New Blackberry Vodafone

bigpoppa

Morning, I have had a blackberry 7100v (vodafone)) for a year and wanted to upgrade.

i called vodafone and they said next week they launch a new blackberry 8700? anyone have any experience with these? any good?

richieg

I think its a 3G 8700 called 8707V. Check out RIMarkable.com or BBhub.com for details.
Same as the 8700 on O2 but with 3G capability

wolfman

Surprised they arent launching the 8707v
Typical Irish networks!
Its the 3G version of the 8700 and VF Germany launched it recently

Akula

It is the 8707v they are launching.

I'm guessing they meant one from the 8700 series.

Personally I dont see the advantage of the 8707v over the 8700 series.

parsi

They are also launching the 7130v as the 7100v is end-of-life.

Rew

There launchiing the 7130v is delayed due to stock isses but is coming. 8707v is out, mine arives tomorrow. The advantage over the 8700? It is an 8700 with a 3G modem so one and the same really but the 3G modem means you dont have to buy a seperate 3G data card which is cool.

elderlemon

Does the blackberry service from Vodafone give you unlimited email AND internet access? I have an E61 and was thinking of switching from imap to the blackberry service.

Akula

They market it as unlimited but I gather they have a usage policy of 20 megs... grand for a lot of people. But I have heard of cases of them contacting people about their usage.

O2 on the other hand I gather have only contacted people who have seriously abused it by using it as a tethered modem and hooked it up to their laptop running up gprs usage in hundreds of megs.

parsi

Our corporate contract has a 3mb limit and is charged for after that. However we theoretically have an 'all you can eat" contract so the additional charges get refunded after the usual haggling.

Akula

Apologies I actually think I'm wrong and that the usage limit is less than 20 megs... though I have a feeling they may have increased it lately but 20 megs is the limit for some of their other business email packages.

Rew

Blackberry and GPRS charges show up seperatly on the bills. In theory the email limit is 3mb but none of our accounts have been charged for straight email and we use it a alot. GPRS on the other hand is charged whether its used off of a laptop using the BB to browse. You can buy bulk data if your using it alot and Voda also do an all you can eat 3G option which I hope to avail of off the 8707v (which just arived).

The 8707v is nice. Big update on the 7290, speaker phone, better and higer res screen and of course 3G support.

bigpoppa

Man so confused, love the 7100v I have and wanna get a new blackberry but the 7130v looks to have no new real improvements? The 8707v looks nice but wanna stick with the phone versions rather than the bigger types.

The I see neither has wifi which I thought (in my own head!) they would but the e61 does!

Arghhg what to do?

elderlemon

I went through this decision a month or so ago. Bottom line is - The blackberry is an email device. it does this bit very well but thats all it does. Its no smartphone!

I needed a device that could make good voice calls, do email, browse the net and do wifi as well. I ended up getting the E61 and I don't regret my decision. I now have email (imap idle so almost "push email"), great web access, mp3 player, video playback, podcasting, ms office support, pdf reader, mobile search ....

I may go with the BB Connect but right now I can get 25mb of data for 15 euros a month and this gives me plenty of room. Imap idle works well for me so not sure if the blackberry connect will make all that difference.

suz

elderlemon wrote:

I went through this decision a month or so ago. Bottom line is - The blackberry is an email device. it does this bit very well but thats all it does. Its no smartphone!

I needed a device that could make good voice calls, do email, browse the net and do wifi as well. I ended up getting the E61 and I don't regret my decision. I now have email (imap idle so almost "push email"), great web access, mp3 player, video playback, podcasting, ms office support, pdf reader, mobile search ....

I may go with the BB Connect but right now I can get 25mb of data for 15 euros a month and this gives me plenty of room. Imap idle works well for me so not sure if the blackberry connect will make all that difference.

Hi there, i've been consulting a couple of your posts on the E61 since am researching getting one.

Just wondering if you can tell me what network you are on (is it vodafone?) and what you have found of the plan and usage? I dont know much about how it works with regard to WiFi etc., I'd mainly be interested in using it for consulting info online and checking things like Gmail (if thats possible) and reading docs.

Thanks,
Suzy

elderlemon

Suzy,
I am on Vodafone and have a data plan which gives me 25mb for 12.99 a month (ex vat) or 15 ish with vat. I mainly use it for email and have imap and mail for exchange running - both are excellent. Imap is more efficient but has less features (can't sync contacts/calendar etc). Mail for exchange is good but use up about 60K per hour in idle mode (ie just checking for mail). You can set up a gmail account but I've never tried.

For internet access the browser is superb. I've never had such great browsing from a small device - this really works well. If you don't like the built in browser then you can install Opera which is also very good.

It has a MS office compatible suite - I have received word and excel attachments, edited them on the plane and sent them back when I landed. Also supports powerpoint.

Has a PDF reader, a nice podcasting app, media player and tons of other stuff. All in all a great phone.