1) It’s a TANK – drop the blackberry – go ahead – it laughs at your bad coordination – The rest of the devices are much easier to damage – Heck the Treo flys into at least 5 pieces (device, stylus, battery, battery cover, sd card) and the Nokia no longer has a stylus because it was lost during just such a drop.

2) It has a good battery life – all of the devices peter out much faster than the balckberry
3) It doesn’t reboot – no really – if you don’t have a blackberry – take our word for it – it doesn’t ever reboot – you have to work really hard to get it to crash.
4) Simple to manage – on most of the other devices you have to worry about the data – how to sync it, how to get data onto the memory card, how to protect the data once it is on the memory card – etc. (depending on how the corporate infrastructure is set up, but…) On my corporate setup – if I completely screw the device up (run over it with a car or flush it or something) all I have to do to get my mail back is get a new one and turn it on (not really this easy – but much easier than the other devices)

OK – I am sure that I could write more – but there are my reasons – top of mind

Because blackberry doesn’t crash (the os not rims servers obviously) because it does what it says it does and it doesn’t break.

@ Dan

I understand that people say its rediculous that they have a centralized infrastructure but I doubt they do it for no reason, I am not one to question methods just because something on the surface seems to be going wrong with it and there’s no ‘apparent’ reason for it to continue

End users found out on the news

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I used to say the same thing…. don’t knock it till you’ve tried it is my only words of advice.

@Dan
45 minutes to announce (to end users no less) an issue with an App and server cluster that large is actually fairly impressive all things considered.

The only problem is the quantity of data transferred during the Zimbra (or Exchange) ActiveSync permanent connection: About 1mb per day on Sundays, with just 1 or 2 small text emails!

Here in Mexico, if you don’t have an unlimited (or convenient) data plan, this can be expensive.

Or worse yet, “Earl got mad and burned down the server room.”

I don’t get it. Somehow, they marketed themselves into the leading PDA product despite their IP problems and despite this horrific network architecture.

I am shaking my head.