This past Christmas, I was lucky to get a BlackBerry 7105t under the tree. This was, I thought, a great phone. Nice and small, good bright screen, and a well-designed address book with Outlook syncing. SureType is nothing short of magic and email via a cheap T-Mobile account worked pretty well.
Four months later, the 7105t met a watery grave at the bottom of the San Francisco Bay after a nighttime sailing mishap. I got sad. Then I got an 8700g.
Now I understand crackberry addiction. The full keyboard is a big part – SureType is very good, but just doesn’t compare. Whatever Intel xScale processor they crammed into this thing is fast, far faster than the 7105t. Web pages scream via EDGE and T-Mobile’s unlimited data plan price is right – $19 a month. But with both the 7105t and 8700g I struggled to figure out what apps I needed to get, what my best option was for setting up email forwarding, and what tricks I could use to be more productive. I read forums, I read blogs, I scoured search engines, and I came up with only a few answers.
What’s still missing on the web is a great reference site for all things BlackBerry. BlackBerry Forums is the closest thing – a great discussion site, but reference information is lost in a sea of comments and sticky posts.
So I’ve started a wiki over at Wikispaces to gather links, pictures, tips, and anything else BlackBerry users deem important in one easy-to-edit spot.
Got a BlackBerry? Join in.
I just picked up an 8700g this week. What an excellent little device. You’re definately missing out without the Blackberry Enterprise Server – I actually get my emails on my Blackberry well before they show up in my Exchange account.
Check out Idokorro Mobile SSH. Very cool, and definately what you need for those late night “shit the server’s down” phone calls.
For a Wiki it’s still young, but non the less quite full already. Good luck with this project!