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Vodafone BlackBerry 7100v review

Wednesday 22 June 2005, 11:15 AM

the ultimate messaging device


I have been blown away by this device. I have verichat (MSN messnger, ICQ, AIM & Yahoo Messenger clone), blogberry (RSS), Avantgo and bb email all running at the same time. Its awesome to get email and messenging services where-ever and instantly. This is truely a breakthrough device, once you have used push-email, all other email technology seems archaic. The keyboard takes a few hours to get used to, but is then faster then an normal keyboard, mostly due to the reduce 'finger mileage' needed (as it is one-press).

I don't know why anyone likes the treo, as mentioned above. The treo is heavy and large. Palm OS is pants for comms. and multimedia (look at Pocket PC if you really want videos and music and games).

The signal quality is great on the 7100v and the speaker phone is very useful.

Anyone who wants to be connected out of home/office or on hoiday really needs one of these devices.

8.5

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Vodafone BlackBerry 7100v



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Overview

Vodafone BlackBerry 7100v

Editors rating
Rating: 7.5
Verdict

Vodafone's BlackBerry 7100v is a fair mobile email device so long as you don't need to handle graphics, large spreadsheets or complex documents. But as a handheld/phone combo it's eclipsed by more capable Palm OS- and Windows Mobile-based offerings.

Typical price

£ 100

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