Blackberry — low quality phones

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Thane, Maharashtra

I have been using blackberry phones and tablets since almost 3 years now. Working with a corporate company, i had sacrificed various features that are available in Android phones for a much better value for money deals. The thought was to access mails faster with so called fast data access of Blackberry.
In these 3 years o[censored]sing Blackberry products i have purchased 2 mobile phones and 1 playbook.
call it bad luck or poor quality of products, i have had to visit the blackberry service store more than once for each.
The first phone was i guess 8520 curve. (model no. might be wrong) within few days the battery drained. also the handsfree provided by the company was into pieces.
I had to take it to service station all the way to Bandra without having the knoweledge of taking my bill along with me. which was obviously my fault.
before i could complete 18 months of warranty, the buttons on the side panel, which had a rubber coating on it started giving problem. got it again repaired.

Playbook, which is sparingly being used went blank. Again trip to bandra service centre. Got it repaired after almost a month.


Now i am using 9320. The phone is restarting time and again. This time visited Vashi service centre. The wait time is 7 working days.

I am clueless as to whether i bought these blackberry products to ease my official work or to leave my office work and visit the service centre time and again. Sometimes to deliver it for repair and sometimes to collect.
Blackberry phones are costlier as compare to other phones with the kind of features it has. the data charges are almost 5 times with not much great speed. i pay Rs. 440 every month for BB plan. however the normal data plan requred for other phones is around Rs. 110 for 2 GB usage which is pretty much enough for a normal usage like mine.

i never recommend anyone to purchase a blackberry product. if you still would like to, please make sure you reside close to one of their very few service centres. coz you would have to travel to them for your issues.

Having used the handsets since 1999, today i am totally convinced that the quality of Blackberry handsets are way too low. Thanks to apps like Whatsapp, it has become easy to shift the handset.