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Tonis, now Tonis the Banned one, the only difference in your thread from the inane troll bait threads that have inundated CB over the last three months is you like BlackBerry products...so no surprise you're banned. If you were a newbie BB hater, you'd still be posting swill as I write this post. Lesson to be learned, get your hate on for BB and you'll never feel the hammer.I wanted to see what the hip-hip-hooray was all about so I picked up an iToy. So I'm giving apple a shot, but some questions have come up right away. Why do I have to sift through hundreds of thousands of garbage apps to find a basic function like a consolidated messages box? And as I'm looking at this thing, I'm wondering where's the notification LED? Also, I'm finding that I can't make it through the day on a charge and would like to obtain a spare battery for the iPhone, but first I'd like to figure out how to open the thing to do a battery swap. Is there a quick and easy way? And what is this with the birds and the pigs??? So far, out-of-the-box experience -- not so good. If I can't get this thing up to the communication standards I'm accustomed to quickly, I'm returning it.
04-06-12 06:19 PM - But once the screen backlight goes out you have to wake it up regardless of what the lock screen displays(massive privacy problem if you ask me). I'm not talking about how quick you can get to your messages, just that you have to physically wake it up.
BTW, I'm not giving Rim credit for the led, my first ever mobile phone in around 1996-1997 had one, it was an Alcatel and you could also stick 3AA batteries in it if you ran out
04-07-12 01:27 AM - In road going cars Nitrogen has zero benefits. It's a huge scam.Well actually, I follow what written on that sticker on the driver's side panel.
Now if you really want an argument, let's talk about the supposed benefits of nitrogen in your tires...
Is that off-topic enough for you?
.04-07-12 02:18 AM - True. Once you have glanced the list of messages and chose not to open any of them, screen goes blank soon and you have to wake it up. But waking it up only requires to press the home button. When I am on the iPhone and email notification shows up, I almost always open at least one. The problem is, once you opened a message in email client, then you are in the IMAP file system and have to do some touching to go to other messages. Sure you can go to combined inbox but it still requires an additional browsing in the email program (and usually 2 hands, which is sometimes a burden when on the go).But once the screen backlight goes out you have to wake it up regardless of what the lock screen displays(massive privacy problem if you ask me). I'm not talking about how quick you can get to your messages, just that you have to physically wake it up.
BTW, I'm not giving Rim credit for the led, my first ever mobile phone in around 1996-1997 had one, it was an Alcatel and you could also stick 3AA batteries in it if you ran out
OTOH, I am using the 9790 almost as an "email reader". "M" key only opens the inbox where all messages are shown in one pane. This better suits me, at least for now. The only thing the blinking LED bugs me is that it won't go out until I am forced to open the message (I might be doing something wrong). I believe this is not the LED problem but because the BB's poor implementation of IMAP. In iPhone, once I read the message in any other device (desktop, laptop or BB), notifications would be gone and there would be no unread message. IMAP works well.
Blinking LED at one time was ubiquitous on many electronics devices for all sort of reasons but you do not see those often any more. There has been a persistent rumour that the next gen. of iPhone might implement a blinking led but I kind of doubt it. Apple, as a philosophy, do not like anything lurking behind the scene solely for the purpose of preserving the battery juice (as I understand it). But this was during the first iteration of iPhone as a slab with a big screen. Now the power management is much better and the battery is also better too.
Right now, I am happy with the 9790 for a quick email reading, phone calls and SMS. For anything other than those (such as internet browsing, Googling, news reading, banking and mapping etc), I reach for the iPhone. But I am usually not too far from a desktop or a laptop, and I could get by without the iPhone. I carry both BB and iPhone when I drive out.
My main attraction to the 9790 is its compact form factor. I thought the 9700/9780 size was perfect and it had a larger battery. I recently switched the case from OEM hardshell to Otterbox Commuter. This actually brought the size almost back to the 9780 (in terms of thickness), and I feel more comfy with it rather than the bare thin (and weird) form factor. I would have been much happier if RIM implemented OS7 into 9780. RIM, what did you do to the venerable 9780!Last edited by xanadome; 04-07-12 at 09:31 AM. Reason: typo
04-07-12 08:13 AM - I skipped to Droid a couple times....once for about 12 hrs (SGS2), the 2nd for about 3 months (HTC Vivid).
The 2nd time I did my research and got a device that did the 3 major things I needed: VVM, LED notification and manual Outlook sync. The Viv did all these, fairly well I might add.
As it turned out, there were other things droid didn't do that I "needed" so I'm back in black to stay.
I'm so jacked for BB10. I truly believe after the bugs get worked out, it will be the new standard in smart phone.
The bar won't be raised, there will be a new bar.
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