Request for help

[venta]

Further to my BlackBerry enquiry the other evening:

What would you recommend as a small (ie BlackBerry sized), portable device for someone not massively tech-savvy to use to pick up their email from wherever they happened to be ?

I've got this idea that BlackBerries are somewhat on the "it's a turkey" list, but just now really can't remember why. Opinions (with or without vitriol) welcome.

Comments

[narenek.livejournal.com]

Is your opinion formed by the fact that Microsoft are just about to release an addition to one of their mail server products which will mirror much of the funky Blackberry functionality (IIRC it'll push email to the client rather than waiting for the client to ask if the server has any)?

[diffrentcolours]

Hasn't that been a well-supported IMAP extension for years?

[narenek.livejournal.com]

Can't really comment on the features/extensions of IMAP as it's not my field.

I was thinking of articles like This one from The Register which there have been enough of recently to stick in my mind.