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They're great for what they're designed for (and much less hassle that a lapdog -> GPRS card for text based emails).
I'm not sure about good deals - one of our customers seemed to get a reasonable rate from o2 (free BES software).
If it's for yourself only, how are you doing to set it up? Using the desktop software (which is a pain)?
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I'm not sure about good deals - one of our customers seemed to get a reasonable rate from o2 (free BES software).
If it's for yourself only, how are you doing to set it up? Using the desktop software (which is a pain)?
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I've been umming and urring about getting one for work. Travel an awful lot and currently have laptop with GPRS card. My boss (who I travel with a fair bit) has one and he uses it 100%. To the point where it pisses me off entirely! He's never off e-mail!
It's great for if you are away and can't really get up your laptop, because it means you don't return to the office and see 500 un read e-mails. However, sometimes, just SOMETIMES, it would be nice to be uncontactable!!
realise that if you get one, you'll never be left alone again!!
It's great for if you are away and can't really get up your laptop, because it means you don't return to the office and see 500 un read e-mails. However, sometimes, just SOMETIMES, it would be nice to be uncontactable!!
realise that if you get one, you'll never be left alone again!!
tonyhetherington said:
I've been umming and urring about getting one for work. Travel an awful lot and currently have laptop with GPRS card. My boss (who I travel with a fair bit) has one and he uses it 100%. To the point where it pisses me off entirely! He's never off e-mail!
It's great for if you are away and can't really get up your laptop, because it means you don't return to the office and see 500 un read e-mails. However, sometimes, just SOMETIMES, it would be nice to be uncontactable!!
realise that if you get one, you'll never be left alone again!!
It was the same with mobiles when the first came out - now, how many times does your boss ring you at 2am?
It will take sometime for him to get pissed off with emailing at silly o'clock in the morning, but he will eventually. If not you could always send him one when it's least convenient for him.....
pmanson said:
Got loads of them at work. As far as I am aware you need a server to put the software on that pushs the emails to you. A PC with the right software should be able to do it for you though.
Kind of true. There's server software (Blackberry Enterprise Manager, or BES) and desktop software (Desktop Manager).
BES is aimed at the corporate market and integrated with back end mail servers (such as Exchange, notes etc) and DM is a piece of software which integrates with desktop client software (such as Outlook).
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mcflurry said:
Any ideas of costs?
John
T mobile are doing a deal, free Blackbery and then contract for £39 a month, £29 for loads of calls, and £10 a month for a 50mb email inbox..
McFlurry,
Thanks for that, I already have a mobile though so I am only interested in the email side of things.
John
Blackberry + USB key to hold powerpoints = don't have to carry around a friggin' laptop. Couldn't be without a blackberry now, the email facility being very good indeed, as is the calender function and keeping my contacts details. It's a work one on Vodafone. Used to have a P800 and this is much better.
Blackberry browser is alright for keeping up with PH etc., but clunky and gets confused when it can't resize the images on some sites.
Blackberry browser is alright for keeping up with PH etc., but clunky and gets confused when it can't resize the images on some sites.
I use a Nokia 6600 with Profimail software, polling a POP3 account via GPRS every 5 minutes. Gives me an almost real-time email delivery, and is a fraction of the cost of a Blackberry. Very easy to set up outside a non-corporate environment. Add a bluetooth folding keyboard, and it's a surprisingly usable mobile email platform.
Oh, and just to fill the gaps on the data transfer costs..... relatively frequent use (2-3 times a day) should see a monthly bill of between £30-£60. So not a huge amount. But this is on top of the monthly rental and the fact that its a second mobile phone for most people.....
Is email that important????
Is email that important????
off_again said:
Oh, and just to fill the gaps on the data transfer costs..... relatively frequent use (2-3 times a day) should see a monthly bill of between £30-£60. So not a huge amount. But this is on top of the monthly rental and the fact that its a second mobile phone for most people.....
Is email that important????
Is it really that much? I see that T Mobile are doing a data only (50mb per month) Blackberry for about £20 pm
John
Vesuvius996 said:
I have one. Paid for by work.
Was CHUFFED when I got it.
Now I want to throw the FG thing in the Thames.
Everything he said but the river is the Trent.
Add together a Blackberry, mobile phone, instant messaging, desktop email, text messaging and my landline all equals I cant have a crap in peace these days.
Having said that, it is better than spending the first day back from holiday trawling through a million emails full of crap I dont care about.
Easy to use, the calendar links to my desktop Lotus Notes calendar and it will work as a phone if I want it to but I dont because I have a bluetooth headset for my ageing Nokia 6310i which is still the dogs nads as a business tool.
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