Upgrading to WM6 (fm Blackberry 7730)

[Guest bonaventura]

Hi guys,

I've been a lurker for sometime (my first smartphone is dopod s300, looked for help and found one here :( ). i need some advice and i hope you guys could help me here.

I have a blackberry 7730 (std gear fm my office) and recently the IT dept announce tt they are going to replace the old bberry units with new ones. the following are the rules laid down:

1. replacement units doesnt have to be blackberry, as long as they support push email

2. prefer WM6 than WM5

3. budget : USD500 max

naturally i use the bberry mainly for emails and documents (attachments) viewing. we receive ard 400 emails daily. my bberry 7730 can hold only ard 1200msg, so i have only limited archive, which is very annoying. i look forward to have this problem solved on my replacement unit.

never edited any office files on a hand held before, but if i could get a unit tt allows me to do that comfortably, it would be wonderful.

camera and 3g is not really necessary.

did a bit of researching on the net and i have narrowed down my options into the following:

1. motorola q8

2. samsung i620

3. htc touch

field research had been very disappointing since i can only found htc touch available at stores so i couldnt really get the 'feel' for i620 and q8 models.

can any one share their opinions/experience with these models? or maybe suggest other models that i have overlooked?

thanks for your help.

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

If you're doing a lot of mail, i'd venture a touch isn't ideal due to no keyboard.

Which network are you going to be on, where in the world are you?

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[Guest bonaventura]

If you're doing a lot of mail, i'd venture a touch isn't ideal due to no keyboard.

Which network are you going to be on, where in the world are you?

P

i live in indonesia, network : telkomsel.

noted the absence of keyboard (and the virtual keyboard wont help much either, i imagine), however, wont handwriting recognition helps?

brgds

[Guest S710demon]

If you are used to the BB keyboard then maybe the Treo 750 will be good for you. It is now available with Wm6 Pro.

Otherwise I would recommend a device with a full keyboard like the: HTC TyTN and TyTN II, Toshiba Portege 900 or the new Samsung.

[Guest bonaventura]

If you are used to the BB keyboard then maybe the Treo 750 will be good for you. It is now available with Wm6 Pro.

Otherwise I would recommend a device with a full keyboard like the: HTC TyTN and TyTN II, Toshiba Portege 900 or the new Samsung.

A bit confused here. i saw the official site and it said tt the treo runs on wm6 but other sites say that it runs on wm5.

anyone can clarify?

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

The Treo has a WM6 update available now.

It's a bit fat and ugly tho with no WiFi :(

My top 3 would probably be:

PPC - HTC TyTN II (great keyboard, does everything, a little heavy)

PPC - HTC Touch Dual 20 (great form factor, no GPS or WiFI)

SP - Motorola Q9H (awesome keyboard)

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[Guest bonaventura]

The Treo has a WM6 update available now.

It's a bit fat and ugly tho with no WiFi :D

My top 3 would probably be:

PPC - HTC TyTN II (great keyboard, does everything, a little heavy)

PPC - HTC Touch Dual 20 (great form factor, no GPS or WiFI)

SP - Motorola Q9H (awesome keyboard)

P

its been hard for me. really.

i just realised tt im another victim of the touch. the more i look at it the more i wanted it :D

guess i should take the motorola q9h (hell, company's paying for it anyway) and buy my own touch.

thanks for the advice bro :(

[Guest bonaventura]

hi guys,

just an update. i finally went down with the touch. text input was a real a problem with this unit, but once i learned abt 3rd party keyboard, the decision was pretty much easy to take.

had it over a week, installed happy tapping and phone pad and its been working smoothly.

much appreciate your input guys....

[Guest Confucious]

You didn't go gor the Touch Dual then? I would have thought the keyboard on the dual would have been better for you.

Which 3rd party keyboard do you use (there are lots!)? And which Touch did you get?

[Guest bonaventura]

You didn't go gor the Touch Dual then? I would have thought the keyboard on the dual would have been better for you.

Which 3rd party keyboard do you use (there are lots!)? And which Touch did you get?

Got me the P3450 (budget version, 128/64 memory).

I installed the phone pad for texting and happy tapping for email/longer messages (assigned the camera button to rotate the screen so i have quick access to landscape mode).

For email i use the happy tapping (i believe that this software have managed to proof itself to be robust).

Love the way this unit allows me to maximize one hand operation :(