I dropped my cell phone a few months ago, and it ended up with a large crack across the LCD, which to me became the perfect excuse to finally get that Blackberry I’ve always wanted. However, given the uncertainty about the outcome of NTP v. RIM, I decided to hold off on my purchase till after the hearing last week, which was widely expected to provide some closure one way or the other as to whether RIM would be allowed to continue its service in the U.S. Unfortunately, there was no such closure to be found. So, I have a quick question to those more in the know than I: When the media talks of a “Blackberry shutdown”, I assume they’re just talking about a shutdown of the push email service, not a shutdown of all access to the Blackberry network? In other words, if Blackberry is shutdown, I presume I’d still be able to access the web etc.? Or would my brand new Blackberry become little more than an expensive paperweight?
A settlement was just reached…
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/03/technology/rimm_ntp/index.htm?cnn=yes
Well, at least with a blackberry they’re fairly tough.
I have a 16 month old Blackberry 7510, and it’s been dropped several hundred times(the stock plastic holster wasn’t very good, and it doesn’t take much to fall out)
It still works, the paint is largely missing on various spots on the casing, and there’s some cracks on one corner of the case, and there’s metal filings in the speakerphone part. But the screen and buttons and click wheel work flawlessly, and the battery is holding up, with somewhere around 250 full charges-discharges on it(my battery lasts a day and a half, due to hundreds and hundreds of emails a day, all on vibrate, because i can’t hear it ring due to deafness)
About time! Guess what I’m buying tomorrow.. :-) :-) -ian
did you get it finally? i’ve been using one for a while (actually not at the moment as my boss went for a holiday and borrowed it) but i am not as impressed with the device as you seem to me. i’d prefer having a handheld stuff with a simple imap client with which i can browse my emails *online to getting every single of them pushed to me bb. furthermore the fact that without doing a trick – with bbc’ing my own address on every mail and filter them to my sent folder on my mailserver with procmail – i was not able to store my sent items online looks a bit odd to me. how would someone without access to his/her mailserver (shell) achieve the same result?
i’m curious what you’re first imression will be.
frank
ps:
online = in my imap folders
‘…what you’re first…’ should be ‘…what your first…’
btw, i was about to stop the submiting process right after i hit the button and tried to send the corrected one but i got this in my face:
“Sorry, you can only post a new comment once every 15 seconds. Slow down cowboy.” – rotflmao
frank
Yes, I did get one, and I’m very impressed thus far—I’ll try to post my experiences/thoughts when I have some time. -ian