Blackberry phones

[eastlondonseagull]

Anyone rate them? My phone's died and it happens to be Vodafone contract renewal time, too, so I'm considering getting a Crackberry. Need it for on-the-go email, web browsing and a decent-ish camera. As well as phone, obviously.

Are they all they're cracked up to be?

Ta, in advance, for any advice

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[Captain Pugwash]

Me sisters got one, I dont rate it but she loves it, says the internet is very good. Doubt this helps much but!

 

[matt]

I had a Curve - which was good. I now have a Storm which is a buggy piece of shit and makes me wish I'd upgraded to a Bold instead.

Cheers

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Got one for work, nice phone, good internet and other bells and whistles..not bad camera and video.

 

[sully]

The ringtones are crap, but other than that, they're pretty good.

I only use it for work, and the camera's nowhere near as good as my personal phone, but the email is pretty handy - although it doesn't cope well with attachments.

Mine would appear to be called a "Pearl", by the way. Didn't know that until just now, so NSC continues to educate me on a daily basis!

 

[JJ McClure]

Useful for web and e-mail, but battery life sucks big time.

 

[pork pie]

Go for the HTC Touch Pro as I did. Chuffed to bits with it, and not a brick like a Blackberry.

 

[beorhthelm]

Useful for web and e-mail, but battery life sucks big time.

try turning the back light down to lowish setting, you'll still see everything fine.

for all the features they have, crucially they are good as an actual phone. a small detail often missed by the likes of samsung and sony. the newest ones with hi-res screens are great for t'internet.

 

[Lokki 7]

DO NOT GET A STORM. That is all.

 

[John Dorian]

DO NOT GET A STORM. That is all.

Well I DID. And I'm happy with mine, as for the ringtones, even though I'm 22 I have the plain ring ring one, and that suits me down to the ground instead of the incessant shite I hear other people have...

The blackberry app world is out on Wednesday, which should hopefully rival the IPhone app store, I'm waiting with baited breath as that is the only thing I am annoyed with Blackberry about is the lack of applications to download.

The Storm only has a 3.2 megapixel camera, which I thought would be ok but not great but I take pictures on it for my work (estate agent) and then send them across via e-mail. So much easier than on wires and stuff. It is a bit big as a phone, but then you easily get used to it.

Plus e-mail on the go is like taking a ghost poo. Until you've had one, you didn't know how good it actually is. And then you revel in it.

Enjoy !!!

 

[Best Foot Forward]

Couldn't imagine working without a BlackBerry. I use the new 8900 (Javelin) and it is excellent

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Anyone rate them? My phone's died and it happens to be Vodafone contract renewal time, too, so I'm considering getting a Crackberry. Need it for on-the-go email, web browsing and a decent-ish camera. As well as phone, obviously.

Are they all they're cracked up to be?

Ta, in advance, for any advice

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I'm sorry to hear about the death of your phone. Have you contacted the TV companies, papers, Max Cilfford etc. Maybe you could make some money out of the funeral

Mobily RIP

 

[eastlondonseagull]

I'm sorry to hear about the death of your phone. Have you contacted the TV companies, papers, Max Cilfford etc. Maybe you could make some money out of the funeral

Mobily RIP

Top idea

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[eastlondonseagull]

At the mo, I'm weighing up the pros and cons of the new Curve 8900 or the Bold. The new 8900 has a better camera and is smaller, but I've read a lot of complaints about it not having 3G, and being painfully slow.

All have bad battery life, apparently, but my old Sony Ericsson had terrible battery. Complaints also about effectiveness of the Blackberries' Bluetooth connection, but again my Ericsson was very hit and miss there.]

Is the 8900 (Javelin) different from other 8900's?

And what's this HTC Touch Pro, then, pork pie? Saw that Vodafone are doing them.



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[pork pie]

At the mo, I'm weighing up the pros and cons of the new Curve 8900 or the Bold. The new 8900 has a better camera and is smaller, but I've read a lot of complaints about it not having 3G, and being painfully slow.

All have bad battery life, apparently, but my old Sony Ericsson had terrible battery. Complaints also about effectiveness of the Blackberries' Bluetooth connection, but again my Ericsson was very hit and miss there.]

Is the 8900 (Javelin) different from other 8900's?

And what's this HTC Touch Pro, then, pork pie? Saw that Vodafone are doing them.



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The HTC touch pro is a cross between a pda and a phone. It goes by various names from network to network. Mine is called a MDA Vario IV from T-mobile. Runs on Windows Mobile, has just about everything including a full slide-out querty keyboard, high speed 3G, Wi-Fi, bluetooth, touch screen, google maps with GPS, pocket office aps, etc, etc. It is about the size of a Nokia N95 so not a brick like Blackberrys.

You should try to see one in a shop - unfortunately, they are quite a lot of money and not all shops have them. You should be able to get one on a good deal at the moment.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I've had a Blackberry Pearl - like many Pearl owners, I had to deal with the pearl itself getting stuck, which made navigation very difficult....

I loved all the rock solid full qwerty keyboard blackberries that came before.... they had great battery life and push email. now on an iPhone - brilliant interface!

 

[Hiney]

Go for the HTC Touch Pro as I did. Chuffed to bits with it, and not a brick like a Blackberry.

I've just got the HTC Touch HD

I bluddy LOVE IT

 

[Rougvie]

I have the bold, its a superb piece of kit, e-mail capability is just exceptional, when I came back to the UK, I bought a Nokia E71 handset which is Nokias atempt.

Its a SHIT awful atempt.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

IPhone

 

[eastlondonseagull]

IPhone

...is ridiculously shit from judging from what my missus has experienced, unless she's just been very unlucky. Keeps crashing, rubbish reception, keeps hanging up on her, predictive text is pants, nothing but trouble. But she does love the whole finger-touch thing to expand pics or internet. That is nice.

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