- Just now loaded my Key1 with a third party "Keyboard Browser" from "play store"... Despite having to admit using a professionally embarrassing name like "PLAY store" (same complaint I had with letting clients see us using a PLAY book... Lol), the gargantuan thing finally supports shortcuts that SHOULD have been OEM, imo. ... INCLUDING "k" for bookmark!! And "t" for top, "b" for bottom. "I" for zoom in, "o" for zoom out, etc, etc, ... Clearly devved by someone favoring appreciation for BB PKB experience. Encouraging. Heartbreaking that it seems to have taken a third party dev to restore "no brainer" BB features that BB devs themselves didn't.)
Shortcuts on every key press etc., perhaps that's limited to general shortcuts (e.g., launching apps, calling contacts) and can't be used within applications.
-- posted via CB10 on my Q10 --11-13-17 01:12 PMLike 0 - Yep. Keeps clients, employees, vendors, management... Happy. And very competent competitors perplexed... Lol. My crew has earned more from performance linked bonuses than wages every year this decade. EXCEPT, 2013... The year we abandoned our Bolds. . My biggest fear is that our competitors might discover our Bold secret... Lol.11-13-17 01:33 PMLike 0
- I thought that keyboard shortcuts was one of the big 'pro' selling points for the KEYone !?...
Shortcuts on every key press etc., perhaps that's limited to general shortcuts (e.g., launching apps, calling contacts) and can't be used within applications.
-- posted via CB10 on my Q10 --mushroom_daddy likes this.11-13-17 01:44 PMLike 1 - Precisely why I still have mine from 1999 I bought a brand new Phillips 32 inch CRT and paid almost $1000 for it it’s still the best sounding TV I’ve ever had in my life. Must weigh about 190 pounds and I don’t even want to impose on my friends to lift it out so I’m going to keep on trucking with it.11-13-17 02:51 PMLike 0
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That's just one more of the many reasons why the 9900 remains relevant in 2017
-- posted via CB10 on my Q10 --11-14-17 02:35 AMLike 2 - Kindle works much better on my 9900 than the Q10, which relies on an Android port that has become increasingly bloated, laggy and unusable with time. I've largely given up with Kindle on my Q10
That's just one more of the many reasons why the 9900 remains relevant in 2017
-- posted via CB10 on my Q10 --anon(8063781) and mushroom_daddy like this.11-14-17 06:31 AMLike 2 -
-- posted via CB10 on my Q10 --11-14-17 04:25 PMLike 0 - Sitting here over breakfast reviewing a couple dozen pdfs sent thru couple dozen individual email msgs. K1, Classic and 9930 at hand. K1's monster size should make it "logical choice" for pdf viewing... Still have to zoom & pan to see these pdfs. Misserable without setting fork down to involve right hand. Classic is much easier to single handedly zoom & pan... BUT, every time I return to hub to select next msg, the goophy thing starts at the top of the message list. Forcing me to scroll, and/or sort, thru dozens msgs to get back to the next one in sequence... Maybe there's an option to "open where it left off", or something... ??? Easier to just grab 99, pop up pdf, hit "I" a few times to zoom in, pan around & view & read with trackpad, ... THEN simply hit back button a few times to return to the msg list at the msg I'd just opened, scroll down to next msg in line, open and read and easily return to the NEXT msg in line, and so on, and so on...
Returning to the previous msg in the list is just another example of a "tiny" refinement that really makes things unobtrusively productive on 99...
Back to work...rayporsche and mushroom_daddy like this.11-19-17 05:36 AMLike 2 - Sitting here over breakfast reviewing a couple dozen pdfs sent thru couple dozen individual email msgs. K1, Classic and 9930 at hand. K1's monster size should make it "logical choice" for pdf viewing... Still have to zoom & pan to see these pdfs. Misserable without setting fork down to involve right hand. Classic is much easier to single handedly zoom & pan... BUT, every time I return to hub to select next msg, the goophy thing starts at the top of the message list. Forcing me to scroll, and/or sort, thru dozens msgs to get back to the next one in sequence... Maybe there's an option to "open where it left off", or something... ??? Easier to just grab 99, pop up pdf, hit "I" a few times to zoom in, pan around & view & read with trackpad, ... THEN simply hit back button a few times to return to the msg list at the msg I'd just opened, scroll down to next msg in line, open and read and easily return to the NEXT msg in line, and so on, and so on...
