Any tried a Blackberry out yet?

[Benguin]

I'm looking for something whizzy to replace my psion and my mobile phone.

Blackberry looks interesting ... anyone got any wisdom let me in on?

[evildave]

Provide a link: http://www.blackberry.com/

It looks like a larger than average cel phone with some PDA functionality. It appearts to be Java based development on yet another cel phone platform.

Ho-hum.

[Benguin]

Originally posted by evildave
Provide a link: http://www.blackberry.com/

It looks like a larger than average cel phone with some PDA functionality. It appearts to be Java based development on yet another cel phone platform.

Ho-hum.

Well yes. I find mobile phones irritating technology too.

I just wondered if anyone had actually used one ... I've gone got hold of one now, there seems to be very little software about (or decent software) so I might feel I'm not completely wasting my time knocking some java stuff together.

[evildave]

My cel phone's an LG VX 4400. It has some cheesy scheduling and phone number list stuff. It was a small step up from my 'Data Bank' watch. Not as bulky as that Blackberry thing appears to be, but it's still bulky. Unless you're a woman who can carry that thing around in a purse, the phone looks like it will be a brick of a thing to carry around.

[ShowMe]

Originally posted by Benguin
Blackberry looks interesting ... anyone got any wisdom let me in on?

I work a t amedium sized business where my main job is Systems Administrator. Every manager here uses a Blackberry.

The good: They're incredibly mobile. They get your email. They remove the need to carry a cell phone and a PDA.

The bad: If you synch to an Exchange server & don't have a Blackberry server at your shop, there are two ways to get your mail:

1.) Use the online web client, which logs into your system, gets your mail & relays it. This means you have to go into the web client on occasion & clean out your mailbox, since the message is kept both on your server & on your web mail.

2.) Use the desktop synch agent, which runs on your computer at work. It gets the stuff from your mailbox & forwards it to your Blackberry.

The cell phone reception sucks. I have yet to have someone call me on one of those things & have a clear conversation.

The Calendar will not synch "over the wire" unless you're running a Blackberry server.



If you only need a cell phone on occasion and the only thing you want it for is getting email & other PDA capabilities, they're a decent machine.