You aren't kidding about not cheap. Getting under $30 a person per year for numbers in the neighborhood of $20k proved undoable, and we needed more like $2.
We have an active sync based solution at this point for a flat fee of $1500 a year as a plug-in to something else.
Wow, that's cheap.
Yup. However the outlook plugin isn't so cheap. About $6 a user.
FYI, the package is Zimbra, and so far it has been fairly reasonable to deploy as such things go.
I personally hate black berries. I find them to be so... well, simply put, not the iPhone
I'd rate my BlackBerry a 6. T-Mobile is to blame for some of that.
I am on my second BlackBerry and I like them okay.
I use them mostly for making calls and email. Not sure what kind of fancy software is needed for business (although I do have the stripped down version of MS Office so I can open documents and spreadsheets in email. Not sure if that is what you guys mean.)
Oh and I used the camera to take pix of the tyke and the Verizon GPS service which is nowhere near as annoying as the AT&T version.
What I would really like to use the BB for is satellite radio because the Sirius car radios are super crappy and when in a metro area you have to eat a lot of static to listen to Sirius. It sounds great on a computer through the internet, and I can't figure out why there isn't a BB application for that.
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I think I'll keep my iPhone. The Blackberry phones are affordable, but the software to make it useful for businesses is not cheap