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Blackberry or Treo?

Discussion in 'Other Smartphones and Mobile Operating Systems' started by incellhell, Jun 13, 2005.

  1. incellhell

    incellhell New Member

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    I'm switching from Sprint to Verizon and want to buy a smartphone, primarily for emailing on the road. Anyone have any advice on the Treo 650 or Blackberry (??? model no.). Thanks for your help!
     
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    zamboni77 Supreme CadGuru
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    bosses at work have the treo, and others I know have the blackberry...treo reception is not on par with other phones from verizon, but the email service they have is quite good, but the blacberry is more of an email tool with phone features while the treo is a phone with a good pda
     
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  3. incellhell

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    I checked out the cdnet reviews of treo 650 and blackberry 7250. It seems from reading the consumers opinions that the Treo 650 has software issues (this is the verizon model, which supposedly worked out most of the bugs as it was the last carrier on the market to sell the treo 650) isn't as sturdy and doesn't pull in a signal very well. Overall the Blackberry opinons were highly favorable with good signal pull, ease of setup, no software issues and how durable it is. They all complained about the Blackberry's lack of a speakerphone.
     
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    Co-workers from my previous job swore on the Blackberry as someone said that it is primarily an email device. If you use wireless internet, the Treo can factor itself in.
     
  6. incellhell

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    I have gone with Verizon and the Samsung i730. I'm really happy with it so far. The Qwerty isn't as large as the Blackberry and it's not as one handed friendly as the Treo, but the broadband/evdo is really something else. The voice recognition works really well about 3 or 4 times it's spot on and downloading my outlook contacts for the voice recognition to use was a snap.
    The wireless email allows large attachments including .pdfs which the picsel browser opens. And I can set it for 'push' or just tap one button for it to go out and retrieve my email.
     

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