There's a time after BlackBerry

Alexander Turcic · 02-20-2006, 05:02 PM

Folks, don't get me wrong: I'm not a BlackBerry hater. I am just fed up with these companies and their lawsuits, with one party always suing the other. Fact is, the BlackBerry has been an innovative device that is now likely to be replaced by a competiting product, should the endless feud between RIM and NTP not end soon. SearchMobileComputing has a quick write up of how senior executives are already planning for the switch, and quite successfully so.

At the American Indian-owned Viejas Casino in Alpine, Calif., BlackBerrys are an essential part of doing business in an around-the-clock environment, said CIO Moti Vyas. About 130 BlackBerrys are in use. The casino has been testing Microsoft solutions since November 2005, about the time it first heard about BlackBerry's patent battle, Vyas said. "First we upgraded our e-mail system to accept [Microsoft's Exchange Server] 2003, and then we bought two devices in December, Treo 650 and Treo 700. We are testing Treo 700, as we speak, and it is working. That device can send and receive e-mails, of course, and it is best on Windows Mobile operating system," Vyas said.

[via Palm Addict]

Zire · 02-21-2006, 12:12 AM

A friend of mine is concerned about this too and is not going to buy a blackberry because of it. Doesn't the treo 650 have push email as well?

Alexander Turcic · 02-21-2006, 03:14 AM

Nope it doesn't, at least not unless some third party is going to provide it. Neither does the 700w offer push e-mail as of now.

cervezas · 02-21-2006, 08:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexander

Nope it doesn't, at least not unless some third party is going to provide it. Neither does the 700w offer push e-mail as of now.

Going to provide it? Push email has been available and popular on the Treos for years thanks to software from vendors like Intellisync , Consilient , Visto and Good. Now there's even an open source push email solution that supports Palm OS (and most other platforms) from Funambol.

Palm's approach differs from Microsoft's and RIM's in that they have generally wanted to cultivate an ecosystem of vendors for things like enterprise email and PIM sync rather than try to lock people into a single proprietary technology.

rmeister0 · 02-21-2006, 02:21 PM

Windows Mobile 5 + Exchanger Server 2003 SP 2 provides push mail capabilities. I wish to god we'd had that available to us instead of having to install the Blackberry Enterprise Server into our organization.

02-20-2006, 05:02 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	There's a time after BlackBerry Folks, don't get me wrong: I'm not a BlackBerry hater. I am just fed up with these companies and their lawsuits, with one party always suing the other. Fact is, the BlackBerry has been an innovative device that is now likely to be replaced by a competiting product, should the endless feud between RIM and NTP not end soon. SearchMobileComputing has a quick write up of how senior executives are already planning for the switch, and quite successfully so. At the American Indian-owned Viejas Casino in Alpine, Calif., BlackBerrys are an essential part of doing business in an around-the-clock environment, said CIO Moti Vyas. About 130 BlackBerrys are in use. The casino has been testing Microsoft solutions since November 2005, about the time it first heard about BlackBerry's patent battle, Vyas said. "First we upgraded our e-mail system to accept [Microsoft's Exchange Server] 2003, and then we bought two devices in December, Treo 650 and Treo 700. We are testing Treo 700, as we speak, and it is working. That device can send and receive e-mails, of course, and it is best on Windows Mobile operating system," Vyas said. [via Palm Addict]

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Zire Fanatic Posts: 522 Karma: 14050 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Astoria, NY Device: Zire 71	A friend of mine is concerned about this too and is not going to buy a blackberry because of it. Doesn't the treo 650 have push email as well?

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Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Nope it doesn't, at least not unless some third party is going to provide it. Neither does the 700w offer push e-mail as of now.

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rmeister0 Addict Posts: 270 Karma: 298 Join Date: Mar 2005	Windows Mobile 5 + Exchanger Server 2003 SP 2 provides push mail capabilities. I wish to god we'd had that available to us instead of having to install the Blackberry Enterprise Server into our organization.

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