BlackBerry Classic UK SIM-Free 4G Smartphone (QWERTY Keyboard) - Black

Oh My DAYS! Where has this phone been all my mobile phone years? I've been through phones galore trying to find the right one for me. I bought this model second hand from amo and I have to say going back to a keyboard and qwerty at that is such a wonderful experience. Just holding the darn thing let me know immediately that it is a quality product. The weight is nicely balanced. Fits easily in my handbag or pocket. Never lost connection even when colleagues are on the same network and lose connection on their Samsungs and iPhones. I had an iPhone 3GS years ago was great until I got fed up as it became slow so I jailbreaked it. Then I had a wonderful experience with it as it became faster but the apps only worked for a certain while then crashed. Moved onto Samsung Note 2 and caned the phone. Was a great phone though so went for the note4 and what ahorrible experience. Touch and swype were erratic. Tried the z3 compact but the touch went on it fast. Was a nice phone to hold. I am a very small woman with not long fingers. Exasperated with what was available and missed calls etc not being notified on time etc I wanted to try something different and old skool. Enter the BlackBerry Classic. For an old phone it runs just as fast as my gf's LG5. Which is still lighting fast. Oops I almost forgot I had the LG3 which worked but the battery drained really fast after a year. Now facebook only works in the browser and no notifications within the hub for BlackBerry. The whatsapp is not going to be available soon for BlackBerry users. BlackBerry give us BlackBerry world. Not very many apps and the apps I tried e.g Pocket etc just don't work. You can download apps from amazon and they seem to work better. Not comparable to the lovely Note 2 or LG3. I took the chance and delved into the apk world. Oh my goodness. Many many apps to choose to download and all work extremely well. I tried to incorporate Snap the app alternative incorporating Google play. I haven't been able to incorporate it yet but I'll keep trying. If you have trouble with Snap do what I did and Google for apks for the apps you want. Intuitive downloads MUCH better experience for downloading as you save it within your file manager folder and then install when YOU choose to install it putting the power of installation back into your hands. The ringer can be set to very loud. I'm a bit hard of hearing certain sounds in one ear yet the calls I take are crystal clear. Texting is easier as I like these buttons and find that I can type faster than my buddies with their androids and touchwiz or swype if they come from samsung note background. The BlackBerry Classic for me is an absolute JOY to use just be prepared for learning how to do things differently. I love the hub but wish it incorporated facebook and whatsapp. This is my back up phone. My main phone is the BlackBerry Passport which I got around the same time less than a week ago. I use the classic for round and about town. The passport for longer train or plane journeys. I strongly suggest you look at a few YouTube how to videos for setting up the BlackBerry as it'll prevent frustration.

May be a good device but thick, heavy and bulky. Unfit for proper business usage.

I had great hopes for this, did a lot of research, and recognised it would be quite different. I can manage change, but I can't accept loss of function. This is a big phone, which is ok - we all wanted a bigger screen. It's a heavy phone - OK, I wanted a battery that lasts a long time, and you can't flip the back off and pop another one in (shame). Build quality is superb - just like the 9900. The killer for me is that this v.10 of BBOS does not support auto-BCC to yourself on sent mail - a must if you need a proper record of sent mail to replicate back to a PC. BB just tell you to switch to IMAP / switch mail provider and rely on the cloud for storage. Every other phone has this, as did the older Bold, and it was there for good reason. Without that the phone is useless to me. With it, I still probably would not be happy - BBHub for messages that puts everything in one place (actually, I do not want texts, twitter, mail, facebook and everything else on one screen). This is for work, and mostly I just want mail. I can see if there is a text and switch to that if I want to on my bold - why not this? Other niggles - for the bigger screen, there is no more information on it because it is dumbed down with big icons at the top and bottom, so a list of messages has almost the same number as the bold. Then some of the older apps are not supported or available any more. Google Maps for example. yes you can get an app that uses google maps, but not the proper google version. I kept finding that people have written apps to overcome shortcomings in the operating system, but overall this is supposed to be a productivity tool and it's just not as slick as the bold. I stuck with BB because I wanted the BB keyboard to punch out messages quicker and more accurately than a glass one. Also the trackpad. None of this counts if the underlying SW is deficient (and this is). So the phone has gone back, and I will continue with the old bold. Which is a shame because BB got right on with the HW - if only they had left the SW alone. Maybe they will get there, but I have to say an Iphone6 or Samsung would be my choice right now if I was forced to change (even with the glass keyboard). Fortunately I can continue with the Bold.

Das ist das zweite Handy von Black berry, weches ich mir bestellte. Dieses Gerät soll als Geschenk dienen. Es gibt keine bisher von mir erkannte Nachteile. Gute Akkuleistung und leicht zu handhabende Bedienung. Es ist ein sehr schönes und hochwertig qualitatives Handy.

Did not meet expectations. Bitterly disappointed. Can’t even log on to my bank. All normal apps cost money and don’t work as well as the other android/apple apps do. Very slow logging onto internet. Hub doesn’t link with the apps as advertised. I wanted to be different and not have a samsung or apple. Looks like I’ll have to go back to apple. Rab Fleming Pulse Inspection PTY LTD 0439692679

e un buon telefono da ufficio. consegna nei tempi previsti. tutto ok

Prévoir une mise à jour de l’OS de 1,6 Go ! au démarrage du portable, les photos sont de très bonne qualité ! Le reste très fluide rien à dire ! Le porteur Colis privé me la livré dans la boite au lettre super. batterie sans utilisation = 4 jour! pour un occasion ça va. Satisfait pour le moment

La batería estaba tan inchada que no sé cómo no esploto es una vergüenza que vendan productos con esas condiciones y para remate tendría que pagar 18€ por gastos de envío una vergüenza