Ditching Blackberry for Good....
 

If my less then a year old blackberry bold 9700 can't be upgraded to OS6, I will flip RIM the bird and make the jump to Android.

Who is with me?

I might jump sooner though, blackberries just don't compare to the new android devices. Anyone check out the Droid X or the ATT Captivate.. Wow..

Enjoy.

You'll be back, I went to the Droid X for a whole two days before going back to my Tour.

Androi's loss, RIM's gain.

Have a fun trip!

hm
 

you can run but you cant hide . i have tried to walk away from blackberry 4 times and every time i come back . for some reason i always end up back on a blackberry i have tried it with all the iphones and some nokia phones. few weeks or month later i am back on my blackberry i guess i just like how simple and how it does the job perfect i used to have the ipad and i gave that away to my brother i am back on my laptop and tethering my blackberry .

May you find happiness.

Who knows what 6 will turn out to be, but the 9700 is sure to see at least one or two OS improvements, borrowing some features from 6, in the next couple years before the next new blackberry comes along for me. I'm happy with that.

Find what works for you.
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This statement makes no sense. You're wanting an OS you haven't even seen yet on a platform which may not have the requirements to run it? WTH

Wow... I don't think I will but thanks anyway.

You are correct they don't compare. Different purpose, different market.

Bye!!

Peace be with you.

Looks like Android Ain't Ready for Prime Time Yet
 

Again, so much for the latest and greatest.

'Unhackable' Android can be hacked | Phones | iPhone Central | Macworld

Looks like the OS is in need of major work.

I've tried ditching blackberry a couple of times, and have always came back, for me. I love it, some phones have some cool features that blackberry doesn't have. The Androids look pretty cool but they probably have their own "problems" every phone does.. Anyways, hope you find what you're looking for !

While I love the BlackBerrys as much as the next mod, I do take time to see what the other platforms have to offer. A couple things to take note of, the two recent flagship Android devices (Droid X and EVO) are the largest phones I have used since 1999. Huge.

To the point of RIM not making the new OS6 available to older devices, I suggest the OP do some research into the number of Android phones that cannot run 2.2 or higher, and then check how many iPhone models can't upgrade to iOS4... it happens all the time regardless of platform.

I tried the Droid X, now back to my Curve (for now)
 

Here's my two cents' worth...

I've been using RIM devices since '99. My first was the RIM 850 on the ARDIS network, then the 950 on Bell South, and on and on. I've been using my Curve 8330 for two years +.

Last week, I ordered the Droid X, just to try out. I played with it for about four days before deciding to return it and resume using my Curve (for the time being).

Although the Droid X is utterly amazing, and just plain blows any Blackberry out of the water in many ways too numerous to list here, it did lack in several key aspects that I find absolutely essential in a handheld device.

1. Battery life doesn't cut it. (I'd recommend an extended capacity battery for sure)

2. Screen glare in sunlight conditions.

3. Touchscreen typing (even with Swype) is tediously difficult, especially if you're not sitting or standing still.

4. I couldn't find a master setting to adjust the font size for email/text message/Twitter/IM, etc. Yea, you can expand the "size" of a webpage and certain other apps, but a standard default font size feature was missing. It's hard to read messages in tiny 9 point font when you're driving (not that I'd recommend or do that myself - cough cough).

These were issues that caused me enough concern, from a safety and efficiency perspective, to give a thumbs down to the Droid X, at least for now. In fairness, there are countless gazillions of apps, and who knows, I'd bet there are some that might provide a solution to my quirky concerns.

Another drawback to the Droid X (I won't include this in my list of concerns above) was the loss of sleep it was causing. I found myself staying up late, WAY beyond my bedtime, just fiddling around and playing with all the slick features, downloading and installing various apps (which takes mere seconds, unlike the BB), rearranging the widgets on the seven different homescreens, etc.

So, I'll perhaps get another Droid X, or wait to see what device comes next in the Droid line. But for now...

9700 will run 6.0....

lol android unhackable? the things a virgin still in the phone market.....

thanks for the laugh tho.

May the force be with you.

Considering how some of the phones are advertised I suggest a more apt phrase would be:

May the farce be with you.

I am preparing to make the Android leap myself for work-related reasons. I have been searching, to no avail, for a set of apps for classroom use. I need a high-quality instrument tuner, metronome, and gradebook app so that I don't have to lug a backpack with me between schools every day. There's a better selection of these apps in the Android Marketplace, and the apps seem higher quality and more frequently updated.

With the exception of the three POS Certified Like-New Tours I've had to put up with, my BB experience has been great. I'm hesitant to leave but after seeing what other band directors are doing to enrich their classes with iOS and Droid apps it's pretty much a foregone conclusion. I'll be watching App World; maybe - no, hopefully - I'll be back.

I am leaving too!
 

Several month's ago I talked about how I hated my BB Bold 9000 it was an expensive phone cost and it had very little memory.

