{"id":965,"date":"2007-04-18T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2017-01-25T16:37:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T21:37:26","slug":"test-driving-the-rim-8800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"Test driving the RIM 8800"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/us.news2.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/fi\/10\/54\/29.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/us.news2.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/fi\/10\/54\/29.jpg\" alt=\"8800\" width=\"175\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I received a little package from Rogers last week &#8211; an opportunity to test drive the new Blackberry 8800.<\/p>\n<p>I have been using a 7200 series Blackberry for the past few years and my family will attest that I am a certified addict. I need the full keyboard, so I have been waiting for the 8800&#8217;s full keyboard combined with the Pearl trackball. It takes some getting used to &#8211; but there is so much more.<\/p>\n<p>The system boots up almost immediately &#8211; a welcome change from what I have been used to. Starting from removing the battery is a longer initialization process. Quad-band, GSM\/GPRS and EDGE networks with resultant zippy download speeds.<\/p>\n<p>The built-in GPS came in handy for a road trip yesterday. While <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/s\/capress\/070417\/business\/quebecor_wireless\">Pierre Karl Peladeau<\/a>, chief executive of Quebecor, was in Ottawa calling for an acceleration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1020\">AWS<\/a> spectrum auction, I spent the day testing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoprogers.com\/Business\/Wireless\/solutions\/telenavgpsnavigator.asp\">Telenav<\/a> turn-by-turn voice navigation to help us get through the streets of Montreal. At $10 per month, it is a nice package that is priced competitively to services like GM&#8217;s OnStar.<\/p>\n<p>One-touch voice activated dialing and a speaker phone are other useful tools &#8211; especially when driving. The system responds to other voice commands as well. Has anyone built an application to get the system to read my incoming emails to me while I drive?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is also Bluetooth equipped and I was able to easily pair one of my Motorola earpieces. The demo unit I have also came with wired stereo ear buds &#8211; the system can play audio and video files (MP3, WMA, MPEG4 and WMV among others).<\/p>\n<p>Will RIM design one that can float when I drop it into Lake Muskoka?<\/p>\n<p>Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research In Motion, will be a keynote speaker at <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomsummit.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The 2007 Canadian Telecom Summit<\/span><\/a> on June 12.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a little package from Rogers last week &#8211; an opportunity to test drive the new Blackberry 8800. I have been using a 7200 series Blackberry for the past few years and my family will attest that I am a certified addict. I need the full keyboard, so I have been waiting for the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=965\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Test driving the RIM 8800<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Test driving the RIM 8800 &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I received a little package from Rogers last week - an opportunity to test drive the new Blackberry 8800. 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