Matt93
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Pretty soon I will be getting a Blackberry. I wanted to know if anyone on here had one and could tell me a little bit about the thing. Good points, bad points, etc. Thanks!!
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ILMRadioMan
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Depends on the service.
I have a nextel blackberry for work, and while it isnt the cream of the crop, I love it.
I have a nextel blackberry for work, and while it isnt the cream of the crop, I love it.
ecps92
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Blackberry ? what model and what Carrier...
each model has it's +/-'s
each carrier has it's +/-'s
What do you expect to do with it is also a factor in making the choice.
each model has it's +/-'s
each carrier has it's +/-'s
What do you expect to do with it is also a factor in making the choice.
Pretty soon I will be getting a Blackberry. I wanted to know if anyone on here had one and could tell me a little bit about the thing. Good points, bad points, etc. Thanks!!
Matt93
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Forgot to mention, the carrier is going to be Verizon Wireless.
ILMRadioMan
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Well shoot, then you have a pretty good selection.
I like the pearl, but there are many for verizon.
I like the pearl, but there are many for verizon.
shaft
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Pretty soon I will be getting a Blackberry. I wanted to know if anyone on here had one and could tell me a little bit about the thing. Good points, bad points, etc. Thanks!!
Just curious here, why do you want to get a Blackberry?
I have the Curve with VZ. I like it, but Id rather have a smaller phone at times.
I also have the Curve with VZW...lots of fun. Shaft, they're great for emails...smaller phones and VZW sometimes tend to cut half the emails off because of limited spacing. I use my Blackberry because I'm one of the coordinators for a ham club, and also on a condo board, so I need quick email access. A regular phone wouldn't cut it.
shaft
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I know the ins and outs and bennies of BB. I've had various models over the years. I was just saying that sometimes I would like to be "out of pocket" more
They're great when you need to keep up on e-mail, and occasionally send a reply. Useful for minor internet use, but not "surfing". I mostly use internet to access a yahoo e-mail account. They're ok for that.
As a phone, it's a pain in the neck. Hard to dial one handed while driving, and it frequently misdials when using the voice dial function through a headset.
As a phone, it's a pain in the neck. Hard to dial one handed while driving, and it frequently misdials when using the voice dial function through a headset.
Astro25
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I have an 8330 issed/paid by my employer and I love it. I get all my emails everywhere, and a full QWERTY keyboard without that Windows Mobile excuse of a mobile OS.
Don't get the Storm if you prefer to type fast. I demoe'd one for a week and hated it. The whole screen is based off of one popple... so if you type fast, you have to type a bit slower and wait for the popple to press back up, which gets really annoying, really fast.
Don't get the Storm if you prefer to type fast. I demoe'd one for a week and hated it. The whole screen is based off of one popple... so if you type fast, you have to type a bit slower and wait for the popple to press back up, which gets really annoying, really fast.
I've had a Bold 9000 on the Rogers (Canada) network since August last year. Make sure you have the right plan for what you want to do with it. If VZW is anything like Rogers, you can get phone plans and BB plans, both of which allow exclusive use of one half of the phone (either the phone side or the BB functions). I spent a long time exploring my options before settling on a deal which gives me 6gb of data per month for $30. This is a ridiculous amount. The largest data throughput I've had since buying the phone, having Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook, Epocrates (a medical terminology lookup), and some other apps, was 22 megabytes. Not even 1/4 of 1gb. Now, this month, I added Google Latitude, which supposedly eats your bandwidth alive while it sends your position (if your phone has GPS) to Google's servers. Haven't got the statement for this month yet, so we'll see when it comes in.
The Bold has built-in wifi, so when I am in range of a wireless AP that I have access to (my home, my firehall, my in-laws', etc), all the BB features go thru the house Internet intead of my 3G connection, so that takes up that much less of that 6gb/month too.
I haven't had issues dialing the phone by hand or using the voice dial function - it actually figures out my voice without any 'training' at all. It interfaces via Bluetooth with my Garmin nuvi GPS, so in the car, I have hands-free thru the GPS!
It has room for a microSD card... I put in an 8gb card which is packed full of music and the occasional video snagged off Youtube and the like.
I have recently learned how to "tether" the phone and use it as a dialup-style modem for my mini-notebook PC. I can connect the two using Bluetooth, then have the phone connect to the 3G network so that the mini can access the Internet. Won't be blowing away any records on speedtest.net that way, but it's good if you're in the middle of nowhere and want to, for example, download a system into Unitrunker. This kills the battery, though, unless you have it plugged in. (It's possible to charge the phone over USB, like most other devices with a mini-B USB connection.)
The camera is passable.. a little blurry for my liking. It will get me by in a pinch if I don't have my real camera handy and need a quick pic of something.
Oh, one more thing - you may want to check out http://howardforums.com/ . That's a tremendous mobile phone resource with subforums for pretty much every major phone/manufacturer and provider in North America.
The Bold has built-in wifi, so when I am in range of a wireless AP that I have access to (my home, my firehall, my in-laws', etc), all the BB features go thru the house Internet intead of my 3G connection, so that takes up that much less of that 6gb/month too.
I haven't had issues dialing the phone by hand or using the voice dial function - it actually figures out my voice without any 'training' at all. It interfaces via Bluetooth with my Garmin nuvi GPS, so in the car, I have hands-free thru the GPS!
It has room for a microSD card... I put in an 8gb card which is packed full of music and the occasional video snagged off Youtube and the like.
I have recently learned how to "tether" the phone and use it as a dialup-style modem for my mini-notebook PC. I can connect the two using Bluetooth, then have the phone connect to the 3G network so that the mini can access the Internet. Won't be blowing away any records on speedtest.net that way, but it's good if you're in the middle of nowhere and want to, for example, download a system into Unitrunker.
This kills the battery, though, unless you have it plugged in. (It's possible to charge the phone over USB, like most other devices with a mini-B USB connection.)The camera is passable.. a little blurry for my liking. It will get me by in a pinch if I don't have my real camera handy and need a quick pic of something.
Oh, one more thing - you may want to check out http://howardforums.com/ . That's a tremendous mobile phone resource with subforums for pretty much every major phone/manufacturer and provider in North America.
shaft
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Latitude sucks the battery life pretty quick. It barely makes it 8 hrs while using it on top of everything else.
I just got a Blackberry curve on ATT and its very interesting and useful for email and light browsing. Its fun using the internal GPS with on line Google Earth tracing my path inside buildings.
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Matt93
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Cool! :lol:
Well, I got my bill/usage record for the most recent month, since installing Google Latitude, as well as using "tethering" to connect to the Internet while mobile, and my data usage indeed skyrocketed!... ...to 44 megs a month. From 22. On the aforementioned 6gb/mo plan.
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