Are there any Blackberries that work on the Verizon network?
BlackBerry 8830 A couple of months after the GSM BlackBerry 8800 hit the market for AT&T and T-Mobile, Verizon brought the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition phone to CDMA users in the US. Though both BlackBerry phones are in the same series of RIM’s device portfolio, the BlackBerry 8830 isn’t just the 8800’s CDMA twin brother. It adds a GSM/GPRS radio to the CDMA mix, making the BlackBerry 8830 a two-flavored beast. But it loses some speed as it’s using a different processor than the BlackBerry 8800. You can use the phone on Verizon’s CDMA networks in the US, and when you travel abroad in Europe and Asia where GSM dominates you can roam using the GSM SIM card with Verizon’s Global Service plan. There are lots of similarities between the BlackBerry 8800 and the 8830, but there are some differences as well. Like the 8800, the BlackBerry 8830 has the new BlackBerry form factor with that attractive, slim body and trackball control, a microSD card slot, Bluetooth 2.0, push email support, PIM ap
