Smart Phone Migration ?

After watching the slow motion destruction of Palm over the past two years, I am contemplating jumping ship from my current Treo 650 (Palm OS) over to RIM. I had held out hope that Palm would get their act together, but judging from their most recent offerings, they seem to think that Windows Mobile is the future. It also appears that RIM has finally realized that THE KEYBOARD is as important as the phone itself. If the RIM 8100 speculation is true, this may be my next phone.

Some questions to lazyweb readers out there:

Does RIM have a good IMAP4 email package ? I don't need push email, but I do need to get my email.

How is syncing RIM on non-Windows platforms (i.e. Mac or Linux or Solaris) ?

Are there any good IM programs for RIM ?

Thanks for any help on this . . .

Posted on: Oct 09, 2006

Posted by: ken pepple

Category: Personal

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I just switched from a Treo 650 to a Blackberry 8700c (to meet Amazon's corporate standards). See my comments here: http://www.amazon.com/BlackBerry-8700c-Phone-Cingular/dp/B000C1DOU0 I'm reading my geoffarnold.com email through a RIM IMAP4 proxy; it works reasonably well. I don't sync to a desktop system (against Amazon policy). Some friends are using IM solutions. The only app I've installed is Google Earth, which is sweet.

Posted by Geoff Arnold on October 09, 2006 at 11:43 PM PDT #

Hmmm. . . that's not good, but Google Earth, you say ? (I never got this to work well on the Treo 650, no matter what JVM I used). I'll have to somehow nab one of these for an extended user test before I commit. Thanks for the info, Geoff.

Posted by Ken Pepple on October 10, 2006 at 03:05 PM PDT #

Speak of the devil: http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html Google released Google Maps application for Palm 650 today. Yay.

Posted by ken pepple on October 12, 2006 at 04:40 PM PDT #

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