Blackberry 8800 Review

Although huge in their native America, Rim’s Blackberry devices are almost unknown in the UK, and the launch of Apples I-phone certainly hasn’t helped, but this latest edition to the range just might start to move the device away from businessmen and into the hands of young adults eager to keep up to date with their emails etc.

The 8800 is a quad band GSM phone, and works pretty much like any other device when in phone mode, but where the functionality of most phones is beginning to wear thin, the Blackberry is only just starting to warm up with a whole host of programs and features that will keep even the most demanding user on their toes.

The Blackberry 8800 measures a small 114 x 66 x 14 mm and weighs in at a meagre 134 grams, which considering the power in the device and the fact that it features a FULL Qwerty keyboard is nothing, especially when the keyboard makes texting and emails a breeze.

The built in phone book is capable of storing loads of your contacts (numbers, emails, addresses etc.)  but if that isnt enough for your you can expand the memory up to a maximum of 2GB by purchasing a microSD card.

The real strength of RIMs blackberry device are the applications, allowing you to use instant messenger, emails, GPS receiver and Blackberry maps, media player, built in hands free and document viewer (which allows you to view MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Corel Draw WordPerfect and Adobe PDF documents) straight out of the box, not to mention that more applications can be bought (or downloaded for free by just doing a quick google search – pretty much anything you can think of is out there)

A standard Li-Ion battery supplies the talk time of up to 5 hours and the standby time of upto 530 hours.

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