Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 24th Oct 2008 09:15 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless 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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RE: Little has changed then
by Eugenia on Fri 24th Oct 2008 20:51 UTC in reply to "Little has changed then"
Eugenia
Member since:
2005-06-28

I have over 20 cellphones here, but this was my first Blackberry. The reason I hadn't requested a BB before was exactly because I was not going to have a special Enterprise account for it. OSNews doesn't provides us with anything like that as these things cost real money. So I had to review it as what it is: an unlocked device, and what you can do with it out of the box. Obviously not much.

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RE[2]: Little has changed then
by mbpark on Fri 24th Oct 2008 21:56 in reply to "RE: Little has changed then"
mbpark Member since:
2005-11-17

Eugenia,

Essentially, you've reviewed a near-completely crippled device then that works well over WiFi for apps that aren't coded to use the 3G/EDGE networking features.

How does video playback work? I would have liked to see that, as the first iteration didn't work so well on the Curve and 8700. The processor can handle it, it's just not well-used.

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RE[3]: Little has changed then
by Eugenia on Fri 24th Oct 2008 21:59 in reply to "RE[2]: Little has changed then"
Eugenia Member since:
2005-06-28

I didn't have any problems with video. QVGA mp4 files worked perfectly in the device.

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