Blackberry Fields forever ?!

Advantages: One of natures free fruits
Disadvantages: none

...Roll up, roll up, food for free! That statement has a certain ring attached to it doesn't it? I know that Richard Mabey has written a very much talked about book on the subject of what nature can offer us in terms of nourishment. Sadly as yet I haven't read it, in fact I have just been very tempted to order a used copy from Amazon at just a little over £6. I have to admit to being a fan of Ray Mears and although I hold my hands up to only being a fan I love to watch Ray pounding his berries and making weird and wonderful concoctions using gatherings from the hedgerows. Blackberry picking just has to take most of us back to our childhood and sunny afternoons when we were sent off with a tattered brown paper bag to gather some blackberries to make either jam, jelly or an apple and blackberry pie. Off we went to scour the perimeter...

Sarahjh1 28.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Blackberry

Blackberry Curve 8310

Advantages: Great phone
Disadvantages: None

...So bear with me as this is my first stab at writing a technology review but I received a new Blackberry for work a few weeks ago and I'm really pleased with it so I though I would write a review on it. The model in question is the Blackberry Curve 8310 Smartphone. I got mine free but with price plans available with the different service providers it can be anywhere up to £200 I believe. The first thing I noticed about the phone (which is what made me choose it and as you can probably tell that I'm not very technologically minded!) is that it looks good. The phone has a lovely metallic finish, almost like a gunmetal grey colour to it although it does come in a pink version too (I wasn't allowed this for work unfortunately!) It has really nice rounded edges too and in my opinion is quite sleek. It's very light weight too, just like...

Spottydog11 12.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Blackberry Curve 8310

Blackberry days

Advantages: great fruits and good for wildlife too
Disadvantages: maggots

...Blackberry. Rubus fructicosus, Bramble The Blackberry season has now just finished. Fruit gathered in, jam’s, pies and preserves made. Ok I only made a few pies this year. I have strong memories of blackberry picking in my childhood during the late 50’s and early sixties. I lived in a small village in Cambridgeshire and in late August early September the family mother father sister aunt uncle cousins would go on a blackberry picking picnic. We would walk across the village common to the best field with a bramble hedgerow. We took baskets bowls bags anything to collect the blackberries. We selected a grassy spot to picnic avoiding the cow pats. Then Mother aunt father and uncles set to picking immediately us children too we picked and picked well the adults did I would pick a while choosing the biggest juiciest...

mumsymary 02.11.2004 · Read review
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Review of Blackberry

Blackberry Storm

Advantages: instant email, brilliant user interface, touch screen, battery life, reliable
Disadvantages: camera, slow boot up

...I have always been a fan of blackberry, all my friends and family own pc’s oe have office type jobs. With the instant email function I can stay in touch with them all without extra charge to myself or to those who wish to email me. First let’s talk about the price plans available. As you may be aware the blackberry storm is exclusively available to Vodafone customers only, so if you wish this to be your next mobile, you must either transfer your number to Vodafone, be a customer already, or purchase a new contract. Remember everything in this review is accurate to date. Now to date you can get the blackberry storm for free from £35 a month on a 18 month contract or £30 on a 24 month contract. On both the 35 and 30 contracts you get 200 minutes and unlimited texts (3000 – nothing is unlimited) unlimited internet (500MB) and unlimited...

sheephat 26.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of BlackBerry Storm 9500

Blackberry Bold 9000

Advantages: Easy to use, pleasent to look at, good battery life, big memory, good camera, easily customisable.
Disadvantages: May not be for those who prefer a smaller phone.

...I have previously been an owner of the blackberry curve and pearl and the bold by far is the best phone I have ever laid my hands on. The phone is stylish and the format is set out in a clear and easy to use way. Although fonts are limited, the new fonts added to the bold are nicer to look at than the previous. The phone is very easy to customise, with a vast variety of covers, cases, skins to protect the phone, although the phone is very durable. Unlike the other blackberry's, the bold has a leather look hard battery/back cover, this is also very useful, because if your one that is careless and drops the phone, like myself, no scratches are seeable. Many themes can be downloaded and bought for the blackberry bold, meaning you can customise it to your personality as much as possible, you can even make your own themes...

l_ulie 10.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of BlackBerry Bold 9000

