>>ewwwww. Have you considered getting a windows mobile 5 device instead? It has "direct push" email ability if you get the right one - like the Sprint PPC6700 for example....
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>I've used all kinds of Palms and Pocket PC's over the last 7 or so years. The Blackberry is certainly odd. Though it is extremely good a doing 1 thing in a simple way... delivering emails. I've seen mgr types that just could never figure out how to sync a Palm or a Pocket PC. With the Blackberry this is done via a corporate server. Simplicity.
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>Though it does annoy me that if I delete an email in Outlook, then I still have to delete it on the Blackberry.

They were going to use blackberry here & I talked them out of it last week - so here very soon I'm going to have 40+ WM5 phones and Smartphones to manage....