Mike, my Blackberry Fairy Godfather, delivered the goods. My new 8700r arrived this morning. After a quick charge, and activation with the server back home, it’s good to go.
First impressions? Sweet! It has a beautiful new very bright screen, polyphonic ring tones, speaker phone, better keypad, and some really nice new features. For instance, you can now get rid of all the sent messages in your inbox.
It’s got an EDGE modem in it as well. Too bad it’s not UMTS, but you can’t have everything I guess.
Many thanks to the team at RIM for handling this so promptly and professionally.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
