Losing your Blackberry? Read my previous post
Coincidently, I wrote a post about a Blackberry like, but Blackberry-less existence yesterday, and now, Blackberry’s might die forever. So, here is what you all can do:
1) Read my post
2) Buy a Windows Smartphone from Sprint, TMobile or Cingular
3) Get a 4Smartphone account
4) Set it up as I say
And then: Profit!
If you do profit, please go to Murmurs.com’s donation page and put a bit in the pot. It is a non-religious institution, but R.E.M. fans are kind of holy and will thank you.
[tags]Blackberry, Exchange, Smartphone[/tags]
I have enjoyed the series on “My So Called Digital Life”. I just recently purchased the 6700 from Verizon and wanted to make sure your readers know that the same phone you have is available from Verizon now as well (and no I don’t work for Verizon!). The ActiveSync on this phone works flawless with Exchange Server.
However, they will have to perform a hack to get WI-FI and the phone service to work at the same time, but that’s a whole other story (Verizon disabled this feature for their 6700 phone from HTC).
I didn’t link to Verizon because I don’t support Verizon’s habit of crippling phones. They reduce bluetooth functionality and like you said, crippled the HTC Apache through disabling simultaneous CDMA/WiFI usage.
Don’t forget there are other phones out there with Blackberry-esque functionality, such as the Sony Ericsson P910 (and upcoming P990 — with wifi) as well as the Nokia E61(again, with wifi).
The 4smartphone link looks very handy though.
Sure, but they aren’t regularly available except as imports for US GSM networks, and the US GSM networks don’t have full 3G support yet… hence…