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RIM Color BlackBerry 7230 Review

Posted by michael on from the stuff-to-lose dept.

securitas submits this painfully well-linked piece: "eWEEK reviews the RIM BlackBerry 7230 color handheld, Research In Motion's latest combination wireless e-mail/phone/PDA, and the first BlackBerry to feature a full-color display. The tri-band GSM/GPRS J2ME device features a 240-by-160-pixel, 65,000-color display, 16 MB flash +2 MB SRAM, an Intel 386 32-bit chip, SMS, an HTML browser (missing from the preceding BlackBerry 5810), a claimed 4 hours talk/10 days standby removable/rechargeable lithium-ion battery, POP3/IMAP/Exchange/Notes wireless e-mail for up to 10 accounts with file attachment management, security via Triple DES encryption, USB sync/recharging and the usual organizer functions. RIM squeezes it all into a 4.8 oz/136g, 4.4x2.9x0.8 inch/11.3x7.4x2.0 cm package (tech specs at RIM). The BlackBerry 7230 is exclusive to T-Mobile USA until 2004 and costs about $400. With this release, RIM is moving the BlackBerry into the prosumer/consumer market to expand its customer base beyond enterprise users. The release comes amid speculation of BlackBerry doom following RIM's recent patent ruling loss and ahead of the highly anticipated Handspring Treo 600, its direct competition (which includes the MS Pocket PC Phone Edition Smartphone and the Palm Tungsten W). More at Wired News, E-Commerce Times, InfoWorld and Forbes/Reuters."

12 of 119 comments (clear)

  1. nice price... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It will take you several paid RIMjobs to get one of those. Several, I say...

  2. This article sucks by maroberts · · Score: 1, Troll

    The intro is too long and is painful to read, almost like a troll article. Couldn't you have split it into a few lines of intro and a main text section?

    --

    Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
    Karma: Chameleon

  3. mp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    What's better:

    1. Rim Color Blackberry 7230?

    2. -or-
    3. Sex with a mare?
  4. Re:But can it run Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anyone hear Britian's hottest new band, the Sausage Suckers?

    There new single "Come Inside (my place)" is racing up the charts

  5. TROLL - CHANGED TEXT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The 7230 performed acceptably as a telephone, although it does require anal insertion.

    TROLL! TROLL!

  6. What is a RIM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Isn't that this?, or is it more like this?.

    Thanks.

  7. Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A rim blackberry is when you get an especially dark turd nugget stuck to your tongue while eating asshole. However, I don't know what a RIM Color Blackberry is. Can anyone help?

  8. Uh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why did they call it RIM?

    Everytime I see one, I cant help but to think of a man's anus. I'm sure thats what they wanted.

  9. Let me be the first to say... by billyradcliffe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...! OK, how's that for my first /. post? Do I fit in?

  10. Who needs this ? by rainer_d · · Score: 1, Troll
    I've never seen the market for these kinds of appliances. They're to clunky to be useful as a phone and to small to be a real laptop.
    And if that wasn't enough, the software is completely proprietary ("end-to-end proprietary", in marketing-speak).

    If you can't stay away some hours from your email, you'd better never leave the office.

    Rainer

    --
    Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
  11. Kathleen Fent, whore/slut, dead at 12 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just heard some sad news on TV - Famous whore and slut Kathleen Fent was found dead in her Michigan home this morning. There weren't any more details, other than the theory that she choked on CmdrTaco's one-and-only pubic hair. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss her - even if you didn't enjoy her teethy blowjobs, there's no denying her contributions to our cocks. Truly an American icon.

  12. Article is -1 troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would just like to point out that this is a blatant attempt at astroturfing. C'mon, does anyone outside of Marketing really use the term "prosumer?"