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[ali]

Originally Posted by bradders

threads are simply a past-time

Ain't that the truth....

[Tonio600]

I love that threat

Ok guys, what would be the best reason not to buy an iPhone for my small business? You can't reply:

Originally Posted by Tonio600

- Average camera (not that I am too bothered about that).
- Doesn't do copy / paste.

Because I actually don't care

BB really don't do it for me, they just look too serious and too boring. I don't wear suits, at least not everyday.

HTC, well I'm not sure about the overall quality of the thingies.

[JPM]

Depends if you want to send lots of emails Tonio, touchscreen isn't the way ahead for typing IMO I've used the iPhone and the BB Storm and compared to a keyboard I can type probably 5-10 emails before I complete one on a touchscreen.

Copy/Paste - You don't realise how useful that is until you don't have it

Inability to switch applications on an iPhone, so for example you are replying to an email and need to add someone's contact details from your contacts, you can't save the email and again no copy/paste to add them.

[TP]

Originally Posted by JPM

Depends if you want to send lots of emails Tonio, touchscreen isn't the way ahead for typing IMO I've used the iPhone and the BB Storm and compared to a keyboard I can type probably 5-10 emails before I complete one on a touchscreen.

Got to agree Tonio. No matter what manufacturer a device with a keyboard makes things a lot easier when typing emails. I'd say having a device with a touch screen AND a keyboard makes things even more easier, especially when you're cutting and pasting email addresses or phone numbers.

Originally Posted by JPM

Copy/Paste - You don't realise how useful that is until you don't have it

Absolutely.

Originally Posted by JPM

Inability to switch applications on an iPhone, so for example you are replying to an email and need to add someone's contact details from your contacts, you can't save the email and again no copy/paste to add them.

The HTC devices with a keyboard and touchscreen would appear to suit the majority of your requirements. Battery life is an issue though, you'll be recharging it every night like I do mine. I use mine for browsing sports websites, java based gmail client, outlook mail (work), googlemaps, reading word/powerpoint/excel docs and a few other things.

[Tonio600]

At least I got you both to agree on something

And I must say you guys are a lot more convincing when you agree

[couchcommando]

Originally Posted by JPM

Blackberry... consumer device connected to the BIS infrastructure

That may as well be German, I work for me from home and have one BT e-mail address

[TP]

Originally Posted by couchcommando

That may as well be German, I work for me from home and have one BT e-mail address

It may have got lost in the posts above but did you see my response to your 'pain' ? This:

Originally Posted by me

Couch that IS a setting in the backlight options. Start -> Settings -> [System Tab on the bottom] -> Backlight -> [Battery Power tab on the bottom] -> ...

In there is a checkbox to enable a setting that says "Turn off backlight if device is not used for" and next to it is a drop down menu allowing you to set it to whatever you want.

[JPM]

Originally Posted by couchcommando

That may as well be German, I work for me from home and have one BT e-mail address

I can make it German if it helps!

Buy a device, I'll say BlackBerry as I can walk you through the process, turn it on it'll ask you for your email account and password etc and voila it'll connect to your BT mailbox and start displaying the headers of each mail.

You can add 10 mail accounts to the device they can be POP3 like your BT mail, GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo etc etc

Giza bell if you need any more info.

[couchcommando]

Originally Posted by TP

It may have got lost in the posts above but did you see my response to your 'pain' ? This:

Yeh got that now, its better ta

Still gonna change it for a normal phone with a normal keyboard, may as well sell it if anyone wants it

[Rattler]