Linux and RIM Blackberry

[Aaron Vegh]

My Dad bought a Blackberry a while back -- amazingly, without any
support from me. First I heard of it was when he showed it to me. Then
he asked, "can we get this to sync with my Mac?"

Trouble, trouble, trouble. RIM has never heard of Linux, nor the
Macintosh. So fsck 'em. My Dad ultimately exchanged his BB for a Treo
600. Now THAT is a sweet piece of hardware. Honestly, in capability
it's way better than a BB.

Cheers,
Aaron.

On 5/16/05, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:03:00PM -0400, alain maisonneuve wrote:
> > I recently purchased a RIM Blackberry 7250. What a great little toy.
> >
> > Now what support is there for this device under Linux.
> >
> > This model connect and recharges using the USB cable so communication
> > should easy.
> >
> > I would like to integrate it with my Evolution Mail etc.
> >
> > any thoughts would be great.
> 
> At least in the past when I last looked at it, RIM was very much Windows
> + Exchange only.  They didn't care one bit about supporting anything
> else.  I have no idea if any of the SDK stuff would help that but then
> again I don't have a device to play with so I didn't look into it
> further than that.
> 
> Very neat device, if the restrictions on using the provider and/or your
> companies exchange server is acceptable.  If not, it's probably the
> wrong device for you, at least for now.  Maybe when MS starts doing
> smart phone/email thingies RIM will start looking for other potential
> places to find customers.
> 
> Lennart Sorensen
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