Coming from another smartphone platform or returning; welcome home!!!

[saylor01]

I see thread after thread of those who are bailing for unknown territories based on the lore of greener pastures in the land of droid and apple. What I don't here as often online but am seeing w/in our own organization, are those who are coming back home to Blackberry and re-appreciating the no nonsense business ready solid platform that built the blackberry reputation.

I know your out there, it's ok, there's more of us than you think.

[herculesinwyoming]

From what i have seen, everyone falls in love with their new droid or iphone, untill the novelty wears off, i just witnessed a android user almost irate with his phone because it froze up again! i guess it had been doing that to him all day.

In reality , is the ability to play angry birds, really a selling point

[Rob1]

Good timing on the post...

Just returned to my Torch yesterday from a month of Android. I was using a Moto Atrix.

Nice phone but battery life is short and once the excitement of all the apps wears out you still tend to only use a few....

I also missed BBM.....yes there are a few cross platform programs like WhatsApp but they still do not compare to BBM.

Feels good to be back.....!

I will try to trade my Atrix for a Playbook using Kijiji or such.

Cheers

[saylor01]

Yeah I've got mine in my office drawer. Kinda of a girl on the side relationship. Awesome to play with but not great for everyday relability.

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[rjpawlak]

Originally Posted by Rob1

Good timing on the post...

Just returned to my Torch yesterday from a month of Android. I was using a Moto Atrix.

Nice phone but battery life is short and once the excitement of all the apps wears out you still tend to only use a few....

Cheers

I was using another Moto Android phone that shall remain nameless for the moment. I agree though - BB may not have that many apps, but how many do you really need?

Ditto on the battery life too. My moto wasn't that bad, but my BB battery lasts 3 days vs 1.

Bob

[disturbed10890]

Blackberry will always be reliable fwiw, and always have the best messaging notifications IMO

[NicholasAlyssa]

yeah black berry is my status symbol phone , but my true love is moto

[katiepea]

as soon as i saw this thread title i knew it'd be a ghost town

[aghart]

I'm coming back to BB from a Droid 1. The main reason I'll be coming back is because I need a phone without a camera so I can take it into work with me. I'll be picking up the new Bold Touch 9930.

[davecbb8330]

Only 73 pages to go to match the "I left" thread. Well, good luck with that.

Originally Posted by saylor01

I see thread after thread of those who are bailing for unknown territories based on the lore of greener pastures in the land of droid and apple. What I don't here as often online but am seeing w/in our own organization, are those who are coming back home to Blackberry and re-appreciating the no nonsense business ready solid platform that built the blackberry reputation.

I know your out there, it's ok, there's more of us than you think.

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[thisdudenick]

So I gave up my blackberry tour last month for the nexus s 4G but now i'm missing the keyboard and really want the new bold...the nexus is great but I miss the led email/test/etc... notification lights. I also have a playbook so maybe i am supposed to come back and get the bold...

any thought on this and am I making a good decision

[iPinkk]

Originally Posted by thisdudenick

So I gave up my blackberry tour last month for the nexus s 4G but now i'm missing the keyboard and really want the new bold...the nexus is great but I miss the led email/test/etc... notification lights. I also have a playbook so maybe i am supposed to come back and get the bold...

any thought on this and am I making a good decision

only you can decide for sure if your making the right decision to go back to bb. here's a suggestion i usually give people and i did this myself as well: make a pros/cons list for each device, weight out what you've written down and then make a decision based on what your looking for in a device and see which will fit your needs the best. People will give you ALOT of opinions, some you'll like and some you'll hate. I've always been neutral as far as what device any one person would use/need. You need to decide what is going to be best for you good luck with your decision!

just as an example: i'm going to be switching from my bb9650 sometime between Aug & Nov. i've had a few question me as to why, i've rec'd some negative reactions(which i shut out completely) & some positive ones. for the reactions that weren't positive i've shut out because 1) they don't have to use my iPhone 2) they arent paying for it and 3) i'm the one that has to be happy with what i'm using!

[beto0216]

well i had the blackberry curve 8330 then i switched to the iphone 4 which was a good phone, battery sucked on it! and the only reason i had it was so i could play angry birds and pocket legends hahaha and the camera was faulty and i had to return it but didnt so just got stuck with it and i gaved it away and got me a blackberry 9780 oh have i missed bbm

[PsyCorps]

Originally Posted by beto0216

well i had the blackberry curve 8330 then i switched to the iphone 4 which was a good phone, battery sucked on it! and the only reason i had it was so i could play angry birds and pocket legends hahaha and the camera was faulty and i had to return it but didnt so just got stuck with it and i gaved it away and got me a blackberry 9780 oh have i missed bbm

can you please change the color and possibly the font, it's burning my retina
thanks!

[jonathon94]

I never had a smartphone before blackberry so I am not completly qualified to post on this thread, BUT I do keep tabs on other smartphones and I got friends with a few. The only blackberrys I've had were the curve 8530 and now the 9330 so my entire opinion on blackberry will be based on these two devices. Anyways, I think that overall blackberry is a better choice. Stability wise, as long as you do a battery pull once a week (similar to restarting a computer) you will be fine. Android phones (or at least the ones I have seen or heard about) are known to reset at random. There is not too many issues with iphones in that matter. Structually blackberries are known to moderatly tough. I once read that blackberries were built like tanks, I didn't know to believe that untill one day I dropped it on the concrete floor of the grocery store...the battery cover and battery popped out but I just put it back in and waited for the device to come back on. There was not one bit of cosmetic, hardware, or software problem. There are so many android phones that its impossible to talk about them but as for the iphone, I believe everyone has heard of the famous broken glass on the iphone 4. Now software wise I believe the blackberry has some issues to work out. Don't get me wrong I have the curve so that may be what is impacting it, but the bb os seems to be slow at times. Just to download a file about 1mb iin size, it takes about a minute and gives you the hourglass. To me this just shows major problems. I think that if rim was to fix that issue with their os (and possibly put a better camera on their curve models) then I think that blackberrys could beat at least most android phones. They could use more apps but.that really isn't an issue with RIM, its just the developers. We have apps for doing anything we need to do but the problem with this is that we only have one or two apps for a certain issue. If we don't like that app then we are usually out of luck and just have to deal with it. I feel like that needs to be addresed, we need more app competition.

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