Having just reviewed a BlackBerry handheld PDA (the 8700c) at the end of 2006, I was a bit surprised to be offered another one for evaluation earlier this year. After all, I reasoned, what else could they possibly have come up with in that relatively short period of time?

If your agency business frequently takes you on the road, however, you will appreciate the addition of a global positioning system to the Swiss-army-knife-like arsenal of functions already featured in the well-known BlackBerry devices. The GPS is the key improvement in the newer BlackBerry 8800, and frankly, I couldn't wait to test it out.

But before we get to that, I have to talk about some significant addition by subtraction–to wit, the removal of the signature BlackBerry track wheel.

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