Blackberry 8820 vs slightly older BlackBerry 8800

This is the new BlackBerry 8820 which will be available soon, but the question being asked is it better that the BlackBerry 8800?

They are basically the same but the 8800 has a few extra features. Whilst both boast features such as qwerty keyboard, large display, EDGE data, memory card slot and quad-band GSM.

Listed below is everything that they have in common with each other:

• GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
• LCD (Color TFT/TFD), 65K colors, 320 x 240 pixels
• Trackball navigation
• Full QWERTY keyboard
• MP3 & Polyphonic ringtones
• Vibration
• 16 MB SRAM
• 64 MB flash memory plus microSD (TransFlash) card slot
• Phonebook & Call records
miniUSB
• Bluetooth v2.0
• GPRS
• EDGE
• WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• HTML & WAP 2.0/xHTML Browser
• Games
• Email, SMS, MMS & Instant Messaging
• Organizer, Built-in handsfree, To-do list
• Document viewer (Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect and Adobe PDF)
• Built-in GPS navigation with BlackBerry maps
• Media player
• Java
• Voice dial
• Up to 520 hours standby
• Up to 5 hours talk time
• 114 x 66 x 14 mm
• 134 g

The only downside to this is phone is that there is no camera available, no 3G, no HSCSD or an infrared port. This phone is more aimed at the business user rather than as a personal mobile phone.

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