I personally own a Blackberry 7130e and can’t say I’m SUPER happy with it anymore. When it first came out it was cool because it was a new “sleeker” blackberry, but actually it’s pretty big. I have to wear it on my belt because if I put it in my pocket I’d hear “is that a cell phone in your pocket or are you happy to see me” all day. It has some cool features, but if I could go back in time I’d get a different cellular provider, phone, and package.

Let’s talk about what I do like about the phone for second I guess:

First off it was the first Blackberry smartphone that allowed you to connect to the internet using it as a modem with your laptop. It works pretty well. It’s faster than dial-up but certainly isn’t high speed. If you’re going to use it as a modem though you need a unlimited data transfer package which will set you back about $60/mth.

Secondly, I really like the speaker phone feature. Only 1/2 jokingly I’ll say that the speaker phone feature comes in handy because I can sit it down on the desk when I’m on hold waiting for Blackbery troubleshooting.

Now onto the numerous weaknesses:

My first complaint is that while it is smaller than a normal Blackberry, it’s not small enough to put in your pocket, but it’s not big enough to have a full keypad or a good screen to read email on.

Also the cell phone ringtones SUCK. You can’t get real music or anything of the sort, which is really annoying. I used to have “I’m too sexy” as my cell ringtone and it was awesome. Now I have like beep beep beeeeeep beep beep, not nearly as cool.

Anyway there are better options out there then this phone. I give it a 2 of 5. If you want a functional Blackberry get one. If you want a sleek phone with some cool features and the brand name get a Blackberry Pearl.