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Lack of themes for 9850/60?
- For me personally - it has been the lack of an official Theme builder release. It was my understanding that the themes being built lack the abilities and functionality of a theme built with the native 7.0/7.1 theme builder. I personally would love an HTC Sense type theme. Had it for my Storm and Storm2 and it rocked. I have BEWeather and use it to skin the main screen, but it sucks that I can't just touch the Sun or whatever the day's weather is to bing up the app.
I like some of the "looks" that I have seen in the other model theme forums, but for me it REALLY is about the functionality.... and I guess that is all contingent on the release of the Theme Builder.... ack!04-03-12 01:26 PMLike 0 - The marketing for the 9850/9860 is awful. No themes because hardly anybody has these phones to ask for them. It has nothing to do with the community not wanting them, and everything to do with the fact there is no community.
I love the 9860, I think it is by far the best Blackberry phone on the market. RIM is desperately trying to compete with other phones, and the 9850/60, which has the best chance of competing, has zero support.
I know many Blackberry users love the keyboard on the Bold, but keyboard phones don't sell. The iPhone doesn't have one, the top Android phones don't have them, heck, Windows phones don't have them. People don't want keyboards, they want big touch screens.
The 9850/60 is the most "in" phone Blackberry has, it has the most mass appeal, and RIM is basically ignoring it. They have a commercial running for the Bold that takes shots at touch screen phones. The marketing is completely idiotic and embarrassing. You know what people think when they see the 9850/60? They say, "wow, that's a Blackberry"? Non Blackberry users, the people RIM wants to bring over, don't even know this phone exists.
The BB9860 is the ONLY phone with a full touchscreen, and can compete head-to-head with iPoo-d (oops... iPhone) or Android phones. BUT, as mentioned by Joltcola, there is absolutely NO marketing for the 9860. I actually found out about it when I was looking around in a phone shop.
The lack of 9850/9860 community results in lack of support and contribution... Sad case for such a great phone...04-03-12 09:25 PMLike 0 - http://www.neowin.net/news/nokia-dev...dware-keyboard
That's just one of the links I've found that says that physical keyboards aren't on the way out...
I'm tellin' you guys ROI (return on investment) is a powerful thing...just look through this theme forum and you will see abysmal post counts on ALL of them...
The devs need feedback...posts...screen shots...SALES...or it's going to become increasingly more difficult for them to justify spending the time on the 'underperforming' devices.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9930 using Tapatalk04-03-12 10:51 PMLike 0 - Despite the lack of the theme builder some folks have been putting together some really neat stuff. Minibanner live, exquisite, zebra, bokeh party, analog clock, 9981, paper, the birds, are just a few. DC, Rapho, Walker, Xingxdom, and MMoooo and several others have been plugging away and Hedone says he got some stuff coming too. It's been slow, but picking up and I think most folks just gave up looking. They are looking now....
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04-04-12 04:34 AMLike 0 - For me, it's the inconvenience of using the work-around without a Theme Builder. There aren't enough people with 9850's or 9860's to warrant going out of my way to build a theme without a theme builder, especially with all of the work-arounds I already use in getting big clocks on there. Perhaps if and when the theme builder comes out, I'll start up again.04-04-12 11:54 AMLike 0
- I'm enjoying the P9981 theme by DC...Great theme! Always looking for more though.dcburke789 likes this.04-06-12 09:05 AMLike 1
- 04-07-12 07:24 PMLike 1
- I ask a well known awesome theme builder in one of my bbm groups the same question. I was told its due to lack of feedback, even if 9850/60 is least popular as long as we take time to provide feedback and help them test we would see more. So I say let's do our part and they will do thiers. Make some noise about getting some themes going for 9850/60!!!04-07-12 08:46 PMLike 0
- I switched from Bold 9930 to the 9850 and am loving it. Best device IMO, loving the screen size that is for sure, perhaps Torch 9810 is best of both worlds but since it is only one ATT, I will never get unless it comes out for VZW, keeping my unlimited data plan is something I would hate to lose!04-07-12 11:53 PMLike 0
- The marketing for the 9850/9860 is awful. No themes because hardly anybody has these phones to ask for them. It has nothing to do with the community not wanting them, and everything to do with the fact there is no community.
I love the 9860, I think it is by far the best Blackberry phone on the market. RIM is desperately trying to compete with other phones, and the 9850/60, which has the best chance of competing, has zero support.
I know many Blackberry users love the keyboard on the Bold, but keyboard phones don't sell. The iPhone doesn't have one, the top Android phones don't have them, heck, Windows phones don't have them. People don't want keyboards, they want big touch screens.
The 9850/60 is the most "in" phone Blackberry has, it has the most mass appeal, and RIM is basically ignoring it. They have a commercial running for the Bold that takes shots at touch screen phones. The marketing is completely idiotic and embarrassing. You know what people think when they see the 9850/60? They say, "wow, that's a Blackberry"? Non Blackberry users, the people RIM wants to bring over, don't even know this phone exists.
i agree!!!!!
Sent from my BB Torch 9850 using Tapatalk04-08-12 02:30 PMLike 0 - I am seriously missing themes on my 9850, when I had my 8530 I had themes for days but on my 9850 I am stuck with the the default theme04-08-12 09:45 PMLike 0
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Thanks to MINI_Banner_LIVE by drkapprenticeDESIGNS for this theme and to Victor for the link.06-30-12 02:00 AMLike 0 -
So imagine , create and thanks or more will come.06-30-12 07:06 AMLike 0 -
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06-30-12 07:27 AMLike 0 - I second this post 1000%. The public is moving away from keyboard phones and migrating to smartphones with large screens. The larger the screen, the better...
The BB9860 is the ONLY phone with a full touchscreen, and can compete head-to-head with iPoo-d (oops... iPhone) or Android phones. BUT, as mentioned by Joltcola, there is absolutely NO marketing for the 9860. I actually found out about it when I was looking around in a phone shop.
The lack of 9850/9860 community results in lack of support and contribution... Sad case for such a great phone...06-30-12 08:07 AMLike 0 - Check this out from RJ Walker. Works in portrait mode . It's called iNEW7 avilable at Appworld. Also just incase ya like the wallie.
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Uploaded with ImageShack.us07-02-12 09:30 PMLike 0 - No. When using native lock screen all is good except for double gps icon. I did find 1. additional issue. You can not use beweather homescreen wallpaper mode but portrait mode works well otherwise.07-03-12 11:48 AMLike 0
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