Very Vogue

Editors note- Do you know any ladies with attitudes? Gadget Girl is our latest author to strike a pose...she practices what she preaches and will be covering all things wireless.

Speaking of wireless, Cupertino excels at creating buzz, but it is a bit premature to predict that the Canucks have met their Waterloo.

Gigi comes out of industry, not Wall Street, and is more plugged in than all of 230 Park Avenue. She is here to lend a hand as we juggle a few projects...and get this rudderless ship on track. She might not be a stockpicker per se, but will weigh in from time to time on her latest obsessions. Gigi does not own Research in Motion (RIMM-NASDAQ) but has been singing Blackberry’s praises for as long as we have known her. Her next post will put a little more meat on the bone...but most people start with appetizers.

Don’t just stand there lets get to it…
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The competitors are finally starting to leave the building. The launch of the MOT Q that was touted for months was barely a blip on RIMM’s radar.

BlackBerry retained the top spot for PDA devices shipped, growing 10 percent to 3.5 million for the year, but its market share slipped from 21.3 percent in 2005 to just a shade below 20 percent during 2006, Gartner said. (includes only the 8700 and not the Pearl or the 7100)

Palm saw PDA shipments slide by 29 percent to less than 2.8 million devices, its market share plummeting to 11.1 percent from the prior year’s 18.5 percent.
Hewlett-Packard Co.’s shipments also declined in 2006, falling 24.1 percent to 2.3 million devices. Its market share fell by more than a third to 9.7 percent vs. the prior year’s 15.1 percent. Gartner

That said - let’s not forget the Pearl. We were loathe to make the change from our blackberry 7280 because it was a workhorse. But we took the plunge and are so glad we did. After taking the Pearl from the box and plugging it into our laptop it transferred thousands of messages, contacts and calendar entries and set up 3 different email accounts in less than 10 minutes. It also takes little time to get used to the new keyboard. Now we are sorry we didn’t buy it the day it came out.

What a breeze compared with the Samsung Blackjack...we spent the better part of an afternoon enabling one for a friend and it was a total nightmare. Papa don’t preach but I will...Pearl in a landslide.
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