Typical price: £300
What is it: Pocket-friendly emailer with multimedia extras
What we think: A stylish evolution that moves BlackBerry perhaps a step too far out of the office
Average user rating
9.5
spectacular
Average user rating from 2 users
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June 7, 2007
Posted by: Linda Cox
"Best thing ever"
What I like:
Good sized Qwerty keyboard, easy to snap and email pictures, great media player.
What I don't like:
No GPS
Review:
I've been waiting for this for soooo long - a BlackBerry with a decent camera, media player, and full QWERTY! I got mine a couple of weeks back from an O2 store, and it's fantastic! The screen is large, bright and plays video clips straight from YouTube. It's good enough to view most email attachments I get sent from work, including Excel and PowerPoint, and can load most sites I've tried to browse.
The media player is a bit restricted on the formats it plays, and I've had to buy a £10 piece of convertor software. Battery is good, but I was a bit disappointed with no in-built GPS. I have a separate TomTom unit already so I probably wouldn't have used it much.
There still doesn't seem to be anything simpler for emailing than a BlackBerry, although the new Microsoft Xdas seem pretty cool.
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