Comments on: The Truth About the Blackberry 8700 - The Blacker the ‘Berry… http://blog.jm3.net/2006/08/20/the-truth-about-the-blackberry-8700-the-blacker-the-berry/ Inventing What's Next Fri, 16 May 2008 03:33:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: G$ http://blog.jm3.net/2006/08/20/the-truth-about-the-blackberry-8700-the-blacker-the-berry/#comment-40120 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:00:27 +0000 http://blog.jm3.net/2006/08/20/the-truth-about-the-blackberry-8700-the-blacker-the-berry/#comment-40120 I agree with this gentleman right here. The browser stinks (compared to a sidekick at least). It either compresses the page all funky or uses some mobile phone version of the site that looks like it was made for a one inch screen. There is no shortcut for browser forward/back that I know of. Having no camera stinks, but I didn't mind since this phone is all business and was supposed to have superior browser and browsing speed. The same goes for not having an MP3 player. I fail to see the superiority of this phone over a sidekick except for the fact that at least 12 year old kids aren't running around with 8700's. I encountered massive third party data problems and the lady @ t-mobil had me reset my phone including all 500 numbers I had stored on the phone (sim only holds 250).I tried to use the desktop manager to bypass the OTA downloads and somehow my beloved theme and game got erased (how did they even get there). I still can't download AIM or any other messenger, even directly from tmobil or Blackberry. The keylock is easily breached on accident, and this is not a good thing with an exposed keypad. You can be calling your girlfriend on speed dial in your pocket on accident, and unknowingly be badmouthing her at the same time. Most all of the default settings are confusing. Too many to list. You have to click on messages and other things twice to open them. This sounds miniscule, but when you text thousands of times a month, it sucks. Everything in general is way too complicated for the normal phone user. Even if a business man/woman could benifit from all these features, they wouldn't likely dedicate the time and effort since its only a loseable phone. By the time they learned to use the phones complicated features, a new 2015 blackberry 9800L would Have already come out, rendering the 2007 8700g obsolete.lol. Anyway, I know every new phone seems foreign and backwards when we first learn to use it. The blackberry 8700 is just too complicated. I will play with it some more, but if I can't get the IT clearance to download AIM, games, and themes, I'm ebayin this thing and getting a cruddy sidekick LX. It may not be the most mature phone around, but it has everything I need and is easy to use. I agree with this gentleman right here. The browser stinks (compared to a sidekick at least). It either compresses the page all funky or uses some mobile phone version of the site that looks like it was made for a one inch screen. There is no shortcut for browser forward/back that I know of. Having no camera stinks, but I didn’t mind since this phone is all business and was supposed to have superior browser and browsing speed. The same goes for not having an MP3 player.

I fail to see the superiority of this phone over a sidekick except for the fact that at least 12 year old kids aren’t running around with 8700’s. I encountered massive third party data problems and the lady @ t-mobil had me reset my phone including all 500 numbers I had stored on the phone (sim only holds 250).I tried to use the desktop manager to bypass the OTA downloads and somehow my beloved theme and game got erased (how did they even get there). I still can’t download AIM or any other messenger, even directly from tmobil or Blackberry.

The keylock is easily breached on accident, and this is not a good thing with an exposed keypad. You can be calling your girlfriend on speed dial in your pocket on accident, and unknowingly be badmouthing her at the same time.

Most all of the default settings are confusing. Too many to list. You have to click on messages and other things twice to open them. This sounds miniscule, but when you text thousands of times a month, it sucks.

Everything in general is way too complicated for the normal phone user. Even if a business man/woman could benifit from all these features, they wouldn’t likely dedicate the time and effort since its only a loseable phone. By the time they learned to use the phones complicated features, a new 2015 blackberry 9800L would Have already come out, rendering the 2007 8700g obsolete.lol. Anyway, I know every new phone seems foreign and backwards when we first learn to use it. The blackberry 8700 is just too complicated. I will play with it some more, but if I can’t get the IT clearance to download AIM, games, and themes, I’m ebayin this thing and getting a cruddy sidekick LX. It may not be the most mature phone around, but it has everything I need and is easy to use.

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