RIM set it up that the OS, Email, Messages, Apps and more all MUST go into one little space. Everyone and I mean everyone complains about memory problems and having to do battery pulls. Yeah, real high tech!

Long before the Bold 9000 came out other cheaper phones had larger memory than what RIM put into this expensive phone. Poor planning and I am sure the less you put in the phone, the more money you make.

I was attacked for stating the facts, but now it looks like even the experts are talking about how RIM is going to lose it market share because of memory, display screens, processor speed and etc.

I have never been so disappointed by a phone in my life. You cannot contact RIM, as they do not speak or communicate with their customers. They are not loyal to the customer, so why should the customer be loyal to them?

They put a 1GB of memory in this phone, but again, 128MB of that 1GB is where everything but pictures, video and voice notes goes.

Real shame and as soon as my contract is up I am switching and not going to look back!

I think you're an anomaly. I have never had memory problems on any of my 40 BlackBerry devices and I am a fairly heavy user. I pull my battery maybe once a month or when I land in a new country to help facilitate the changes to the network list on the SIM and the HRT for BB registration. Most memory problems are caused by generally useless third-party apps, and to be honest I haven't found anything that I need to do on my device that can't be done with apps developed by RIM. The only third-party items I have on my device are my bank's app (which is a web app) and an extremely lightweight real-time currency converter.

RIM speaks to their customers. YOU are not their customer. You are the carrier's customer.

I bought BES from RIM. I have no problem talking to RIM about BES issues.

Ditto @ CanuckBB.

When you're RAZR breaks, who do you call? AT&T, Verizon, or Motorola? Of course you don't call Motorola. So, why would RIM be any different. I never understand these statements. No one talks about Motorola, HTC, or any other hardware manufacturer not speaking to their customers on issues regarding their products, but RIM is supposed to. The mobile phone industry has always worked this way, why should it be any different for RIM?

You bought your phone from AT&T, you go to them with the issues when they arise. Why is that concept impossible to understand?

Seee ya....

(y)

knotty,
Are you a choo choo person like ez and me?

I have had Blackberrys and upgraded devices since the 7250, if Rim doesn't provie OS6 for the Storm that I bought a year or so ago then I won't continue my relationship with RIM/Blackberry anymore after this one. As much as it pains me to say it, I feel RIM abandoned Storm and Storm2 users so far with OS6 and I will not continue with an organization that has no more loyalty than that. I have been very loyal to RIM in my business but my move to Android or something similar is just around the corner unless RIM provides an upgrade to OS6 or something quite similar to Storm and 2 owners.
You can bid me adeu and mock me as you have others on here, but I am a serious business person and a very very loyal BB owner, but the time has come for BB to show some consideration and loyalty to it's customers. If they turn their backs on Storm and Storm 2 users who's to say next year they come out with a OS7 with streaming video that only works on models after the Torch. You may say it can't happen but that is exactly what they have done to Storm users. I am not a reactionary but the reality of life is the smartphone business is changing drastically and BB isn't the only game in town anymore.

No mocking, but loyalty should have nothing to do with it.

I use blackberry because it does what I need and it's a pleasure to use. I'm not going to keep buying and using blackberrys if that is no longer true for me.

Also, I know RIM will upgrade the OS a couple times or more during the few years I have a model, and release a couple new free apps and improve the ones that are already out. If OS 6 eventually comes out for the 9700, I'll be happy, but I'm not going to be too disappointed. For one, I still know I'll see some improvements over what I got when I bought it; and for two, I expect by I'll be buying the next new device by that time OS6 is out and gone through shakedown testing in the marketplace.

I don't expect RIM to be loyal to me. What I know they are doing -- because I get market surveys from them all the time -- is working to better understand their users and what they need, and what their priorities are. That's what I expect them to do, and I hope they are good at it, because I benefit from them doing a good job.

I know I'm a different kind of user, and I believe RIM serves a different kind of user. I'm a little skeptical of RIM's attempts to win consumers, but hey, I'm a consumer, so I can't be too critical of what it's doing. I think the lesson is that "consumer" is not an monolithic block of nearly identical individuals with the same wants and needs.

I'll admit RIM has a tendency to focus on the base of the pyrimid (continuous engineering improvement on the existing technologies) and not as much ont hardware, software, and services -- and not as much on the point (the breakthroughs), but that isn't so much a negative to me as it is to others.

Anyway, the same old same old holds true: Use what works. If it isn't working, switch to something that does. Don't be loyal to the company; it isn't loyal to you. It's a corporation. It's business.

I think you will be happy, RIM is stuck in the mud and the rest of the world is moving past them.

Yep. And as long as you don't hold your next phone the wrong way, you'll be fine.

You are such a knob.

It's called independent, rational thought. You should try it.
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Couldn't have said it better myself.

Every phone has something about it that is not perfect. Overall my 8300 is the best device I have ever used. I tried to go to a Samsung and after a month was ready to throw it in the trash. I'm back to my 8300 and plan on staying with BB.