johnt

blackberry.jpg

This was my first blackberry. It was awesome. Could answer e-mail from anywhere, full size screen, awesome keyboard, and neat little wheel on right hand side to scroll through your inbox. Combined with the RIM Enterprise Server, pure mobile e-mail bliss. Plus, I could restore a replacement phone in minutes or remote wipe that phone I left out the night before. Sweet!

Fast forward 11 years. I'm in blackberry hell! Every blackberry I now own takes over 5 minutes to reboot. Proof here:
The internet sucks on this thing, seriously. WTF is with this stupid little browser.

APPS? Yea right. RIM's pathetic excuse at an attempt to sell apps is Blackberry App World. Def a top 5 lame hit for me. WF you feel me? Seriously... who wrote this thing? They need to go work for microsoft in India or something (yea I'm nice, I'm sure you can think of something much worse).

So I leave it up to you. What should I do with the 20 or so blackberry devices I have laying around?

**I hope RIM has some sort of social monitoring for 'blackberries suck' and 'rim sucks'

Versus

I have a torch aswell - Can't fucking stand it. I'm going back to my old Curve, much for the same reasons as above.

I just want emails + phone.

AustinP

I have the old Javelin and I still love it.

__________________
Cover The Face. Fuck Her Base!

ItsYoBuddy

I love my blackberry because of the email, size, easily type, and battery life. But I got the Curve with the ball in the middle and I can't move right with it anymore, it's getting extremely annoying. Not trying to hijack the thread, but any blackberry's or sprint phones you suggest? I kind of want the touch screen phones but I hear the battery life is horrible and you need to charge it 2-3 times a day. I could use my blackberry almost 2 days without charging it. Plus typing on a touch screen must be a pain.

__________________
Gotta go to court tomorrow. FTC on my dick so imma wear my audemar

Dwight Schrute

Blackberry Bold = win

__________________
"the only classes I did good in where english and business." - BlokBlok

Douglife

It seems to me that RIM is hanging on to the business-class phone user with both hands.

Since the conception of the iPhone, Blackberry hasn't been able to compete. The storm was a junk phone, and the storm 2 came out what? 8 months after the first?

Many people and clients I work with say that the transition from Blackberry to Android, is a much easier task than Blackberry to iPhone.

@ItsYoBuddy: Sprint phone? EVO 4g. It's the #2 phone out right now. Insanely fast, big screen, etc.

BlokBlok

Unfortunately RIM has fallen FAR behind iPhone and Android, the only thing I can see them doing is making their platform on Android in order to compete.

__________________

Vendzilla

I have a storm, getting a android soon, surfing the internet rocks on 4g verizon

-joe-

Blackberries... meh. 90% of the people who buy them seem to do it solely to seem more sophisticated - i.e. no monopoly (iPhone) just business. iPhone = 10 times better, imo. and itsyobuddy, battery life was never an issue for me on the iPhone, I definitely wasn't charging 2 times a day.

johnt

FYI, you can replace that little ball thing in the middle last time I checked. It's a delicate piece to reinstall but not impossible if you needed to. There are web sites out there that sell replacement parts.

Otherwise show up at my house. I'm going to blow up all my blackberry crap and I'm sure you'll find some pieces left over.

adammcd

the new blackberry dakota (or whatever their calling it) looks pretty cool. i cant stand touch screen keyboards - i need something physical that isn't a slider/bulky. love the battery life on my bold.

__________________

Charliebee

why do all these phones have to be internet capable? Every time I turn my phone on, it wants to connect to the internet. I'm not paying for internet access but I have to go through that session before I can use the phone. Can't I just turn that feature off? oh, wait, I know, then they wouldn't have the opportunity to charge me for data usage. It's not like my cell phone bill isn't already larger than my house phone bill.

Netphase

I can now Swype in Android way faster than I could ever type with my old BlackBerry.

smaxor

Agreed!

__________________
You Should Join >Ads4Dough.com
Paying On Time, Everytime!

You should read my Blog HERE

Lithium.

^ Swype FTW!

__________________


Adaptive-Media.com
The UK's Premium CPA Network

tacoX

I was a BB loyalist.
gx @'d me on twitter and told me, "Nothing says mid-level banker more than a blackberry"
I threw away my blackberry and got an iPhone

I'll never go back.

