A couple of days ago that Kayla and I got blackberry’s. Its a Blackberry curve 8310. So far I really enjoy it. It has internet and will do email, IM’s, and everything else you want a mobile phone to do.
My biggest problem is blackberry’s crappy integration with gmail. I cant find a happy median. There seems to be serveral ways to do it.
- Use blackberry’s email client and just use there special setup. Its a mix of pop3 and imap. My problem is when you read something on your blackberry or gmail, it doesn’t show up as read on the other. And when I send an email from my gmail web account, it would show up on my blackberry.
- Use Blackberry and gmails IMAP email. But email isnt instant push to your phone.
- You basically setup a blackberry email address forward your gmail to it, and setup a few filters.
- Use the gmail app but it doesnt do instant push to the phone either.
I am not happy with any of them. I will have to update what I will do in the future… Come on gmail and blackberry work together!!!
edit:
I went back to solution 1, I was using 3, but then I couldn’t delete any of my mail, since I don’t send out that many emails, I figured getting a few extra on my blackberry.
Next time, I am going to post my favorite blackberry apps.
I am using Googles blackberry app and it works fine. Pushes out to the device wihtout a problem and marks as read in both places once I read @ either place.
When you set up your email via BIS, did you let it auto-detect? If it auto-detects, it defaults to pop3. If you leave the password blank and choose to enter the info manually, you can then set it up as IMAP and it will two-way sync (including read and deleted items).
Sorry, more info here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78882
Astrobyte, I went with the pop3 method, I want IMAP support, but dont want to wait, I want instant email.
Why would you have to wait with imap support?
Its not instant to your email… it can up to a 10 minute delay. Atleast with my carrier, and from what I seen online its not just me.