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Default 08-08-2006, 08:22 AM

There's one way of looking at this as I had a conversation with a RIM exec about this yesterday. WOrds from the horses mouth : "an 8700 is optimised for GPRS/EDGE networks whereas and 8707v is optimised for 3G/UMTS networks, so it's all about where in the world you need to use your BlackBerry."