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I must admit before my years of blackberry abuse I was a die hard TREO fan, even switched back from the Blackberry 8800 to the Treo 750…but woke up and grabbed a Curve. But, while writing my latest for Blackberry Insight on my struggles to be a one device guy..no laptop..no desktop..just me and my Curve on the weekends and throughout most of the day. I realized that the Doomed Palm Foleo, was maybe on the cutting edge, we all love the qwerty keyboards, but I must admit that there is nothing better than a real keyboard for long assignments and long emails. The ability to see your blackberry screen and applications and access them on a 10, 12, or bigger screen would be glorious, I don’t want the start up time, or other 3rd party window apps or windows for that matter, I just want an instant on and offsee my Blackberry screen and type from a larger keyboard thingamajig , just a bluetooth keyboard and a screen, just to make it a little more comfortable and usable. So I started searching the net and found ALMOST what I wanted….ALMOST… here —> Bayalink Liberty
which gave me everything I wanted except more charges to my data, this happens because it render’s your blackberry screen through Firefox, or IE and you have more data being presented and requested, same with their mail attachment service….so it was close, but no cigar, I still need something similar but simpler, how about a bluetooth Monitor…..Anyone, Ferris, Bueller,…Then there is RedFly same Idea as the Foleo, but for Windows Smartphones only
So what I have done is started to test out using a bluetooth keyboard with the Blackberry While having it plug into the usb of my laptop and using Rove Mobile Viewer. So know I can see my blackberry screen better in bigger format and use my bluetooth keyboard to type faster and for longer……..Have I solved my issue…..apparently not, Blackberry’s only work with a few Bluetooth Keyboards (mainly the stowaway type) none of which I have, so now I need to buy a keyboard…no biggie, but would still really like an ALL IN ONE solution, isn’t there anyone able to make a program to simulated the BB Screen on a PC and have the keyboard work as well……auuurgggggha.
So back to my original thought, a Foleo like companion for when you truly want to be mobile and as unplugged as cellular will let you be, even if you had no cellular connection you could still do it all from your BB and thingamabob, and then when you back within signal range send what you need.
Anyways I’m done my rant, if anyone knows of such a device, or knows of one coming down the wire,please let me know. Thanks from the aching thumbs, and my squinting eyes.
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