__________________

Staccs

I've got a Bold. I like the hardware with exception to the lack of RAM of 9700 has, but the OS seems too closed in comparison to the Android and iOS.

Bevo Ryan

I have the BB tour on my one line and a droid on my other, so I am constantly comparing. I honestly like the simplistic nature of the BB. Sure its not as powerful as the droid, but the battery also lasts twice as long. BBM is a must for me tho.

__________________

The Bevo Media Exchange

Auto Track and Optimize Your Campaigns - Easy & FREE

Integrate All Of Your Affiliate Networks, Sync Stats, Search Offers

**THE ONLY PLACE YOU NEED TO BE AS AN AFFILIATE!**

BlokBlok

Hardly

__________________

johnt

BBM is cool, but even the hardcore BB engineers I know are now using iphone. I can't stand the touch keyboard of course... Guess I'll never be happy. Might as well double side sticky tape an iphone to a blackberry. one for e-mail, calendar, tasks (aka making money) and the other for surfing the inet.

and swipe you say? haha... install ssh on your android and see who gets farther.

Deliguy

i still stand by my 8 year old Tungsten E2 pda is much cooler and better than my iphone 4 in every way, but alas being a pda it can't make phone calls.
It can take a 64gb sd card. It has the same size of full color touch screen. Has a thousand times more apps and games including real player. All of the data and music and everything is stored directly on the sd card. It runs a lot faster. If it could be used as a phone and send texts i'd still use it. I don't know why palm OS went to complete shit once it got onto phones.

__________________

Staccs

Nobody wants to develop applications for BlackBerry, the apps suck.

070707

I used to preach BB'... like 7 years, had everything including the latest and greatest Torch.

Switch to the iPhone 4 a few months back, and no, i cannot type as fast, but holy fuck what a difference. I will never own a BB again.

Plus, everything I did with BBM, I do with What's App... and funny enough all my BB friends (here and abroad) have the app as well.

__________________
Get Your Link On With:
DRIP FEED BLASTS

ItsYoBuddy

Yeah I think my friend has the HTC EVO phone or whatever. I was thinking about getting that but without the keyboard slide, just too bulky. I never liked the big phones because it seems like it would be awkward in your pocket.

Yeah I think sprint replaces it for free, but its just annoying. I was thinking about getting the sensor one in the middle, think thats the bold maybe?

Idk, I think I may have to finally make the switch from blackberry to a touch screen type of phone. Only thing that I don't like is the battery life with the EVO and the size.

__________________
Gotta go to court tomorrow. FTC on my dick so imma wear my audemar

taktikz

I have the Bold 2 / Onyx aka 9700 ... Although its constantly freezing up on me, I hear its better than most blackberries...

__________________

Netphase

What do you mean by "farther"? SSH with Android and Swype works fine for me.

onkelmicha

No Problem, you can change it out I just did 1 month ago. I even did it myself and it super easy. I dont know about price in the U.S but I paid $10 here in Thailand for it.

M

Netphase

It isn't too hard to take out and clean yourself following some instructions with pictures on BlackBerryForums dot com. I had to do it multiple times with my old BlackBerry. Some rollers that touch the ball get caked with dirt which can be scraped off, almost like the inside of an old roller ball style mouse.

Pr0xyhub

Had a blackberry for 4 years... just got an iphone the other day. Love it.

johnt

we need a typing test app, is swipe really faster (and more accurate) than a physical keyboard. there was an android phone out (i think motorola??) that had a good looking keyboard on it. Seems like it didn't catch on for some reason.

music4mic

absolutely hate it. I went from an iphone to a blackberry, probably the biggest phone mistake I've every made. Switching to verizon soon and going back to iphone...

__________________

Jebus

I previously had a Curve and then a Bold. Got tired of the phone's memory leaks requiring a battery pull. The OS wasn't stable enough for me. Now I'm on Android and so far so good.

ItsYoBuddy

just got the EVO 4g, this phone is boss. Just gotta get use to the touch screen and setting things up. Trying to figure out how to make the phone vibrate when I get a new email instead of having to check if I have new mail.

__________________
Gotta go to court tomorrow. FTC on my dick so imma wear my audemar