Originally Posted by reechy

my blackberry does email much better than my treo, especially work email. with wireless sync directly from my company's blackberry server, i dont need to run software on my desktop that pushes emails to the phone. same goes for the outlook calendar.

for personal email, i was never impressed with versamail. rather than getting emails dynamically, it had to ping each email server at preset intervals (mine was set to get new messages every 10 minutes).

there's some minor stuff about the treo that irked me, like the inability to use MP3 ringtones without 3rd party software. the OS feels ancient (it probably is) too.

some of the things i love about my blackberry are GPS (great with telenav service or google maps) and integration with yahoo messenger. there's a few free IM programs for the treo, but they dont work as well as the "official" software.

Originally Posted by Nelson

1) It weighs 3x's more than the BB.

2) Battery life: Had to have a charger in every quadrant; ie, one at my desk at work. One at home. One in my car. One to take with me when I am away from home. Battery life SUCKED.

3) As Rich mentioned, having to have to have 3rd party (GoodLink) for corporate e-mail. Unstable and unreliable.

4) Random reseting.

5) Personal email (versa mail) sucked balls.

6) Internet browsing was slow.

Reasons 1-4 are the most important to me. At my company, we have over 30 Treo users with the same complaints. I've had the 650 and 700, both were the same.

What I did like was the txt-messaging system. The touch-screen was a nice touch as well.

The Blackberry is by far the best PDA-type phone I've seen.

Originally Posted by b00gers

How do these random resets look like? Itll all of a sudden reboot?

Originally Posted by b00gers

Does it happen with the OEM software and apps too?

If it does happen, I hope it happens right when I get the phone :

Originally Posted by 94civicEX

I know on my 650 my Messaging crashes the most. It seems as though when I'm creating a message and I get one, it will sometimes reset.

Just make sure you Hotsync .

Originally Posted by 94civicEX

What model did you have?



My battery life is great :dunno:. I get random resets every now and again. You're browsing would be slow since you'd still be on 1x, not EVDO.

Overall it seems that you guys were dissatisfied because of it's corporate function, which obviously BlackBerry has the upperhand on any company.

Although, I think their phones are terrible. They are functional, but I just don't care for them. At least I know when my Treo has a random reset, that it will likely come back. Unlike my experience with 2 of my bosses Blackberry 7100t's that were replaced twice because of memory errors.

Originally Posted by HawtPants

you should have got a blackberry wiwi