The iphone is almost one year old! In one year this is the best RIM can do?
I'm sure none of the posters on this board have put their own money down on RIM's expensive server software. May I ask what will happen to Rim when everyone else offers free push email? Oh I know look at the symbol PALM for a foreshadow.
The interface is ugly and cumbersome..plain and simple.
I'm pretty sure a lot of BlackBerry users on this forum are on a BlackBerry plan which provides you with push e-mail. Maybe I'm reading your post and interpreting it the wrong way, but I feel you're under the impression that you have to put down a lot of money to experience push e-mail with a BlackBerry but it isn't true.
I'm still unsure what you mean by "free" push e-mail. For BlackBerry's you need BIS (data plan through wireless carrier) or BES (through a company). If I am correct, WinMo devices currently don't have a service equivalent to BIS, in order to get push e-mail to a WinMo device, you would have to be part of a company's Exchange network. But if WinMo devices would come out with an equivalent to BIS, you would still need to pay for a data plan through your wireless carrier in order for it to work.
But even if WinMo devices get something like BIS, it's not likely everyone will jump off the BlackBerry bandwagon and go to WinMo.
As for your reference to Palm, Palm is what it is because they failed to provide improve what they had. Hands down, Palm was the PDA to get, but companies like RIM, Apple and Microsoft took what Palm had and made it better.
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The iphone is almost one year old! In one year this is the best RIM can do?
I'm sure none of the posters on this board have put their own money down on RIM's expensive server software. May I ask what will happen to Rim when everyone else offers free push email? Oh I know look at the symbol PALM for a foreshadow.
The interface is ugly and cumbersome..plain and simple.
I'm pretty sure a lot of BlackBerry users on this forum are on a BlackBerry plan which provides you with push e-mail. Maybe I'm reading your post and interpreting it the wrong way, but I feel you're under the impression that you have to put down a lot of money to experience push e-mail with a BlackBerry but it isn't true.
I'm still unsure what you mean by "free" push e-mail. For BlackBerry's you need BIS (data plan through wireless carrier) or BES (through a company). If I am correct, WinMo devices currently don't have a service equivalent to BIS, in order to get push e-mail to a WinMo device, you would have to be part of a company's Exchange network. But if WinMo devices would come out with an equivalent to BIS, you would still need to pay for a data plan through your wireless carrier in order for it to work.
But even if WinMo devices get something like BIS, it's not likely everyone will jump off the BlackBerry bandwagon and go to WinMo.
As for your reference to Palm, Palm is what it is because they failed to provide improve what they had. Hands down, Palm was the PDA to get, but companies like RIM, Apple and Microsoft took what Palm had and made it better.