It started innocently enough. About a year ago I was having a meeting with my local Nextel representative to discuss some new options in our Nextel service package. We’d just recently made the jump to upgrade to GPS phones for all of our technicians, and even purchased software that functions as a time card so the techs can clock in and out on their phones. Pretty cool stuff. The meeting was about to wrap up when my rep, a seasoned pusher, pulled out a Nextel BlackBerry and slid it across the conference table.
I’d seen other people using BlackBerries, and to be honest, these people scared me. One morning in Starbucks I made the mistake of asking a guy I was standing next to in line how he liked his BlackBerry. For the next 30 minutes I had to listen to him explain how BlackBerry had virtually saved his life. As I walked away, cold Vente Breakfast Blend in hand, my instincts told me to stay away from BlackBerry.