Sprint’s BlackBerry 8350i in the woods

The phone is now released to the public. Everyones previous performance comments are superfluous as that was a demo model, not final.

I bought one of these yesterday and I have to say I am totally surprised with this phone . it is, hands down, awesome . and as for the earlier question of the OS , im pretty sure its 4.7 .the clarity of this phone is overwhelming. truthfully I havn’t bought a blackberry cause of the lack of PTT . but with this one, I can’t see going to anything else . the only down side is the IDEN data network is a little slow but eh, and the fact that it has built in wifi totally makes up for it . so, a long story short, all you bashers don’t know what your talking about, and until you try it your opinions are rather useless

I am with Nextel and have a i580 with my company plan then I went to Sprint with the Samsung Ace for my personal plan. I’ve used WM devices since the first Dell Axim and thought WM 6.1 was the cats ass. I was wrong. The 8350i Blackberry is intuitive and very configurable. I setup WIFI at work, home and parents house and it connects each and every time I walk in the door. The internet off the WIFI is much faster than my sprint connection with the Samsung ACE and the battery last two days with calls and pictures and listening to Led Zeppelin every now and then. It gets way better reception than my i580 on my business plan and has a buttload of room with the 4 GB card I loaded into it. I can now send pictures and video with my emails. With the redirector I can redirect my office email to my 8350i. A feature the old Blackberrys could only do with access to the company enterprise server. Too bad Nextel is not pumping up this bad boy, and all the haters are on the site posting crap. They probably haven’t even seen one yet. I get all my email when I’m out and about, send emails, and love the speed it connects with the blackberry applications on sites like Foxnews, ESPN, Weatherbug, WSJ and USA Today. Great deal Nextel, thanks.

I am a Sprint Employee in the Los Angeles market, who currently is Advocate for the device and let me tell you the device is amazing! Wifi runs great! Blazing fast, the Web is actually faster on the 8350i (when using Wifi) than my Sprint 8130! And the PTT, Verizon can market their version of PTT but there is only one and its Nextel’s and that’s the best and everyone else models theirs after the best! Now the iDen network will be even better then before, trust me Sprint knows that!

Can’t tell you why the device was pushed back, but its simple supply and demand…

Be patient everything you are hearing about the device is true and none of you will be disappointed! Patience is a virtue!!!

this is the worse phone i ever had more of the calls drop and half of the time you dont have signal

these 8350i sprintnextel blackberry are the biggest piece of junkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk ive ever had!! the echooooooooooo so bad that i dont even use them !!! then when u call customer service and they are sooooooooooooooooooo give you the run around!!! bottom line sprintnextel your company knew there was and still is issues with these phones and still will sell these phones as of 4 3 2009 !! i really think that theres a safety issue with these phones cause what happens when someones loved ones has to call 911 and the 911 operator can NOT communicate with you cause the echoooooooooo so bad !!! ex. 911 trying to give you instructions on giving cpr to your loved one or someone in general!!!!!!!! im curious as bad as these phones are if 911 could do a gps locator on these 8350i sprintnextel blackberry phones!!!!!!!!! sprintnextel when does the old mighty dollar become more important than a good safe and functional product???? these 8350i sprintnexttel blackberry are the worse phones ive ever had in my whole life !!! if anyone wants to call me about these phones and ill will tell you what ive gone tru with these 8350i phones and the horrible situation i am currently going tru with sprintnextel customer service currently as of 4 3 2009 !! heres my numbers to contact me at 352 812 2514 or 352 857 0214 my name is chris gilbert!! ohh just one more note, ive been in the hospital fighting with cancer for the last 8 months and have tubes going tru my mouth and into my throat and stomach and lost a kidney,one lung and most of my stoamch and 80 pounds and if sprintnextel ould do this to me and knowingly having known that these phones would not working properly as soon as they was sent to me, what would they do to you and your loved ones??????????????????? god bless you !!!!