mike_barton
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Talkback: iPhone up to BlackBerry e-mail challenge?

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Jan 17, 20071 min

Tom Yager writes in A glimpse at a true superphone that a mobile messaging device, no matter how fancy, must meet the standard for reliable mobile e-mail set eight or nine years ago by the two-way pager, and alive today in BlackBerry devices.

Is iPhone just a lightweight push e-mail player, and not up to the Blackberry challenge? Do you need such real-time e-mail, and are you willing to pay for it with your cellular provider (certainly a consideration for many, and considered by Apple in not going the BlackBerry Connect route)?

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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