My CrackBerry

Yesterday, the good folks in IT gave me a BlackBerry
7250. The carrier is Verizon and the device talks directly to our Exchange server
so that I get emails delivered on the fly with the same speed as Outlook.

So far, so good.

• The form factor of the device is superb and thumb typing is easier to do than
  I would have thought.
• The email synchronization is a bit odd as I have to force a sync with Exchange
  to get emails to go away that were deleted from the server.
• The quality of the device as a phone is as good as my Sprint
  Sanyo 8200 that I lost last month .

We’ll see if this thing really changes my life, but so far the ability to send/receive
email anytime, anywhere is amazing. This changes things.

I am supposed to get a bluetooth headset to go with it next week and that may make
the phone experience even better.

As long as the network stays alive in the face of the impending
lawsuit, I will enjoy this thing as I polish my thumb-typing-under-the-meeting-room-table
skills.