For the geek on the go!
Written: Jan 13 '05
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Pros: small size, geek points, email everywhere, built-in messenger client
Cons: one from address, should use a proxy to help with larger graphical sites
The Bottom Line: Get this phone if you like to stay connected. Its easier to carry than a laptop and gives you the basics most need.
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| goaliemn's Full Review: RIM BlackBerry 7100t Smartphone |
This is an amazing phone. I love staying in touch with friends all the time. I crave connectivity. This gives me what I crave.
Imagine, being out at the relatives, bored silly with no computer anywhere in sight. Well, that happened to me at Christmas. Luckly, I had my little baby with me.
I was happily reading my email while relatives went on and on about boring stuff I didn't care about. Screaming kids? no problem. I was in the other room in another world. My one complaint about the email is you can only have one from address. I have multiple accounts coming to the phone, but I can only reply as one. You can also setup the unit to poll your POP/IMAP mail every 15 minutes, but even doing that, you're still limited to the one from address.
When the email was caught up, I fired up the chat client. That is one complaint I did have, but its not the phones fault. I logged into yahoo messenger. It took a minute or two, then another 2-3 for my friends list to populate. Apparently, the client uses SMS for all communications, including all the friends to show on/off line. Each SMS message has a size limit (Approx 200 chars from what I was told), which is why this initial process takes so long. Once online, its not bad. There is some lag between hitting enter and the message being delivered to the other end (Again, the SMS to yahoo gateway has to convert it, then vice versa with the replies) but it worked like a champ.
I did try out the web browser. Now, this is one thing that can use some help. Again, not the browsers fault, but I wish T-mobile had pointed the internal supplied bookmarks to the mobile versions of the pages. cnn points to www.cnn.com instead of the mobile version. Mobile version has low graphics, and loads 10X faster. Mobile/WAP pages load up quickly. Graphic sites.. Well.. go get some coffee.. maybe paint the house.. create a new language..
I was pleasantly surprised with the coverage. I was doing all of this in rural New Hampshire. I lost signal acouple of times driving through the woods, but once at my destination, all worked well.
This also was a great alternative to hauling my laptop out with me, then having to dialup. It gave me the basics (email, some chat) and didn't take any additional space.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 200
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