BlackBerry 8820

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The Blackberry 8820 is the first Blackberry to feature WiFi for high-speed connectivity. It is a full-featured smartphone, though lacking a camera. The 8820 looks and acts exactly like a Blackberry 8800. It's the same 4.5 by 2.6 by 0.6 and 4.7 ounces. Along with Wi-Fi, the BlackBerry 8820 includes built-in GPS through TeleNav, push-to-talk technology and the core RIM infrastructure of e-mail and call management. The Blackberry 8820 features quad-band GSM/EDGE support, built-in GPS, support for AT&T's Push-To-Talk service, Bluetooth 2.0, a built-in media player, and a microSD card slot for expanded memory. It shares the 8800's very good quad-band world phone performance, beautiful screen. BlackBerry 8820 has superior e-mail capabilities, a nice mix of applications and good connectivity options.While Research .The BlackBerry 8820?really nails the details as a Wi-Fi device. With its superior e-mail capabilities, a good mix of applications and good connectivity options, BlackBerry 8820 is a beautiful device?slee

,elegant. The big new feature here is an option in the Network Connections menu that gives you the ability to turn on 802.11a, b, or g Wi-Fi. The Blackberry 8820 also supports AT&T's Mobile Music service, which provides simple access to online subscription music content from eMusic, XM Satellite Radio, and more. The Blackberry 8820 also uses the intuitive trackball navigation system, a large landscape oriented display, and provides mobile access to email, a full web browser, and organizer functions

Design

The BlackBerry 8820 is a sleek-looking unit. It?s thin enough to slip into a pants pocket and feels substantial, but not heavy, while holding it to your ear during calls. . The 8820 looks and feels pretty much identical to its predecessor. And that's mostly a good thing. Sure, it's heavier and larger than the 3.9-ounce Curve, but the black-and-silver 8820 retains the relatively light (4.7 ounces) and slim profile of the 8800. You also get the same tightly packed but speedy keyboard and slick trackball for navigating menus.That said, the phone's pretty wide, so clutching it in your hand and holding it up to your ear is a bit awkward and cumbersome.

You can scroll four ways and press down to select items. We also like the large and crisp display. And because the Blackberry automatically adjusts the brightness depending on ambient light, you should have no problems reading the display under any lighting conditions. it's sleek and sexy with its smoothed edges and a deep midnight blue casing and chrome accents. The keys on the keyboard are fairly small and slippery, but the keys have slightly raised edges that make it easy to get the hang of typing.

In most other respects, the 8820 is just as good as or better than the 8800. We noticed much improved route-calculation times and appreciated how close to real time our location was displayed on the device. The 8820 incorrectly identified an illegal left turn as part of one route, but in general we were impressed with the accuracy of the results and the robust local search functionality.

Performance

The 8820 all quality was good. The little background fuzz on our end of the line is noticad, but conversations sounded pretty clear and loud overall. On other hand conversation sounded very clear and almost too loud. The speaker provided more than enough volume for calls, music, and navigation. Our only nitpick is that calls sometimes took a while to connect, a complaint we also had about the Curve. The 8820 supports Bluetooth 2.0 for hands-free audio operations or data tethering. The device also included a wired hands-free headset. Battery performance was truly impressive. If you make a lot of phone calls and send and receive e-mails constantly charge battery will go for three or four days. If you?re primarily checking e-mail, you should get about a week?s worth of juice. Also, the Blackberry 8820 will charge when connected to your computer with the USB cable. So when you?re on the road, you don?t need to pack the charger. We?re happy to report that leaving the Wi-Fi feature activated doesn?t seem to drain t

he battery life any faster. The 8820 has also improved on the multimedia front. It's compatible with AT&T's music offerings, including Radio That service delivered decent reception, but it works only over EDGE; we'd like to see Wi-Fi support added.

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About The Author: Monty Alexander is a well known author and has written articles on CDMA Handsets, Intex Mobile, BlackBerry 8820, Nokia store, Spice Mobile, Fly Mobile, online shop and many other subjects.