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When I used to work for a medium sized business (100-150 employees), we gave a lot of our execs and tech support blackberries. We weren't huge like G-S, but the # of users we had was about 20 or 30. The business plans were monstrous at about $80-100 per head in addition to device up-front cost when the big cheese wants the latest gadget from RIM. For whatever reason, the smallest business plans were in that range - they were NOT the same ones offered as consumer plans, and had things like pooled minutes, pooled data, anytime-minutes only, no free weekends, etc. It was very, very business targeted.

In any case, you're probably right, G-S likely gets a discount for having a few thousand BBs on the go. Small businesses, in the 5-10 device range will likely not have the same clout and _could_ be stuck with face value $80/month or larger BB plans.

It does texting - which is something that got added to it in November, I think.

And in this environment, a penny saved is a penny earned. If you can save 5 employees $20/month, that's $100/month = $1200 a year saved on needless overhead. That's a good deal in any small business book!

Goldman-Sachs can continue to give everyone Blackberries. All those banks are clearly wise with their money. [/sarcasm]

If I were a business trying to give my employees mobile email, why would I even CONSIDER a Blackberry, iPhone or larger?

The upfront costs of BlackBerry's, iPhones can be $100-$200 per device. x10 employees... that's a lot of cash.

The Peek says EMail and texting. Businesses usually need only emails. Businesses don't usually need iPods, Cameras, Facebook or mobile browsing. From that perspective, the thing makes sense.

Hm, all these people noticing that their cell-phone can also do web/email.

One thing that I think is important to note that on a Peek, email is PUSHED to your Peek. So when a mail shows up, you know right away. You don't have to start-up a browser or separate app. (Yes, on iPod/iPhone/Blackberry it doesn't work this way, but that's apples and oranges).

This thing is cheap and affordable, and there are a few minor differences that I think gadgeters should keep in mind when comparing cell-phone email to this thing:
- Not a Pull app. When you get email, you know without having to pay attention!
- Full QWERTY!

Anyways, enough preaching. I think the email on this thing could be pretty dynamite but we probably have to use one to really get it. Who has actually tried one?

Michael,

I am in the market for the two same panels. Please note that I am scouring the internet like you are for comments, but so far have not been very successful. I believe the major difference is that the older UltraSharp has S-IPS type panel vs. TN panel for the newer SP2008WFP. What I gather from the snide comments around the internet, the S-IPS panel provides greater viewing angles and color consistency than a TN panel will. The S-IPS panel is also more expensive, and generally accepted as the de facto standard for multimedia. (See comment from Edge on Sep 28)

Up to this point I am not speaking from experience, only hearsay.

I have experienced (especially with larger panels) poor viewing angles that are likely the result of TN technology. I have even seen color discrepancy's from left-to-right that stem from the monitor's huge size. (i.e. the viewing angle from the middle of the screen is slightly off from the viewing angle at the edges)

There are two other major features not related to Display that I am also concerned with:
1. Four USB ports vs. two in the older model
2. Height adjustable stand on the older model vs. static height on the new one.


hope this helps.

That was one of the most difficult to read posts of all time.

How to make them relevant? Easy peasy. Add XBox-live like achievements. Make Achievement galleries browsable by any third party playing, and watch the dungeons fill up with raiding parties all over again.