I wish I could move away from a BB...but with the BES, it's impossible for us. Nothing works quite as well as a BES, but the carriers all gouge us with ridiculous, costly data plans. No wonder RIM now gives the BES away - they're raking in so damn much on monthly revenue...it's probably one of their single fattest profit streams. I'd go Android in a heartbeat, as the choices are broad and likely to broaden even wider shortly, with a ton of lightweight apps. I'm sure I could easily find a replacement for my 9780 in the Android based phones...but again...it's not BES.
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Steve (Besadmin)
Previously owned:
At least 17+ different BB's since 1999 -- too many to list...
Up until recently I was using windows mobile...tried droid for about a month. It was a mistake to say the least.
I now have a BB Bold 9700 (I'm a first time BB user) and love it. I will get a new Bold 9780 in about a month (the current one is a loaner). It helps to have a friend in the cell business. He lets me try and then buy.
I'm a loyal BB fan now and as the others said our enemy friend will be back.
I've had multiple android, iOS and many berry's. For business, blackberry is still best. iOS 4 is very competitive though and has a lot more exchange support. The BES servers are so slow these days too that emails come quicker on iOS through exchange. Email is still better with blackberry. Let alone android. Unless you're 100% google services and don't like better versions of apps and hardware andoird still isn't there.