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On 7/8/07 09:27, "Joel Hughes" <jh at jojet.com> wrote:

> Ok, I don't use Gmail, didn't get along with it (ducks!) - what about
> accessing my IMAP email? Is there a nice onboard client?

Blackberry works well with IMAP but you will need to change your contract to
include data or you'll get nailed on the data charges. Also unless you've
got deep pockets and can afford the Blackberry Enterprise Server and
Exchange combo, calendar and contacts syncing is done via a USB cable. The
Blackberry software is Windows only unless you shell out for Missing Sync on
OSX. ToDo lists could be synced via RSS on the Blackberry. And finally
Blackberry's only transfer data via GPRS so browsing is a bit on the slow
side. Having said all that though the 8800 has got a cool GPS app and the
browser is pretty good with a nice big screen to view pages and a QWERTY
keybaord.

My (non work) phone is a Nokia N95 which is great and also has GPS, web
browsing WiFi and laods of other bits that I've not played with. The ToDo
and Calendering functionality is good and I use it all the time. I don't
know how you'd sync it with Highrise or Backpack though. The major drawback
with it though is the email is pull only so you'll have to connect every
time you want to get your email.

Mat