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Ok guys, I'm back for another update.
Sorry we spent all days today solving issues relating to dirty competitors. We have other Vietnamese tech-related forums dying, begging us to let them in on our connect. But you know we cannot do that. So they have been pulling all sort of tricks to take down our posts on forums, providing false info to make people think that the devices are widely available for sale, thus hoping to take away our exclusitivity (is that even a word?)
So 1st off, let me declare that the device that we have our hands on is the only 1 available in Vietnam through our site: BisVN. If by any chance, you run across any other site showing/claiming that they have one, I can assure you that they are just using our pictures.
Ok, back to business:
I gave the phone more in-depth tests. The battery still has about 50% left. However, due to this device being a prototype, there is a lot of system files missing. The phone would randomly shut off or restart by itself. I believe this is due to an unofficial rom and everything would be gone by the time of its official commercial release.
The screen, man, did I mention I love the screen? Scrolling and navigating by using the screen is much more fluid and faster than using a mouse. For those who are still worried about the small size of a touch screen, I think you will get used to it fairly quickly. It adds a whole new experience of navigating around the phone and browsing the web. It's not anything new, RIM is not reinventing the wheels, but it's still a nice addition.
The keyboard: the keyboard has a different feel compared to the keyboard of the 9000. It is definitely better than the keyboard of the 9700 or 9800. Compared to the 9000, the keyboard on the 9900 has a faster responding time. I prefer the feel of the 9900's keyboard, but your experience might be difference, so I will unbiased and leave it at that for the keyboard.
Software: Cool thing about OS 7.0 is that they have included the "Device Switch" function. So now when you switch to another OS 7.0 device, you wouldn't need your computer to back up. Backing up can be done right on your microSD card, and you just swap the card to the new device and off you go. RIM has not mentioned anything about implementing this functionality to OS 6.0 or OS 5.0
BBM still shows glitches here and there. I get the spinning clock once in a while when other BisVN members starts uploading a bunch of pictures.
Someone asks on the previous page about loading time, let me tell you, this thing boots up fast. As you can probably see on our 1st video, it took probably 3 seconds after we plugged the battery in for the phone to boot. From there, it went for about 1 minute to it to go into the main screen. Our device has a weird glitch that by the 1/3 of the Blackberry booting bar, it would jump immediately to 2/3 of the bar and finishes loading right away. But then again this could due to it being an evaluation unit. I have a video showing this, I just have to edit it and will post it later.
that's it so far, here's some pix for you guys
the headphone jack is designed very weird IMO, this takes away the atheistic of the back of the device
here's my cousin shouting me & Crackberry out
and this is our phones lining up, Bold 9900 on top of the Asus TF
Last edited by cmknight; 06-20-11 at 12:50 PM.
06-20-11 12:15 PM - Hey OP, I know it is a lot to ask of you bro, but if you can(have the time) detail os 7 for us, the perks and the jerks. I know those missing files makes it frustrating tho. With jail breaking the iPhone I made it custom. My android devices, heck that is there selling point. So yea, let us drooling fiends know the good goods
.06-21-11 08:34 AM
If that's how they have to make it fit, doesn't bother me too much.
