RIM BlackBerry 7230 Mobile Phone

Took some getting used to, but like it now i can work it. Bought it for my son and was concerned he may not be able to work it but even i can work it and I am useless with mobile phones

Bought for my 78-year-old Grandmother who struggles with the texting on a standard mobile phone. She is delighted with the Blackberry's qwerty keyboard and the clear menu icons. It didn't take her long to get the hang of everything. She even uses the notebook to write out her shopping lists - now other members of the family want want of these phones, including her great-grandson.

Very easy to use, and seem to be a lot tougher than ordinary mobile phones (has been dropped a couple of times already, and didn't even flicker).

The scroll wheel at the side of the phone (depress wheel to select) is nice, fast and almost foolproof. And if you do happen to get lost among the menus, you only have to press the button below the scroll wheel to get back to the home screen.

Hasn't yet been tried on the Internet, but we've done lots of research on this model and haven't seen anything to put my Grandma off having a go at it.

It doesn't have a camera like the later Blackberry models, but for this price who cares about a camera? And besides, the later versions may have the camera added, but they don't have a full qwerty keyboard, and (after doing a bit more research) I believe that trying to text on these things can be quite a nightmare.

So it's a mobile phone, it's a PDA, it's got a good sized screen and nice colours... and it's cheap. What more can you say?