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GroupWise must be gaining traction. Research In Motion is going to support it for its BlackBerry platform it:

BlackBerry Enterprise Server support for Novell GroupWise

Forgot to mention: Steve Punter's Southern Ontario Cell Phone Page is a great resource for information on the North American cellphone market from the consumer viewpoint. (Well, it's really about the Canadian market, but the same technologies are used in the US.) He has a good explanation of the various technologies available in the North American market, and links to all the carriers in Canada. I find the coverage maps (like this one for my area) pretty useful.

At least the BlackBerry is designed and built here, so we're not totally behind!

Nevermind that Palm schtuff. Have a look at this badboy; RIM's Blackberry 7100

Not clunky and slow *at all*. Crisp. Slick. Sweet.

Its the best PDA/Phone on the market bar none, hands down.

This would be great for a subnotebook PC, like the Toshiba Libretto.

It's good progress, but still not what I ideally want: a device that is completely a standard PC, but in the form factor of a Gameboy Advance SP! The GBA SP is an ideal design: it is small, and has a flip-up screen that is sturdy and locks into a convenient position. If small buttons were used to form a fully-functional keyboard, as on the BlackBerry, and a small touchpad nearby for the mouse, this would be wonderful to have! The PC would have decent 3D graphics for games compatibility, a micro hard drive similar to the iPod, and of course Wi-Fi and GPRS wireless data support.

Does any company want to merge this pocketful of present-day devices into a future dream machine that could do it all?

IMAP/POP3/Web based (hotmail, msn, etc)

http://www.blackberry.com/support/client/index.sht ml?CPID=ILC-nabwcsupport

Okay, fans, how does this compare to the T-Mobile Sidekick or RIM Blackberry?


My company just switched over all us to the the
Blackberry 7750 on the Verizon network.

The BB is an awesome device for email / calendar / contacts, but it totally totally sucks as a phone. Its lacking features that are present in even the most basic phones today. Some examples

(a) I cannot have a custom ring-tone for a specific number. So now everytime my phone rings, I need to actually look at the phone in order to figure out if this is call from my boss/wife

(b) No voice-activated dialing.

(c) No auto-detect of hands-free mode. Most phones
can be configured to "auto answer" (or "auto answer if incoming number is in address book") in the hands-free mode, and the phone will automatically switch to hands free mode when you plug in the headset. Not the Blackberry

The list goes on and on ...

As PDA, my main complaint is the lack of good (and free) 3rd party software. No RPN, Pocket
Quicken, etc. etc.

Here are some specs on the Blackberry 957.

It think my Blueberry (Blackberry 7510) smacks 'em all down.

Phone
Email
Web
PDA
Java

Yummy. It may be some fork of Linux, but I'm not sure.

A BlackBerry is a handheld, wireless mobile e-mail device and organizer manufactured by Research In Motion (RIM). It differs from other mobile e-mail devices because it uses a push-based technology to deliver e-mail, instead of the traditional model where you would have to manually retrieve e-mails from the server.

The newer models have mobile phones built in. They are very addictive to use and as a result have earned the nickname CrackBerry.

Blackberry

Older models run for cheap...new models are SLICK.

Those things are kinda cool (802.11b on one of them, even!), but a bit big at 1.9" H x 12.4 " W x 9.3" D and 2.0 lbs.

Why not go get a Blackberry.

Yeah, they work for Corel, Alias, Hummingbird, MKS, Cognos, Zero Knowledge, Blackberry, Nothern Telecom ...

I can't believe this has not been repeated several times already, but get a BlackBerry. With a desktop redirector installed on your home windows machine (dont know if other OSes are supported) you can get always on email, calendering and contacts. And of course they are cell phones too..with a QWERTY keyboard

Bit on a pricey side ~$400.

blackberry.com

Bah, look at this

That is a PDA/Phone combo worth getting!

The RIM 7200 Series is by far the best PDA/GSM Phone/StarTrek TriCorder ever created. Show him *that*.

Seeing one might make it obvious. Here's a picture. Note the screen size.

It's "always on." Mail is delivered to the handheld automatically, instead of check-retrieve. See the website for the list of benefits.

Seeing one might make it obvious. Here's a picture. Note the screen size.

It's "always on." Mail is delivered to the handheld automatically, instead of check-retrieve. See the website for the list of benefits.

The RIM 950 does not run Windows CE -- it runs a custom proprietary operating system, which was developed, in house. If you don't believe it then read a bit:
Operating System API Developer's Guide for Blackberry 2.5 This atrociously incorrect fact aside, I would have to say that this post happens to be somewhat ill informed on several counts.

People type with their thumbs on Blackberrys. I use my thumbs to type on a Palm i705 with mini-keyboard. I suppose with such a small laptop Sony thinks people will do the same thing.

And Slashdot back in late March mentioned a recent study that showed that "'...the use of gadgets such as mobile phones and GameBoys has caused a physical mutation in young people's hands. The use of the thumb is a deviation from the use of the index finger...'"

*shrugs*

"I have not slept a wink"