by Jeffrey Mann | February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
This was going to be a rant about one of my pet peeves: Why does every electronic device have to have its own power cord and data cable? I am not a great gadget person, but I have accumulated a fair share of doo-hickeys: mobile phones, PDAs, iPods, work computers, GPS navigators, personal computers, cameras, [...]
Category: devices RIM Tags: blackberry, cables, chargers, GSMA, mobile, Nokia
by Jeffrey Mann | December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments
A few weeks ago, I blogged about my first month of Blackberry use, and the drawbacks I found. One of the reasons I held off on getting a Blackberry was that I was afraid of the messages I would send while on the move. When I’m in a rush, I don’t give good email. Like [...]
Category: being an analyst Tags: blackberry
by Jeffrey Mann | November 11, 2008 | 8 Comments
As much as I like gadgets, I am not really an early adopter. After years of using fairly dumb mobile phones, I started using a Blackberry (BB) 8820 several weeks ago. I could have gotten a smartphone earlier, but I held off because I wasn’t sure I wanted to be that connected. I spend way [...]
Category: being an analyst Tags: blackberry, user interface
