Unlike the the RIM 950, Blackberry and palm 7 that use the 8kb Mobitex/RAM (BSWD) you can get a RIM 850 that uses the ARDIS (DataTAC) network. Altough the battery life isn't as good, the towers are in the center of the "cells" rather than the edges and its slower speed option (4.8kb or 19.2kb) and 25kHz vs 12.5kHz channel spacing gives it better in building coverage for any given tower. (but more towers do win and BSWD is building faster) But the main reasion you want it is because reads your IMAP folders directly and even stores messages you typed on the pager in your IMAP Sent folder!! none of that blackbarry M$-exchange redirectors. And an unlimited airtime plan..
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Unlike the the RIM 950, Blackberry and palm 7 that use the 8kb Mobitex/RAM (BSWD) you can get a RIM 850 that uses the ARDIS (DataTAC) network. Altough the battery life isn't as good, the towers are in the center of the "cells" rather than the edges and its slower speed option (4.8kb or 19.2kb) and 25kHz vs 12.5kHz channel spacing gives it better in building coverage for any given tower. (but more towers do win and BSWD is building faster) But the main reasion you want it is because reads your IMAP folders directly and even stores messages you typed on the pager in your IMAP Sent folder!! none of that blackbarry M$-exchange redirectors. And an unlimited airtime plan..