If you need horsepower, try the new AT&T Blackberry 8700c or T-Mobile Blackberry 8700g. The Blackberry 8700 wireless handheld with AT&T or T-Mobile service is the first Blackberry to use an Intel processor. Additional benefits include a speakerphone, better/brighter screen and more memory. eAccess Solutions can fill all your Blackberry 8700 device requirements with leading-edge device and installation support. In addition to the expansive list of high-quality products, services and Blackberry accessories we offer, we also provide exceptional customer service and extensive online training for our products. Contact eAccess Solutions at 1-847-991-7190 if you need further details on the Blackberry 8700 or Blackberry accessories. See our detailed 8700c review and 8700g review below.
 

BlackBerry 8700c
With Cingular Service!

BlackBerry 8700g
With T-Mobile Service!

BlackBerry 8700c Specifications:
Memory: 64 MB flash plus 16 MB SRAM
Display: Full-color 320x240 light sensing display
Battery Life: 4 hours talk time, 16 days standby time
Radio: Quad-band: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 & EDGE
Bluetooth Embeded: Yes
Size: 4.3 x 2.7 x 0.77  inches
Weight: 4.7 oz
Included Accessories: USB Charging Cable, Travel Charger, Holster, Headset, Battery

BlackBerry 8700g Specifications:
Memory: 64 MB flash plus 16 MB SRAM
Display: Full-color 320x240 light sensing display
Battery Life: 4 hours talk time, 16 days standby time
Radio: Quad-band: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 & EDGE
Bluetooth Embeded: Yes
Size: 4.3 x 2.7 x 0.77  inches
Weight: 4.7 oz
Included Accessories: USB Charging Cable, Travel Charger, Holster, Headset, Battery

The 4.7-ounce BlackBerry 8700c and 8700g looks like a shorter, fatter version of the 7100, or the offspring of a tryst between a Palm Treo 650 and a BlackBerry 7290. Regardless of its lineage, it’s one of the best BlackBerrys in a long time.

For starters, the 320 x 240-pixel display is noticeably crisper and more colorful than those on previous models, including the BlackBerry 7100 series. That resolution dovetails nicely with the addition of T-Mobile or Cingular’s EDGE network to make it practical to view graphics-heavy Web pages (something we couldn’t say about other BlackBerrys). Add in a fast Intel processor, Bluetooth, and plenty of memory and you have one of the best business-minded smart phones that money can buy.

A less-obvious improvement is that the display automatically adjusts to the lighting. This feature isn’t that noticeable, but it helps extend battery life by throttling down the backlight whenever you’re in a well-lit room. Talk time is four hours, which is on par with some other GSM/GPRS models, such as the 7290, but an hour less than the 7280.

Another enhancement is more memory; at 64MB, it’s twice the amount available on any BlackBerry so far. That makes the 8700c and 8700g practical for running apps such as Sendia’s WorkSpace CRM. You can also fit a fair amount of photos on the device. Both the 8700g and 8700c has two user-programmable soft keys, one between the Talk and End keys, and one on the left side. They’re handy for setting up one-touch access to favorite apps. The famous scroll wheel is there, too, for one-handed navigation.

The 8700 series is the first BlackBerry to feature an Intel processor, the XScale-based PXA901. This CPU speeds up the phone’s EDGE communications capabilities while providing snappy application performance. One great new way to show off that processor is to zoom in on and rotate images sent as e-mail attachments. Better yet, if the image is fuzzy after zooming in, you can select Enhance to sharpen it. These two features are particularly handy for reading faxes and maps.

This BlackBerry has built-in attachment support for common formats such as PDF and Word. Like its predecessors, if you want to do more than read them, you’ll need to buy an editor like DynoPlex’s eWord ($60). The Treo 650, which ships with DataViz’ Documents To Go for editing Excel, PowerPoint, and Word docs. For IM users, the 8700c and 8700g supports BlackBerry Messenger; this is available as a free download, but works only with other BlackBerry users. That’s a negative if you need to chat with AOL or Yahoo users.

RIM has tweaked the BlackBerry 8700 series' keyboard, mostly for the better. For example, the Semicolon key is back, plus there’s now a Speakerphone key. Because the 8700 is slightly narrower than its predecessors, the keyboard feels a bit cramped, but it’s fine for extended typing.

The BlackBerry 8700g and BlackBerry 8700c does a decent job with Web pages, but at least part of the credit goes to the Java-based browser. You can scroll through a page as soon as it starts to load, so you don’t have to waste time if you’re looking for text. Downloading all of CNN’s graphics-laden homepage usually took at least 30 seconds. The 8700 is astoundingly superior to its predecessors in terms of Web browsing.

If e-mail is a priority, then the 8700 doesn’t disappoint with the ability to send and receive e-mail from up to ten separate accounts, including personal and work. Like all BlackBerrys, the BlackBerry 8700g and BlackBerry 8700c pushes out new messages automatically, so they arrive without you having to lift a finger.

Overall, the BlackBerry 8700c and BlackBerry 8700g is a worthy addition to the BlackBerry family. The unit includes many of the commonly used accessories in the kit but for additional BlackBerry 8700c accessories or BlackBerry 8700g accessories look no further than the eAccess-eStore. This BlackBerry is well worth the investment.