Lenovo device delivers e-mail via BlackBerries to turned-off ThinkPads

Business travelers will be able to use their BlackBerry smartphones to automatically forward e-mail to their ThinkPad notebook PCs with a $150 device developed by Lenovo Group Ltd. and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), the two companies said Monday.

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I guess that would be useful if one's email is not kept on a server, but instead downloaded to the client and deleted from the server.

It's interesting though. HP actually has a feature whereby you can actually view your Outlook data on the notebook without booting it up.

 

I actually saw the video where a Lenovo spokesman discussed the product.

It seemed extremely useful in a very limited use case.

1. In the air, typing up emails in outlook (offline).
2. Plane Lands.
3. Put computer in standby.
4. Walk through the terminal, computer in your bag (suspended), make a call on your blackberry (automatically pulls and sends the email you wrote on the plane), as you get on your connecting flight.
5. Get on the next flight (Blackberry now off due to FCC rules). Turn on your computer, find the E-mails that you received during the first flight (Blackberry transferred them over via Bluetooth).
6. You can then proceed to reply to these E-mails on a full size computer on the plane.

Outside of this very limited scenario, I don't see it having much value. Additionally, if/when Internet service is common in the air, this product will be even less useful.


Also, HPs thing is basically a cut down Linux Distro (Similar to the technology on the Lenovo S10). It is an interesting idea, but personally I find S3 standby to be just as fast and far more effective.

 

they made stuff to be using in some secret agent. xD

for the company? government? nah, i was watching prison break. =D