BlackBerry users could switch to the competition

While the governments of United Arab Emirates, India, Saudi Arabia and other countries are considering forcing the manufacturer to suspend the BlackBerry e-mail encryption devices for security reasons, users fear their work routines and you are threatened discussed some options, like moving the iPhone from Apple Inc.
Udoay Ghosh, an executive at electronics company G-Hanzs lives in Dubai, traveling about 300 days a year and use the Blackberry to keep up with an average of more than 100 emails a day.
He is one of many devotees of multipurpose cell interviewed by The Associated Press in airports and offices around the world this week expressing concern about the threats of various governments to ban the service. They also had trouble remembering how they work before they had the device in their hands.
Sipping a coffee before an early flight at Dubai International Airport, the businessman looking fondly at his two good, two BlackBerry phones in front of him.

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"This is my laptop, my office and my home," said Udoay on the device. "People today can not wait. In today's world, time is money and if you lose time, lose business," he added.
Nokia Corp. is one of the manufacturers who sell supercell with capacity for email, Web browsing and other office tools, features that have not caused great concern on the part of regulators in the Middle East or Asia.
In the same situation are the iPhone and phones that have the Android operating system Google Inc.

"We want to provide our employees with other devices if there is any major change" regarding Blackberry, said Michael Grabicki, a spokesman for the German chemical company BASF SE.
The other devices, however, not based on the same type of sophisticated encryption that has caused the concerns of various governments, which means that do not offer the same level of security for many companies is crucial.
If prohibitions against BlackBerry are effective, business travelers said they could find ways to encrypt your message using laptops for email, but that would require them to juggle while holding a cup of coffee at an airport. It is much easier to browse messages on a multipurpose phone in the palm of the hand.
"In the end you can also pick up the phone (Blackberry) and call" the business contacts, the user said Emad Soliman, an Australian designer who works in a furniture factory in the capital of the Emirates, Abu Dhabi.
Journalists from The Associated Press Samantha Henry in Newark, New Jersey; Da Yun in Mumbai, Jorge Sainz in Madrid, Raphael G. Satter in London, Juergen Baetz in Berlin, Barbara Surko in Dubai, Peter Svensson in New York and Ji Chen in Shanghai contributed to this article.