BlackBerry 8800
A smart, stylish, and sophisticated smart phone, the Blackberry 8800 packs its sleek design with enough features to make all of your coworkers jealous. Unfortunately it lacks one distinct feature that a lot of its competition comes equipped with - a camera. However, it more than makes up for this shortcoming by offering a plethora of other goodies that will make any corporate employee light up with joy. It even has a full QWERTY style keyboard, so that you can send text messages and emails as quickly as if you were to use a full sized laptop computer.
The Blackberry 8800 is a bar style GSM smart phone available in branded version from AT&T (formerly Cingular). Its most basic features include the full QWERTY keyboard mentioned earlier for easy typing, internal GPS, a built in media player for movies and music, trackball navigation, GPRS and EDGE networking, up to five hours of talk time, and a standby time of twenty four days. All of these features are packed into an impressively lightweight body that weighs less than five ounces in total. And because the Blackberry 8800 is based on GSM technology, it can be used almost anywhere in the world with just a simple switch of the SIM card.
The viewable screen, while not the most impressive in the business, is capable of delivering up to 65 thousand colors at once and features an adjustable brightness level for use in all lighting conditions. The built in 64 megabytes of memory can even be expanded by up to 2 gigabytes via an additional MicroSD card. Bluetooth connectivity via Bluetooth 2.0 comes standard, so it is a snap to interface your smart phone with just about any modern laptop computer that has its own Bluetooth connection built in. But even if you don't have a Bluetooth capable computer hand, you can use the included USB cable to connect the Blackberry 8800 directly to your computer in seconds.
Despite all of the positives about Blackberry's 8800, there are a couple of problems that some may find can make or break the deal. The biggest worry for most people is that the 8800 does not support any of the 3G services that make data and voice communication so much faster. For people using this phone for day to day business, the lack of speed in transferring data is extremely problematic. Also, while the full QWERTY keyboard is a blessing for those who enjoy sending text over the wireless networks, it makes the phone uncharacteristically wide and difficult for people with smaller hands to hold. Although this can easily be fixed with a hands free headset, it is still a drawback nonetheless.
Pros
- Sleek and stylish smart phone with easy to use functionality
- Full QWERTY keyboard for easy typing
- Integrated GPS
- Multimedia functions for music and video
- Long battery life
Cons
- No camera
- Does not support any of the faster 3G services
- Awkward for some people to hold
- No integrated Wi-Fi
- Call quality is not the best
Overall
The Blackberry 8800 is a well designed phone with a lot of built in functionality. While it does not support the very latest in technology, it is a great value nonetheless, as it is hard to pass up a phone with so much going for it. If messaging via email or Blackberry Messenger is your idea of a good time, this is definitely the phone for you.
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