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If they have an always on connection, what's the push part for? And if it is always on, that sounds like its going to be very bad for the battery, so I don't think it will be always connected. Got a link to your old post where you explained how it works or care to explain again?
If the BB just did Push email first, then I'm still not seeing whats so special about email on BB these days.
The push part is for the email, nothing else...and usually it doesnt affect battery life all that much unless your getting 100's of emails per min or hr...past BB devices ie the 9000 Bold wasnt great on battery but the new 9700 Bold is superb for battery...i can easily get around 2 days of useage out of it depending on how hard i use it.
Nothing special ultimately about the BB email system other than it works...perhaps you should try one out and see how well it integrates into the whole BB OS....also remember that the email system and BB OS is the most secure of all devices especially if your on a BES...which is mainly used in corporate environments.
Heres the definition of push email that i had posted a few months back:
Blackberry said:By using an Network Operating Center (NOC), the BlackBerry method represents the most battery and data efficient method for push email. In a lay person’s term, the email is forwarded to your BlackBerry by the RIM-operated NOC only when there is email. And even then, only the first chunk of email is sent. In the absence of email, nothing at all happens, and your BlackBerry behaves much like a normal mobile phone.
As you can imagine, unless you receive a hundred emails an hour, enabling push email on the BlackBerry does not normally result in any noticeable reduction in battery life.
RIM is able to do that because of your BlackBerry registers itself with your Telco, which forwards the information on to the RIM NOC. The result is that the NOC now knows exactly where to forward your emails to. This is also the reason why a normal data plan is not adequate to give you BlackBerry email services.
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