RIM BlackBerry 7100t Phone (T-Mobile)

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Summary: All in one!!
Review: A great tool and reasonably priced for all it does, it also gives you all the necessary features you need in keeping organized. Very user friendly, however, if you must have a camera, it does not have one. Highly recommend it.

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Summary: Cannot view image attachments
Review: Cannot view image attachments. They use tricky marketing by saying it support attachments. Even their user guides say it. But what they don't say is that T-Mobile has disabled the viewing of image attachments. Shame on T-Mobile!

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Summary: LOVE IT.
Review: Finally a PDA the size of a normal cell phone! Email. Phone. Internet access. Browser. Nice.

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Summary: Stay in the lop -- Always
Review: I do a fair bit of traveling for business, can receive requests from clients at all hours, and like to have a lot of information at my fingertips. The 7100T really supplements my lifestyle.

It has proven to be easy to set up and use. Typing on the modified qwerty keyboard is a bit frustrating at first, but become very intuitive after a short time.

There are really two was to go if you want a phone/email device/scheduler -- either Blackberry or the Treos. I can't comment much on the Treos other than to say I have colleagues that use and like them. The 7100t is much cheaper, a bit smaller, and does just about everything I could ask for.




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Summary: Best cell phone I have ever used!
Review: I have had the Blackberry 7100T since early January. It is without a doubt the best cell phone I have every utilized, bar-none.

It is easy to use, has great audio clarity. I was hesitant to try it, with the new keyboard and the smart type software, but really, it is an amazing tool!

I highly recommend it.

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Summary: A+ Review !
Review: I picked up my blackberry a week after they came out. I LOVE it!!! I have had a few glitches (where AIM would not work) however, after an explanation and 50 free minutes, I didn't bat an eye at it. (They were still working on the programming b/c it was so new).

I can view attachments, I can link up all my emails (Except for my hotmail one for some reason).

I use a lot of the features on the phone including the calendar, tasks, alarm clock, web...there's so much you CAN do on this phone I'm wondering what you CAN'T do!!!

While attending a business meeting away in Florida (I am in MA) -- I found it great to communicate with my clients from so far away. Almost ALL the people at the conference had some form of a Blackberry and none had the slim design of the T-Mobile.

The larger blackberry's are a bit odd to handle. T-Mobile has the two letter keypad which recognizes the words you want to type. I have written long emails without missing a beat!

I also love the speakerphone feature -- check out the tips online for helpful ones like hitting the period button to interchange from speakerphone to handset during a call.

I keep finding new tricks with my phone! Last night while on a call with my mother, my sister called, I clicked one button and hit "join" and all three of us were talking!

While I had them on speakerphone, I played around by clicking the turnwheel and clicking on notes...the option to type notes while on a conference call is great!!! Especially if you need to take down directions, etc.!

I'm one very happy high tech girl over here!!!

T-Mobile has been great to me for the past 2+ years...I'll stick with them!!!

:) Enjoy!!

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Summary: 3 1/2 Stars...Great Phone....Not-So-Great Service
Review: I purchased this phone last Saturday and used it pretty much all day before I returned it on Saturday night. The features of this phone were mis-represented to me by the provider. I did enjoy all the extras that this phone had to provide with the Blackberry OS and software that was installed on it, but I could not keep it due to T-Mobile.

First, let me say that I have had T-mobile service for 3 years, and I love it. They have one of the best coverage areas and their prices out-do most of the competition. I have had cell phones for 12 years and T-mobile is by far the best.

This was the first real problem I have had with them. I have paid for T-zones, their term for "internet email access and limited web sites" for over 1 year. The main feature I was interested in with the Blackberry was a fully integrated Yahoo, AIM and MSN Instant Messaging service. What the sales person (in 2 different stores, I might add) didn't tell me was that with ALL Blackberry phones, you must subscribe to the Blackberry Internet Service Package to get any kind of online service with the phone. T-Zones will not work with these phones. And the Blackberry Internet Package is a whopping $19.95/month on top of my rate plan. No thanks.

This really disappointed me. I have been wanting a Blackberry for a while now, and I really like the QWERTY keyboard on a cell-phone for use with Instant Messaging. I care nothing about a full web-browser, especially with the speed (or lack of speed, I should say) that comes with this Internet Package. And $20 a month? I don't think so. I have a $99 rate plan as it stands now....I don't need to tack another $20 on their to just use Instant Messaging with a QWERTY keyboard, especially since I can use it with a regular phone for the $2.99/month T-Zone package.

So if you want to use the full featured benefits of this phone with T-Mobile, expect to pay $20/month on top of your cell phone plan. And don't expect the salesperson in the T-mobile store to inform you of this. Two of my local stores failed misserably.

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Summary: Great color screen
Review: Just received this unit.

Thus far, very happy with the phone and the ability to surf the web.

The only down side that I have discovered is the keyboard does not have the 'ABC' on the keypad the way a desk phone is equipped.

Thus, it is hard to 'spell' out a persons name when using a voice mail system.

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Summary: best of blackberry phones - lukewarm for everyone else
Review: pros:
- nice screen in dim light
- best sound quality i've found in a mobile ever
- best speakerphone quality ever
- built in web browser displays nearly all web pages
- instant messenger is quite fun
- blackberry integration is perfect
cons:
- can't see the screen at all in sunlight
- can't answer in speakerphone mode (maybe mine was defective)
- can only log in to one IM service at a time (yahoo msn OR aol)
- interface is not suited for quick, convenient, or one-handed use*

* - let me expand a bit on the blackberry interface. it is great for blackberry email devices where you pick from one or two menu selections and use those constantly and only occassionally try other items. on this mobile phone / blackberry email device i was really hoping to see a better integration between the telephone functionality and the BB functionality. i have a samsung vga1000 mobile now and its got one push buttons to access the most common things. a button for web access, one for taking photos, one for the address book, one for the menu, etc. everything i want to do quickly is right there at one touch. to do anything on the blackberry requires clicking and scrolling through the scroll wheel, which is really tough to use because its so sensitive. very easy to miss the item you're looking for. this thing has a huge keyboard and all kinds of buttons everywhere but it doesn't take advantage of any of them! to do anything and everything you have to use the stupid scroll wheel, click, pick an item from the menu, click, pick something else, use the keyboard to type in something, back to the scroll wheel, click, scroll to "save", click, press escape a few times and finally you're done. for everyday tasks this is a total pain! they could have done an amazing job with that huge keyboard and they blew it. they oughta either get rid of all those keys or assign them a whole lot more functionality. as it is, i do not recommend this phone for anyone except people who require blackberry functionality.

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Summary: This is a cool phone, but def. test one before buying
Review: Yea, there was SUCH a HYPE when this phone came out, so i decided to purchase it. Yeah, it looks sleek and all, but I didn't find it to be too useful - because the interface is not very user-friendly. Plus, there were many bugs in it. many problems with AIM and e-mail and that.

The contacts totally SCREWED up the address on my computer, so I decided to part ways with this phone, and I got the TREO 650 pda phone - that is the BEST thing out there - check it out!