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BlackBerry 8800

Overview

As stylish as it is powerful, the BlackBerry® 8800 smartphone is designed to let you do your best work from wherever you choose. It gives you phone, email, organiser, web browsing and instant messaging. And then it goes a step further, providing GPS for enhanced access to location-based applications and services, including the pre-loaded BlackBerry® Maps application. A multi-media player for your video clips and music. Expandable memory to ensure you’ve got the room you need for your media files. And a high-capacity battery to allow you to make the most of it all.

Sleek and performance-driven, it’s the stylish way to get things done.

 

Features Available*

The BlackBerry® 8800 smartphone has all the features you need *:

Stay in Touch

  • Wireless email: Send, receive, forward and reply to messages, and view attachments in popular file formats.
  • Advanced phone features: Speakerphone and Voice Activated Dialing, user-definable convenience keys and dedicated Send, End and Mute keys
  • Instant Messaging1: Connect with your IM contacts using popular applications like Yahoo!® Messenger and Google Talk™
  • SMS and MMS*: Send text messages and images in an instant.

Enjoy Life

  • Media player: Listen to your favourite songs and watch video clips*.
  • Stereo headset capable

Find the Info You Need

  • Browser: Navigate and browse websites with a roll and click of the trackball.
  • Organiser: Synch and store your calendar data, address book and more.
  • Corporate data access*: Access your vital corporate databases and applications from anywhere.
  • BlackBerry® Maps: Get directions and view maps while on the road.
  • Global Positioning System1 (GPS): View your geographic location and pair with BlackBerry® Maps and other location-based applications to aid navigation.

Maximize Convenience

  • 64 MB of built-in memory and an expandable microSD memory slot1,2.
  • Bluetooth® capability for hands-free dialogue.
  • A full QWERTY keyboard layout for fast text and email composition.
  • Tethered modem capability: Use your smartphone as a wireless modem for your laptop or PC*.
  • High-resolution, light-sensing screen.
  • High capacity battery
  • Email set-up wizard

Enterprise friendly

The BlackBerry® 8800 smartphone works with your organisation's BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution to provide corporate-strength functionality, including enhanced security features and easier access to company information.

Unlike traditional mobile phones, BlackBerry 8800 Series smartphones can be centrally managed and supported by IT departments. Remote address book look-up, single mailbox integration and push delivery of data from corporate applications are just a few of the features available.

*Check with service provider for availability, roaming arrangements and service plans. Certain features outlined herein require a minimum version of BlackBerry® software.

1When you subscribe for, acquire, or use third party products and services with RIM products or services you accept that: 1. It is your sole responsibility to (a) ensure that your airtime service provider will support all of their features; (b) identify and acquire all required intellectual property and other licences prior to installation or use and to comply with the terms of such licences; 2. RIM provides such products and services on an “AS IS” basis with no express or implied conditions, endorsements, guarantees, representations or warranties of any kind, and assumes no liability whatsoever with respect to them.

2The BlackBerry 8800 smartphone accepts microSD cards; the amount of storage is determined by card capacity. May be sold separately.


 

Getting Started

Resources

Setting up your smartphone

Whether you’re using BlackBerry® Enterprise Server or BlackBerry® Internet Service, setting up your BlackBerry smartphone is simple and can be done completely over-the-air.

Not sure whether to set up your smartphone for BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Internet Service? Follow these guidelines:

BlackBerry Internet Service

Use this option if one or more of the following apply:

  • You purchased your smartphone in a store
  • You want to set up a new email account for use with your smartphone
  • You want to send and receive email messages on your smartphone from one or more existing email accounts

View email setup instructions for BlackBerry Internet Service.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Use this option if one or more of the following apply:

  • You want to receive messages from your corporate Microsoft® Outlook®, IBM® Lotus® Notes® or Novell® GroupWise® email account
  • A system administrator is managing BlackBerry Enterprise Server within your company
  • A system administrator has confirmed that you are permitted to use the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
  • You subscribe to a wireless service that supports account setup using the BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Before setting up your email with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you will need to contact your IT department to request:

  • That an account be set up for you on your organisation’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server
  • Your enterprise activation password

For instructions on setting up your email with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, please refer to the Getting Started Guide.

 

Purchasing

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In Tunisia, you can pick up your BlackBerry 8800 smartphone at:

 

Specifications

Features Available
  • Wireless Email
  • Organizer
  • Wireless Internet
  • Phone
  • Media player
  • Corporate Data Access 1
  • SMS
  • MMS

Size and Weight
  • 114mm (Length)
  • 66mm (Width)
  • 14mm (Depth)
  • 134g (Weight)

Data Input/Navigation
  • Trackball
  • Keyboard backlighting

Voice Input/Output
  • Headset jack
  • Integrated earpiece/ microphone
  • Built-in Speakerphone
  • Bluetooth v2.0; headset, handvvs-free and serial port profiles supported (Bluetooth® technology)

Display
  • Font size (user selectable)
  • Color display
  • Backlighting
  • Light sensing screen

Notification
  • Polyphonic ring tones
  • MP3 ring tones
  • Vibrate Mode
  • LED indicator

Approximate Battery Life
  • 528 hours or 22 days (Standby Time)
  • 300 minutes or 5 hours (Talk Time)

Memory
  • Expandable memory – support for microSD card
  • 64 MB (Flash Memory)

Modem
  • RIM® wireless modem
  • Tethered modem capability

Email Integrations
  • Works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange
  • Works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino

1  Check with service provider for availability, roaming arrangements and service plans. Certain features outlined herein require a minimum version of BlackBerry software.

 

Support

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