Mobile phones evolve ever onward, as the increasing number of functions and capabilities allow them to cater to the mobile user base’s increasing number of needs and applications. Moving swiftly through the ranks of use, from business-executive necessity to a hot personal item good for any person from any walk of life – from teenyboppers to concerned grandparents to cab drivers to teachers – the mobile phone has been imbued with more and more capabilities and functions over the years. Technology has given mobile manufacturers and service providers with the means to upgrade the formerly clunky, monochromatic mobile phone into a sharp, sleek and sexy item that offers a holistic audiovisual experience catering to both business and contact needs, and personal and entertainment wants.
One such evolution is the creation of the smartphone. The integration of an operating system to help a user run the functions and interface of a function-packed mobile phone has become all but standard for mobile companies these days, and the race continues to heat up as mobile manufacturers integrate more and more features into increasingly-streamlined core frames. Mobile providers and mobile manufacturers alike have gotten into the game, tying up to produce new versions of timeless classics that could help usher in a new age of mobile use. Verizon Wireless and BlackBerry are but two of the many big names involved in this race, and BlackBerry has released a smartphone model for Verizon Wireless users to call their own.
The RIM BlackBerry 8830 is a dual-mode CDMA/GSM smartphone model that has world-spanning call and email capabilities. Also offering BlackBerry’s typically-strong performance and multimedia capabilities, the 8830 offers peerless coverage allowing for voice coverage in 157 countries (22 of those via CDMA) and email coverage in 62 countries around the world. While this does not preclude roaming rates, it also does not preclude a worldwide Help line, and to tell the truth, the fact that a user is allowed the option makes this a powerful little unit nevertheless.
The 8830’s world-spanning capabilities are housed in the simple but stylish frame also seen in the 8800, although the 8830 goes with a sleek silver instead of the black. It remains one of the larger BlackBerrys due to its solid frame (At 4.4” height, 2.6” width, 0.5” depth), due largely to its full-QWERTY keyboard taking up a good deal of space below its 2.5-inch screen, which itself bozsts a 65 thousand color display and a 320×240-pixel screen resolution. Also equipped with a trackball and light-sensing technology that automatically adjusts its backlighting, the 8830 is a sizeable but user-friendly model.
The wireless options – easily better than those on the 8800 – allow the unit to be used as a wireless modem supported by the Verizon EV-DO network. In keeping with BlackBerry’s traditional strength, email, the 8830 can also sync with the Blackberry Enterprise server, and supports Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise and IBM Lotus Domino, meaning it can be used to send mass corporate emails in real time. Furthermore, the 8830 is BlackBerry’s first full-on multimedia phone, with support featured for MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, and MIDI format for audio files and MPEG4, WMV, and H.263 format for video files.
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