Blackberry 8700

1) While the Internet email service does retrieve messages appropriately under IMAP, it neither marks them as read nor deletes them from the server. It bascially does not follow any of the IMAP protocols besides retrieving messages.

correction...when messages are deleted from the Blackberry device, they are eventually deleted from the IMAP server and subsequently from my Mac Laptop. The real issue is that if I delete messages from my laptop, the Blackberry does not honor those changes when it syncs back up. Shame on you guys. Please fix this!

It would be great if RIM could put an engineer on this. IMAP is a very widely used protocol for allowing messages to be synchronized and stored remotely across devices and is the foundation upon which Exchange is built. It should be a fairly trivial task for the staff at RIM. If they need an economic case, a clean IMAP implementation complete with filing messages would steal man treo users away.

2) I have a Mac with OS X Tiger. The Blackberry has Bluetooth and EDGE. I need to be able to use the blackberry as a wireless modem and this guy http://www.taniwha.org.uk has scripts for every device except the Blackberry. Here is his statement about the Blackberry:

Information for BlackBerry: Unfortunately, the BlackBerry doesn't respond to modem commands from the Mac. There's obviously some trick that the Windows software uses, but I'm not aware of it. If anyone finds out how, please let me know.

update...I spoke with someone at shark modem who was going to touch base with our scriptmaker friend at taniwha.org.uk. Hopefully, this contact will result in some sort of progress.

So, basically I would just like to see some open-standards tweaks. The phone has all the potential and is lacking in a few easily fixable areas.