I run a BlackBerry 7100 as my work communications anchor device; it handles telephone (not very elegantly but...) my schedule and, of course, email. It rocks at the latter.
Google have recently released a beta of GoogleTalk for BlackBerry devices. PS. get a load of the browser crap they be talking on that download page.
"Cool", I thought. But when you click the link (from the BlackBerry inbuilt browser) to download it, you get a message saying that because I'm in the UK, I can't have GoogleTalk. Presumably because Vodafone are scared about bandwidth, or some other threat to their fiscal health.
"So!", I thought my myself smugly, while floating aimlessly around Dublin airport this afternoon (I say aimlessly, but I had a duty free bag with a small soft toy dog inside as per Cameron's request to me this morning) , "I'm not in the UK!". And I tried to download GoogleTalk and it still came back with the same message that I was in the UK - when I patently wasn't.
And to rub salt into the wound it would let me download Google Local Mobile (mini-Google Maps) and when it happily fired up it acted all smart (or dumb) and decided to place me in Kansas or someplace in the US, not the UK or even Ireland. I distinctly wasn't in Kansas anymore, although I did check to see if Toto was still in the duty free bag.
All of which left Google's stock down a few points on my personal brand opinion index. Like they care. Like I care, like they care.
Google have recently released a beta of GoogleTalk for BlackBerry devices. PS. get a load of the browser crap they be talking on that download page.
"Cool", I thought. But when you click the link (from the BlackBerry inbuilt browser) to download it, you get a message saying that because I'm in the UK, I can't have GoogleTalk. Presumably because Vodafone are scared about bandwidth, or some other threat to their fiscal health.
"So!", I thought my myself smugly, while floating aimlessly around Dublin airport this afternoon (I say aimlessly, but I had a duty free bag with a small soft toy dog inside as per Cameron's request to me this morning) , "I'm not in the UK!". And I tried to download GoogleTalk and it still came back with the same message that I was in the UK - when I patently wasn't.
And to rub salt into the wound it would let me download Google Local Mobile (mini-Google Maps) and when it happily fired up it acted all smart (or dumb) and decided to place me in Kansas or someplace in the US, not the UK or even Ireland. I distinctly wasn't in Kansas anymore, although I did check to see if Toto was still in the duty free bag.
All of which left Google's stock down a few points on my personal brand opinion index. Like they care. Like I care, like they care.