- I went in to ask why my data was kicking in and out all day and the lady asked me when was the last time I tried a battery pull! Seriously I got the htc hero, so what does a battery pull matter. She began to explain how batterypull fixes 99% of all issues. I laughed and told her to drop that pearl and get a real phone. She got mad then i told her to check my whole account and see i have two bb phones and the hero. Then I asked for the tech. She got mad again and said she knew as much as him. Then he stepped up and told her he would handle my problem. He laughed and said bb had ruined all his sales assoicates.
What will she ever do if they get a cdma iphone..... I want to see her pry a battery out of an iphone. He laughed and said good point
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i keep it around just in case something happens to my droid and i need a phone for a few days.
its the 3rd one i had to get within the 3 weeks due to manufacturer defects.12-18-09 10:39 AMLike 0 - Are you kidding me, with the .76 OS I used to do three pulls a day and everytime it drained 10% of my battery so I was losing more battery with pulls then talking on the phone. It's just a pretty phone to look at and that's it. Functionality on it is crap. God forbid you download too many apps on it, you'll be pulling the battery 20 times a day12-18-09 02:03 PMLike 0
- Well, that's not all BlackBerry's. All I see compared is the Storm. Which personally I think they suck. I use a Tour. Hardly do a battery pull to fix any problems. HTC isn't suppose to do a battery pull to begin with, that's like your PC getting unplugged. BAD. Battery pull was RIM's way to get the system back in order. So they didn't ruin smartphones, people are just stupid and don't read up on other devices. That's why there is techs and sales. Smart people go to the tech section of any cell store.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-18-09 02:31 PMLike 0 - Well, that's not all BlackBerry's. All I see compared is the Storm. Which personally I think they suck. I use a Tour. Hardly do a battery pull to fix any problems. HTC isn't suppose to do a battery pull to begin with, that's like your PC getting unplugged. BAD. Battery pull was RIM's way to get the system back in order. So they didn't ruin smartphones, people are just stupid and don't read up on other devices. That's why there is techs and sales. Smart people go to the tech section of any cell store.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-18-09 02:41 PMLike 0 - I wouldn't say that BlackBerry has brainwashed people. People are just stupid and assume that's how its done cause BlackBerry does it that way.
@alboboy, I agree, RIM does need to step it up. I'm not too happy with the performance of my trackball as its sticks sometimes. But as far as returning it 5 times, that's because they kept getting first shipment, so yeah, that would have ruined my experience.
As far as ruining smartphones, no. BlackBerry was the innovation to the smartphone, bringing email to your device.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-18-09 02:51 PMLike 0 - .76 OS? your referring to the storm 1
I dont have any problems with my storm 2 but running into issues with the moto droid
Are you kidding me, with the .76 OS I used to do three pulls a day and everytime it drained 10% of my battery so I was losing more battery with pulls then talking on the phone. It's just a pretty phone to look at and that's it. Functionality on it is crap. God forbid you download too many apps on it, you'll be pulling the battery 20 times a day12-18-09 02:55 PMLike 0 -
i can agree with this they WERE an innovative company but as of lately they cant keep up with the market.
Dusenburg was an innovative company too but look how many cars they produce these days.12-18-09 02:56 PMLike 0 -
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The first smart phone was called Simon; it was designed by IBM in 1992 and shown as a concept product that year at COMDEX, the computer industry trade show held in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was released to the public in 1993 and sold by Bell South. Besides being a mobile phone, it also contained a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail, send and receive fax, and games. It had no physical buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touch-screen to select phone numbers with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was entered with a unique on-screen "predictive" keyboard. By today's standards, the Simon would be a fairly low-end product; however, its feature set at the time was incredibly advanced.
10 years later, in 2002, blackberry FOLLOWED! lol....12-18-09 02:59 PMLike 0 - Storm 2 has problems with its wifi there was articles on it, and the internet isnt so great. It's an improvement from the first one but I wouldn't repeat the same mistake I made when I got it.
Maybe blackberry brought e-mail to smartphones, but I feel like other smartphones are the students that surpassed the master
Same has happened in a lot of fields, even with cars. You introduce something, but you have to be the best at it constantly. The iphone came out with their app store and that's the only reason people get iphones cause of the endless apps not for anything else12-18-09 02:59 PMLike 0 - @johnly, you sure it was 10 years later BlackBerry came around and copied? I'm sure RIM was back in 1984.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-18-09 03:17 PMLike 0 - My source is only wiki. I haven't cared enough (though I care) to do actual research on the matter but if you have some good sources stating otherwise, enlighten us please I thought BB just had the best marketing success, but not the first. Was RIM in 84 with wireless email?
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12-18-09 03:20 PMLike 0 - Well, wiki is my source also. RIM was founded in 1984, releasing 2 way devices and portable email devices in 1995. So, Simon did get out before them. You have it there. In 1998 is when RIM was officially announced and in 2000, started shipping devices. One year before Palm.
But I still say they were innovative as they survived and did the marketing just right. Stated in the link below, "84% growth".
Research In Motion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-18-09 03:35 PMLike 0 - BlackBerry is a line of wireless mobile device that was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager. In 2002 the more commonly known smartphone BlackBerry was released
Prior to the manufacture of the BlackBerry, RIM worked with RAM Mobile Data and Ericsson to turn the Ericsson-developed Mobitex wireless data network into a two-way paging and wireless e-mail network. Pivotal in this development was the release of the Inter@ctive pager 950, which started shipping in August 2000. About the size of a bar of soap, this device competed against the SkyTel two-way paging network developed by MotorolaLast edited by zyiro; 12-18-09 at 03:45 PM.
12-18-09 03:42 PMLike 0 - My point was that most every bb on the market requires battery pulls. Not all smartphones are equal. What happens when someone makes a smartphone so it has to be shut down like a pc.......anyone ever had to full restore a pc after a power outage......I have lost everything even some expensive programs I no longer had functioning cd roms for. One day the famed battery pull will cost them dearly. How would a tech even dream of pulling a battery on an iphone the battery is inside the casing you can't pull it. I hear dell is making a droid device wonder if it will be a easy battery yanker or require shut down first.
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