What they lack is the pizzazz and fun factor that you get from a Microsoft or a Palm OS device, there are no fun games or fancy movie players and they'll never replace your iPod but they will sit in your pocket and fetch each and every e-mail that you need. Research In Motion (RIM) maintains their successful business class product line with the BlackBerry communication devices, as we've written before these devices excel in the area of instant e-mail and contact management, they are usually tough and workmanlike but most importantly they are dependable.
This is ok, not the cheapest but not the most expensive either. They’re $480 without a plan but a basic plan starts at just $30 plus $40 if you’d like to use the data features on the BlackBerry (and you do, so) that’s a total monthly payment starting at $70. To buy the unit from Sprint, you’ll only need $199 as they’re doing a special at the moment – Ends July 29th 2006. In addition to new overalls the 7130e boasts access to Sprint's (not Nextel really) CDMA powered EV-DO data network what does that mean? Access to downloads at speeds of over 700Kbps that’s broadband territory... on a phone... but what’s better than that? Sprint will happily let you use that with your laptop as long as you get their USB connecting cable (no Bluetooth) and that’s rather nice. The new BlackBerry sports the companies recent change to black and silver as a style to replace the perhaps dated black and blue plain plastic cases that adorned the older familiar Blackberries that we grew to like so much, I know we liked them because we bought them in droves over four million in service worldwide. Sprint together with Nextel has added the BlackBerry 7130e to its latest mobile lineup. Note: the BlackBerry 7130e is also available on Verizon, and as the 7130c on Cingular (no 3G) Home -> Smartphone Reviews -> RIM BlackBerry 7130e BlackBerry 7130e