RIM Color BlackBerry 7230 Review

securitas submits this painfully well-linked piece: "eWEEK reviews the RIM BlackBerry 7230 color handheld, Research In Motion's latest combination wireless e-mail/phone/PDA, and the first BlackBerry to feature a full-color display. The tri-band GSM/GPRS J2ME device features a 240-by-160-pixel, 65,000-color display, 16 MB flash +2 MB SRAM, an Intel 386 32-bit chip, SMS, an HTML browser (missing from the preceding BlackBerry 5810), a claimed 4 hours talk/10 days standby removable/rechargeable lithium-ion battery, POP3/IMAP/Exchange/Notes wireless e-mail for up to 10 accounts with file attachment management, security via Triple DES encryption, USB sync/recharging and the usual organizer functions. RIM squeezes it all into a 4.8 oz/136g, 4.4x2.9x0.8 inch/11.3x7.4x2.0 cm package (tech specs at RIM). The BlackBerry 7230 is exclusive to T-Mobile USA until 2004 and costs about $400. With this release, RIM is moving the BlackBerry into the prosumer/consumer market to expand its customer base beyond enterprise users. The release comes amid speculation of BlackBerry doom following RIM's recent patent ruling loss and ahead of the highly anticipated Handspring Treo 600, its direct competition (which includes the MS Pocket PC Phone Edition Smartphone and the Palm Tungsten W). More at Wired News, E-Commerce Times, InfoWorld and Forbes/Reuters."

Comments

This article sucks

[maroberts]

The intro is too long and is painful to read, almost like a troll article. Couldn't you have split it into a few lines of intro and a main text section?

Let me be the first to say...

[billyradcliffe]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...! OK, how's that for my first /. post? Do I fit in?

Who needs this ?

[rainer_d]

I've never seen the market for these kinds of appliances. They're to clunky to be useful as a phone and to small to be a real laptop.
And if that wasn't enough, the software is completely proprietary ("end-to-end proprietary", in marketing-speak).

If you can't stay away some hours from your email, you'd better never leave the office.

Rainer