RRH

Chaps / Ladies,

I'm a reasonably heavy phone user for business, and am sick of getting caught out with the iPhone, so am just going to keep it for personal use.

I think I'm going to get a blackberry for business use, not sure which one though... I'm not bothered about multimedia, just the ability to send and receive email, and 'forever' standby and usage that the bb's seem to excel at.

Can you recommend a blackberry please? Will probs buy it sim free, use sim card from my iPhone and stick my spare sim in the bb.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks muchly

Big 'D'

Have had the Bold and currently the new Torch, to be honest the Bold was far better on battery life than the Torch due to the smaller screen apart from that they are both very capable just differences in interface really. If you want battery life the Bold is defo the one, but if you prefer the full touch screen then the new torch is not bad at all.

Cheers Iain

RRH

Thanks Iain, really not bothered about the touchscreen tbh, just need basic functionality so it sounds like the bold fits the bill

hodgy0_2

For basic, get the curve

Wish

iTrader: (2)

I think Vodafone are selling these off cheap in there payasyougo website.

RRH

I'll have a look, thanks

mart360

I have a 9810, with 2g no wifi no gps, i get two days bwtween charges.

Some of the others with smaller non touch screens, get far longer

I like the keyboard, main reason for going to BB


Mart

Big 'D'

My bold was lasting easy a full week between charges, was only ever using the mob network, wifi and blue tooth were mostly switched off. My current torch lasts 3 days at best.

Jaybird-UK

Bold 9900 or the cheaper 9360 Curve are both great business phones.

jonc

If you want a no frills does what it says on the box with longest battery life 3g phone then go for the Curve 9320, stanby time of upto 18 days and 7 hours talk time.

ScoobyDoo555

get about 2 days out of my 9810 with everything ON.

hodgy0_2

also if things are mission critical you can always keep a spare battery in the car/laptop bag/coat pocket etc

not sure you can do this with an Iphone (unless you have a soldering iron handy)

brendy76

iTrader: (6)

If you are going to end up using two handsets, one for personal and one for business, it doesnt really matter what you use as it will last a lot longer.
I have a spare iphone in the office which is only used as a camera with email function for our quality guys and it can be left on for 8-10 days idling.

boxst

The BlackBerry curve is probably the one to go for. It is a bit of a shock going back to it after using the iPhone though ....

RRH

I'm damn sure, hateful things- never could get on with them tbh, but the battery thing on the iPhone is becoming an issue.

Whilst its great having one device that does everything, it's a real pain when said device packs up and you don't have a charger!

Jaybird-UK

Why not get one of these
Mophie stuff has been well reviewed on TUAW

RRH

I've got one already, but it relies in it a) being charged, and b) remembering to take it. Tbh suits me fine to have two phones now.