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

[brrm.livejournal.com]

I quite like the Sonyericsson P900 that work provided me with (even if they did eventually decide they couldn't justify footing the bill, so I had to bung my personal SIM in it :( ). The UI is great, and the screen is huuuuuge.
We also got a couple of Blackberries for the less technical in the department. I really couldn't get on with the UI on them (no touchscreen on the ones we had, which drove me nuts trying to tap things), and as far as we could tell, there was no way to set up 'proper' IMAP email without having the Blackberry Enterprise server (expensive) do it, and push it to the client, or installing a third party ($10) email client, which in the end we did.
The Sonyericsson K750i (?) is another possibility, which I've seen in passing. Seems to have a very nice 2Mpixel camera with proper auto (rather than fixed) focus. Didn't get to do more than take a photo with it, though. I still have the P900 in my mitts, so feel free to ask questions about it.
I too am waiting for the Nokia 770 tablet, though its obvious omission is the fact that it only has wifi and bluetooth (i.e. no mobile phone transmitter), so you'd have to bluetooth-couple it with a phone to pick up mail on the move. It runs Linux, though, and looks very slick. I've read rumours that it's slow, but that could just be the development versions, it's not due out for a month or two.