[Pinnacle]

I bought a BB 7100t for $199 (after $100 rebate) from TMobile to try it out. I've been using it for about a month, now, and I have a tough time leaving the house without it. As a phone, it blows my HP 6315 out of the water.

It's small, has a powerful speakerphone, Bluetooth (granted, crippled to just work with headsets right now), rock-solid stability, and great RF...beyond the push email that works so well. But it also offers just enough functionality and 3rd party apps to be dangerously close to replacing a PPC for me.

I'm seriously contemplating buying an iPod or Rio Carbon to get my music and Audible fix, and using the 7100t as my organizer/phone. I already purchased Palm Reader for my laptop, as well, to read books in my spare time when I don't listen to them on Audible.

I agree with another post above: If there was a RIM ebook reader, this would be a solid PPC/Palm replacement. Mapopolis for BB would also be a wish of mine. There's already Word and Excel reading and editing right now, though.

[Pinnacle]

I bought a BB 7100t for $199 (after $100 rebate) from TMobile to try it out. I've been using it for about a month, now, and I have a tough time leaving the house without it. As a phone, it blows my HP 6315 out of the water.

It's small, has a powerful speakerphone, Bluetooth (granted, crippled to just work with headsets right now), rock-solid stability, and great RF...beyond the push email that works so well. But it also offers just enough functionality and 3rd party apps to be dangerously close to replacing a PPC for me.

I'm seriously contemplating buying an iPod or Rio Carbon to get my music and Audible fix, and using the 7100t as my organizer/phone. I already purchased Palm Reader for my laptop, as well, to read books in my spare time when I don't listen to them on Audible.

I agree with another post above: If there was a RIM ebook reader, this would be a solid PPC/Palm replacement. Mapopolis for BB would also be a wish of mine. There's already Word and Excel reading and editing right now, though.

[Jeff Rutledge]

I'm in a similar position as some of the posters above. I love my iPAQ 2215, but my Blackberry 7280 is the device I can't be without and take with me whenever I leave the house.

I use it for phone, email, calendar, contacts and surfing primarily. It's PIM functions are terrible and it has no multimedia, but I would think it would be easier for RIM to include this functionality more easily than it will be for Microsoft to meet Blackberry's wireless functionality.

Also, the newest Blackberry devices now have Bluetooth (limited, as mentioned earlier) and a Photo viewer. I believe this is the first move to making them media-capable devices.

If they improved the PIM functions a little, and threw in a SD slot and an mp3 player, they'd get a harder look from folks in the Windows Mobile camp.

Personally I see RIM and Microsoft as the key players. Palm will fade to the background more and more.

[lapchinj]

Originally Posted by Jeff Rutledge

...If they improved the PIM functions a little, and threw in a SD slot and an mp3 player, they'd get a harder look from folks in the Windows Mobile camp...

Yeah because after they did all that they would basically have a Pocket PC :wink: .

Jeff-

[Kowalski]

i dont get it, the only advantage i find is the "mail push", but it has lots of disadvantages over ppc.
i think the show the company marketing success rather than the device

[wshwe]

RIM gets it. Most people prefer thumb-boards over styli. Mobile instant email is addictive.

I wish all of my PDAs had integrated thumb-boards.