As part of my other life as a personal technology journalist, I have been carrying around the new Blackberry 8830 phone from Verizon, and I think I may be geting ready to give the boot to my old standby, the Treo 650.
The 8830 is the first RIM device I have used in quite a while and it is much slimmer and stylish than my current Treo, the carrier coverage easily beats Sprint (Though an equivalent voice and data plan from Verizon is more expensive) and it is easier to use than my Treo for day to day activities. For example, start typing on the main screen and the device figures out if the keystrokes map to a number or the name of one of your contacts and displays the choices. Contextual menus are never far away and there are no delays in moving from application to application. I thought I would miss the touchscreen, but the trackball proves to be a much better navigation experience than having to move your fingers up to the touchscreen.
The device runs on Verizon’s CDMA network in the US and roams to GSM networks in Europe. Now if only they offered the Pearl in a similar configuration, I think that I would be 100% sold…Check out a full video review I found on youtube:
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