RIM BlackBerry 8830

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Great Phone for me...

20 Sep 2009 John Charbatji

8 out of 10

This is literally the perfect phone for me. Before I purchased this one I was using a Motorola Q from Sprint. After I smashed my Q by accident, I bought the 8830 World Edition and I have nothing to complain about. I never used the camera on all my old phones anyway so i could care less about that. It has a nice look to it and fits perfectly right in my pocket and its easy to use.

Unlike a windows mobile phone (that's what the Q was), Blackberry OS runs a million times better in my opinion because its of speed and ease of use. it hardly crashes like a windows phone. the internet browser is ok and does what i need it to do, nothing major.

One thing i love about this is that Sprint sells the phone already unlocked for worldwide GSM service, another words it has a sim-card slot and you can put a sim card from a local carrier in the country your in, swith the mobile network from "1xEV" to "GSM" and boom... you can use any sim card. I've used this phone in Lebanon and it worked perfectly. Unfortuantely, t-mobile and at&t cards dont work, but if you want to use it for t-mobile, just go and buy the 8820 from them. If you want, you can switch it to "global" mode and activate international roaming. Just think, the BlackBerry Tour 9630 is literally an upgraded version of this phone, plain and simple.

To me, the phone is good, ring tones are loud and clear, and i have no problem with service. even when i use it as a modem to provide the internet on my laptop (Sprint Mobile Broadband), i can still text and make a call while it is acting as a modem. Amazing isn't it?

As far as programs and applications and menus, etc, it is literally exactly like the BB Curve 8330 just a little bigger, no camera, and one side convenience key. So if you're quite versed with the Curve, figuring this phone out is a cakewalk.

Pros

"World Edition"

Cons

Only one side convenience key
Comes with BB OS 4.2, but can be upgraded to 4.5

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Blackberry....never again

3 Jul 2009 zealous

3.7 out of 10

I have the 8830 and boy am I sorry, I never thought I would yearn for my camera I was wrong! Going to Verizon’s website to download a picture message is the worst experience I have ever had every time I have to do it. Then there is the ringer I have had the damn thing right next to me and still missed calls more than once because you cannot hear it. “And while I wear glass’s my hearings fine…smile”

 There are issues with applications the only thing you can save on the memory card are songs and pictures. I have been a happily married man over the past thirty-two years and even I do not have enough pictures that I want to carry with me all the time.  I also do not “listen” to music on my phone I hate to say this but I once owned a Motorola Q that would run circles around this albatross

The one good thing I will say is the battery life is exceptional, However if you need, your cell phone to be everything for you all rolled into a nice little package this isn’t the phone for you

 

Pros

Battery Life

Cons

OS

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Learn how to use a blackberry

18 Apr 2008 Justin

8.8 out of 10

It seems most of those issues are due to your service from verizon. You were expecting a media phone and not a business phone. there is a reason the white house and congress use blackberry as its official phone. Sprint offers the 30 dollar data pack and includes unlimited text and data as well as telenav gps navigation. there are planty of third party software that enhances this phone tremendously. including a better "real" html email view.

There is a desktop setting on the phone as well that does not "scrunch" up webpages including a mouse pointer weilded by the trackball. Third party browsers are available to view "real internet" and bypass WAP, of course this is with a broadband speed service (Sprint EVDO)

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