[cootcraig]

I just purchased an unlocked AT&T Blackberry Curve 8520. I moved my
Cricket Wireless SIM into it, had the phone activated by Cricket support
and can make phone calls.

I'm trying out the Curve because I want a keyboard and a low price and
some basic Blackberry applications could be useful.

Some background, I'm a 60+ aged software developer, but have no
interest in smart phones from Google/Android,Apple or Microsft. My personal
computers are all running Linux. I have just purchased a Windows XP Pro
retail license and plan to run XP in VirtualBox as my Blackberry application
host.

I would like to Manage
* Contacts
* Calender
* SMS

from my main personal workstation, probably with the XP VirtualBox
guest. So a couple of requests for resources:

1) Would it be possible to skip the XP virtual machine and just host
my Curve from Linux? If so, can you recommend resources to
get me started.
2) Can you recommend resources to help me be productive from XP?

Thanks.

[cootcraig]

I found the Barry software at SourceForge.