The RIM BlackBerry 7130e is one of the sleakest, and best priced BlackBerry’s. The 7130e is lightway and has some great features. I have owned this BlackBerry for about 2 months now and do not want to give it up. I will explain some features as well as some Cons about this phone.

Here are a few Pros and Cons for the RIM BlackBerry 7130e:

Pros:
-Sleak Design
-Light Weight
-Bright LCD Display
-Integrated Blutooth
-Speakerphone
-POP3 Email
-Integrated Wi-Fi
Cons:
-SureType Technology takes quite abit of practice to get used to
-Does not come equipped with built in instant messaging clients

The bottom line is the RIM BlackBerry 7130e (Verizon Wireless) is a nice sleak phone with plenty of features for any BlackBerry user. Personally, I would of liked to have the built-in instant messaging clients, but you can’t always get a perfect phone. You can download RIM’s version of the instant messaging clients. The only one that I could get to work on the 7130e was Yahoo Messanger, which can be downloaded directly from your phones browser at http://www.blackberry.com/YahooDownload.

The device comes with 64mb of flash memory and 16MB of SRAM. You can store countless emails on the BlackBerry, which is very convenient for IT departments as well as corporate. The 7130e does NOT support TXT or PIX messaging, which to most of your BlackBerry users is not a huge deal. Hands down the BlackBerry 7130e is a GREAT device and I would recommend it to any one that does not have the money for the Pearl.

Since Fall of 2005 Verizon has added an impressive array of featured PDA phones to there lineup, along with some serious expansion of their high speed 3G EVDO network. The Starcom XV6700, released in January 2006 just after the Windows Mobile Treo 700w.

The XV6700 is alittle bit bigger then the Treo but definetly has a bigger advantage, with having a slide out FULL QWERTY keyboard. For most of your PDA users, a full QWERTY keyboard is a big feature and attracts consumers.

I personally, have had the XV6700 for about a year now. I will take some time to discuss some disadvantages and advantages that I have personally come across, with the XV6700. The XV6700 is definetly a bigger phone and sometimes can be a pain to hold in your pocket, but they always have cases that you can buy that have clips on them, to strap them to your side.

A few disadvantages to the XV6700 are its size, phone, and some other smalls issues. Like i stated above, the PDA is alittle bit bigger then most of your other PDA’s, but definetly makes up for it with its full QWERTY slide out keyboard. It seems to me that I have to reset the device atleast twice a day, as well as reconfigure the pen, about once a month or so. The phone capabilities itself on the XV6700 are horrible. If you want a PDA that you will be using A LOT for talking on the phone, I do not recommend this phone at all. You will get about 2-3 hours of talk on this phone, then your battery will be dead. The XV6700 also has VERY poor output sound for voice conversations. You can turn the volume all the way up and still barely hear the person on the other line.

I also used this phone with a Microsoft Exchange server, to automaticlly download my emails and such. This was a excellent feature, but if you are like me and want to receive your emails to your phone almost as soon as you get them, then you set the send/receive option to about 5 minutes. Well, unfortunetly this causes the phone to lose battery life after about 6 hours or so.

If you are going to be using this phone to TXT message, this is the phone for you! This is the best phone that I have ever used to txt message on. It is so handy with a full QWERTY keyboard, and I can type a txt in no time at all. If you are going to buy this phone I would highly recommend upgrading to the extended battery as well as the broadband access through your phone carrier. This phone is meant to be on a data network (3G EVDO), and therefor that is why I would highly recommend getting it for this phone, so you can take full advantage of its features.

My conclusion is, this phone has his quarks and its flaws just like any other phone, but really it is all about preference and what you will be using it for. The one thing that I can’t say enough is, if you are going to want to use it as a phone a lot, I WOULD NOT buy it. Talk time on this phone is horrible.The XV6700 is great for txting and having for internet access on the go.