RE: [OT]ish - XDA Smartphone on Hols

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Same here.  In fact the BB buzzes before my laptop goes ping, so it is true
push, though there are 3 or 4 other products out there that do the same
(and
more) than BB, plus they're platform independent.

The BB business model is getting interesting; they're starting to lose
market share to competing products because the BB platform is tied to a
very
specific range of handsets.  However, BB make 70% of their revenue from the
RIM handsets, so they're caught in a catch 22 - if they open their s/w for
other platforms, then everyone will by PDAs to run it on, and BB still
won't
make any money.  The alternative is to keep the h/w more or less
proprietary, and then they lose market share.  No wonder they're in a
mucking fuddle about where to go next, hence all the legal wranglings with
Nokia and co about the half-arsed BlackBerry Connect offering.  BlackBerry
as a company is worth more than Vodafone, yet with a tiny subscriber base
by
comparison.  nice business, but popular opinion seems to suggest they're
about to lose their first-mover advantage.

Pete

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From: Doogie Brodie [mailto:doogie.brodie@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 July 2005 19:25
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT]ish - XDA Smartphone on Hols


I don't claim to know a lot, and it might be something to do with the
config on our org's Blackberry enterprise server (which I aint had
anything to do with) , but sitting at my desk, Outlook pops up and
Blackberry vibrates simultaneously, certainly without an up to 3 mins
delay.

On 25/07/05, John Andrews <groups@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nlackberry's don't support push either, it is a myth - well certainly
on
> the UK GPRS network.
>
> The device works by polling the server ever 3 minutes by sending a 1
> byte packet and getting a 1 byte packet back saying you have mail or
> not. Then downloading the mail!
>
> I know it does work differently in the US.






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