Well, I’ve had my new Blackberry 8700g for just two weeks now and I love it. I moved up from a 7100t and I gotta say, it was a great move. The beauty of Blackberry is the user interface, both from a hardware and software standpoint. I’m just not geeky enough for a Treo I guess, I had one for a while and I could not get used to it. Palms are great devices on their own, the phone/communication functions seemed like a bad after-thought to me. I know they work for a lot of people though.
The BB does email great and has a decent web browser. The 8700 has EDGE speed (sufficient), beautiful screen (that can be viewed in any lighting condition), better integrated phone functions than previous BBs, good keyboard, instant messaging and PIM that sync with Outlook. It feels like a well integrated communications device worthy of 007. No camera you say? Who cares! I’ve never snapped a camera phone photo that was worth a darn. I’d much rather carry my Canon Digital Elph around and have decent pics if I want them. The novelty of camera phones wore off a long time ago in my book.
It’s rugged as hell too. The Treo seems “fragile” in comparison, but that may or may not be true in reality. My last BB was abused though and held up great. My main reason for the upgrade was to get the full keyboard and bigger screen.
