Available through <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/Cingular_Wireless/4505-6454_7-32137726.html">Cingular</a>, the RIM BlackBerry 8800 brings an updated look to the company's full QWERTY devices and crams in plenty of features for mobile professionals. Take a look.
The RIM BlackBerry 8800 takes some style points from its slimmer sibling, the BlackBerry Pearl, and sports a sleek black casing and a trackball navigator.
In addition to the sexier design, the BlackBerry 8800 is thinner (4.5x2.6x0.5 inches; 4.7 ounces) than previous full QWERTY BlackBerrys, such as the BlackBerry 8700g.
A 2.5mm headset jack, a mini USB port, and a convenenience key, which is programmed to launch Cingular's Push to Talk services, line the left spine of the BlackBerry 8800.
Like the BlackBerry Pearl, the 8800 has a trackball for easy four-way scrolling. We do wish, however, that it was larger and raised above the phone's surface.
There's a microSD card slot for carrying large files such as music and video, but we had a heck of time trying to get the battery cover off. Hopefully, RIM reconsiders the location of the expansion slot next time.
