Twelve Black Code Monkeys

After months of rumor without much official word, there’s finally a bit more hope for those interested in having the Blackberry wireless services for their Treo 600. In other words, Treo owners who need Blackberries to communicate with their corporate offices may be able to throw away their Blackberries and use their Treos exclusively. No word on how much this will cost or whether it will be available for all carriers that support the Treo, but the product seems imminent so we may have answers to all of these questions soon. The newest version of the Blackberry phone actually will be geared more to regular consumers and this has meant that it will be easier for non-corporate users to get the full functionality of a Blackberry without needing a corporate server, so perhaps anyone wanting to have this functionality won’t have to pay through the nose subscribing to a third-party server solution.

While this is exciting, I for one am currently satisfied with a Blackberry-like solution I have on my Treo 600 for email at least. I use a recently updated version of Chatter, which provides the “push” capability of the Blackberry. I have a hosted exchange account through 1and1.com, but really any account that supports IMAP will let you do what I do – I keep all my folders, such as my inbox, my sent items, even my trash, synched between my Treo 650 and my mail server. This does not, of course, let me synch my calendar entries, to-do list, etc., but until I get better at using those tools on a more regular basis, I probably don’t need to synch them more than once a day when I get home.