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A Canadian Success in Cellular Technology: BlackBerry

One of the best wireless email communication devices available is the award winning BlackBerry by the Canadian firm RIM (Research In Motion).  This mobile wireless communication device will keep you in touch with important email when you are on the go at an affordable price.  With Triple DES encryption technology you can be sure your email is secure between your wireless handheld and your email account. BlackBerry is small and portable with an easy to use QWERTY key board making email correspondence simple and easy.  Unlike many competitors BlackBerry can keep you in touch with urgent messages that require your immediate attention at a reasonable cost.   

BlackBerry is also a  personal information manager (PIM) with an address book, a calendar, a task list, and alarm clock features. It also allows users to search for particular email messages as well as for a specific contacts in the address book. These (PIM) features also include PC synchronization through the PC docking cradle.   

There are two platforms available: 

• the BlackBerry Exchange Edition.
• the BlackBerry Internet Edition.

The BlackBerry Exchange Edition is designed for corporate environments using Microsoft Exchange.  This package offers a wireless email solution integrating hardware, software and airtime.  Security is handled through Triple DES encryption between your PC and your BlackBerry.  Optional additional BlackBerry Enterprise Server enables software email encryption and redirection to be handled by the server - centralizing administration, performance monitoring, configurable handheld security attributes and asset tracking tools.

The BlackBerry Internet Edition is designed for mobile users to connect to their email box where ever they go at anytime at an affordable price.  It allows users to connect to the Internet via a wireless modem and read, compose, forward and reply to email messages.  

The BlackBerry Handheld Wireless comes in two mobile models.  

The RIM 950 Wireless Handheld-(pager size).

This model has 4 MB flash memory and 512 Kbytes SRAM.  It has a 32-bit Intel386 microprocessor. A wireless modem, optimized keyboard and thumb wheel.  The user interface is made up of icons, menus and an eight or six line display can be selected.  The RIM 950 Wireless Handheld comes with email-organizer software and password protection. This wireless mobile device is small and light weighing less than 5 ounces (including the single AA alkaline battery power supply) with dimensions 3.5 inches long - 2.5 inches wide and .93 inches thick. Email is notified  by tone, vibration or on the screen. The docking cradle is used to interface with your Desktop.

The RIM 957 Wireless Handheld-(palm size).

This model has 5 MB flash memory and 512 Kbytes SRAM. It has a 32-bit Intel386 microprocessor. A  wireless modem, optimized keyboard and thumb wheel.  The user interface is made up of icons, menus and a sixteen or twenty line display can be selected.  The RIM 950 Wireless Handheld comes with email-organizer software and password protection.  This wireless mobile device is small and light weighing less than 5.3 ounces (including the Lithium rechargeable power supply) with dimensions 4.6 inches long - 3.1 inches wide and .70 inches thick. Email is notified  by tone, vibration, on the screen, or on the LED indicator. The docking cradle is used to interface with your Desktop and recharge your RIM 957 Wireless Handheld.

BlackBerry Paging Option.

Besides BlackBerry mobile email capabilities it also can function as a pager.  As an option you can have BlackBerry Wireless Handheld receive numeric or alphanumeric pages via telephone or Web-based interfaces.  This feature enables mobile users to keep in touch with one integrated device.  This option will work in both Canada and the United States.  It uses BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network service in the United States and the Rogers AT&T service in Canada offering broad and reliable coverage.  

The BlackBerry Advantage.

Improve Personal Productivity

• Send and receive email from the palm of your hand.
• Integrate with your own email mailbox and address.
• Full-featured connected organizer with PC synchronization.
• Powerful wireless handheld with Intel386 processor, embedded wireless modem, easy-to-use keyboard and backlit screen.
• Quickly share information with your workgroup.
• Easily update your appointments and tasks.
• Promptly respond to urgent messages.
• Easily access web information.
• Manage your email more effectively.
• Minimize downtime throughout the day.
• Stay in touch wherever you go.

Business communication has changed over the years.  At one time paper notes left on an office desk was the main method for business communication for the mobile worker.  Voice mail later became an additional tool enabling mobile professionals to keep in touch.  The mobile professional armed with a cellular phone and voice mail could be kept abreast of  business situations.  

Today email has become more and more a powerful, economic, and convenient method for business communication.  One advantage email has over voice mail is the ease of selecting messages that are important and deserve immediate attention. Email communication enjoys superior  recording facilities for all necessary information in text format (no need to quickly write down phone numbers and business information).  If several people are working on a project email communication can be an efficient method to coordinate projects - armed with software such as organizers, and email reply, and forwarding functions quick, efficient communication can easily be maintained.  Never mind faxing when you can send email to several people in one easy step.

With a BlackBerry Wireless Handheld device, email communication for the mobile worker is further enhanced.  Broad coverage enables mobile professionals to keep in contact anywhere quickly and easily.  With its organizer functions onboard the remote office worker will always have access to contact and calendar information. The BlackBerry can be left on all the time keeping the mobile worker abreast of changes to enable timely reaction.  The light weight and small size of the BlackBerry is the ideal solution for remote email communication.  With flat rate fees the BlackBerry communication plan is an economical solution for any mobile worker.  

Cellular2go a Canadian Solution

Cellular mobility has never been easier, for more information on Canadian Service Plans and Provincial Service Plans or to purchase BlackBerry go to www.cellular2go.com .  Services and cellular products are offered all across Canada whether you live in central Canada in major Ontario cities such as Toronto, Ottawa or Windsor, or in Quebec such as Montreal or Quebec City www.cellular2go.com provides you with your cellular needs.  They can also help eastern Canadians looking for cellular mobility solutions - if you are based in provinces Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, or Prince Edward Island cellular2go is a Canadian solution for cellular mobility.  Western Canadian cities can also rely on cellular2go for cellular mobility solutions. Cities such as Victoria or Vancouver in British Columbia or in Calgary or Edmonton in Alberta or Regina Saskatchewan and others can count on Cellular2go.  

When traveling across the Canadian mosaic communication is not only a convenience but it increasingly has become an essential part of doing business.   Canada has always had a strong association with travel and communication technology; building a great railway and Alexander Bell's work with the telephone are examples in history.  With population spread over a large geographical area telecommunication is still an essential part of the Canadian life.  If you are traveling from Nanaimo to Kelowna or Lethbridge to Red Deer or from Medicine Hat to Halifax cellular communication can facilitate a safer and more convenient experience. Even if you don't travel the continent the cell phone and other cellular technologies keep you in touch when you are on the go. 

In the early 1980's when analog cellular phone first became available the technology was expensive, $1000 or more for just the phone.  This analog phone service was called Advanced Mobile Phone Service or AMPS.  AMPS phones could be used in any 800 MHz cellular market across Canada, the United States and Pan America.  By the 1990's phone prices dropped dramatically and some wireless service providers (WSP) began giving phones free of charge when the customer signed a three year service contract.  Many people were wary of such long contracts and preferred to buy the phone without the obligation of remaining with the same WSP.

Bell Mobility, Telus Mobility, and Rogers offered these services and by the mid-1990's began introducing digital personal communication services (PCS).  Digital PCS communication offered some advantages over AMPS system: 1) Email or Short Message Service (SMS); 2) digital encoding increasing privacy; 3) extended battery life.  Initially such services were confined to major urban centres such as Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.  Many digital phones offer a dual mode (digital and analog) which search for an analog signal when digital service is not available.  Depending where you live you may still have to settle for analog services.  Pricing difference between PCS and AMPS is negligible.