Saturday, July 6, 2002
RIM Blackberry - does it have legs?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 11:00 AM
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By now, everyone has seen or heard of the RIM Blackberry device. It is almost mythical in how widespread its use is. The fact is, though, that only 300,000 are in use. RIM sees an incredible churn in its subscriber base. Personally, I wouldn't want one. Email push is very enticing, but it is about 10% of what I use my Pocket PC for. Between ebooks, music, Pocket Mindmap, PIM and so many other functions, the Blackberry just comes up short. I can get email via my Pocket PC and am looking forward to the Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition coming to my Sprint PCS store, or Cingular if they ever get off of their kiester and get GSM/GPRS in middle Tennessee. (Feeling another cell phone infrastructure rant coming on.)
So, what about you? Do you use, or have you used the Blackberry? I am interested in why you carry that with your Pocket PC or why you gave it up.
By now, everyone has seen or heard of the RIM Blackberry device. It is almost mythical in how widespread its use is. The fact is, though, that only 300,000 are in use. RIM sees an incredible churn in its subscriber base. Personally, I wouldn't want one. Email push is very enticing, but it is about 10% of what I use my Pocket PC for. Between ebooks, music, Pocket Mindmap, PIM and so many other functions, the Blackberry just comes up short. I can get email via my Pocket PC and am looking forward to the Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition coming to my Sprint PCS store, or Cingular if they ever get off of their kiester and get GSM/GPRS in middle Tennessee. (Feeling another cell phone infrastructure rant coming on.)
So, what about you? Do you use, or have you used the Blackberry? I am interested in why you carry that with your Pocket PC or why you gave it up.
