Comments on: Sprint To Offer An Unlocked BlackBerry 8830 In July

By: Josh Telecsan

Josh Telecsan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:22:10 +0000

Im trying to find a hack to get a 8830 world edition by verizon to work with my ATT sim card in the US. anyone know of a hack or how to reload the os or something???
compnerd01@gmail.com

By: SLEDGE HAMMER

SLEDGE HAMMER — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:48:47 +0000

I AM IN POSSESSION OF A BB 8830 SPRINT UNLOCK OVERSEAS ON VACATION AND I AM USING A LOCAL SIM CARD IN IT WHICH WORK LIKE A CHARM, AND I ALSO HAVE THE SPC CODE FOR THE CDMA SIDE ##OOOOOOSEND, THAT I NEED SOME HELP WITH SIGNAL IS POOR OR NONE I MIGHT NEED PRL

By: bob

bob — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:15:42 +0000

i bought a black berry 8830 world edition on ebay it is a sprint phone. will it work with a rogers sim card (winnipeg)

By: Johny

Johny — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:50:20 +0000

I have travel to mexico and used the 8830 worked fine with movistar and in here with Tmobile worked perfect, my friend did something with it, and I dont know what, but the dam thing works great!!! even ATT….

By: Caveman

Caveman — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:01:30 +0000

I wouldn’t mind getting a Blackberry 8830 World Edition but the phone I have now doesn’t even work. See, I’m with Telus and I have a Samsung a720. It’s got a few bells and whistles but when I go to use them, say for example to send a picture/recorded audio clip or video clip text message it seems to work quite rarely. Most of the time I can’t connect to the internet and the phone freezes and I have to pull the battery out because it won’t get out of the trying to disconnect mode. So I definately won’t be shelling out $500 for more features that won’t work. A phone is only as good as the network and mine has really let me down.

By: FireHazzrd

FireHazzrd — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:25:33 +0000

The 8830, as listed on the BlackBerry website, only does 900/1800 GSM/GPRS service. Canada uses 1900MHz GSM, just like the USA, but the CDMA portion of the phone should still work up there, there is still a decent amount of CDMA in the larger towns and cities.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:45:39 +0000

diddo. Same thing happened to me. I only tried Rogers. Why is this? No, its not just the band. Rogers uses 1900, and the 8830 support 1900. So why is it not working? Anyone know of a hack? When I do a scan of networks i find nothing.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:43:58 +0000

i bought the 8830 world phone from sprint and i was told that t would work in canada with any sim card but when i got to canada and tried it using Fido and rogers sim cards it didn’t work. i was ripped off and was told told by fido and rogers that the 8830 will not work in canada unless if you use only a sprint sim card .

By: Will

Will — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:11:06 +0000

So does this mean the 8830 does have PTT capability? It seems like I am getting conflicting answers. We are required to have the PTT feature for emergency response, but I would like to update the features of my 7520. Any thoughts? What other PDA is available for sprint/nextel with PTT?