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RIM Blackberry 71100v |
| Date: |
27/10/06 (190 review reads) |
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Advantages: Small compact, long batterry life, charges fast
Disadvantages: small screen
Hello I would like to tell you all about my wonderful smart phone that has become an essential part of my life that now that I have had for 6 months I could never live without.
My friend Ronald bought me my BlackBerry 7105 as a gift after our commitment ceremony. I thought it was a fantabulous gift at the time but now I realize it was just another tool that control freak jerk planned to use to monitor and control me. I swear that man did everything short of sending bounty hunters to the club to drag me home if I had to much fun. With a smart phone he could not only sms me 43 times per day, insist I send photo sms to him day and night to prove I was at home and alone "I need you to send me a photo of you on the living room couch right now hold up 3 fingers on your left hand and put on your squarepusher shirt so I know it is right now. You have 3 minutes" also he could email me and make sure I got it immediately and he could also make sure I had intenet 24 7 so he could send me e cards telling me how much he loves me.
I never had a cool phone before. I was happy with a cheap Nokia as long as I could get lots of Shakira ring tones. I had heard of Blackberrys and knew people called them crackberrys due to addiction of using them. But if anybody said black Barry I thought of one of the club dancers from Novel, Bartholomew from Ghana but trust me that black Berry didn't fit so nicely in the palm of my hand. So I was majorly impressed by my smart phone. Being able to do Msn, ICQ, yahoo or AOL chat at all times was cool. I can surf the net and although some pages don't work so well I can do online banking, browse eBay, and manage my fantasy football team. I just got into fantasy footie, before this season (GO CHELSEA) I never heard of fantasy football and if I ever used the two words fantasy and footie together it involved Wayne Rooney, Becks, me, a huge drum of whipping cream and that young delivery man from Malta who works at the local pizza shop.
My phone has all the toys. I have a photo album, alarm clock, bitchin calculator but the calender planner thingy sucks so do the factory ringtones and there is only one game and it is some lame blockbuster game. The keyboard is a bear with only 23 keys each one has 2 letters on it but with the "enable suretype" feature it guesses at what word you are typing and aside from "are" being interchanged with"see" in all my email and get/hey and bob/non it works ok and is fast.
The mms and sms is sort of cool and you can use up to 960 characters but then you get charged for sending 6 messages instead of 1. All my AOL email comes right to my phone which is nice. I can also choose my language in case I am writing to my buddy Miguel but it doesn't have Albanian. I really really wish I had an mp3 player but I don't.
The battery last a long time like 4 days on standby and an extra battery was cheap on eBay. The phone came with a charger as well as I can use my desktop and USB cable to charge it which is a nice feature. It came with a CD to use to out software on my pc but it is all pretty pointless.
The phonebook thing is lame and I can have all sorts of sub listings and categories of contacts. The phone isn't loud enough even on speaker phone. It is also cool that you can check your percentage of battery life left under the tools menus. It is blue tooth capable if you want to be a loud pretentious jerk at the airport like so many gross guys are. One thing that is bad is I haven't figured out how to send an sms to lots of people at once. The internet bookmarks are ok but when I get too much email it says the sim card is full.
Overall I love my phone and it is sturdy. I wish the screen was bigger but the little wheelie thing on the side is cool you scroll through stuff and click it like a mouse.
I recommend this phone. Mine cost £120 with a contract but got most of it back in rebates.
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld
Summary: Wonderful awesome phone
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