Moreover, the commonly-held idea that once a family reaches a certain financial status (read: the rich), worry over things like retirement, health care and discretionary spending disappears is fast losing ground.

FORBES: Rich Women & Financial Woe

Yes, that's right: you'll be able to synchronize read status and sent items with your Gmail account, just as if you were using virtually any other phone produced in the last several years!

ENGADGET: RIM's BIS 3.0 email features apparently leaked, finally does Gmail justice

For a platform billing itself as the business user's best friend, BlackBerry's list of unsupported protocols that have achieved ubiquity is actually astonishing: you can't do two-way read status sync with an IMAP email account, for example, and amazingly, you can't natively connect to an Exchange ActiveSync service without being routed through RIM's back-end software.

ENGADGET: RIM's BIS 3.0 email features apparently leaked, finally does Gmail justice