Originally Posted by ninerfan
Ok heres's the deal, My boss told me that the company would pay for a blackberry and service (cingular, I assume)for me if I wanted it.
I am torn, I dont travel nearly as much as most of you but I am gone at least a week a month. I usually travel to company offices where I can pick up emails and access company networks easily.
My fear is that this will be another leash tying me to work on weekends, vacations etc. I havent really played with the BB to know all that it does. Is it really all that its cracked (no pun intended) up to be?
Any thoughts , comments would be appreciated
If you're the kind of person who would rather avoid the leash, and don't have a fixation on checking your email constantly, then you probably won't want to get one. I say that because it is, in fact, quite addictive. There's a reason they call it a CrackBerry.
If it's just a question of whether the device itself is a good choice for this kind of activity, then yes, I think they're fantastic on a number of levels. The phone service, however, it tied quite strongly to the service provider. I have had excellent results with mine via Verizon, for example, but had poor service back when I had a GSM model with AT&T. I expect that service will improve, however, as the newly merged Cingular/AT&T infrastructure is built out more.