The Official BlackBerry Thread

[SoMiss2000]

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Question-
I have a Curve and the other day, the spring (screw) popped out of the back (where the battery compartment sort of latches in).

Do you think if I bring it to a Verizon dealer, they'll just fix it right there?

I didn't get insurance on it.

I'd hate to have to ship it somewhere.

BTW, I still have the tiny screw that popped out.

not sure about Verizon. These phones are too expensive not to have insurance on them. I dropped my old 8700 in some water a few months ago. Had the insurance, paid the deductible and they sent me a new one.

[bkrich83]

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I am getting a new phone sometime next week and I am picking between the BB Storm Vs the Samsung Omnia. The Omnia has more features but i like the ease of use of the storm and it just feels right.

Since this is my first Smart phone i have a few questions.

1. the Storm I hear does not have Wifi only 3g, how bad is that going to be?

2. How is the BB OS?

3. Has anyone used the Omnia, Thoughts?

1. I've gotten great performance via 3G on my Storm. I don't have a Wi-Fi ready phone though, so I don't know how it compares.

2. I like the BB OS, and have had a lot better luck with it from a stability standpoint than I have with Windows Mobile.

[NoleFan]

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If I hadn't already upgraded I'd give the Storm a go. I do admit that the typing was the main thing I didn't like having these manly fingers and I didn't have exposure to it long enough to get it down.

[bkrich83]

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If I hadn't already upgraded I'd give the Storm a go. I do admit that the typing was the main thing I didn't like having these manly fingers and I didn't have exposure to it long enough to get it down.

It took me about a week of fairly heavy usage to get the typing down. There is a definite technique to doing it. I have it down now, but to be honest I don't type that much on it anyway. I read email, browse the web, and use the phone, for about 90% of it's usage. So typing is a low priority for me.

Readability of the screen alone makes it a huge upgrade over my 8830.

[NoleFan]

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It took me about a week of fairly heavy usage to get the typing down. There is a definite technique to doing it. I have it down now, but to be honest I don't type that much on it anyway. I read email, browse the web, and use the phone, for about 90% of it's usage. So typing is a low priority for me.

Readability of the screen alone makes it a huge upgrade over my 8830.

Unfortunately, I do a great deal of texting so I need to master the typing.

[SoMiss2000]

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i saw someone ask about apps...i copied from crackberry

AIM For Blackberry: http://www.blackberry.com/aim
Audacity MP3 Editor: Audacity: Windows
Bank Of America App: (OTA) http://mobilebanking.bankofamerica.c...eBanking42.jad
BB Countdown Timer: (OTA) http://northcubed.com/installers/com...ntimer_app.jad
BBGeeks Games: (OTA) 170+ Free Games for your BlackBerry | BB Geeks
Blackberry Alerts: BlackBerry Alerts
Blackberry Maps: BlackBerry - PDA GPS - BlackBerry Maps at BlackBerry.com
Blackberry Messenger: www.blackberry.com/messenger/
Blackberry Mobile Site [RIM]: http://mobile.blackberry.com/
BBscreenshooter: oppitronic.[net|de]
BB Smart Email Viewer: BBSmart
BB Tracker: Blackberry GPS Tracker - Home
Blackberry Wiki: http://m.jonathanhfisher.co.uk/
Blackberry Video Converter: Seabyrd Technologies - Blackberry Video Converter
BB Weather (OTA): BlackBerryTools OTA
Blackberry Web Shortcuts Download: http://northcubed.com/products/black...thshortcut.zip
BB Web Shortcuts Help Forum: Blackberry Web Shortcuts
Beyond 411: Beyond411 Mobile Search
Cature It (OTA): www.thetechmogul.com/CaptureIt/CaptureIt.jad Snap screen shots of your BB
CB Desktop Launcher: CrackBerry.com Desktop Launcher
Crackberry.com User & Abuser FREE Theme: Free BlackBerry Themes | CrackBerry.com
Empower BES: Empower Your BlackBerry
Empower Email Viewer: Empower BlackBerry
EQO: EQO - Mobile VoIP, free texts, and free mobile IM with EQO
ESPN Mobile (OTA): ESPN Mobile Properties
Facebook App: Facebook for BlackBerry
Flickr (OTA or DM): BlackBerry - Flickr for BlackBerry Smartphones
Fox Mobile (OTA): http://m.foxbusiness.com/index.php?page=blackberry
Gmail App: Gmail Mobile
Google Maps: Google Maps
Google Sync (OTA): Google Sync
Google Talk: http://www.blackberry.com/GoogleTalk/
IM+: IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger
Infospace FindIt! (OTA): InfoSpace Find It! for BlackBerry
Instango: instango.com - Mobile Instant Messaging
JiveTalk: BeeJive :: JiveTalk mobile messenger
JL Commander: JL_Cmder Javaloader Utility
Livesearch (Beta - OTA): Untitled Page
MiniMoni: MiniMoni - Traffic monitor for BlackBerry
MLB Mobile (OTA): MLB.com for BlackBerry
MSN Messenger (OTA)) http://www.blackberry.com/livemessenger
Myspace app (OTA): MySpace for BlackBerry Smartphones
Nutsie: nuTsie.com : Free Your iTunes nuTsie.com
Obopay: http://get.obopay.com/apps/blackberry/curve/Obopay.jad
Opera Mini 3: http://mini.opera.com/?rel=3
Opera Mini 4: http://mini.opera.com/
PacMan (OTA): BlackBerry
Palringo: Palringo Vocal IM
PIXresizer (Image Resizer): Image resizing, do it with PIXresizer
Plazmic: Plazmic
Ramble IM (OTA): Ramble Wireless Instant Messaging
ShoZu (OTA): http://www.shozu.com/d/bbcurve/shozu.jad
Shrink It (OTA): http://berrycoder.com/shrinkit.jad resize photos on BB
Smartflix: http://apps.pyxismobile.com/smartfli...martflicks_all
Soft Reset: geek and proud - BlackBerry Software
TellMe: Tellme | Say it. Get It.
TV Guide Mobile (OTA): http://www.handmark.com/downloads/23...00/TVGuide.jad
TwitterBerry (OTA): TwitterBerry for BlackBerry
VibandRing: VibAndRing - Personal Productivity BlackBerry Software - Crackberry Store
Viigo - Crackberry.com Edition: CrackBerry and Viigo
Videos4Blackberry (3g formatted videos): videos4blackberry.info | Storm 9520 And 3G Pearl 8200 Flip Heading To Rogers! | Well, Built, Write, Wifi, Out
WeatherEye (OTA): http://weyebb.pelmorex.com/BlackBerry/
Webmessenger: WebMessenger Inc.
Worldmate Live: https://www.worldmatelive.com/li-web/index.jsf
XM Mobile: XM Radio Mobile on BlackBerry®
Yahoo! Go: Y! Go Download
Yahoo! Messenger (OTA): http://www.blackberry.com/YahooDownload
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[Jgainsey]

