Blackberry's

[gazbenger]

I'm thinking of buying one and using my current orange sim with it and just adding the bundle to my contract. I'm looking at the 8110, how much on ebay should I look to pay? and is it a good phone?
cheers

 

[Dafthead]

It's not a really good idea unless you NEED it for email.

I've got a curve from work and it PISSES me off so bad

 

[Ad]

As said, for work great. Personal use no go.

 

[gazbenger]

I want to have a useful method of checking my emails when I'm not at home, but im tied into a contract with orange for 15 more months so the iPhones a no go. Are they really that bad for everything but emails?

 

[cava83]

I hate them. Only good thing is the battery life.

 

[ChrisPearson]

what u on about get an iPhone and unlock it

 

[gazbenger]

Not sure orange will give me internet download allowance for it though?

 

[ChrisPearson]

neither does my o2 simcard.Anything other than wifi isnt worth using its too slow.

 

[The Hoff]

Blackberries aren't bad, as said you get a good 7 days use out of them before they need a full charge, circa 15 days standby.

To use they're no worse than a normal phone, certainly a better UI than Motorola/Samsung, and almost on par with SE/Nokia IMO.

Lots of good software for them too, but have to admit after all that it wouldn't be my first 'natural' choice.

iPhone on the other hand I love, despite it's somewhat mediocre battery life.

 

[gazbenger]

Hmm interesting, do you use it for emailing alot hoff? and is it easy to use for usual phone features?

 

[The Hoff]

I use both for emailing a lot. I personally find typing on the iPhone easier than my pearl due to full qwerty keyboard, but after you've learnt the shortcuts and how the predictive works on the BB they work well also.

June will bring new firmware and enterprise class function to the iPhone (push&pull exchange, cisco vpn, certificates) so worth bearing in mind.

Iphone is very different piece of kit, but BB with choice software like googlemaps along with its battery life and always on connectivity is a little Swiss army knife.

For webpage usage and UI though the iPhone wipes the floor with anything right now. Just lacks 3G and Flash.

 

[Moby]

As said, for work great. Personal use no go.

Agreed.

 

[McBunny]

i use an 8820 battery life is awful email works well everything else is gash

 

[Moby]

Mine is an 8100 pearl and likewise, the battery life is utterly shocking!

 

[Rasclart]

I have a Curve and personally love it. Mainly as I need it for email but it does Texts fine and makes calls jobs a good un IMO

 

[gazbenger]

I've bought an o2 Atmos XDA now

 

[The Hoff]

New Bberyy looks good, I want one:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobil...Officially-Unveils-Bold-3G-BlackBerry-9000/p1

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

I went for a Windows based smartphone with touch screen, built in GPS then acquired tomtom, all round awsome bit of kit for me at work

 

[Rasclart]

One guy on Crackberry.com managed to get his mits on one LOL from Ebay looks spot on.

 

[Lou]

I have a Curve and personally love it. Mainly as I need it for email but it does Texts fine and makes calls jobs a good un IMO

I also have the Curve, due for renewal soon but going to wait and see when the BB 9000 is getting released over here!