I'm not a fan - I think the build quality is poor, menus are clunky, whole thing is not very intuitive but daughter loves it cos she can bbm with her mates. I do think the qwerty keyboard works well though.
Don't get me wrong I like the blackberry and I love the push email, the only problem is that the biggest advantage that blackberry had over other phones, the push email, has now become their biggest disadvantage.
When they had their network outage last year it highlighted that if the blackberry servers go down your lose all your access to email. Years ago when data plans were expensive you didn't want your phone checking for emails every few minutes coz it would cost you so it was great that the blackberry servers would pick up your email and push it to your phone , these days who cares data is cheap so wave goodbye to the blackberrys biggest advantage.
I am afraid that once the kiddies get bored of blackberrys and move onto the next thing unless blackberry pull off a miracle of Steve Jobs saving apple at the last minute proportions they will go down the drain, probably closely followed by nokia.
I am getting much better with these touch screen keyboards a few months ago I couldn't have typed all that without a real keyboard.
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or Dropbox for sharing files between multiple devices.
