As you can see I am new here. Great forum btw. I just got my wife an 8310 and it's a great phone. She is using this phone mostly for personal use. Everyone says this is an email phone first and it is meant for mostly for business users. Now for my rant:
I can live with the limited sync options since this is a "business phone". I can't understand why BB users and companies let RIM get away with deleting email/sms/call logs without warning just because of low memory. How do you people use this as a business phone if there is a possibility that important information might just disappear? That's like if Windows deleted your monthly reports because you were low on RAM. Unacceptable. I can't believe RIM hasn't been challenged on this. I would expect this from a free Nokia phone.
Second, the time zone. Again, isn't this a business phone? This isn't as big of a deal, but changing time zone and updating the calendar is a minor coding change for a company like RIM.
Last, no user of any phone, espcially a business phone, should have to worry about maximizing memory and having to pull the battery every day to free up memory.
I'm done, thanks for listening.
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I actually have 2 devices - one for personal and one for work (connected to a BlackBerry Enterprise server). While I have had memory issues with my BIS device, I have never had it with my BES device (the business device).
I would hazzard a guess that the BES device doesn't lose any data since it is connected to the corporate server - but that's just a guess.
In reality this issue is very limited and a wonderful guide was written to get around it if you have the issue.if you look at the new devices being released it has been addressed by a major bump in memory.
Your other options are a Treo that needs reset after you attemp to complete any task or a Windows Mobile decide that offers all the joys of Microsoft.
It should have never got to the point where there is a lack of memory and more importantly, nothing should ever be deleted without user interaction. There have been new revisions of the OS that could have implemented a solution, like storing or moving data to SD cards (unsecure, I know). Throwing more memory at an OS issue is not the solution, but RIM can get away with it, just like iPhone and no MMS. Similar to the Application Switcher memory leak. Arrogance.
And I'm not looking for another phone. We are both happy with the Curve, I just wanted to take advantage of the Rant forum ;)
Last edited by smithj_33 : 07-12-2008 at 12:25 PM.
Yeah, it would be nice if there were some "low memory" warning. Well low storage in this case. When my sim card sms gets full it says there's a warning so I can go delete some before it pulls the new one in.
Should be easy enough to have some warning when it hits 4mb left or something. Would save a lot of heartache and then if it starts deleting stuff at least you had a chance to avoid it.
It should have never got to the point where there is a lack of memory and more importantly, nothing should ever be deleted without user interaction. There have been new revisions of the OS that could have implemented a solution, like storing or moving data to SD cards (unsecure, I know). Throwing more memory at an OS issue is not the solution, but RIM can get away with it, just like iPhone and no MMS. Similar to the Application Switcher memory leak. Arrogance.
And I'm not looking for another phone. We are both happy with the Curve, I just wanted to take advantage of the Rant forum ;)
Actually this issue, throwing the additonal 20 - 30 MB more than fixes the issue.
Business phone? -
07-12-2008, 09:50 AM
