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Originally Posted by Eldergoth
If this was a smartphone, I could plug in a memory chip and it would use it as more than a glorified Zip drive, it would treat it as native, usable memory.
This is a cell phone, not a laptop. And in addition, this is why the "memoury chip" is referred to as a MEDIA CARD. It is for just that - MEDIA.
The BlackBerry SmartPhone is designed to serarate secure corporate data stored in the Device Memory from the easily removable Media Card. This is stored under the battery so that the BES administrator can see that someone has removed the battery. So this is a DESIGN FEATURE not a big.
If this was a smartphone, it would have a few basic applications pre-loaded, a real scheduler, word processor (I have a mini keyboard, ffs), Office document viewers, etc.
Do your research - the new 4.5 OS offers Docs to Go. And as far as a "real" scheduler - what is wrong with the calender and tasks applications? Are they, um, fake???
Email attachments are easily opened and are supported in a large number of format which are being added to all the time at the server end. There are several 3rd party products that will allow email attachment saving, MS Office document opening, editing, creation and deletion. The vendors are the same ones who sell them for other phones.
If this was a smartphone, users wouldnt be bouncing off the memory ceiling when they finally get the thing sorted out.
Bouncing off the memoury ceiling... Ok I am not quite sure what you are trying to say here.. But I assume you are referring to the known "memoury leak." If you had searched and read through this forum before posting this, you would know that we are all aware of this, and have numerous tips to all but eliminate this issue.
I have never seen what all the fuss is about with the BlackBerry's memory. It is a finite device just like my 4Gb PC. If I load too much stuff into that, it slows down. ALL computers slow down when you put too much stuff into them. It is simply a case of personal management. If you cannot do that with regard to memory based devices then maybe you should not own ANY.
If this was a smartphone, I could open the box, activate it, and not have to become a forum junkie to make it do the things a smartphone should, and it would do them without spending a couple hundred bucks on cobbled together crap software from little one man shops.
Oh I'm sorry - I must be mistaken. I thought there were forums online for pretty much EVERYTHING.. From other cell phones, to cars, to new mums, to wedding planning, to masochism..... Hmm.
Also not real sure what "cobbed together crap software" refers to...
If you were a smart user, you would recognize that ALL modern devices require setting up and a certain amount of comittment prior to use. I have owned 4 different BlackBerry SmartPhones and have so far not spent anywhere near $200 on extra software. Ture some fortware is crap but there is as much crap software out there for other devices as for the BlackBerry.
If this was a smartphone, i would have my pick of freeware apps for virtually anything i wanted to do with it, instead of one mediocre payware or subscription service and a couple freeware competitors that cant be relied upon to work consistently.
Again, do your research. There are tons of great free apps out there. But like everything in life, stuff costs money. Sorry if some applications cost money due to the fact that, gasp, some companies design things to turn a profit. What a novel concept!
Do you really rate yourself so low that you use freeware for one of your prime uman functions; communication. Seriously if you do then you are really quite a sad, sad person. Free software is pretty much worth what you pay for it im my 30 year association with software.
The BB is a one-trick pony (push email) that is finding out that all the other ponies are learning its trick. Boy did I make a mistake taking the free "upgrade" my carrier offered. Meh, Treo's will be that much cheaper in a year. At least the QWERTY keyboard makes writing emails easier.
The BlackBerry's major trick is to be quite simply the best smartphone on the market today. It currently comes in at least nine different iterations and they all work in a way that is easy to use which makes it CHEAP for corporations to train their employees to use the BlackBerry. If it were not cheap to do this then corporations would not have equipped their employees with them in the millions. As to your pont of push email, the BlackBerry's true trick is to make push email so secure that the Indian Government were unable to crack it. Other products do not even come close to this level of securtiy. Again, there is your corporate connection again.
You Sir, need to understand just what you have in your BlackBerry.
There is, however one thing that I have never, ever found in these forums and that is a way to cancel my membership. I wish that this were a feature of CrackBerry for I wish that in all sincerity that you, Sir would do just that.
Nonetheless should you decide to read the manual and realise what a true miracle of design and technology you got for nothing then I for one will be only too happy to help you get more from it.
IN CRACKBERRY YOU ONLY EVER HAVE TO ASK.
Jenay, I hijacked you post, sorry but what with us both bein' Genuses an' all, I figured that the aging goth here might just git da message. Then again, prob'ly not.
Colors look pretty tho
.Last edited by Pete6; 07-23-08 at 11:01 AM.
07-23-08 10:55 AM
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