Blackberry was initially launched to the corporate market, but in the early days proved expensive for most smaller businesses. All that has changed, and suddenly, the choices are now endless.

In its most simplest terms, we are talking about a cut down version of MS Outlook on your phone. Of course, you can extend the applications, and run bespoke software, or RDP to other machines, but simply extending your Mail, Contacts, Tasks and Calendars is usually sufficient for most!

Choosing a phone

There are 2 leading technologies, available on all 4 networks, which is Blackberry, and of the rapidly expanding number of Smart phones that use ActiveSync to synchronise with your Exchange Server.