The population of blackberry addicts is increasing significantly in North America. So let me give you some tips on buying a berry.

1. Make sure your mobile service whether supports CDMA or GSM. Most of the blackberry devices are designed for GSM, but some newly introduced models are designed for CDMA!

2. Modern blackberries are no longer for business purposes only! For examples, Blackberry 8300 has included a 2M Pixel Camera plus media entertainment center, so it plays musics, movies and definitely allows users to take pictures! However, on the other hand, blackberry 8800 is targeting business users as it includes GPS but no digital camera! Therefore the price of 8800 is more expensive than 8300.

3. Sign a contract that is suitable for your blackberries. If you want to buy a blackberry and able to use its internet-related functions, then you must subscribe BIS/BES(which is the DATA Service for blackberry devices only) from your mobile service provider, otherwise you may only use it as a phone plus SMS and PIM. I recommend buyers sign an unlimited data contract since you could easily exceed the internet data usage in a really short time, and it'll cost you an incredible amount for your phone bill!

In conclusion, Blackberry is a phone with an outstanding reception and its well known qwerty keyboard makes your life easier for SMS or other messaging activities. Speaking of its form of factor, excellent batteries life, and fairly stable OS; all of these make the blackberry a solid smartphone out there in the market!

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