The BlackBerry 8800 is a stylish Smartphone which comes with all the relevant Smartphone features a business user could desire. The Smartphone features include a capable phone, built in organiser, web browsing, instant messaging & a mobile email service.

h1242.jpgSince its release in September, the RIM BlackBerry Pearl has received much praise from users, earning an average 8.2 user rating. The sleek new design and added multimedia capabilities were a hit, and they made the Pearl a more attractive and viable option for consumers. Yet, there were segments of the market–power business users and SureType keyboard haters–who shunned the Pearl in favor of the full QWERTY keyboards on their traditional BlackBerrys. Not so anymore.

The Blackberry 8800 allows you to browse the internet at a high speed apart from sending E-mails, SMS and MMS. You are notified when an important message is received. You can open attachments from your phone and manage up to ten E-mail accounts. The phone also gives you an option of which E-mail account to send messages from. The smart phone also allows you to connect to messengers like GTalk and Yahoo Messenger. You can also use any Wi-Fi network on this phone. If you need to download or upload some heavy data while traveling, use your Blackberry phone as a modem for your laptop and do your work with ease.

For a long time, BlackBerry devices were seen primarily as business tools, but the consumer-friendly BlackBerry Pearl shed that image. Now the BlackBerry 8800 combines a sleek look and a bevy of multimedia features reminiscent of the Pearl’s with a full QWERTY keyboard. The 8800 retains RIM’s business focus, however, by leaving off extras such as the camera found on the Pearl

Blackberry 8800 review taken from mobilemedia “Like the 8100 Pearl, the 8800 is also being pushed as a consumer and small business device, so the phone includes functionality for checking web-based email - either directly via IMAP/POP, or through a web-based forwarder to push mail to your provided @blackberry.com address. Traditional Blackberry users will find emails easier to answer on the 8800 than on the Pearl, thanks to the fact that this version reverts back to the full-size keyboard that has defined the device across its lifetime.Finally, the 8800 borrows the eponymous ‘Pearl’ from the 8100, replacing the old-school scroll wheel on the side of the device with a roller wheel in the middle.

Blackberry 8800 review taken from Pcmag “BlackBerry handhelds traditionally help business people get things done, and the new BlackBerry 8800 does this better than ever. The 8800 brings BlackBerry Pearl style and media features to a “professional” class BlackBerry, though it’s missing one key feature that will cause power-users’ eyes to wander from the usual fruit basket”

Blackberry 8800 review taken from Cooltechzone “As you can tell, there aren’t a lot of issues with the 8800, and the ones we mentioned above aren’t too substantial (except the lack of WiFi and other messengers). Even with these minor quirks, the 8800 is still the best device from RIM for business users. For the price of $124.99 with a 2-year contract from Cingular (or an unlocked version for $590.00), it’s quite reasonable considering the amount of added features you are getting with the 8800 that the 8700 series lacked.

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