BlackBerry features
The BlackBerry™ is truly a powerhouse handheld, on a powerful network. It is a phone, a PDA, and your mailbox. Every element of the BlackBerry solution has been designed to be intuitive, quick and easy-to-use. Creating and retrieving information is amazingly simple. 
BlackBerry provides you with:
- Wireless extension of your existing email accounts (including ISP accounts) through the POP3 protocol and/or mail forwarding
- The ability to view attachments (in Word/Excel/PowerPoint text)
- Your own Web mail account
- Bluetooth support for hands-free communications
- Ten megabytes of virtual storage
- Open JAVAT2 Micro Edition (J2MET) development platform
- PIN to PIN messaging
- Menu driven user interface
- Alarm and AutoText
- Tone, vibration, or silent alert
- Trackwheel for easy scrolling
- USB cable for PC synchronization and recharging
The BlackBerry is also part of a Corporate wireless solution
With the BlackBerry Enterprise Server installed behind your company's corporate firewall, you can maintain your existing corporate email address to send and receive email from your handheld. The server software integrates seamlessly with Microsoft® Exchange or Lotus® DominoT. With this server software, BlackBerry provides end to end security with triple DES encryption, an industry leading security standard.
BlackBerry Enhanced Features
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Bluetooth
The BlackBerry has Bluetooth technology for hands-free headset and car kit support.
Improved browser
The browser more closely resembles a true internet experience.
Attachment Viewing
View attachments such as Word, Excel, HTML, JPG, PowerPoint, and Adobe PDF in colour. ZIP files are also supported.
Enhanced Integration with BlackBerry Applications
Email addresses, phone numbers and URL’s within attachments will be seamlessy integrated into address book and other BlackBerry applications to support immediate context-sensitive actions.
SMS Message Handling
Text messages within the Message list have a unique icon identifying them from email messages.
Quick Voicemail Access
Simply press and hold the “1” key to call your preset Voicemail number when:
- in the Phone Application, or
- fom the Home Screen when "Dial from Home Screen" is on.
Font Support
Select from a wide range of scalable vector fonts in varying styles and sizes for use throughout the BlackBerry applications from the Screen/Keyboard options screen.
You can also apply:
- Bold
- Italics
- Antialiasing , and
- Sub Pixel Rendering (gives a more gradual transition between the colour of a line and the background colour).
Secure Connections – SSL/TLS
The browser supports optional SSL/TLS security.
Email Functionality
The BlackBerry provides you with a wireless extension of up to 10 work and personal email accounts, including:
- Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes
- MSN, Hotmail, AOL, and
- POP3/Internet Service Provider (ISP) email accounts
BlackBerry devices available:
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