- I don't subscribe to this laser guided trackball business anyway. Why put in on the jav and not the flagship bold? I think the trackball in the current jav, and the one on cnn are the same. Sombody prove me wrong.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-04-08 06:05 PMLike 0 - You guys are so funny. You guys are all just speculating without any real inside information. Time will prove me right. I'll make the above posters a deal. If they are proven right I'll paypal them each $20 but if I'm proven correct they send me $20 each. Deal?12-04-08 08:26 PMLike 0
- Okay, you all send me the money, and I will be the referee. Money will be distributed to the winner. I promise.12-04-08 08:45 PMLike 0
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Check post #57
http://forums.crackberry.com/f100/pi...99/index3.html12-05-08 06:16 AMLike 0 - It would be a smart move to put a TB in that lasts longer. Then again they might not sell has many phones when the break.
I went through 3 TB on one curve. The last one I had not only the TB trashed but the ability for it to pop back up. Which is why I have a bold from the upgrade program.
Now this one is screwing up. It stops scrolling down some times. Feels like something is jammed.
I have only had this bold for maybe 2 weeks now. And all I know it isn't a easy job to change the TB in the Bold like it was on the curve.
So if they have some thing that works better let them re tool and give its consumers something that lasts.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-05-08 07:06 AMLike 0 - Sorry, but yes the atomic trackball will work in the Bold along with other models. I know this firsthand and also heres some pics to go a long with it. pics of a Bold & 8900, with their TB's switched around. Better go check your source again.
Check post #57
http://forums.crackberry.com/f100/pi...99/index3.html
is that the atomic trackball ? it looks like it has some kind of lines on it or something12-05-08 08:57 AMLike 0 - Some people have. Search this forum for pictures. As far as I know it's mostly a cosmetic change. If there is any improvement, it's likely something you won't see rather than an obvious change.12-05-08 09:40 AMLike 0
- Put you money were your mouth is or shut up. Those pics are simply of a black trackball with the old roller assembly put into a bold. The atomic trackball is not called atomic cause it's black. It's got a different name cause it's not using rollers but lasers and magnetics to pickup the ball movement and these sensors do not fit into the older including bold bb's.
I hate when people don't think.12-05-08 11:17 AMLike 0 - Sorry, but yes the atomic trackball will work in the Bold along with other models. I know this firsthand and also heres some pics to go a long with it. pics of a Bold & 8900, with their TB's switched around. Better go check your source again.
Check post #57
http://forums.crackberry.com/f100/pi...99/index3.html
Ok here's the scoop that I myself just found out. I was partly wrong and so were you. Yes the black trackball of the Javelin 8900 can and will work in the bold but here's the kicker. The black trackball in the Javelin is actually NOT the ATOMIC trackball. The atomic trackball is something that RIM is working on still and will hopefully make it into a future device.
So ppl have to stop calling the Javelin trackball the atomic trackball and simply call it the black trackball cause that's all it is.12-05-08 11:21 AMLike 0 -
- Reed McLayRetired ModeratorI have updated the thread as requested by carsmovies. If the OP has any concerns, I have not review everything in here and it is subject to correction again.12-05-08 12:35 PMLike 0
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- Ok here's the scoop that I myself just found out. I was partly wrong and so were you. Yes the black trackball of the Javelin 8900 can and will work in the bold but here's the kicker. The black trackball in the Javelin is actually NOT the ATOMIC trackball. The atomic trackball is something that RIM is working on still and will hopefully make it into a future device.
So ppl have to stop calling the Javelin trackball the atomic trackball and simply call it the black trackball cause that's all it is.
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I wish the black ball isn't almost three times the price of the white ball... I really want it though, my dirty white balls is grossing me out a little.Last edited by chiefroastbeef; 12-05-08 at 06:32 PM.
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- I said the javelins ball was either the newfangled atomic trackball or it wasn't, and that it couldn't be that it wasn't the atomic now but will be later as you suggested.
So, essentially, I was right
In any case, I wouldn't blame CNN.CN for misinformation and false advertising. It was RIM who hyped the Javelin as having the new Atomic Trackball. It's not our faults if they hyped it and then released an "almost-Atomic" trackball and everyone's calling it by the name RIM hyped. If anything, then, it's RIM who is guilty of misinformation and false advertising.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.comLast edited by Lost_Cosmonaut; 12-05-08 at 09:16 PM.
12-05-08 09:10 PMLike 0 - I said the javelins ball was either the newfangled atomic trackball or it wasn't, and that it couldn't be that it wasn't the atomic now but will be later as you suggested.
So, essentially, I was right
In any case, I wouldn't blame CNN.CN for misinformation and false advertising. It was RIM who hyped the Javelin as having the new Atomic Trackball. It's not our faults if they hyped it and then released an "almost-Atomic" trackball and everyone's calling it by the name RIM hyped. If anything, then, it's RIM who is guilty of misinformation and false advertising.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-05-08 09:42 PMLike 0 - Of course it matters what you call it cause if you call it the atomic trackball you are supposed to be refering to a trackball with new technology. So let's call an apple an apple and an orange an orange so as not to confuse them.12-05-08 10:42 PMLike 0
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