Posts Tagged ‘smartphones’


Communicating in the Age of the Blackberry

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

I recently switched to the Blackberry after spending the last couple of years on two other models of Smartphones.  At first I felt as though I were driving a Hummer—it just seemed like way too much phone for me.  Of course, I quickly got used to the various bells and whistles and have already begun to take them for granted.

The Blackberry has provided me some important insights into the lives of our clients and how they receive our emails.    In today’s understaffed corporate world, many people shuttle from meeting to meeting, keeping in touch primarily through their Blackberry.  Desks have too often become the place to deposit a briefcase in the morning and retrieve personal belongings at the end of the day. (more…)