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07-04-2011, 11:59 PM
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 My recent cool experience trying a 7290 for a few hours
I was getting the housing in my 9780 replaced & I decided to give a cheap used 7290 I got on eBay last summer a try, and I was surprised at how much still actually works on such an old unit, as well as how little has really changed in the OS since this unit came out. When the 7290 was new, I didn't have a mobile phone at all, let alone any BlackBerrys, so this was a different experience. I'm used to OS v4.2 minimum (from the 8100 & 8320, my 1st two BBs), so jumping back to v4.1 & on the type of screen was different.
Web browsing worked fine (stuck my BIS-enabled SIM in), so did Google Maps (an older version, but one that still had Latitude & My Location) & Opera Mini. The keyboard was quite a nice experience to the cramped 8xxx/9xxx keyboards. Shame there was no threaded SMS back then. I see why people miss these old models so much at times. That big wide roomy keyboard sure is nice.
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2007-09-08: 8100, 2007-10-01: 8320, 2008-04-25: 8310, 2008-05-02: 8320 (again!)
2009-04-27: 8900, 2009-11-17: 9700, 2010-07-31: 7290 (retro!), 2011-06-22: 9780
2011-09-04: 9900 (finally!), 2011-09-12: R900M-2PW (real retro!), 2011-09-15: 957 (not as retro), 2011-09-21: 8700g QWERTZ ID 114 (always wanted this model)
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