Ashokjp 15 Report post Posted March 14, 2005 Though most mobile phones now support email and Web access, heavy email users have always had the same complaints: screen size and the keyboard. T9 is simply great for short messaging, but when you have to work with not just email, but also text documents and spreadsheets, you long for the QWERTY keyboard. Research in Motion's BlackBerry series handhelds offer you the convenience of a large screen, a familiar QWERTY keypad and support for viewing common office file formats. While they are basically PDA-phones, they've been marketed as "email phones" rather than full function PDAs. This is because of the tight email integration the handhelds offer with your service provider through the BlackBerry Enterprise server. The server plugs into the ISP's existing email infrastructure and pushes email to your BlackBerry handheld as an when it arrives. This eliminates the need to poll any "send and receive" action, which is required for email on regular phones. RIM's BlackBerries have been launched in India by AirTel. There are three models available here - 6230 for Rs. 18,990, 7230 for Rs. 29,990 and 7730 for Rs. 32,990. The 6230 has a wide monochrome display, the 7230 has a wide color 240 x 160 pixel display and the 7730, which we're reviewing, has a nice large 65K color 240 x 240 pixel display. All the devices are tri-band (900/1800/1900) GSM/GPRS phones with email and Web browsing support and focus on email. The 7730 has a QWERTY keypad where the keys W,E,R,S,D,F,Z,X,C double up as a numeric keypad. Typing full text memos and emails is a lot easier than T9, but a common symbol like the full stop (.) requires the use of the shift key. This proved to be a little tedious as the full stop is obviously used quite frequently in emails. Another problem I faced was while keying in numbers. Since a few of the alphabet keys double up for the numbers, you have to hold down the shift key with your left hand and key in the digits with your right hand. To those who are very used to the numeric keypad on your desktop keyboards, this will not be too alien even though the order of the keys is reversed (1 to 9 on the BlackBerry as opposed to 9-1 on the desktop keyboard). But to those more comfortable using the numeric row above the alphabets (like me), it was tedious. Read the complete article here http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/shows...yid=66368&s=cpr Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vb86 0 Report post Posted March 14, 2005 One of my relatives has the 7730. It's nothing great if your life doesn't rely on email. Also, any clue as to when we could see the cdma variant in india. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arun 795 Report post Posted March 14, 2005 well, the 'RIM' doesn't stand for "Reliance IndiaMobile", but for "Research in Motion". So moving to General Chat to avoid any confusion Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
