
> anyway, those are the options. blackberry is a nice idea but a
crap
> execution.

Ericsson have made a good effort with their POP3 client, but as with
the iPaq it's really only suitable for read only use/very terse
replies. The 9210 fairs a little better in this respect, but whilst
the data modem is very resilient and performs well in poor coverage
areas, it only supports circuit-switched data, not GPRS, and the e-
mail client is incredibly sloooowwww to pull mail off servers even on
HSCSD connections - which makes it very expensive. And it's a brick.
Where the blackberry wins in my book is size + battery life +
keyboard + GPRS. It has rough edges as a first gen product, but
nothing else comes close today.

What I really want (really really want...) is a device that takes the
Psion keyboard, and adds integral GPRS & 802.11b with a landscape
format colour screen, Opera browser, decent e-mail client and PC sync
software that works flawlessly in a unit as thick as a Palm. I
suspect I've got a long wait...

Ho hum
Patrick



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