RIMPIRE striking back: Ninja'ing at an AT&T in Los Angeles
Went into an ATT store a few minutes before closing to check out the new OS 7 phones (i.e. 9810). The only BBs in the store were a silver and white placed next to an HTC (the one w/the FB button), with the silver being non-working. Also present was an older Curve. In the next section was another working silver 9810, bunched in next to an HP Veer and a couple of Samsung Win7 phones. All in all a bit disappointing given ATT has a US EXCLUSIVE on the 9810 but seems to not care about it. Anyway, suddenly I got an urge to fight back and started downloading/upgrading the apps on the silver phone. I went into BB World, updated that to 3.0 (shame that OS 7 was released before 3.0 came out). Saw that BB traffic was uninstalled (prob cause ATT wants to sell more ATT Navigator subs)...reinstalled that. With 5 min till closing, my only thought was to do my part in dispelling the "app-less" stigma of BBs. I upgraded BBM, Twitter, FB...put Flashlight on there...ok let's grab News Feed too, since OS 7 / App World works well to DL multiple apps at once. Ok, well I was out of time, but hopefully the next person to play with that Torch will be more enticed with that floor model.
I encourage all of you to do the same. Next time I go in I'm going to put more "brand name" apps on the phone e.g. Ebay, Amazon, Groupon, BB Travel. It's an uphill fight to reverse consumer sentiments, but I care enough about RIM and resent ATT enough to do it.
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