BlackBerry For Web E-Mail and Instant Messaging

Sascha - The BlackBerry e-mail system is still unmatched. I set the service up with Gmail, Microsoft Exchange Web Access, and Yahoo! Mail accounts within minutes. The e-mail system also supports attachments, displaying picture attachments, and PowerPoint, but it boils PDFs and other Microsoft Office documents down to text. Built-in IM clients let you sign into AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! IM, and Google Talk all at once and all in the background, though only your “mobile” AIM buddies show up.

While you can sync contacts, calendars, tasks, and notes with Outlook using the BlackBerry Desktop software on XP or Vista, and you can extract the basic data from Microsoft Office files received through e-mail, the only option for actually editing Word and Excel documents is Dynoplex’s $100 eOffice. That may change soon when DataViz’s DocumentsToGo comes out for the BlackBerry platform. Link. [tags]blackberry[/tags]