BlackBerry 8700c
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- 4$j
- 05 Feb 2006
I recently had this phone but returned it within 30 days. I wasn't satisfied with Cingular.
This phone is pretty good. Much improvements over the previous versions. It is smaller than on the pictures. And very light. In the pictures, it looks like a brick but it's very light.
Screen is very bright, alarms were loud, vibration was sort of strong, speaker phone was loud and clear, sending/receiving sms, emails were quick and easy. Battery life was good and bluetooth signal was strong.
The down sides are, you have to hold down the "alt" key to type numbers while typing in sms or emails. The calendar was too simple and slightly complicated to manuver thru. There was no option to delete all your phonebook and emails at once. When returning this phone, I had to delete the contacts and emails one by one.
I've taken this phone to several us cities (Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, New York) and several countries; (Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti)
I returned this phone not because it's a bad phone but cingular was a bad provider. Did not work in San Pedro Sula, Honduras; and Haiti. (But Haiti, nothing works, so...)
While emails and sms were fine, I had alot of trouble connecting with the browser. I repeatedly got network not available message. I blame cingular because some of the problems were in the states as well.
I will wait until my current provider or another one offers this phone.
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- Anonymous
- n9j
- 04 Feb 2006
Pls try to answer the following questions.
(1) Can this read and write Arabic?
(2) Can it uses windows: word / excel / e-mail Access. etc.... .
(3)Synchronization by first and last names.
(4)Synchronization by phone numbers.
(5)The phone frame should be solid enough.
(6)Assigned Daily Calendar events should always be stamped on the screen with timely peeps till the user stop or delete them.
(7)Keep the annual events stored in the Phone Calendar's memory such as Birthdays, special occasions as long as he needs them stored, the phone should move or copy them automativally to the new Calendar.
(8)Increase the number of characters / digits written per line.
(9) Change the font: Regular / Bold / Italics / and pt. number.
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- Anonymous
- Cfh
- 02 Feb 2006
Had a palm treo 650 that repeatedly crashed. The treo does a little of everything but nothing well. Switched to BB 8700c. Is is a great business tool with a great phone and speakerphone and excellent e-mail and calender. Not a toy Excellent replacement for a phone and pager.
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- Anonymous
- Y78
- 31 Jan 2006
I own the blackberry 8700r from Rogers Wireless in Canada. I LOVE this phone, no matter the size! The screen is sooo bright and the web browser works PERFECTLY !!! in wap or in http. My only 2 troubles is that blackberry says that it's possible to put MP3 ringtones THATS A LIE !!!!!! THE MP3 can't be transfert with MMS, BLUETOOTH, E-MAIL, DESKTOP or even the WEB BROWSER !!! And when you call the custumer service... " Well I'm not sure, are you sure its wrote on our website that the blackberry support MP3?" "DAMN RIGHT I'M SURE!!!!". And you cant transfert any data with the bluetooth! Its a shame! Come on ! But over all its a good phone for people that dont matter about the MP3 Ringtonez
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- jxg
- 29 Jan 2006
This is an exeptional Bargain, Super nice features, Nice Decent WEB performance, greate grafics.
Looking foward for a touch screen feature and voice dialing.
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- Nick
- Y7K
- 31 Dec 2005
You can use it on Mac OSX if you download the free app... PocketMac available on the blackberry website.
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- CZ
- 4TS
- 24 Dec 2005
Too many keys on the keyboard.
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- jeff
- kex
- 14 Dec 2005
The new blackberry is in a league of it's own. much better then the 7290. The new high resolution screen is much better then the last, and it now has Edge, so the internet is much faster then the old, the pages load in seconds.
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- Andrew
- 4qk
- 04 Dec 2005
I got one of these yesterday and is my first blackberry. I am setting it up for my girlfriend.
Pluses: Nice interface, more buttons, good looking screen, edge network
Minues: can not use are modem with OS X
Browser does not handle google local, my webmail, other sites.
Still like my nokia 6600 better,
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- CovertPhoneNYC
- 4fR
- 29 Nov 2005
FYI... Cingular will have a 60 day exclusive with this device from date of official launch to the general consumer market. After 60 days, all other providers - such as T-Mobile - will be able to market this device to their customers as well as the general public.
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- jimmy
- Y7C
- 22 Nov 2005
sickkk phone really nice
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- Simon
- MVA
- 21 Nov 2005
As someone who has got one of these (don't ask) its fantastic!!!!!!
The screen is almost TFT quality, 72mb of Ram means it lightning quick at browsing. It feels alot better then the 72xx series,while still retaining its original functionality, unlike the 71xx series.
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- Ryan
- YH@
- 21 Nov 2005
To bad it will only be for Cingular right now. I hope T-Mobile picks this plaform up there data price is much cheaper than Cingular and usually works better.
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- Anonymous
- PAG
- 19 Nov 2005
oh man.. this phone look so dumb and its features look so cheap... not nice at all.. size too big.. like a stone.. this phone s**k!!!
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- phonegeek
- 4}A
- 18 Nov 2005
I wonder how good is the web browsing speed. The phone look fine to me, but BB softwares are too limit and expensive.
I'd rather go for PPC with keypad or P990
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- siyamak
- SuA
- 05 Nov 2005
nice phone