Comments on: First e-mailing prez: Obama keeps his BlackBerry

White House spokesman confirms that as part of a "compromise," the new U.S. president will be able to hang on to his RIM device, making him the first to use e-mail.

[AppleSuxLeo]

And the real keyboard wins out !

[dennisl59]

OK, hasn't it been reported and common knowledge that using e-mail consumes hours of what could be productive work?.

I can hear it know..."Attack?, What attack?...Dude, I'm cleaning the spam from Outlook, because I don't know how to set the filters just yet, I'll get back to you in a sec".

Thank You.

[CanadianGeezer]

I would say as 'The Pres' this is one area where he will get to 'make his own call' after chatting with the security gimps about their challenges.

Keep the Blackberry Mr. O and keep in touch with the real world .... Whatever you do willl be fine especially as we know that "I" is not part of your vocabulary .... like I-Phone, I-Pod, I-Mac etc ... products gauranteed to nourish narcissistic elitism.

[n3td3v]

Declan,

You never mentioned hackers.

:(

[illpoint2]

Actually your wrong cnet....


http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/dear-mainstream-media-obamas-new-phone-isnt-a-blackberry-mig/

[dennisl59]

Thanks illpoint2...CNET getting a story wrong???

Impossible! Incredible! Unbelievable!

I am truly stunned and dismayed and writing my Congressman to conduct an Investigation.

Thank You.

[declan00]

I'll trust the White House over a bunch of tech gadget bloggers at Engadget, thanks very much. You do realize that the White House press secretary confirmed this on the record, right?

[RobertHTX]

I suspect this is something like what we have seen with Internet search engines (you "Google It' regardless of whether you are using Live, Google, Yahoo, etc) and the general tendency to lump all portable MP3 players (Zune, SanDisk, etc) as "I-Pods". The white-house rep probably used Blackberry as a generic noun rather than a specific noun. There is a pretty good chance that the device in question is a Windows Mobile device (At least one of the pictures I've seen has the Internet Explorer icon...).

[Regac]

The email, of course, is:

IAmThePrezBiat*[e-mail]

[Tony_Blackburn]

Maybe it's a Whiteberry....................

[Zaunto]

Well if the President can have a secure Windows Mobile Smartphone, I want my Windows Mobile Smartphone to be secure too. Better yet, how about the NSA certifies the next version of the iPhone!!

[i8246i]

Yeah, I dont think I want something that the idiots in Washington believe is "secure".

They've fallen behind the times and standards, and let any doofus put sensitive data on laptops, mp3 players, paper documents, etc...

This just might be the year where some hacker actually recreates some action movie cliche and truly "hacks the white house". I can see it now: "4 nuclear strikes, and 433 pepperoni pizzas ordered by Obama's hacked Blackberry!"

[Edot33204]

If Obama would stay in Washington instead on being on TV everyday maybe something could get done. Oh I forgot he is a good speaker but when it comes time to write the stimulus bill or with the $410billion bill he leaves it up to sidekick Nancy Pelosi and Harry. Want to know why, because he doesn't know how . The only thing he is good at doing is giving speeches and telling the country that we are in a crises and we need to spend all this money to fix everything. Stop trying to fix things because you only make things worse. Let the free market work but again that is not what you want to happen .You want the government to do it so YOU can control it, along with Nancy and Harry.