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I gotta agree. The phone is not perfect but it is by far the best phone I've ever owned. I've had issues where my Droid resets itself or freezes suddenly but not too frequent to the point where it gets annoying. Android OS hasn't been out that long so I'm sure it will only get better
01-13-10 09:23 PM - Wow! Bitter much?
Look, it's different strokes for different folks. It seems nowadays that most consumers' idea of a "smart phone" is a device they can use to surf the web and play stupid games. Take away all the game "apps" and how much productivity stuff do you have left? Slim to none, especially when it comes to the iPhone. That's just not the point of a BB. It wasn't designed for websurfing, finding bars, movies and restaurants, or any of that garbage. It's #1 purpose is to be a business tool; an extension of the office. And for that, there is no better device. Palm used to the THE device to have back in the day. But then they jumped on the "gee-whiz, look at me! " bandwagon and strayed from they're roots. Now look at them. Does anybody even think "Palm" when they consider a smart phone? Not many.
Nobody does business phones better than BB. They're sticking to their roots. How can you fault a company for that? Anybody here old enough to remember when Coca Cola changed it's formula then had to bring out Coca Cola Classic to counter the huge consumer revolt? That's what happens when you change something (for the worse) that doesn't need to be changed.
You guys seem to have no business sense whatsoever. The Storm had issues when it came out. RIM acknowledged it and came out with the Storm2. What does everyone say about it? "The Storm2 is what the Storm should've been." And that's an insult because...? RIM took what it had, streamlined it, and made it better. They didn't make the dumb move of abandoning what was already in place (and fixable) to go off in left field with something all new without having learned a single thing from the mistakes.
And you guys are making major compromises just because the DROID has a snazzy web browser and it's new?! The physical keyboard is just dreadful. From what I hear, the calendar functions leave much to be desired. I'm seeing lots of threads about the screen freezing and randomly opening apps. Battery life is bad. I could go on. I'll stop with the fact that you guys keep discounting the email functionality. You preach that "all you have to do is this step, this step, this step, this step, this step, and this step" and "most" of your emails will get to you. Oooo! Ahhhh! Wow! I can get "most" of my emails. With BB, I give it my email address and password and I'm DONE. I don't have to send my email on a five city concert tour and hope it comes to a city near me so I can get it. LOL! The BB calendar functions are amazing! And don't even get me started on all the stuff you can do with the Contacts list: link to Facebook and Yahoo, link IM and email contacts to my address book, keep birthdays, anniversaries, notes, freeform fields, etc. for each contact, and so on and so on. My BB lets me set photos and ringtones for each contact. I can set different IM alerts for individual contacts. It just goes on and on.
A great many of you simply discount BBs without even really delving into the capabilities of the device. Seems all you want is something you can surf the web and play games with that fits in your pocket. Well, guess what. A PSP can do that, and it has WiFi. No data plan required.
/end rant01-15-10 11:57 AM - But why would I want to replace my email with a Gmail account? With BB, I don't have to compromise and replace anything. BlackBerries are business devices, full stop, end of story. They aren't pocket gameboys, netbooks, web surfing devices, or any other time wasting trinket that the coffeehouse types love. It is for B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S. Businesses these days rely heavily on their employees being able to get and respond to that important email on the spot. They rely on employees being able to keep a complex yet reliable calendar. Speaking of which, that's one other thing I forgot to add about the calendar feature, you can affix conference call numbers and codes to the calendar and dial directly into a conference from the calendar entry. Again, BBs are business devices, not "Oo! Look at the neat tilt-a-whirl game I just downloaded!" or "Check out this awesome Youtube video I just saw!" devices.
They... Are... For... Business!!! If consumers are looking for an entertainment device, it'd be a much smarter move to get the cheap free phones that come with some plans and then buy a Nintendo DS or PSP to save on the costs of a data plan. All these other so-called smart phone entries are nothing more than look-what-I-can-do-like-a-BlackBerry devices.
BlackBerry has time-waster apps mainly to give business folks something to do in between tasks. Although, I must embarrassingly concede that there are a buttload of "themes" available for BBs. And they're all nothing but crappy, resource hogging, crap apps. There's even an Android theme!
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01-15-10 12:48 PM - I don't get what you're driving at. Just because they weren't sold to corporate customers (read: businesses) doesn't mean they aren't used for business. My company provides BBs, yet I bought my own and use it for business purposes as well as personal. In fact, the notifications of your responses are being successfully pushed out to my BB. And I actually have my laptop tethered to my BB and am using it as a broadband modem as I type this. Can the DROID do that? (Though there is an app in beta for the DROID to do it, too.)01-15-10 01:25 PM
- Droid does all the stuff you've been raving about on your berry with no memory leaks, battery pulls, email outages or praying for os updates. Droid doesn't do copy/paste well, allow corporate email signatures with native app, allow meeting invites to be accepted into the calendar, access to secured activesync but there's an app for that. Only thing Droid can't really do with help is BBM.01-15-10 01:35 PM
