After using the phone for the past 10 days I have really put it through its paces, overall I really do like the phone except for a few small issues which I am overlooking because its a pretty good phone. And its now getting released around town for 190 to 200 KD and the carriers will have the soon with packages, if you are looking to upgrade your blackberry then this is a decent choice.

Pros:

• Excellent Screen
• Very smooth Operating System, OS 7 has made the right kind of improvements
• Excellent Browser
• Thinner then all the other BBs
• Nice Carbon Fiber and Rubber Back, doesn’t slip from your hands and can slide on a table if you want it to
• Excellent quality build
• 8 GB internal Memory
• Very nice Keyboard, feels very good when using it, nothing beats a Qwerty keyboard
• Loud Speaker, had to lower the volume because it was too loud
• Charges very very quickly

Cons:

• Lighter then the previous Bold and Touch but still a bit heavy
• Crappy Camera – No Autofocus
• Crappy Battery, barely lasts 6 to 8 hours from normal use, but if you switch off 3G and keep it 2G only it increases to 10 to 13 hours
• Price – A bit on the high side

Overall I am very much liking the Blackberry 9900, its smooth, very well built phone from Blackberry. But what I found surprising is that it doesn’t have autofocus which is a very big disappointment. Battery life isn’t that good, I think we all got used to crappy battery life from all the new phones, when a while ago all the phones had two to three days worth of use, to get decent battery life from your phone you have to switch off 3G and it will easily last the day. Overall this is a decent phone with a few drawbacks that I mentioned, but Blackberry has to do a lot better then this to win people over. Their operating system has improved but they need to change their tactics because they have lost a lot of ground to Apple and Android.

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