GPRS BlackBerry by RIM on the way.
Picture is available at link below.
The device is supposedly due to ship this quarter.
Two versions supposedly available (1900 MHz for North America, and 900/1800 MHz for Europe and beyond).
Not clear whether these devices will be 1+1 or 2+1 or both.
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It is to be launched, for the time being just in England by the carrier BT Cellnet, a very interesting wireless solution that will allow the maximum connectivity with one's own e-mail, while moving. BlackBerry is nothing else but a series of palmar handsets, similar to the palmars which we have been accustomed to, manufactured by a Canadian company that will allow a connection with the nets enabled with the GPRS technology, without any need of connection with a telephone (which, on the contrary, occurs now for the most common palmars in circulation).
The devices, we are making reference to, are equipped with processor Intel 386, keyboard QWERTY, integrated modem and large LCD backlighted screen. You can store all your contacts inside this amazing devices and you can also synchronize them with your own PC. Having been planned to stay always connected to the Net, you will be told, in discreet way, whenever there is a new upcoming message. The possibilities of alert sound are: through a tone, alert sound with vibration, a message on the display or an indication of the LED. But BlackBerry doesn't mean only tools to manage to the best the e-mail: they also act from organizer, allowing an easy and rapid access to the internal notebook, to the index book and to the list of the things to be done by the end user. You can, in fact, add and arrange your deadlines to access the list of the contacts so as not to forget anything.
The synchronization with the PC of the office or the notebook, allows us not to read again or to cancel again the messagings since the line BlackBerry perfectly lines up with the information contained in the same PC. Besides all the functions we have spoken about, BlackBerry permits to exploit wireless Internet services, getting from the Net the most different information that could be useful everywhere we are.
Really functional, to conclude, seems to us the BlackBerry line that, however, in our opinion, not integrating any functions of large use, at least as it regards what is the Italian market, can hardly get a foothold in a Country like ours. The most complete solutions - telephone that integrates all the other endowments, including the GPRS technology, making it be similar, if not identical, to a common PC - can be mostly appreciated by end users that by now look for as many possible things in the space of one handset. <<
- Eric - |