Returning to the previous msg in the list is just another example of a "tiny" refinement that really makes things unobtrusively productive on 99...
Back to work...
To me, OS7 is the pinnacle of PalmOS development. Yep. You read that right. BlackBerry took everything that was good about the old PalmOS -- the Win 3.1-style design philosophy, the suite of PIM features (calendar, contacts, notes and memos), Outlook Sync, built-in Documents to Go integration -- and made them all better. Much better. Then they added that great keyboard. Thank goodness. I was never good at Palm's Graffiti.
It's funny. In 2013, BlackBerry tried to emulate Palm's webOS. Now Apple's doing it. Plus ca change....11-19-17 10:35 AMLike 3 - I am currently using an iPhone as my daily driver. It does everything I need fairly well, but I still have to pick up my Classic regularly, if only for the joy of typing on a physical keyboard.
And I still have the occasional urge to get a Bold 99XX again, except I quickly talk myself out of it because my current carrier doesn't support BIS and BBOS 7 doesn't have some of the very basic functionality I need, like full ActiveSync support for multiple calendars.
One of the things that seems to have locked me into iOS is iMessage. All of my immediate family are on iPhones and most of them are non-technical. They wouldn't use a third party IM like Signal or Telegram even if I set it up for them, but they use iMessage because it's built into the OS and "just works". These days, I prefer to use end-to-end encrypted IM instead of SMS, and iMessage allows me to do that with the largest number of family and friends right out of the box.
BlackBerry | CLASSIC11-22-17 07:38 AMLike 0 - I am currently using an iPhone as my daily driver. It does everything I need fairly well, but I still have to pick up my Classic regularly, if only for the joy of typing on a physical keyboard.
And I still have the occasional urge to get a Bold 99XX again, except I quickly talk myself out of it because my current carrier doesn't support BIS and BBOS 7 doesn't have some of the very basic functionality I need, like full ActiveSync support for multiple calendars.
One of the things that seems to have locked me into iOS is iMessage. All of my immediate family are on iPhones and most of them are non-technical. They wouldn't use a third party IM like Signal or Telegram even if I set it up for them, but they use iMessage because it's built into the OS and "just works". These days, I prefer to use end-to-end encrypted IM instead of SMS, and iMessage allows me to do that with the largest number of family and friends right out of the box.
BlackBerry | CLASSIC11-22-17 07:47 AMLike 0 -
- 11-22-17 10:13 AMLike 0
- I can’t even honestly remember now if I did that this time around but I’m sure I did because I remember trying to login on the desktop version with the same credentials I use for Tapatalk. Once it’s beyond frustration I just basically cave.11-22-17 10:15 AMLike 0
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- No danger, there. I'm using an iPhone 5S and likely will keep using it until Apple ends support for it, at which time I will find the least expensive iPhone available that's still supported by Apple. There are a lot more important things I'd rather spend $1,000 on.11-22-17 10:17 AMLike 0
- I had the 9700, 9900, q10, Playbook, Classic, and Passport over a period of 5 years. I loved them all for different reasons. All though none of them were perfect.
The 9900 keyboard and trackpad though was pretty glorious and BB7 had the best notification settings (complete with holster options) period.11-22-17 11:29 AMLike 2 - I love to read, so the 9300 is great for me. The battery lasts a long time, easily a week with even casual usage, so I can read kindle stuff for days and days between charges. Almost as good as an e-ink ereader but much more portable! I used to eread on my 9900, but after I got the 9300, that older tech device won me over, even without touchscreen.
I recently took my sim out of the 9900 and put it into my lumia 830 again. I love Win8.1 mobile. It is so fluid, and I'll need the internet access for Black Friday,,.11-22-17 06:56 PMLike 0
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