Palm VII vs BlackBerry

An anonymous reader wrote in to send us a summary of the Palm VII vs the BlackBerry wireless devices. Talks about which would be the better appendage, and the BlackBerry tends to win out- although I've never seen one in person so I can't attest to which is superior.

Comments

BellSouth & BillGates

[Ralph Bearpark]

The technically interesting stuff on the BlackBerry is to be found here. (Needs Acrobat Reader).

It uses BellSouth Wireless Data's "Intelligent Wireless Network" to "serve 93% of the urban U.S. business population, which covers 266 metropolitan statistical areas across the country, as well as major transportation corridors and more than 130 of the nation's top airports." Gosh.

But it looks like it's completely tied in to M$ Exchange/Outlook so Slashdotters should probably look elsewhere. (Or start doing some reverse engineering?)

Regards, Ralph.

This review is badly skewed...

[MythoBeast]

After reading the review, I have to suggest that it is a very poor piece of analysis, or is not very good at explaining itself. It purposely limits the analysis to those qualities where the Blackberry excels over the Palm, and quickly glosses over the Palm's other features.

It is fairly obvious that the Blackberry is a better remote e-mail system (price be damned), but that has always been a peripheral goal for the Palm platform. This is like suggesting that Perl is a better web scripting language than C++.

Something that this article hinted at is that you have to have a desktop machine constantly attached to the net running the Redirector. I know that most of my geek friends have DSL or cable modems, but for the average small business joe, this just isn't practical.

As an aside, I don't care if I can get double my Graffiti speed on the thing, I still wouldn't want to answer e-mail with less than my 100wpm keyboard speed - Id wnd up ansrng my mail lk ths.

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