Why blackberry

BlackBerry is only for businesses? Not anymore! BlackBerry can now be for everyone - individuals, consumers, kids, even hackers and hardcore computer users. BlackBerry can be fun too - You can now run chat software today more efficiently than many other handheld wireless devices, for example! MSN, ICQ, IRC too!
Yes, other handheld devices have email. But what makes BlackBerry stand out? Why is BlackBerry called Crackberry by addicted users? There's push available for other devices such as Goodlink for TREO. Unfortunately, all of them are more proprietary -- you have to pay a huge arm and leg for these solutions. Apart from the big $$$$ you have to pay for other push email solutions, don't forget the other BlackBerry advantages:

• · Longer battery life: BlackBerry consistently lasts longer than other handhelds like PalmOS.
  
• · Ruggedized: BlackBerry handhelds survives drops much better than other handhelds such as Treo's or iPaq's. PalmOS: There are some models that are ruggedized, but on general, BlackBerry is far more ruggedized –
• · Data Loss Prevention: You can yank the battery out of your BlackBerry for a full week and put it back in one week later, all your data is still there. Everything is written to flash ROM on the fly, even your email drafts, so you don't need to make backups like you would with Palm or iPaq. PalmOS:
• · Security: BlackBerry comes with the capability for remote-controlled lobotomy to delete your data if your BlackBerry is ever stolen. BlackBerry also requires cryptographic signing by RIM before the application can do any damage to the operating system or databases, which makes it much more impossible to write a virus for the BlackBerry than for Palm/PocketPC. PalmOS: Sill FAR behind.
• · Email Software: The email on the BlackBerry is superior to the other wireless push email software, even the recently available Treo push email software.
• · Stability: Uptimes well over 60 days are getting common on BlackBerry nowadays.
• · Always On, No Connecting Needed: The BlackBerry is like a wireless Cable/DSL connection. It's always there. No connecting needed.
• · Configuration Free: No need to worry about configuring email software to automatically start up when resetting a Palm; no need to worry about whether the email software is running in the background or if it has crashed. There is no "QUIT" menu item in the BlackBerry email software at all!

• No power button needed: BlackBerry uses so little power; you just put it down -- no need for a power button at all.

For the hardcore computer users, BlackBerry is getting more and more open source software too -- It's just a matter of time before Linux sync is available. Most applications do not even need RIM to sign it. And even so, RIM recently signed open source applications, including BlackChat (to permit it to hook into Notifications; something you don't want a virus to do). Please see the Developer forum for a listing of open source J2ME software; we need more open source developers for BlackBerry!