Thanks John for in dept detail... BB seems good. be cause i travel lot and mail usually using mobile only. keyboard seems better idea.
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 3:16 PM, John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 12:51:39PM +0530, Jay Patel wrote: > > Blackberry for security? or something else. > > BlackBerry has notably fewer exploits than other platforms, especially > Android-anything. I haven't bought a new one recently but the older ones > were actually good phones as in they don't drop calls and the people you > are > talking to can hear you and vice versa. They work where other phones have > no > coverage. They put good radios in them. > > The platform has been a good platform. It has a lot of nice features and a > lot of security features. It has user-selectable cipher choices and a > secure > messenger. It has a built in VPN and there is at least one good SSH client > available for it. BB is certainly not secure in the sense anybody > believes BlackBerry hasn't been coopted by the NBA like any other major > carrier. You are posting from gmail so presumably that doesn't bother you. > > As far as the handset goes it offers good encryption options for your phone > RAM and is contents selectable including the micro SD card. You can set it > to wipe on excess password tries (you decide how many that is) and with the > management software for BB Enterprise you can wipe or provision phones > remotely. You can easily set it up so if your phone is lost or stolen it > will be wiped and worthless. Every BB has a unique PIN and unless you > release yours the stolen phone will never get onto the BB network again. > > The email is the best reason to get a BB. It's a true push-email, no > polling. There is another security hole though since you have to give your > passwords to the BB software at your carrier to access your email > accounts. When somebody emails you you get notified right away. I don't > know > if they fixed it but the notification only used to be for 10 minutes or > something like that. An app for 5 bucks fixes that and you'll never miss an > email or phone call again. It's just superb for business and makes you look > good when you get back to people promptly and don't bobble emails like some > teenage kid with an iPhone. Oh sorry man, I never knew you emailed me. > > There was a 3M limit for file attachments. That is a pain in the ass if you > need to read big manuals etc. but honestly the phone is not a tablet and > reading doc on it gets old fast. > > The physical keyboards are great and you can compose emails almost > normally. The browsers suck. There are some third party browsers but > they're > still not good compared to what else is available for other platforms. The > multimedia stuff also is very basic. They are not gamer's phones. > > All in all the BB is a good platform with a lot of nice features, is > designed with some understanding of security issues and priority given to > that. I like the sane design and lack of Tokyo-by-night features just to > say > they have something. It's basic non-glamorous stuff that just works. > > If you want a reasonbly secure phone that is really a good phone and a > superb tiny mobile email platform with very few exploits then BB is a > top choice. As soon as you want to do web stuff, watch movies, or play > games > it goes way down the list. > > /jl > > -- > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong > against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD > and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org > attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! > Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04
