Could the new IXI Ogo become the poor man's Blackberry? Let's take a little tour.

The old Ogo was a dull silver. The new model is a much more professional black. It's still small enough to slip into a pocket.

Open up the Ogo to find a pretty usable keyboard. You still have to get used to a weird interface - there's no touch screen, and you navigate using two sets of cursor keys that operate different parts of the interface. But it felt less confusing to me than the original Ogo, which was a real puzzler.

The Ogo's home screen is now ... well, a Home Screen, looking very Outlook-y. Icons along the bottom let you activate various applications including the phone mode, Web browsing, calendar, address book, and games.

The calendar app syncs over the air with Outlook now, thanks to Synchronica's SyncML client. And you don't have to say a word to your IT department, provided you have Outlook Web Access turned on.

The gadget also comes with an RSS reader.