Blackberry Phones

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Is that you Mr Jobs?

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Typed on an iphone stuck in loop of fail

http://news.softpedia.com/news/RIM-s-BlackBerry-PlayBook-Tablet-PC-Now-Official-158290.shtml

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/BlackBerry-PlayBook-New-Rival-To-Apples-iPad-Is-Unveiled-At-Research-In-Motion-Conference/Article/201009415746286?lpos=Technology_First_Technology_Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15746286_BlackBerry_PlayBook%3A_New_Rival_To_Apples_iPad_Is_Unveiled_At_Research_In_Motion_Conference

great, another iFad

Although you need to connect a blackberry to it to use the 3G feature? How fucking stupid is this.

Actually, the Blackberry PlayBook looks really highly specced. Dual core processor, 1GB onboard, up to 64GB card, multi-touch, DivX, etc...

The iPhone contact is excellent, I know the unit is expensive, but it's the best tariff I have ever had.
£35 for 500 text and 600 minutes and free unlimited data download. No, I don't work for either.

Hmmm. So I pay £12 a month for unlimited txt and mins, and 30p a day for unlimited web.

Amusing that you quoted an iPhone post, in a Blackberry thread. The iPad/iPhone thread is thataway >>>>>>>>>>

....please

My daughter really wants a Blackberry 9700 so this is not a debate about which phone is best, her friends have these she wants one. End of.

Problem is I have no idea where to look for fantastic mobile deals. I'm looking for a 9700 free on monthly contract for no more than £20 a month.

Anyone help me out?

£22.50 a month if you can be arsed to claim cashback
http://www.e2save.com/mobile-phone/contract/blackberry/Blackberry-9700-Bold.html?tariffcode=D30JEAPR10

Having had a quick look round at least £25 a month seems to be the going rate, unless you are prepared to pay up something up front on the handset.

You should be looking at total cost of ownership though rather than focusing on the monthly cost, so make sure you add up all the costs over the life of the contract.

Thanks Fox. Oh well looks like she'll have to settle for a little less. I can get the 8520 Curve (?) for the kinda money I'm looking at spending.

Thanks again.

You can get one with 10 months half price line rental from here: http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/phone/BlackBerry_Bold_9780_/

The deals works out at £19.80 (ish) a month over the 24 months.

so I just got a bold a few weeks back, I can't get it to sync wired or wirelessly to my Macbook or MacPro, Calender syncs with my Google calender wirelessly. Also any way to filter the emails I don't read (bands lists, stores, glitgroup, ect) from coming to my phone and making the light blink?

Any good aps?

anyone want rid of their old BB? my brother's birthday is coming up and he's hinted at wanting a new phone..preferably something from last year like the 8520/8900. PM me!

cheers all.

do people really buy blackberry phones? i thought they were given to you at work by people who have to save money every year so buy the cheapest tat that just about does the job?
everyone i know with one hates the things.

right.. thanx for the sage advice.

will consider something more recent but looking to keep it under £100.

cheers.

do people really buy blackberry phones? i thought they were given to you at work by people who have to save money every year so buy the cheapest tat that just about does the job?
everyone i know with one hates the things.

phone company gave me mine, I like it, BBM is rad and so is being able to open/ edit/ download attachments, and to take notes in ms word and email them to my self and have the same (MLA) formating when I open them, and being able to quickly throw numbers into excel is supper useful for example if I'm at Foto Care getting rentals together and I'm like hmm maybe I want another flash head, and beauty dish and box, will that break the bank? I can re total the shot budget with it and see if its worth it.

do people really buy blackberry phones? i thought they were given to you at work by people who have to save money every year so buy the cheapest tat that just about does the job?
everyone i know with one hates the things.

Blackberry Messenger (free messaging service) is all the rage with the kiddies, innit.
http://us.blackberry.com/apps-software/blackberrymessenger/
People who don't witter away their days gossiping to friends or people who can afford the phone bills for this behaviour would buy an iDrone or similar.

i bought one.. in fact I recently got a new one.

If you want to write emails and communicate there's nothing better.

I don't need another avenue or device for dicking around on. Iphone's are just toys - plus the actual phone functionality is dreadful

I use Gmail and type faster on a soft-keyboard compared to Blackberry keyboard so in my case there is something better. Android.

I'm a Android fanboy and make no doubt, but Blackberry is still king of mobile emails. Sorry hippy.

No it's not. Typing is faster on Android and (yuk) iPhone and if you use gmail/webmail the Blackberry loses it's Exchange integration advantage. It was nifty, true, but the iPhone that replaced it is better and I hate iPhones.

i have the playbook, currently typing on it now. Thought the lack of apps would be really annoying but the browser makes up for a lot of it.

Bridge is brilliant, I find myself using the playbook bridged to my work bb to do most emails and calendar stuff.

I'm probably using it 50% work, 50% play