Do you know what a BlackBerry is? If your first thought is a fruit, try again. If, however, you picture a mobile wireless e-mail pager, congratulations and welcome to the digital world.

Last month Legal Week‘s sister title Legal IT, in association with Hewlett Packard, surveyed 50 IT directors from within the UK’s top 100 law firms on the mobile systems they had tested or deployed over the last year. The survey covered a broad but not comprehensive range of hardware.