And lo On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:56:10 -0000, scott <sco### [at] scottcom> did  
spake thusly:

>> Apparently it can connect to Outlook Web Access (which we have).  
>> Several other employees have it working, so it's gotta be possible  
>> somehow...
>
> Ah interesting to know because some guy here was looking at it, but our  
> IT dept basically said "no, it won't work because we need to get the  
> server software".  Hmmm we have outlook web access available here, so I  
> wonder if it could work somehow, I'll have to investigate further.

The answer lies between yes and no. The point of the Blackberry was the  
Push email facility which sent email from your server to the phone without  
the need to routinely 'dial in' and that requires extra software at the  
server end. If you just want to use it as a standard email device it  
should work fine as any other email-capable phone. Except of course you  
then have to justify buying one over every other email-capable device.

>> Hmm... extrapolating from my "8 characters in 25 minutes",
>
> I suspect other people can type faster than that :-)

I've seen people tapping away at it quite happily. Must get used to it.

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Phil Cook

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