Blackberry 8800g

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:20 pm

DDtB wrote:I feel like Neil tonight...... posting drivel after drinkin toooo much wine... *hic*

That explains it then. The buckfast kicked in early..

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:21 pm

John Reid wrote:
DDtB wrote:I feel like Neil tonight...... posting drivel after drinkin toooo much wine... *hic*

That explains it then. The buckfast kicked in early..

How did you know....

Rag_It · Post by **Rag_It** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:22 pm

Got one and whilst it is switched off most evenings at 6pm on the dot it is invaluable when out of the office, plus my boss is canadian, so supports the brand!

Honeslty though no substitue for a laptop with decent connection, but whilst my crackberry can't open Word docs etc, it will do you for the times you are stuck in airports, and dont have time to fire up the laptop etc.

At the end of the day it comes down to the question of are minutes in repsonding to an e-mail going to make the difference to a client? Quite often i do get e-mails saying thanks for the quick reply given you are out of the office - people do like it!

Just my 2p - i hate the thing, as you find youself looking at it all the time!

Dave

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:22 pm

DDtB wrote:
John Reid wrote:
DDtB wrote:I feel like Neil tonight...... posting drivel after drinkin toooo much wine... *hic*

That explains it then. The buckfast kicked in early..

How did you know....

We know everything... we are watching you... we see you sitting there in your room with the box of tissues.... wahhh ha ha haa.....

time for some more tablets I think

k12chu · Post by **k12chu** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:04 pm

DDtB wrote:Thinking about the XDA orbit myself..... particularly like the built in GPS .. not so fussed about the lack of keyboard as that keeps the size down....

the i paq which i had didnt have a keyboard. and that really didnt bother me at all. touch screen with handwriting recognition made it very easy to use.
the GPS part on the orbit... am really not sure how good thats going to be.

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:32 pm

I dont think lack of keyboard is a problem with a PDA but i find myself opening the keyboard a lot on mine when i'm looking for contacts or sending texts.

Much quicker and easier than getting stylus out etc etc etc

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:47 am

Just noticed Orange have just launched their SPV M700 which is their version of the XDA orbit AFAICT - built in GPS

Prob easy to get free on contract

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/hand ... ay_monthly

k12chu · Post by **k12chu** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:16 pm

Lazydonkey wrote:Just noticed Orange have just launched their SPV M700 which is their version of the XDA orbit AFAICT - built in GPS

Prob easy to get free on contract

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/hand ... ay_monthly

doesnt look as good as the orbit. and it comes free with the business contract i required.
i've never used orange network and after sales service? how would u compare to O2

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:59 pm

Never used O2 but i'm a grumpy cynical barsteward and i've been with orange for about 8 years now !

MacK · Post by **MacK** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:37 pm

Orange customer services were always good to deal with and the network coverage is at least as good as O2 and comprable with Vodaphone (best for Scotland) Although there are still a few areas where only one network will get coverage and the others have nothing, and this can vary between the three of them.

Unfortunatly I'm now with 3 and although the coverage is good, as they use O2, it can drop calls for no reason, and the customer service is terrible

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:48 am

well just ordered my blackberry 8800... t mobile, web n walk package..

thanks for the advice Richard.

Dont need a camera, thats what the EOS350D is for.. word documents etc... laptop..

Email and browsing... plus phone... sorted.

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:08 pm

Think I'm going to go for the XDA orbit then.... not sure about tariffs yet.. probably the 02 online 40 one but it doesn't seem to let you take a data tariff with it too... hmmm

Can someone explain how this push email thing works in real life then... do you pick up the emails using wap/gprs/sms/lan !?!? Trying to figure out what data limit I would require per month... It's all getting a bit tedious...

We currently have a basic peer-to-peer network in the office but about to put in a shiny new server and set it up as a proper network...

Tried asking in the 02 shop but no one there has had any training on that phone so they just handed me a manual....

Cheers!

Dave.

mac · Post by **mac** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:08 pm

I use my D600 for email at the moment. It's set up to poll of mail on the server on demand but can also do it at set intervals.

If you get your new office network to go wireless you can use that to pick up e-mail when your in the office (like you would with a laptop) and then get it to check it at what ever intervals you want when out of the office.

HTH

Mac

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:18 am

DDtB wrote:Can someone explain how this push email thing works in real life then... do you pick up the emails using wap/gprs/sms/lan !?!? Trying to figure out what data limit I would require per month... It's all getting a bit tedious...

AFAIK to do it properly you need Exchange server, and you then sit the blackberry software on the server and it will "push" the email out to yuor handset. Your handset will then use GPRS / 3G to pick up the mail.

You can do it on personal accounts using the blackberry web site but not sure if it is a "bells and whistles" as the exchange version.

You'd want a unlimited browsing package before you do this though!

(BTW as Mac says you can "poll" a server as ofter as you want with most handsets now so you don't need to go down a push email route.)

Blaque · Post by **Blaque** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:55 am

DDtB wrote: Can someone explain how this push email thing works in real life then... do you pick up the emails using wap/gprs/sms/lan !?!? Trying to figure out what data limit I would require per month... It's all getting a bit tedious...
Dave.

You will need Exchange 2003 to have push email, or Exchange 2000 SP2 but that isn't true push email. If you are going for windows mobile 5, you won't need a blackberry server on top. The phone connects to the internet (gprs/EDGE/WiFI) at all times.
Push email sends out an email to your phone as soon as it arrive on your exchange server. personally I find that it reaches the phone quicker than it reaches outlook on your desktop. You can also sync seperatly with your exchange mailbox to update calendar, contact, todo's while out and about.
It works via OWA (Outlook Web Access) which also allows you to logon to your exchange mailbox from any PC, in a hotmail type manner.

If you are worried about data charges, you can restrict the size of the email you receive, and it will be truncated. If you want to see the whole email you can then open it and select download. Another way would be to have the phone poll the server very 10 -20 mins.

I have a T-mobile MDA Compact III about the size of a bar of soap. Web n walk is about £6 a month and thats unlimmited data transfers , 2mp camera, GPS built in. No keyboard though, but I had a PDA2k with a keyboard before, and found that I didn't use it much. The more compact size was a better feature than the use of a keyboard.

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