blackbury

[UKBoB]

Keep hearing about the blackbury... what models are there, different networks(?) which is the best to go for (different prices in the range etc?)

I know nothing about them, other than the fact everyone seems to have one!

[agent006]

www.blackberry.net/uk/products/handhelds/index.shtml

They're available on everything except orange as far as i know (based on having never seen one on orange).

[_deejay_]

agent006 said:

www.blackberry.net/uk/products/handhelds/index.shtml They're available on everything except orange as far as i know (based on having never seen one on orange).

Someone tell that to the device sitting next to me then!
Works fine on Orange - in fact it will work fine on any GPRS network....

[off_again]

Yep, Vodafone and Orange currently do them, but if you dont have a corporate email (Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange) then you will need to pay for a service from one of the service providers.

Basically it forwards email to the phone and hence needs access to your email box. Vodafone currently does a service which can support this, but its pricey. Alternatively you can use something like Exchange, but you will need a new server called a BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) which sends out the info to the wireless network.

www.vodafone.co.uk/cgi-bin/COUK/portal/ep/browse.do?channelPath=/Vodafone+Portal/Business+Services/Email+anywhere/BlackBerry

Cracking solution - but do you really want to have access to your email 100% of the time?

[_deejay_]

off_again said:

Yep, Vodafone and Orange currently do them, but if you dont have a corporate email (Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange) then you will need to pay for a service from one of the service providers. Basically it forwards email to the phone and hence needs access to your email box. Vodafone currently does a service which can support this, but its pricey. Alternatively you can use something like Exchange, but you will need a new server called a BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) which sends out the info to the wireless network. www.vodafone.co.uk/cgi-bin/COUK/portal/ep/browse.do?channelPath=/Vodafone+Portal/Business+Services/Email+anywhere/BlackBerry Cracking solution - but do you really want to have access to your email 100% of the time?

You don't - trust me! BES is one way of doing it, or you could use a managed BES instance or if you've got a broadband connected PC at home, use it to forward messages to your blackberry...

[off_again]

_deejay_ said:

You don't - trust me! BES is one way of doing it, or you could use a managed BES instance or if you've got a broadband connected PC at home, use it to forward messages to your blackberry...

Who does that then?

Not sure about the forwarding thing though - one of the great things about the BES solution is that it strips stuff down and scales it accordingly. Not sure how it would cope with spam as well.... nice idea though.

[sadako]

Best plan, Get a nokia symbian phone. No problem to connect it to a standard POP mail account.