The Official BlackBerry Thread

[Gotmadskillzson]

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LOL one of my friends just bought a blackberry last week. So yeah people still buy them.

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People still buy blackberry's?

Yes.

[ChubbyBanana]

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Yes.

Yeah. Unfortunately.

Wish I could change to the Droid X.

[HotSauce2k3]

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People still buy blackberry's?

They need to come out with an innovative, new model ASAP. People are switching to android devices and iphone's at a rapid rate. Every blackberry the last two and a half years looks almost the exact same (besides the storm).

They were never meant to compete with android phones or iphones or any other of those phones. They are and always were business smartphones. Yet for some reason they became popular once smartphones became the norm. Sure, they have features such as web browsing, media, camera, etc. to cater to the general public, but they will never do it as well as those other devices, because that's not what they're intended for. Blackberries will always be around because of the keyboard and the push email.

I'm still rocking the original Curve. I'm probably going to get an android device for my next phone, but I'm definitely going to miss the physical keyboard.

And BBM.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Yeah I remember back in the day, if you were rocking a blackberry, you became an instant chick magnet because they thought you had either a high paying office job, was a lawyer or doctor.

[JayBee74]

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Yeah. Unfortunately.

Wish I could change to the Droid X.

Seems like T-Mobile doesn't have a great selection of Android Smartphones or am I just uninformed?
T-Mobile Android Smartphones

[Thrasha]

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Seems like T-Mobile doesn't have a great selection of Android Smartphones or am I just uninformed?
T-Mobile Android Smartphones

Nope, aside from the Nexus 1, they have a rather week Android lineup.

I'm adding a line to my account tonight and ordering the Blackberry 9650

I want a normal keyboard after messing with touch screen phones for the past year and a half. After using Android for so long, I realize I was spoiled by the iPhone.

Android has some cool apps, but most of them are junk, IMO, and lack a lot of polish.

The iPhone has a sick amount of apps, with way more polish but AT&T sucks. So I figure, if I'm not really enjoying what Android has to offer, I'm gonna go with a Blackberry.

All I do is text so I figure the 9650 will be a beast at that.

[JayBee74]

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I'm adding a line to my account tonight and ordering the Blackberry 9650

I like the optical trackpad controller.

[SoMiss2000]

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I'm going from a Bold 9700 to Evo as soon as I can get my hands on one. I've become bored with Blackberry. Email and BBM is great but it can't continue to hold my attention as the best thing about Blackberry. Maybe if RIM starts to innovate and putting more of their focus on the consumer as opposed to the businessperson, I'll come back. Still love Blackberry, but want a change.

[JayBee74]

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I'm going from a Bold 9700 to Evo as soon as I can get my hands on one. I've become bored with Blackberry. Email and BBM is great but it can't continue to hold my attention as the best thing about Blackberry. Maybe if RIM starts to innovate and putting more of their focus on the consumer as opposed to the businessperson, I'll come back. Still love Blackberry, but want a change.

I still love BB too but I am also looking for more. The Vibrant might come out next week, but I can't find a price on it.

EDIT:Rumors are it's running $500 off contract.

[Thrasha]

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I still love BB too but I am also looking for more. The Vibrant might come out next week, but I can't find a price on it.

EDIT:Rumors are it's running $500 off contract.

I'd be hesitant about getting a Samsung made Android device. They aren't the greatest about updating their phones OS to the current version of Android, plus they partnered up with Bing as the default search engine on their line of Android powered devices.

The latter part isn't that big of a deal if you don't mind using bing, but the fact that it's a Google powered phone, and they stick bing on it, kinda would irk me.

[Boltman]

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Just now seeing this thread, I have had the newest 9700 Bold for a while now.

anyone have any good web sites with apps & what not that they might suggest? Only thing I have on it so far is a Bing app that I hardly ever use.

[CougarMVP]

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313A24FB for BBM and sports chat!

[JayBee74]

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I'd be hesitant about getting a Samsung made Android device. They aren't the greatest about updating their phones OS to the current version of Android, plus they partnered up with Bing as the default search engine on their line of Android powered devices.

The latter part isn't that big of a deal if you don't mind using bing, but the fact that it's a Google powered phone, and they stick bing on it, kinda would irk me.

Thanks, I'll definitely keep that in mind, in fact I'll more than likely avoid it and look for something else.

[SoMiss2000]

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Just now seeing this thread, I have had the newest 9700 Bold for a while now.

anyone have any good web sites with apps & what not that they might suggest? Only thing I have on it so far is a Bing app that I hardly ever use.

crackberry.com