Which Blackberry?

[Roggrok]

Hi Guys,

Im a long time reader first time poster.

Im after some quick advice please, after owning a Windows Mobile 6 phone (dopod 838 pro + HTC Diamond Touch Pro) and Apple 3G iphone for the past 2 years i have had nothing but call drop outs when speaking to clients and crap battery life.

I really want to give Blackberry a try, however there are like 100 different models and hard to choose and im looking here for advice.

Im after QWERTY keyboard and Non 3G model. which has built in SAT NAV would also be handy.. or does it suck on BB?

Lastly is it possible to receive MMS and sync with 2x exchange accounts through Vodafone Outlook Webmail connecter thing?


Thanks,

Roggrok

[Gregmyers]

Hi and welcome to the forums.
Full qwerty, GPS, looooong battery life and non 3G... You can't really go past the 8310 Curve. Great device (and in my personal opinion, better than the Bold).
Reliable, mind you GPS mapping does suck on the Curve as data rates are quite slow but it is bearable (if you do go ahead with this model, post back here and I will send you some links to some excellent 'Free' mapping applications), robust (takes an absolute hammering compared with the iPhone), lightweight (wont pull your pants down if you have it clipped to your belt), full Qwerty board (with spell check if you need it), about 14 trillion applications available for it (about 10 trillion of these are free), and really long battery life (I know the stats on the official BlackBerry site say up to 14 days but lets be realistic here, we live in the real word and not always within 2 meters of a cell phone tower , you can expect between 3 days (standard business user) to 5 days (light user) of battery life on one charge. Myself, well I wont say as that's just unfair because I'm on the thing 24/7/365...read; no life.
MMS... something you obviously missed with the iPhone (2 or 3G), is do-able on the BlackBerry. (However, you will need a data service to get it working)
If you wish to stick with the touch screen, then Vodafone "are suppose to'" be releasing the new BlackBerry 95xx (aka; Storm) early next month. This will be a 2 G device but at this stage, widely untested.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to post back,
Kindest Regards,
Greg Myers

[saankiip]

Originally Posted by Gregmyers

(if you do go ahead with this model, post back here and I will send you some links to some excellent 'Free' mapping applications)

I wouldn't mind getting a hold of those links as well.

Thanks,

SaanKiip