That is one key advantage to both the WinMob and PalmOS offerings -- Exchange Activesync is usually free. BBs are primarily still targeted at business users who, they assume, will just pay the extra costs associated with the device.
Cheers, Don -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi Wallach Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Treo] Fwd: I'm leaving the Palm OS behind The Blackberry is definitely a very stable platform at this point, but I'll just make a plug for Windows Mobile, which I switched to recently. It has tons of third-party applications - multiple in each category. It's also stable at this point with devices from Palm and many other manufacturers (Palm, Motorola, HTC, etc), kind of like WinPC development. I don't know how easy it is to get third-party apps on the BB, but you might want to research that a little because when I was seriously looking at the blackberry 3-4 years ago, most of these apps were geared towards business people and thus they charged a premium. That very well could have changed, I don't know. Also, check out the cost of the Blackberry plan. I found out for me on Sprint I would have to pay an additional amount - actually $40/month more! That might be because I have a special plan (SERO) that is already very discounted, but still it made the BB not an option for me. I posted a few days ago about this, but so far my experience with WM has been very positive, and it syncs perfectly with Exchange accounts and Outlook - it should, since MS developed all of them! Levi > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > srivaths srinivasan > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 10:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Treo] Fwd: I'm leaving the Palm OS behind > > I think I am in the same boat as you. The Palm/Treo have not kept up > with > the times. The BB appears to be a device that is integrated and does > the > PIM/phone functions well. The issue is the 3rd party apps as you > raised > and it appears that there is now a growing market for those. I for > one am > tempted by the iPhone and would like to switch to that (not enough 3rd > party > apps for that also, but I am guessing that this will change quickly...) > Yahoo! Groups Links
