What Makes Blackberry More Special Than Other Hand Held Gadgets?

The number one feature: Push email. When an email comes it is immediately delivered to your BlackBerry. Most other devices use “polling” – i.e. at regular intervals they log into your mail server to see if anything has changed. This has three noticeable side effects: (1) You don’t receive your email in “real-time” (2) you use more data from your data plan and (3) you drain your battery quicker. The models with QWERTY keyboards are easy to type on, and people can get quite good at “thumb-t...

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