Comments on: What is different about the BlackBerry 8707v?

By: tom

tom — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:29:40 +0000

I am wondering if i put an at&t blackberry SIM on the international unlimited plan in one of these could i than use 3g speeds in europe? or is the at&t roaming agreement limited to 2g?

if that works; the next questions is will skype(or another VOIP service over 3G) work?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:42:55 +0000

Just to answer a few questions on this thread. The 8707v will work in the US, but will be dependent on your network carrier setup (GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G). Once 3G is fully rolled out — you will be all ready for it.

The 8707v does work in Japan — I used it last month with no problems (on Vodafone Ireland SIM).

Enjoy

By: sandra

sandra — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:21:08 +0000

if someone could email me direct? with some kind of answer that i’d understand
thanks
sandra@vencercorporation.com

By: sandra

sandra — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:19:11 +0000

i am wondering if i find an unlocked 8707v and use it with my already network Cingular – will it workI understand that DO have 3G capability –

and i can’t really get a clear answer – i am not the savvy phone person but know that 3G is the best…
I am in the states…

By: steve burn

steve burn — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:50:17 +0000

Will an unlocked 8707v still retain all its functionality on other networks?, ie Orange UK.
Where Orange only have 8700g, which does not have the fast download speed.

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By: GS

GS — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:40:31 +0000

Does this mean that this BB is WCDMA 2100 compatible, and so
travellers to Japan and Korea can access WCDMA 2100 voice
there too (with appropriate roaming contracts)??

Yippee if so!!

By: Thought

Thought — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:07:58 +0000

From reading the spec sheet, it appears that this model is UMTS, not HSDPA, ready. Of course, HSDPA service is probably not available with the carrier introducing this device, just yet.

As to EDGE fallback, while I can’t say for sure, I would imagine that if there is no UMTS service but EDGE, that the device does fall back to EDGE.

I know with the 3G Cingular phones that have been released in 3G markets that this is the case: if the phone cannot find UMTS, it defaults to EDGE. It almost has to be this way, due to the more limited availability of the 3G service.

By: Anton Wahlman

Anton Wahlman — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:33:33 +0000

What does 3G mean precisely in this context? Meaning, are we talking about UMTS, or are we talking about HSDPA? Is there any EDGE fall-back? Are we talking about only 2 of those, or all 3? And is this the inflection point where RIM introduces tethered modem capability for any non-7130/7250 product?