How would you like BlackBerry access on the high seas?

Well, if you are Silversea Cruises announced this week that it will be adding phone and BlackBerry hot spots throughout two of its ships later this year, and will have them on all their ships next year.

The new service is now available onboard Silver Shadow and Silver Whisper, and will be expanded to be available on the line's other two ships, Silver Cloud and Silver Wind, in the coming months. The service will work with either GSM or CDMA handsets.

Ultra-chic Silversea is doing this via a partnership with SeaMobile, a global provider of advanced-at-sea wireless voice and data communications services.

Yes, I am impressed- but isn't the purpose of a cruise to get away from it all?