I love the reliability of the 8700. My Nokia was always crashing, screen freezing and turning off. The 8700 is great and no conflicts between the included aplications. Camera's go out of date to quick so i'm not interested. Have my ipod for MP3 playback so don't need that in a phone. Great for getting emails where ever you are.
Well the blackberry 8700G is an all round excellent business phone. it incorporates all the things you would need weather that be e-mailing, text messaging and so forth. i purchased my blackberry of ebay second hand for about £32 which is a very decent price for a 8700G, i got it because i needed a business solution while incorporating it in to everyday life.
Bad Things About The Phone and Why Bad Things About Buying Off Ebay Second Hand.
Bad Things about the phone? you ask? well for me none the only problem is the keys can be small for a people with slightly larger fingers. also i am reviewing the phone on the 4.2 OS, where it adds many features including Bluetooth File Transfer and cool themes, but if your on the 4.1 well you can miss out. if you would like the 4.2 just email me at callum.vickers@computerreworks.co.uk and ile be glad to send you instructions and th 4.2 OS.
Buying Off Ebay.
Problem with the Blackberry's is that if you are a business user often the company will activate the phones PIN with there company/carrier for business features like instant email and server access, but when it comes to selling many of the seller out there don't realize it still been activated and thus cannot activate with our own servers and then you get the annoying Data Service Unavailable or something like that and there i no way to get rid of it unless you upgrade to another OS and thus it needs to be activated again. what you will need to do is get the seller to get in contact with the company or the carrier to deactivate the pin so then you can reactivate with your company. but if its not activated you dont get the web and some features, not to worry though change the phones APN and your ready to go and browsing the net and have the web features.
Features: 9/10 Looks: 8/10 Use: 10/10 Performance: 10/10 Screen Quality: 10/10 (forgot the mention the screen is very high quality) Sound: 8/10 (sound volume seems to have dropped a little but 10/10 if on 4.1 OS)
Thanks For Reading and i hope this gives you a little inside into the blackberry 8700G
Thank you for a nice phone good ebayer no problem thank you this seller is very good. Would use again so im adding them to my list of ebayers no problem getting in touch.
I've always been interested with mobile phones with the QWERTY keyboard. Blackberry seemed to be the obvious choice. I chose the Blackberry 8700G purely on price as I didn't want to pay out a small fortune for a phone I might not actually like. As it turns out the Blackberry is an awesome phone. My only complaint with the phone would be that one of the buttons (not always the same one!) stops working properly every now and again. Having this phone has definitely opened my eyes to Blackberry and I'll definitely have another one. The features are pretty basic. No media software however. This is only on the early models. All in all if you want a QWERTY phone, your not bothered about media functions and don't mind a slightly bulky phone (in todays terms) then the Blackberry 8700G is a good place to start.
i had 2 BB before and they both shite but this one is actually doin what i need and even more, the buttons are great, no lag very sensitive and easy to use the only down side is the scroll wheel i find it annoyin to hav to go to the side to navigate and hate even more on the scrollin option u had to give it a gd push. I know there are version that has navigation buttons but i cant afford that atm, over all this is great phone to hav if ur not bothered about the wheel.
I needed a phone that did not have a camera, [due to working in restricted areas], but was still able to do things like e-mail, this phone is perfect for me.
It is easy to use - i often found that smartphones that used Windows Mobile where very slow to turn on.
Fantastic as usual. Big bright screen, quick response to commands, compact size and reliable long lasting battery. The only bad side is sound quality: when the phone rings the sound is not as clear as it should be... but this is only a small thing compared to all the rest. You can do lots of things: emails, games, documents, calls, sms, mms and so on. Blackberry 8700 is not a phone: it will be your best friend!
since it is unlocked and the seller is quite arrogant. He charged 20 pounds extra for the item whereas the price of the item by bidding 21 pounds. He did not showed it in the advertise in ebay site. Tricky and dishonest seller.
i bought this phone and it took nearly a week to deliver and then when i got it the battery isnt working too long at all sorry but i am not to happy with this product
I bought this for my husband for christmas as he has just started his own business up and needed to be contactable both by email and by phone as he did not have an office. He thinks it is the best present he has ever received. It is basic enough for a technophobe, like him, to use and also offers him everything he needs in a pocket sized office.
Great product, good price, fantastic shipping rates. Seemed to be a great seller and he was in the end exeptional. Very good seller indeed. 100% recommended