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In my experience with the 7510 I found it to be the worst phone I ever
owned. It broke down twice in a mere four months, both warranty repairs that
should have been free to repair but Nextel charged me $35 each time to fix.
Of course they tried to sell me the insurance claiming that if I bought it
then all the repairs would be free. The repairs should be free since they
fall under the one year warranty and if I have to pay for insurance to get
warranty service then it's not free. My recommendation, stay away from
nextel. I thought paying $120 per month for my black berry would have given
me some kind of extra professional service but it turned out that was the
exact opposite. If you have an issue and need to call customer service you
can't call 24/7. Once they find out you have a Blackberry they tell you that
you have to call between 8 am and 10 pm, Monday to Friday and speak to
Blackberry support. No support on weekends or at night.
Limited service, poorly built device and pay extra money = not worth it to
me. I bought a Samsung i500 through Sprint and added their vision plan for
$10, now I have everything I got with the Nextel (email AND interent access)
and still am paying less than $70 per month with a 500 minute plan (fine, no
free incoming but wo cares, I'm saving more than $50). Nextel was charging
me $120 with tax and everything. Plus the i500 is a Palm enabled device so a
lot of apps are available for free, not so with the Blackberries. Apps are
expensive for those because they're java apps and there aren't many out
there. The Palm platform has more than 17,000 apps last I heard.
"1badss" <1badss.1mgahy@nospam.cellphoneforums.net> wrote in message
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> I have limited experience with a few different types of blackberrys,
> including nextel. they are very usefull for a specific need. It is
> great having the PDA functionality in your phone but you end up with a
> very large phone. One thing that helps that situation with the 7520 is
> that it does have bluetooth so you could get a wireless headset which
> helps. they problem with blackberrys is the $50/month service in
> addtion to your monthly voice service. if that is not a problem for
> you that I highly recommed it. they are very easy to use after about 5
> mins of looking around and the full keyboard is extremely usefull.
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