There is a lot of buzz in the market about smart phones with QWERTY keypad. As an avid cellphone user, my wait for a QWERTY Smartphone was over with new BlackBerry 8830.
The new BlackBerry 8830 edition is designed specifically for business people travelling aroundthe globe. You will not miss your e-mails, phone calls as this CDMA Smartphone provides roaming on GSM/GPRS networks globally. It’s first smart phone offering this service. Now you can travel without hassles of changing phone numbers and free from tension of missing important calls or e-mails.
It takes some time to get hang of BlackBerry. The trackball mouse interface in this smart phone resembles with Atari's Centipede video game. However once you run setup wizard, this phone is good to go. You can read and reply e-mails pretty easily and surf the web also. New users will discover the limitations of surfing the web on a small screen, but they will very quickly adopt it. BlackBerry 8830 does not have a camera as it's made for business people. It comes with an in-built microSD card. You can locate it after removing the entire battery cover. It’s hard to access, but everything else works like clockwork as you get used to it.
BlackBerry 8830 is available for $399.99 along with two year contract from Verizon. You can get it here with $100 discount.