I’ve now had my Blackberry for five days and feel I can comment a bit more on the experience. If you want to see my first two posts about the device, go here or here.
Overall I’m pretty satisfied. I used to spend 10-15 minutes in the morning reading e-mail and critical feeds before I left the house; now I can do that on the train and either sleep in a few more minutes, or make myself a better lunch. Some further random thoughts on specific features:
- I’m still getting used to the bigger size device when holding it as a phone. Be sure to try this out before you buy one… it’s different. It works fine for me but I’m pretty sure it would annoy some folks.
- The browser works well and renders most mobile sites without any issues. So far my only site-specific complaint is that the mobile version of Metroblogging Portland won’t let you post comments. Twitter is lovely.
- The calendar is synchronizing wonderfully with Outlook 2007 on my desktop. I’m using gSyncit to keep Outlook and Google Calendar in sync.
- I gave the battery a full charge on Thursday night when I bought it. I have yet to charge it again. It’s been turned off for about 7 hours at night and had light voice and moderate data usage. I suspect I’ll charge it tonight but am impressed with the battery life thus far.
- The task list sucks. Not being able to easily view categories, or any info on the main screen other than the description makes it cumbersome to do much. I’ve looked at NextAction! but am not sure if I’m ready to plunk down $40 on a task list. Palm version 1.0 did better than the current state of Blackberry task management.
Like I said, I’m pretty happy. This will probably end my blackberry posts unless I run into something particularly blogworthy.
[tags]blackberry, gsyncit, mobileweb[/tags]