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I just bought my first smartphone/pda after years of using the most basic of the basic company provided cell phone. I went with the HTC Touch Pro and I'm really liking it. I just finished unlocking it earlier and I flashed a new ROM onto it and man.. I'm in mobile phone heaven.

I was considering going with the BB Storm, but I have a few friends that are having Storm specific coverage problems in our area. For almost a month now they haven't been able to receive most incoming calls withing a 3 or 4 mile radius of the airport. And I just don't wanna deal with that, considering we all live pretty close to the airport.

It doesn't have as big of a screen as other touch screen phones but it has a stellar looking 480 x 640 res screen and a slide out keyboard with is great for me since I text and email quite a bit.

Here are the specs: http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/...tag=mncol;psum

[NoleFan]

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Man that's a lot of apps. I'm just disappointed that my Curve doesn't meet system requirements to run AIM. That would have been really helpful.

[ehh]

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I am finally getting a Blackberry next week for work, I cannot wait!! I'm getting the Curve 8330 on Sprint. It's highly rated at cnet and I was talking to a gentlemen at a technology expo on Wednesday who had one, he loves it, plus I got to look at it and play around with it for a few minutes.

Quick question, can you have multiple email accounts coming to your device? I'd like to have my work, support account (those two are mandatory) and personal email all sent to my BB.

If it's not a simple feature I imagine there's someway around it via forwarding.

[NoleFan]

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I am finally getting a Blackberry next week for work, I cannot wait!! I'm getting the Curve 8330 on Sprint. It's highly rated at cnet and I was talking to a gentlemen at a technology expo on Wednesday who had one, he loves it, plus I got to look at it and play around with it for a few minutes.

Quick question, can you have multiple email accounts coming to your device? I'd like to have my work, support account (those two are mandatory) and personal email all sent to my BB.

If it's not a simple feature I imagine there's someway around it via forwarding.

I don't know the max but I've got 3 email accounts coming to my BB currently (work, gmail and blackberry.net email).

[ehh]

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That's good news, how do you toggle between the three accounts? On the Curve 8330 it looks like there is one primary account from the home screen (I imagine it's similar on all BB's), do you just click on that email icon and it lets you select from the three accounts?

[NoleFan]

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That's good news, how do you toggle between the three accounts? On the Curve 8330 it looks like there is one primary account from the home screen (I imagine it's similar on all BB's), do you just click on that email icon and it lets you select from the three accounts?

I'm not exactly sure. The way I currently have it set up is that all msgs (email, sms, mms) come into one central inbox. I'm not sure if you can set up seperate inboxes. You do have an icon on your desktop for each email address so it may be that by picking an icon you can only see msgs from that particular email addy.

[23]

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I am finally getting a Blackberry next week for work, I cannot wait!! I'm getting the Curve 8330 on Sprint. It's highly rated at cnet and I was talking to a gentlemen at a technology expo on Wednesday who had one, he loves it, plus I got to look at it and play around with it for a few minutes.

Quick question, can you have multiple email accounts coming to your device? I'd like to have my work, support account (those two are mandatory) and personal email all sent to my BB.

If it's not a simple feature I imagine there's someway around it via forwarding.

You meal like work email, gmail, yahoo... yes

[23]

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That's good news, how do you toggle between the three accounts? On the Curve 8330 it looks like there is one primary account from the home screen (I imagine it's similar on all BB's), do you just click on that email icon and it lets you select from the three accounts?

You can seperate your email, and sms
you can have seperate icon's for yahoo, facebook and all of that stuff

[pfunk880]

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I believe the maximum number of email accounts is 10.