BlackBerry Phone staying connected

Swisscom [0] had a product demo at ITU showing new services for the BlackBerry phone [1]. Got reminded to it, while viewing Dave Mathews [2] tech talk on the SideKick [3] phone in quicktime version.

The idea of BlackBerry is for now to make business data available as one is on the move. Mails get pushed to the phone the moment they arrive at the mail server. So BlackBerry is kind of constantly connected. It has a small wheel to comfortably navigate the menu. What from my point of view is missing, is the camera. I would need one to be able to moblog; an alternative could be SideKick with the plugin camera like JoiIto uses it.

[0] http://www.swisscom-mobile.ch/sp/EDKAAAAA-de.html
[1] http://blackberry.net/products/handhelds/index.shtml
[2] http://techtalkback.typepad.com/ttb/2003/10/always_online.html
[3] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000A0AZC

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