Today, my new freedom vehicle is the Blackberry and it has been that for the past several years. For some, the thought of carrying a Blackberry is a death sentence. They gripe: “I don’t want one. That’ll just tie me to my desk.”

Your relationship with your job is one thing but your desire to work remotely from your office or main computer is a matter of personal choice. For most, the freedom of being able to reduce the amount of email you need to process between the end of a sales meeting with a prospect to getting back to your office computer is rewarding, not to mention efficient. As you wait on a subway platform, you can reply to numerous emails and the moment your reception signal is available (sometimes there are moments underground when the signal comes then goes), they all send off and more arrive in.

Plus, if using the built-in speakerphone or a Bluetooth adapter, you can easily take notes on your Blackberry and have it associated with the phone call.

The Blackberry is truly a portable office and the ultimate handheld, in lieu of using a laptop. I still gladly travel with my laptop to surf the web the way in the way it was intended and to use certain graphics applications. I don’t use my Blackberry to play games since gaming requires more processing power and utilizes more battery power. I prefer to carry a charged Blackberry versus a dead one.

For conducting the business of communicating with clients and my office, via email, the Blackberry alone is all I need. And with spring arriving in NYC one day at a time, I welcome any chance I can to walk to my destination, instead of taking the subway. And I can get so much done while enjoying the beautiful weather. In a few months, I will return to sun tanning, sipping a cold drink at poolside, with my Blackberry. And nobody will notice a difference.

– Richard D. Lee
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What made the iPhone very popular, in addition to its sleek design, its big screen, and its ability to download music on the road and go from thought to song almost instantly, is the additional ability to download applications online, while on the go.

Blackberry, following Apple’s success in this, has introduced App World. After downloading the free application to your Blackberry, a new round Blackberry button icon will appear along with your other icons. The interface is simple yet stylish. You can browse by category or do direct searches for applications based on keywords or brands you’re familiar with. Blackberry users can now easily browse hundreds of applications, some free, made for their Blackberry, while on the go and without every plugging into their desktop.

For example, you can download the free Google Talk application which allows you to instantly chat with your fellow Gmail users, as if you were using your desktop. Paid for applications provide a brief description, screen shots, reviews and at times, the ability to download a trial. You can download applications immediately and have them automatically installed.

TWO WARNINGS:

(1) This is also a convenient way to eat up all of the memory on your Blackberry very quickly. This will prevent you from downloading additional applications, storing pictures, email and also kill the performance of your device. Nothing worse than having a portable version of your already-clogged up desktop computer.

(2) This is a new application for Blackberry and thus you, as a user, are also a guinea pig for Blackberry. Upon this test, I was unable to receive a phone call because the application was very busy downloading content for the applications that were for sale.

- Richard D. Lee
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