New Phone

[Vectracious]

8900 Curve for sure. loved that phone to bits. no frills, just does exactly what it needs to do, and does it well.

Ash - did you find the lack of 3G on the Curve any way a limitation?

[poita]

no comment

[gmonkey]

no comment just ban

[Calibrated]

Ash - did you find the lack of 3G on the Curve any way a limitation?

nope, but then again we were with Telstra, so coverage was never an issue anyway. speed was fine. yes the bold (3G) had faster download speeds, but really, how often do you use the net on your phone? unless you wanted it for voice calling. but then the 8900 doesnt have a camera anyway.

the bold is also a great phone, but i just preferred curve.

however, i do LOVE my xperia x1.

[gmonkey]

or in my case OA on the phone 24/7

[DEE-80Y]

So what did you decide on?

I will be picking up my BB bold 9000 tomorrow (hopefully), will let you know what I think of it once I've had a play around with it.

[Vectracious]

just got my 8900 curve today. Love the size of it and the screen is prob the best I've ever seen on a mobile phone

I was happy to trade off the lack of 3G on the curve for the size of it. I've got wireless at work and at home I can log into so don't need3G - plus the fact that the Optus 3G network is basically a pile of shit and you're lucky to get a 2G signal out in Berwick means I don't care if I dont have it.

having a couple of issues with syncing via bluetooth at the moment, but I think the new desktop manager will fix most of those...

[Vectracious]

crap...

one thing I didnt realise is that most of the blackberry apps out there only work if you have a blackberry data plan on your account. I realised this was the case for the email, but I thought that because I use gmail mostly I could just use the gmail for mobile java app that I had running on my old HTC.......

ba-bow

can only use it via a GSM data connection, not through wifi.

Its not too much of an issue because I can just browse to gmail through the browser and use it via that - just would have been nice if the app worked through wifi...

might just have to bight the bullet and get the extra BB email Internet services so at least I can use the blackberry email client....

[Calibrated]

crap...

one thing I didnt realise is that most of the blackberry apps out there only work if you have a blackberry data plan on your account. I realised this was the case for the email, but I thought that because I use gmail mostly I could just use the gmail for mobile java app that I had running on my old HTC.......

ba-bow

can only use it via a GSM data connection, not through wifi.

Its not too much of an issue because I can just browse to gmail through the browser and use it via that - just would have been nice if the app worked through wifi...

might just have to bight the bullet and get the extra BB email Internet services so at least I can use the blackberry email client....

if you can write it off as a business expense (do you have an exchange server, etc?), i would look at getting BES. however the BB IS does the job just fine.

the native browser is good, but definitely download Opera Mini. much nicer.

as for App World, it doesnt work for Australia yet. however, there is a crack some guys have used on their 8900's to force it to work

http://www.blackberryforums.com.au/f...australia.html

[DEE-80Y]

Got my Bold 9000 yesterday, and I'm still trying to figure it all out as I'm used to Nokia's. But so far this is a good piece of machine, as I do alot of emails and invoices, this works well for me.

So far, so good.