BlackBerry’s dark cloud

'spose if you're a lawyer best place to be is there...
 
Let me open a can of worms:
Having looked carefully at this product, as well as testing other competing
mobile solutions, I believe that BlackBerry is about to pass it's sell by date.
BlackBerry may well be new in SA, but in North America it's been around
for a long time and besides being surpassed by newer technologies, suffers
from other weak points:
1. Proprietary handset that offer little choice and don't have decent voice
capabilities.
2. The American BlackBerry product Is not compatible with the European one.
3. Push technology is quite disruptive .... unless you don't have a life!
4. Uses International bandwidth ... using RIM's servers.

The newer technologies offer the following advantages:
1. Can be used on a number of Cellular Platforms, including Nokia, Ericsson, PalmOne and iMate etc.
2. Make use of superior compression technology (GPRS- As low as 4c an update)
3. Uses Local bandwidth.

As for me:
I prefer using Layer One's Technology (Supplied by IS) using iMate hardware.
 
dbnnet said:
Let me open a can of worms:
Having looked carefully at this product, as well as testing other competing
mobile solutions, I believe that BlackBerry is about to pass it's sell by date.
BlackBerry may well be new in SA, but in North America it's been around
for a long time and besides being surpassed by newer technologies, suffers
from other weak points:
1. Proprietary handset that offer little choice and don't have decent voice
capabilities.
2. The American BlackBerry product Is not compatible with the European one.
3. Push technology is quite disruptive .... unless you don't have a life!
4. Uses International bandwidth ... using RIM's servers.

The newer technologies offer the following advantages:
1. Can be used on a number of Cellular Platforms, including Nokia, Ericsson, PalmOne and iMate etc.
2. Make use of superior compression technology (GPRS- As low as 4c an update)
3. Uses Local bandwidth.

As for me:
I prefer using Layer One's Technology (Supplied by IS) using iMate hardware.
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Sure their handset arent the most exquisite visions of beauty which is why Nokia is supposed to be offering a BB solution on many of their symbian phones soon - if not already.

Quite a few of the Blackberry handsets are triband (7230, 7730, 7280, 6230, etc) facilitating use in North America, Europe, Africa, etc - all thats needed is gprs. America used to be a problem but they're rapidly joining the rest of the world by moving away from analogue.

Push technology is only as disruptive as you want it to be. Nobody is forcing you to read your email as it comes in just like nobody forces you to read those annoying smses. For me my bb was a lifesaver these past days when getting email via uunet was a nightmare.

A tip for bb users - did you know you can send PIN messages from device to device at no charge?
 
Dark cloud?

Big deal about nothing if you ask me - MS product requires an exchange server on the other side...
What's so cool about push? Firstly I prefer to receive mail when I check (as easy as a few clicks). Secondly, I don't feel like paying for spam - i sometimes stop download and check webmail if there is alot to do. Push technology just guarantees service providers income. What if I had a bone to pick with someone and decided to spam them with 5mb mails? They may not check until a gig later! Dont go getting any ideas now...
 
To me it seems its the cheapest way to get email while on the go. Also, I have a gmail account acting as a general backup for all my email accounts so I have that auto-forwarded to the bb to filter out the worst of the spam.

Its just a matter of convenience really. Cheaper than sending out constant smses especially overseas which cost R1.5+ a pop and those sms savings alone pay for the subscription.

With the bb mail bombing wouldnt have any influence on the price seeing as its a flat rate.
 
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