Life On The Blackberry

Advantages: Colourful, Durable, Protective
Disadvantages: Doesnt proptect the screen or keypad of the blackberry

...I bought a blackberry curve last year on a contract with orange for £25 quid a month. It gets me 300 texts and 100 minutes but unlimited internet. As i know many people with blackberries it was the internet i was most excited about. Blackberries have a program on them called blackberry messenger. It is basically like msn messenger but just for blackberries, so you can send instant messages,pictures, audios etc all for free as long as you have the internet bundle. I'm very happy with my blackberry, it is like having your own secretary on the go. It has email, facebook, sms, camera, music etc etc. However back to the product review. When my friend got her blackberry she didn't use any form of protection for it. After a few weeks i noticed a few scratches on the back of her phone so i thought when i get mine i need to invest...

djs89uk 23.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of RIM BlackBerry Skin

Bring on the Blackberry

Advantages: Sturdy, Easy to use, great functionality
Disadvantages: Work is always there

...I have always been adament that I would never have a Blackberry as they tie you to your desk and make sure that you can never take a day off work. So I was not impressed when I received a Blackberry as part of my new role with work. Admitedly I am out of the office a lot so it is useful but I just didnt want to always be able to connect to my email! Anyway I was given the Blackberry 8800 and told to use this. So, swallowing my disgust I have - and I have to say I have been converted. It comes in a stylish black leather case with a belt hook (only for sad city boys!) but useful for attaching to the inside of your handbag and good for protecting the Blackberry if you drop it on the floor as I frequently do! I thought that the Blackberry would be hard to use but it is surprisingly easy. It has great features and lots of them...

honey000 22.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of BlackBerry 8800

How did we live without the blackberry??

Advantages: Great e-mail service, easy to use. Does what it says on the tin!
Disadvantages: Size is not for everyone.

...What did we do before the blackberry? Today we can take for granted the ability to send an e-mail from this small handheld device that fits in your pocket? It’s crazy! To me the blackberry bold is the first real step blackberry have made to corner the consumer handphone market and is without a doubt the main rival to the iphone. I have been a blackberry user for the past three years, my first being the blackberry pearl, a small but useful handset, the only thing missing was the full QWERTY keyboard which you do really need. After that phone I moved to the T-Mobile MDA 3 which had a nasty stylus to type with and used Windows Mobile, two things I now abhor! I use the phone for both business and social use. I can get my work e-mails and also keep in touch with my social life on facebook and my own personal e-mails. The blackberry e...

atlantis140 12.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of BlackBerry Bold 9000

Blackberry Pearl? More of a diamond...

Advantages: Does most things it should simply and well whilst still being phone sized
Disadvantages: Viewing some attachments is virtually impossible

...I've had a number of phones for Business and Pleasure, this is the first one that does it all for me. Let me run you through yesterday. I am awoken at 6ish by my blackberry, it's a good friend as it allows me to set the alarm for weekdays only - I used to hate it when my phone would wake me at 6am on the weekends. I'm in the car getting a lift to the station from the lovely wife and on the way I can look at my day through the pushed calendar at work. I also get a blackberry instant message from a mate asking if I want to go for lunch. Nice! On the train to work I look at the emails to see what I'm going to face when I get to the office. Not much to worry about so I fire up the brickbreaker, the 'pearl' in the middle has taken some getting used to with brickbreaker but I'm starting to get some decent scores. More seriously...

mallamaloo 10.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Blackberry Pearl 8110

Blackberry is everything

Advantages: Multitasking, GPS, large screen, Qwerty keyboard
Disadvantages: Not many, except keyboard locking and holster use.

...In a nutshell, Blackberry phones seemed to be on the expensive end of the market and many people who have them seemed to be pleased. So I decided to check it out. The first thing you notice is the complication and a different style of use. This takes time to get used to. The roller-ball is a cross between a pointer mouse and the stylus system on other PDAs. And yes if you previously own a Windows based PDA, you will probably be looking for a stylus to poke the screen with! You get used to it. But the Qwerty keyboard more than replaces the clumsy stylus. One of the biggest drawbacks of stylus based was that the stylus was lost all too often. I personally always have preferred phones which are durable and easy to use. This after a bit of playing fits the bill. One thing of concern with any PDA, is the ability of the device...

makro74 28.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of BlackBerry Curve