Ahh, last week, I succumbed to Blackberry 8830. This phone, i500, has been a very good phone to me over the years. It just doesnt do fare well with the text messages issue as well as the screen keeps flickering between regular hue and blue-ish hue. Im saving it as a back-up, tho, in case if I really dont want the Blackberry 8830 (so far, its real good to my surprise).
I've been a long time lurker here, and also recently moved over to the BB8830. I was a long, long time Palm user. Back to the US Robotics days. Finally had to have a new phone. As much as I loved the i500's form factor, it just had too little capability for my current needs. I was worried most about missing the touch screen and graffiti input. The BB input is working out pretty well. It is leaps and bounds more powerful and capable than the i500. The browser is so-so, which means it's much better than the i500. I can load 4gig worth of music and video. It has turn by turn navigation. The e-mail is good. Going to get even better soon with OS4.5. I'm continually impressed. Today at work, I was listening to music with my stereo bluetooth wireless headset. While listening, I checked the animated radar. True multitasking. I picked the 8830 because I work in an environment where cameras are not allowed. The i500 was the best no camera phone for awhile. Not anymore.
Anyone want to buy my i500 with two slim batterys and an extended battery, charge base, EB case, etc?
xa0s, check out crackberry forums for a great user group and they have a nice wap version of the forums also.
yep im already crack-berry-head. thanks for the site, tho'. i chose the 8830, because i was told by a friend who works for sprint that 8830 has longer battery life than curve. im kinda power-hungry type of guy (IRCing, Jivetalk, gettin' s--tload of emails (5 accounts), BB messenger often, web-browsing -- and it sure use up the battery quite a bit, esp the fact the reception at work is "so-so."
blazerboy, are you saying you find treo better than the bb? i reckon a friend said that treo does the pushing while bb doesn't ? pushing emails, that is. whatever that is supposed to be (she said you had to manually download it and upload it to treo which sucks while crackberry can smoke 'em up like cracks).
yep im already crack-berry-head.
blazerboy, are you saying you find treo better than the bb? i reckon a friend said that treo does the pushing while bb doesn't ? pushing emails, that is. whatever that is supposed to be (she said you had to manually download it and upload it to treo which sucks while crackberry can smoke 'em up like cracks).
I am now using both the Treo and BB extensively. I can assure you that while the BB is good for getting and writing e-mails (and SMS etc.) it SUCKS big time for searching the net (both in terms of speed and the look of the window); that is true absolutely and especially compared to the Treo.
Also and very surprising, I am not able to download and save attachments and many are very difficult to read (far too small). This is not a problem for the Treo where I can d/l, save, edit, resend etc.
Versamail will pull email and that is almost as good as the BB's push. Sending is the same on both.
A small quibble, I am surprised that a business machine would not have a simple hard switch to turn off the sound when you go into a meeting.
In short, I think the Treo runs rings around the BB, and were it not for my firm's security concerns, I would still be using only the Treo.
BTW I never use the BB as a phone so I cannot compare that feature, but I hear it is not as good as the Treo which seems very fine to me.
Blazor Boy
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Last edited by blazorboy : 07-18-2008 at 12:46 PM.
BB, has the Treo licked the previous stability problems? How often do you need to reset it?
Thanks.
A lot depends on which 3rd party app you use. My wife runs a clean machine and has only a very occasional auto-soft rest. I run lots and lots of apps, and while I had a serious problem (freezes) with a pre-beta version of BCPE, I now get only an occasional auto-soft rest--no big deal. I have not had to do a hard reset.
It greatest advantages over the berryberry IMHO, are its ability to quick search the net and display pages in a readable fashion and, most important, have the Palm PIM. Also its ability to really handle all type of attachment to e-mails is first rate. I would flip for a flipphone version of it and cannot understand why none exist; but for now I am a two-device man (boy): 755p and Curve. Should I stop working I would keep the unlocked Curve from my foreign travels using an international SIM for call and SMS.
I had dreaded going to a keyboard, now I think it is just fine; actually better. Not having a touch screen on the Curve is a pain.
thanks for the site, tho'. i chose the 8830, because i was told by a friend who works for sprint that 8830 has longer battery life than curve. im kinda power-hungry type of guy (IRCing, Jivetalk, gettin' s--tload of emails (5 accounts), BB messenger often, web-browsing -- and it sure use up the battery quite a bit, esp the fact the reception at work is "so-so."
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