I’ve been very happy with my Samsung t719 phone, but hadn’t intended to use the Blackberry client software that’s built-in. Turns out it’s pretty useful (and usable) after all.
T-Mobile offers a Blackberry Internet option for $20/month. Since I was already paying the extra $6/month for web-mail access (a brutal but survivable UI for once-in-a-while mail checks on the road), I tried the upgrade and after waiting a day for it to kick in…messages started arriving. I pointed it at my IMAP server and was very pleasantly surprised at how good it is, even on a phone.
The one catch was: how to delete all those messages. There’s no way to select multiples, or “delete all” even. After fruitless searches and scanning of docs and emails and calls, I finally learned that there’s a “delete prior” option on the context menu that appears only when you select a date (a separator between messages of different days on screen). This does most of what I want, avoiding the need to delete dozens of individual messages each day.
All in all, nice software. I particularly like the way the little outside screen shows the email address of the most recently-received message. I’d really like it if it could be set to always default to “Speedy Word” for entering text, but that’s another issue…
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