Comments on: Is there an alternative to the Blackberry - a Replacement for the Blackberry? You Bet There Is! http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/is-there-an-alternative-to-the-blackberry-a-replacement-for-the-blackberry-yes Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Eddie http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/is-there-an-alternative-to-the-blackberry-a-replacement-for-the-blackberry-yes#comment-36078 Eddie Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:42:46 +0000 /?p=1271#comment-36078 I have Cingular as my provider, and I like it! Until Sidekick is usable with Cingular service, I will not touch it. I have Cingular as my provider, and I like it! Until Sidekick is usable with Cingular service, I will not touch it.

]]> By: Andrew Oakley http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/is-there-an-alternative-to-the-blackberry-a-replacement-for-the-blackberry-yes#comment-3624 Andrew Oakley Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:55:15 +0000 /?p=1271#comment-3624 "Your email is always there - you don’t have to tell the device to 'fetch' your email" Erm... doesn't this mean that, sooner or later, the Sidekick will fall foul of the same patent as Blackberry, though? IIRC the patent covers push-delivery email on mobile devices. (I may well be wrong; but I'd like to know why the patent covers the Blackberry and not the Sidekick) “Your email is always there - you don’t have to tell the device to ‘fetch’ your email”

Erm… doesn’t this mean that, sooner or later, the Sidekick will fall foul of the same patent as Blackberry, though? IIRC the patent covers push-delivery email on mobile devices. (I may well be wrong; but I’d like to know why the patent covers the Blackberry and not the Sidekick)

]]> By: Craig Hughes http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/is-there-an-alternative-to-the-blackberry-a-replacement-for-the-blackberry-yes#comment-3621 Craig Hughes Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:39:40 +0000 /?p=1271#comment-3621 No bluetooth on the sidekick, but it looks like the Blackberry 7100 has it. My personal favorite so far is the SE710a. Bluetooth/EDGE combination lets my hook up to the net fast with my laptop when I'm not in a wifi hotspot (though that's increasingly rare as I've adjusted my life to places which have open APs). The phone doesn't have a qwerty keyboard, but typing emails using T9 is actually fairly quick for the sorts of emails one sends while too busy to flip open a laptop. I have a Salling Clicker script on my mac which automatically syncs the phone and laptop when they see each other and something's changed on either device, and both phone and laptop email apps point to the same IMAP server. The phone includes a barely-useful IM client (which is probably similar to the one on the sidekick I imagine) which lets you log into one-at-a-time of AIM, Yahoo, MSN, or ICQ. Cingular apparently has written the IM client to carry its messages over SMS instead of over the EDGE link though for some stupid reason, so *EACH IM MESSAGE COSTS 10c TO SEND OR RECEIVE*, despite the fact you've already paid for an all-you-can-eat bandwidth plan ($25/mth iirc). The built-in browser on the phone is OK, but not great. Download the free opera browser if you want to do anything with the web. No bluetooth on the sidekick, but it looks like the Blackberry 7100 has it.

My personal favorite so far is the SE710a. Bluetooth/EDGE combination lets my hook up to the net fast with my laptop when I’m not in a wifi hotspot (though that’s increasingly rare as I’ve adjusted my life to places which have open APs). The phone doesn’t have a qwerty keyboard, but typing emails using T9 is actually fairly quick for the sorts of emails one sends while too busy to flip open a laptop. I have a Salling Clicker script on my mac which automatically syncs the phone and laptop when they see each other and something’s changed on either device, and both phone and laptop email apps point to the same IMAP server. The phone includes a barely-useful IM client (which is probably similar to the one on the sidekick I imagine) which lets you log into one-at-a-time of AIM, Yahoo, MSN, or ICQ. Cingular apparently has written the IM client to carry its messages over SMS instead of over the EDGE link though for some stupid reason, so *EACH IM MESSAGE COSTS 10c TO SEND OR RECEIVE*, despite the fact you’ve already paid for an all-you-can-eat bandwidth plan ($25/mth iirc). The built-in browser on the phone is OK, but not great. Download the free opera browser if you want to do anything with the web.

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