Comments on: BlackBerry getting squeezed?

A federal judge scolds both parties in a case that could lead to a service shutdown. Here's everything you need to know about the case.

Blackberry and Patent issues in general

I am baffled by the inaptitude of the patent office in granting patents without full comprehension of the software technologies. The patent office should educate and hire qualified people who can review truly patenable methods and processes rather than functionality alone. This is the leading cause of inhibiting innovation. On the contrary large software vendors have army of lawers who promote this trend and should be stopped by industry self regulating itself.

[Mick Blackledge]

Blackberry

Let's see!

Government has two million accounts.

Patent Office is government.

How long will disputed patents stand?

[ivanpang]

Preferred new function on BlackBerry

I'm still using my Nokia 6230i due to the radio and external memory stick function. If the new Blackberry got the above function. I'll stick with one handheld forever.

[bc66]

BlackBerry V. NPT, The Water is Black!!!

It seems like that these two companies cannot come to a solution here. I think that the judge ought to keep BlackBerry Opened until the U.S. Pattent Office has ruled on its competitor's pattents. If NPT does not get its pattents granted, than that should be the end of the case right there. Companies, stop backing up the toilet and move on.

There is enough dirty water without you two fighting all the time. You just act like babies and ought to be treated as such.

The blackberry Squeeze

I wonder why some hot-shot lawyer group hasn't gotten together a class-action lawsuit against NTP. After all, don't the customers have rights?
Don't customers have inherent rights to continuing service at reasonable prices, regardless of whether RTP and NTP disagree?

[Bradford W Brown]

Switching off the Blackberry

With all of the concerns regarding the continuation of RIM, with much regret I switched from the Blackberry to the new Sprint 6700 Pocket PC. It is nice, but surprisingly, after a month or so I would be tempted to go back to a Blackberry if I didn't have the concern regarding the longevity of RIM (and spending even more after the price I have paid to switch to the 6700).

The Blackberry that I had through Nextel had limitations in regards to the WEB interface. However, the easy of use, the way it interfaced with Outlook, the easy 'one hand' operation and the email handling far outways the 6700 for what I need as a communication device.

You CAN NOT effectively operate the 6700 with one hand, the keyboard on the side, seems nice, but also try to use it... 'tuff' ... Many of the simple intuitive things built into the Blackberry, (i.e. when sending email, putting in @ and '.' by the space bar selection, instead of 'hunting' for the function button 'the dot' and the '@'), I am now missing. I could build a long list of things that I liked about the Blackberry, many that I didn't even realize until now, because it was all so 'easy'.

Didn't think I would miss it, the 6700 looked superior on the surface, and to some people it may be. But those of you out their, considering a switch to another device, you may not want to be as quick as I was and wait this all out for awhile.