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What is it: Multimedia smart phone for style-conscious consumers and successor to the BlackBerry Pearl 8100
What we think: In true mobile phone manufacturer style RIM has popped out an almost identical handset to its predecessor, but there are a few noteworthy differences
Average user rating
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April 1, 2008
Posted by: dpr20
"I want to like it, but I don't"
What I like:
Trackball, QWERTY keyboard
What I don't like:
No POP3 or IMAP e-mail
Review:
I was given this phone as a free upgrade from Orange and after careful consideration I decided not to keep it. The major (and totally unexpected) problem for me was the absence of a POP3/IMAP email client. When I selected this phone (supposedly for its email capabilities) I didn't realise that I would no other choice but to pay an additional £10-£14 per month to access my email via Blackberry's push service. With my previous (Windows mobile) phone, I just checked my email using IMAP, which worked well (albeit a little slowly) and didn't cost anything like this amount in data charges.
This problem aside, on the whole I found this phone to be well designed. The QWERTY keyboard worked quite well once I got used to it and the trackball was also very easy to use. I did find Blackberry's bespoke OS rather clunky though, and limited compared to Windows mobile. I also thought the phone was rather flimsily constructed.
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