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

[uitlander]

I'm guessing that'll be one of P800 (couple of years old), P900 or P910 (all Symbian phones). Apparently the P910 is the best of them all, of so people who use those things say. It has the UIQ interface (i.e. touch screen).

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

The P910 also has a full but tiny keyboard on the reverse of its flip open pad. I'm not a great fan of this, but other folks seem to like it.

[uitlander]

*nods* I always find them impossibly small to use. The one on the P800 has the keys on the outside of the flip. The buttons just pressed down onto a soft keyboard on the interface. I did have a P910 to play with for a week when I worked at Symbian, but I didn't like it much and found it too bulky, particularly as I didn't really want any of its non-phone functionality.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Have checked with owner - it is indeed a P900.