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“Blackberrynoia”: Consider it coined

If you’re not a Crackberry user, disregard this post.

If you ARE a Crackberryholic, you’ll know exactly the feeling you get when you’ve been away from your phone for a while and when you return, you’re SURE you should see that little blinking light telling you there’s a message waiting. That comforting, blinking beacon, reassuring you that someone out there cares. But what happens when it’s not blinking?

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Blackberry vs. Palm showdown: Part 2

If you didn’t catch round one of this heavyweight matchup, check out our first look at the two hot offerings in the smart phone world. After a couple more weeks of using the Centro, I thought it was worth taking a second look at some of the more subtle talking points.

First off, let’s talk email delivery. It’s always been somewhat of a given that Blackberry rules when it comes to email delivery. Their business has basically been built on the groundbreaking email push technology. But on further review, it’s not as much of a home run for BB as has been advertised. AITO (as it turns out), each major carrier now offers their own push technology, in the form of a free downloadable third-party software app. The only issue here is that Sprint’s version is a little glitchy, dawg.

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The Blackberry Curve vs. the Palm Centro

Ok, it may not be Mac vs. PC, but you don’t have to look too hard to find geeks that feel nearly as strongly about their respective Blackberry vs. Palm stances. Blackberry is the king of business, but since Palm’s been in the personal handheld device business for a decade (they pretty much pioneered the mobile computing industry with the Palm Pilot, which is a term you still might hear people use generically in reference to any PDA), they have a definite edge on available, reliable software. I’ve been fortunate enough to use the latest models from both (the Blackberry Curve and Palm’s brand-new Centro) extensively, so here’s how they stack up.

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