Verizon Officially Announces Blackberry 8830

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by Vince Veneziani on April 25, 2007

RIM BlackBerry 8830 to Debut on Verizon Wireless May 14 [Gizmodo via BGR]

Johnal - April 25th, 2007 at 12:10 pm GMT+5

Anyone wanna suggest a good site to do comparisons for smart phones? I’m torn between the Blackberry 8800 and Cingular’s 8525. Now there’s an 8830…*sigh* I currently use CIngular but my contract ends with them in a couple months. I’m leaning more towards the 8525, but i figure someone around here can point me to a great site where comparisons can be made simple.

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ilya - April 25th, 2007 at 6:55 pm GMT+5

Johnal, try phonescoop.com. But really it all comes down to preference. The 8525 is a cool phone but windows mobile software is pretty buggy. I don’t know much about Blackberries but I’m pretty sure that for email you have to have a Blackberry server at work, and have to pay/use the main BB servers. But with WinMo5 you have more options as far as software goes. They are both good phones but it comes down to what you want to use it for. Id say go with the 8525 because you have a wider variety of software and productivity tools which can come in handy in a corporate environment. excel, word, powerpoint, etc. etc.

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Moshe Maeir - April 26th, 2007 at 2:41 am GMT+5

Want to know how to save 98% on your calls from the new Blackberry? See my comments on this announcement at http://flatplanetphone.com/wordpress/?p=158

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Johnal - May 2nd, 2007 at 5:31 pm GMT+5

ilya,
Thanks for your suggestions! I think I am gonna go ahead and take the plunge for the 8525. I’ve never been the type to have the latest and greatest phones because of how fast they come out with new ones…but I might take up a new hobby. :P

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Mike VC - May 16th, 2007 at 6:44 pm GMT+5

Ordered mine Monday, got it today… GPS is in fact enabled. More details on my blog. :-)

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