The phone book is limited only by the available memory the SIM card holds an additional contacts , offering room in each entry for eight phone numbers, e-mail addresses, work and home address, and job title.
For caller ID purposes, you can assign a photo to a contact, one of 26 polyphonic ringtones, or a group category. T-Mobile's MyFaves plan is supported on the BlackBerry , which gives you unlimited calling to five contacts, regardless of carrier. All in all, the device can support up to 10 accounts, including POP3 or IMAP4 e-mail accounts, and there is an e-mail wizard on the device to guide you through the setup process.
The BlackBerry includes a number of PIM tools for business users, including a calendar, a tasks list, a memo pad, an alarm, and a calculator. Unfortunately, the BlackBerry doesn't include the improved Web browser found on some of the newer devices, which means tedious scrolling and difficult page navigation. As a business-centric device, RIM decided not to include a camera on the BlackBerry , but it does have other multimedia capabilities.
The music player is fairly basic. Aside from standard stop and play functions, you can create playlists as "folders" and shuffle and repeat songs within a certain folder. It also displays some track information, such as title, artist, and album art if available. For videos, the player has play and stop buttons, fast-forward and rewind, and a full-screen mode.
There's about 64MB of flash memory available, but we suggest using a microSD card to store large media files. We're still conducting our battery drain tests and will update this section as soon as we have final results. We enjoyed clear audio and very little background noise when talking to friends, and we had no problems interacting with bank's automated voice-response system.
On the other end, callers had no major complaints. Unfortunately, we didn't receive a HotSpot Home kit in time to test out the service, but will report our experience as soon as we get our review unit. The BlackBerry was generally responsive, though there were a couple of occasions where the smartphone would briefly stick when switching between screens or launching applications.
Connections weren't a problem. The smartphone had no problem finding and connecting to our test access point, and we were able to quickly view Web sites. As we noted before, navigating through pages is a bit laborious since there's a lot of scrolling involved. The handset would be able to change connections between the licensed cellular radio access network and the unlicensed IP network seamlessly even in the middle of a call without even the user noticing.
The most important difference from the widely known VoIP technology is that UMA is after all tightly linked to the mobile radio network, which is used for routing, authentication and billing.
A call initiated using the Wi-Fi interface after all reaches the 2G core network through the UMA Network and once the signal is transferred, it becomes indistinguishable from the rest of the cellular traffic. Do not throw your hopes for free calls through the window just yet since the technology allows the UMA-enabled devices to be used as regular VoIP handsets. But it's of course up to the manufacturer to decide whether to block that functionality or not.
The BlackBerry is most commonly compared with these phones:. Processor - This is the main computing component of a phone and is a major factor when it comes to the overall speed of the device.
Capacity - The bigger, the better! However, battery capacity is not the only factor that has an effect on battery life. Those include the chipset in use, the software running on the device, as well as the consumer's unique usage pattern.
Location - This field shows the positioning systems supported by the device.
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