Comments on: How Well Will The BlackBerry 8800 Do?

By: Chewo

Chewo — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:09:31 +0000

I got a 8810 since last week. The camera is pretty nice but can’t shoot films.
The video player is ok, but doesn’t support the usual formats ( i don’t have the time 2 convert a movie before a 3-4h flight ).
Overall it’s a smart phone in many ways.

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By: WoeIMe

WoeIMe — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:02:47 +0000

I didn’t think I was making a point on whether or not he should or shouldn’t get a Blackberry but I will now.

Run as fast as you can to get a Blackberry. It’s phenomenal! Seriously.

I have over 80 applications installed on mine and they range from silly stuff for the kids to RSS feeds to PowerPoint video presentation tools to webcams to IM (Jivetalk) to maps to dictionaries to real-time stock tracking to national and company phonebooks to maps of a subway system to internal company info to word processing. At one time I had a spreadsheet application too. I have over a thousand people in my Address Book. I even use my Blackberry for email — a half dozen accounts.

I am fully functional with my Blackberry and have worked for over a week straight in the field without requiring any other tool.

By: Robb Dunewood

Robb Dunewood — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:46:32 +0000

Point taken. I won’t argue that there are more BlackBerry related support calls for organizations standardized on Notes than there are for those on Exchange. 1% is on the high side of numbers I’ve seen, but I digrees.

Are you, however, suggesting that no one on Lotus Notes buy a BlackBerry? I wouldn’t want to scare Rudy out of getting a BlackBerry alltogether.

By: WoeIsMe

WoeIsMe — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:58:30 +0000

Oops. Changed my nickname for a different post elsewhere. BlackberryBeard is WoeIsMe.

By: BlackberryBeard

BlackberryBeard — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:53:52 +0000

Robb,
I appreciate your insights. My organization is several thousand people, several hundred Blackberries, and a half dozen Domino servers. We have verified the issues I briefly mentioned in several public forums that they are happening around the world to many organizations. We have also called some 10,000+ person organizations and verified that they too experience these and other issues. As I stated, these are Lotus Notes issues, not Blackberry issues. The addition of the Blackberry does not increase or decrease the number of issues or the frequency. My purpose for mentioning the issues was that when people change their working environment they tend to look much more closely at it. If people notice these things happening after they add Blackberries/BES they may tend to attribute the issue to the BB/BES when in fact those issues were there all along.

By the way we have a rate of approximately 1% of our user population experiencing issues like those above every day.

Again I’m not ranting, but if you’d like I could give you a simple representative test to show that you too experience LN issues. Peace.

By: Robb Dunewood

Robb Dunewood — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:35:45 +0000

As far as Lotus Notes goes, I have never experienced, or heard of weird things happening when BES is brought into the mix. I cannot say that WoeIsMe hasn’t experienced issues with Lotus Notes, however, I can say that this is not the norm.

I would contact your Lotus Notes and or BlackBerry Enterprise Server Administrator to find out how the system runs in your organization.

Sprint uses EVDo which is much faster than Edge. If your Sprint coverage is good, you may want to look at the 7130e or the 8703e. If you just have to have a camera, switch to Cingular and get a Pearl. The 8800, IMO, doesn’t offer enough over the 8703e for me to switch so I would probably stick with Sprint.

By: WoeIsMe

WoeIsMe — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:57:39 +0000

The first problem you have is Lotus Notes. Lotus Notes will indiscriminately change fields in your contacts, delete random contacts, erase random emails, take random meetings off your calendar, and more. This is a Lotus Notes issue, not a Blackberry issue. This is not a rant but a statement of fact after dealing with these issues for years, and having supported both outlook and Notes environments.

In my area, both the Sprint and Cingular networks are unreliable. Nextel used to be rock-bottom for reliability but they have begun to dig even deeper. I don’t know much about the TMO network. Only Verizon has a reliable network. If I were forced to chooses between Cingular and Sprint in my area, then Cingular would get the nod because their network is marginally better.

Once you decide on your network, then and only then can you start thinking about the phone. If you decide on Sprint its the 8703e. If Cingular has the better network, then you choose small form factor/camera (8100) or full keyboard/no camera (8800).

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:57:20 +0000

OK Need help about to sign a 2 year contract and want to make the right move. I am a current Sprint Customer about to upgrade to a Blackberry. Our company has a Blackberry server. Should I stay with Sprint or switch to Cingular? Which network is better/reliable? Our company uses Lotus notes if that helps the decsion process. I am torn between the Sprint Blackberry 7130e and the Cingular Blackberry Pearl or Cingular Blackberry 8800?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:31:50 +0000

As I said in my post linked above, I just don’t think the BlackBerry 8800 does anything new, it’s a stalling device, until RIM is able to come up with the next big thing.