The REAL Barackberry [telecom]

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"MARKETING men reckon the kerfuffle over Barack Obama's beloved BlackBerry has been worth something like $50m in free publicity to Research In Motion, the iconic smartphone's Canadian maker. Ironically, the president uses not a BlackBerry proper, but a Windows device...."

For further interesting technical details on the two devices approved for President Obama's use (a "heavily modified" Palm Treo 750 and the L-3 Communications "Guardian" phone), see the rest of the article at