Day 2: Email FAIL
Ironically, the one thing that Blackberries known for—easy access to push email and calendars—I can’t really experience during these 7 days. I rather stupidly assumed that since I could easily set up push email and calendars on my iPhone to work with the Exchange server at work, I would be able to do so easily on the BB. While it is a simple process to type in a few parameters on the iPhone and have it work straight away, Blackberries (on the Enterprise level) require a Blackberry Enterprise Server to work as an intermediary between company email and Blackberries. Simply put, this requires IT to set up permissions on the server in order for the BB to work with enterprise email.
The only two-way push on the consumer Blackberry Internet Server (BIS) is with email—there is one-way push from Google Calendars, but that’s it.
I already missed one meeting today because of not being able to access my work calendar while away from my desk and very nearly missed another. I can deal without vintage camera apps and scrabble games and stuff like that, but I entered this experiment (mistakenly) assuming that something that is so (deceptively) simply executed on the iPhone like connecting hassle-free to a standard Microsoft Exchange Server, would be impossible on a Blackberry.
