 "Sorry I got this phone" | 2009-11-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1DFN48SWQNDFC |
| I got my blackberry 8220 flip almost a year ago and wish I would have picked something else. I've had the battery replaced twice and my 3rd phone replacement should be here in a few days. It goes dead in the middle of a call and I have to wait for it to restart. My husband was trying to call me on his way home from work the other day and it died, everytime it would restart, I'd call him and it would ring once, then restart again. I called Tmobile and they determined it's a known software problem with this phone and are replacing it again. The next day, it worked 1 time then wouldn't do anything but start and restart and restart again. I couldn't turn it off, had to take the battery out. I would never get another one of these again. The only thing I liked was the rollerball. Oh well, on to the next phone. |
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 "blakberry flip 8220 unlocked phone quadband gsm" | 2009-10-21 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2M3TFCF8XFNA |
| I bought 4 of this unlocked items to bring down to Ecuador S.A. to my surprise the cable thats use to download does not fit the phone, what can u do to fix this terrible error?? i bought under the condition that the manufacturer and the seller are profetionals and mistakes are not allowed?? i need this cables othrwise your reputation is under question and the phones are of no use to me or the people who trusted me to purchase for them. I'll expect from u to give me a solution or your way out is to say NO WARRANTY and that settles your troubles. I'm requesting a solution. Thank you. |
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| "Bad, slow, unfixable phone" | 2009-10-20 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2CE7AW84ZIKDV |
For anyone expecting this miscreant device to act like a Blackberry, forget it. It has so much less capacity than other models that it barely even functions as a telephone.
The device is frequently frozen for up to 30 seconds as it runs background programs and "thinks," to the point where I'm terrified of ever trying to use it in an emergency. It takes up to 10 seconds to recognize that I've started (and finished!) dialing a phone number before it registers the keytones. And often it doesn't acknowledge the first digit, but instead treats that digit as if it were just a button I pushed to wake up the phone, so I spend an enormous amount of time cancelling calls and trying to dial again correctly. Sometimes, mysteriously, the phone actually connects the call before the keytones kick in...
Web browsing is no better. The browser constantly crashes, and the only way the crash can be cleared is by breaking out the battery. Restarting the device after replacing said battery takes forever. In one final annoying feature, there's no way to silence or turn down the volume on the "dialing now" keytones, so the phone sings like an old fax machine. I've spent hours on the phone with my provider to troubleshoot, and ultimately I've replaced it -- and the new 8220 has all the same problems.
In short, it's a godawful piece of junk. Which is too bad, because when it *does* work, it's a pleasure. |
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 "Awesome phone" | 2009-10-19 |
| - Reviewed By licoriceallsort |
I had a blackberry a couple years ago and hated it because it was so bulky and awkward. The new ones are no exception either, but here we have the Blackberry Flip! Same size as a regular flip phone but with cool BB features.
PROS:
WiFi- you can use wifi to make calls. I have a home network and I am able to connect to the net via this connection without the data plan. And it works on unsecured networks as well (ie airports). Supposedly with a strong connection you can solely use the wifi to make calls and not use minutes. I haven't checked my bill to see if this is accurate, but it does boost calls.
Design- compact, sleek, shiny and sweet. Colors are great. Does smudge easily, but who cares. Comes with standard headphone jack so you could use one of those Billy Mays Jupiter Jack deals for hands free in the car. No, I'm not affiliated with Billy, just saying.
Camera- decent camera for 2 mp, colors are flat, but expected. Has a built-in flash and light for video recording. Records video with sound, and the mic picks up a lot of sound.
SD card- great solution for easily moving pictures and videos to my computer rather than emailing, etc.
CONS:
Battery life- very short, perhaps 2-3 days on a charge if you don't use it much. I noticed that when I disconnected the status light that would blink when a signal was present, I got a lot more life out of my battery.
Hmm, I guess those are all the cons that really bother me. I got this phone unlocked from another site, and it came with outdated firmware. Because of this, I was unable to send/receive picture msgs. A call to TMobile was no help, as they said I had to have the data plan in order to receive MMS, which is FALSE. After some research, I was able to download the newest firmware directly from Blackberry by hooking up the phone via USB (took 5 minutes) and VOILA, I had the ability to send and receive MMS! So excited.
In conclusion, the phone was easy to learn, the keyboard took about a week to master. The only problem I came across with the keyboard was when I was trying to use an automated system, and they wanted me to enter my state using my phone keypad. Well the letters on a regular phone keypad are different from the blackberry keypad! So I had to scramble to find a regular phone to type in the correct letters. But otherwise, I highly recommend the phone. |
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 "Excelent" | 2009-10-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3F4L29CHFA0XP |
It's an excelent phone i bought two items for my sister an friend. I sent it to Venezuela, and it's working.
I recommend |
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| "8220 blackberry language probs" | 2009-10-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2RXFJPGASE2UV |
i was not prepared to try and learn German in order to alter my phones language to english.
The lack of visual instructions to change this gadget was most frustrating,.. the phone should of had
1..an instruction how to turn this fool thing on..
2...say at least how to find the section to alter the language.
otherwise its an average gadget..the video i finally viewed on the net to assist with these problems did help a little ..however the nurd that did the front for this was truely full of rubbish info ..such as,.. oh how nice it was to hold etc..
Seek to do without it and save yourself the agro..
blessings to ye ..
robert
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