Puremobile.com sent us in the BlackBerry Bold 9000 for a review. This is a heavyweight model in the smartphone area that's meant mostly for business, but how well an unlocked Blackberry phone really works? Is the Blackberry a phone that you really want to buy unlocked? This is what this review is going to investigate.
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Member since:2006-02-27
I wonder why you don't recommend them. Perhaps, from what you are saying, it looks like you've hardly or never used one.
It is so simple to use although i don't like the predictive text units (pearl etc). I've never had SIM/Contact conflicts so i don't know what problems you are talking about. I installed Opera Mini for decent browsing, the phone works brilliantly,
Its still streets ahead of the iPhone, it can even do "cut and paste" (and has done for years), can the iPhone do that yet?
Blackberrys will always be the benchmark for smart phones.
Member since:2005-06-28
Can you please be more serious and try understand the review?
I can't recommend them because they DO NOT WORK with EDGE/3G with ATT/TMob in the US when unlocked and "independent" from an enterprise account. That's why. And that's a major reason reason why.
So stop writing things like "not using them enough". I am not your average user. I have more gadgets in my closet than you have dust bunnies under your bed. But I need them to WORK as I expect them, and in this case, I expect it to work as a "fully unlocked" device (*that's* the product I am reviewing, not your off the shelf BB). But it didn't.
So stop thinking your off the shelf BB, this is not what I reviewed. I reviewed a "fully unlocked" generic device. If RIM wants a different review, they should send me a BB with a GSM BB account and an enterprise account too. But this was not what I reviewed here.
Edited 2008-10-28 10:42 UTC
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2005-07-06
Almost all of blackberries have some stupid designs that makes it bad choice as a cell phone.
I want my cell phone to be and act as a cell phone, not like a camera or Internet browser.
These cell phones hot keys are a shame; their nested windows are much worse than vista; its keys are very difficult to use (why not copy iphone keys).
Internet browser is a joke and never worked and the phone when unlocked will suffer from SIM card and Internal contact conflict.
Reception is not that good either but better than any Motorolla.
Programming the cell phone to do what you want is very difficult and not easy to find in their unorganized manual.pdf file they supply.
So I cannot recommend blackberries for cell phones but they are the best for drinks