Buy a Blackberry? Naaaah
I recently upgraded my phone and got a Blackberry 8310 Curve which is quite nice and didn’t cost me anything extra. There’s just a couple of things with it that I don’t like, and one thing that really pisses me off. Firstly, RIM (manufacturers of Blackberries) have very cunningly created their own protocol which email must use, and suprise….you have to buy it from them.
I have a very stable and useable email system of my own, which I can access through any of the commonly accepted protocols already available, IMAP, POP and webmail inclusive. So why won’t my Blackberry access any of these? Because RIM want to sell more copies of their Blackberry Enterprise Server.
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