Originally Posted by fahadchaudhry

Hi
Why should one switch to BB? This is the topic for discussion. Because market is full of smart phones and they are a lot more capable to do things.
My friend had BB8900 and in the start we liked it. But with the passage of time its flaws came to light.
Is this only perfect for email and messaging?

The primary function of a BB is e-mail and messaging, they were developed for businesses who required a secure reliable system to keep in contact with out of the office empolyees, and for that purpose you cannot beat a BB.
As far as "flaws" a BB that is properly set up to run on either a BES or a BIS you shouldn't have any problems at all. However, if you mean "flaws" as in lack of games and other apps meant mainly for entertainment, that isn't a flaw of the phone as much as it is RIM's later entry into the consumer market than other smart phone makers. As time passes you will see more of these types of apps hit the market.


I haven't visited its app store yet but are there enough free apps to satisfy non-business consumers?

It depends on what you are looking for. There is an app that allows you to set as many as 6 alarms daily, that is in addition to what you can do with the calander, apps for video, an app that when you take a picture offers you the ability to upload it to website as well as several of the social networking sites. There are also streaming radio apps. Of course there are many rss readers, stock apps, personal finance apps,data tracking along with many others. It really is worth your time to go to App world and poke around.


I was shocked to see one can't set more than one alarm.
One can't flip through photos. At a time one can see only photo, minimize it then go to the other pic.
Thanks