Blackberry: Classic or Dud?

I got given a free Blackberry Storm the other week and within a few days went back to my old Curve. The touch-screen keyboard just seemed incredibly difficult to use and unresponsive, which kind of defies the point of the device. It looked great but I'm not sure whether it's objectively worse than the iPhone I just don't like touch-scree interfaces.

The old-skool Curve is classic for all time though. Also it has a much better version of Brickbreaker, which is all important.

I'm not that crazy about the Blackberry browser, but in a way it's a good thing internet isn't too easy to use on it so that I won't be wasting time on it all the time. The planner function, the ability to get e-mail and the keyboard are all great.

i need to get a blackberry this week. what kind should i get? i'll want to use it for typing a lot so no touch-screen keyboards. and where should i get it from, to get the best deals? (my current phone is virgin pay-as-u-go lol, so no upgrading possible really.) tell me the things i need to know in order not to wander into the shop and be entirely at the mercy of evil salesmen~~~

yeah, me too! (funnily enough)

I often wonder if it's easy to type on the BB keyboards.

Don't. The iPhone is pretty and the iPod in it is great but it's lacking some pretty basic functionality that practically every other smartphone has like:

- copy/paste
- camera zoom
- search on contacts/emails
- MMS

I meant to say LOL

My present phone has camera/zoom, it's good if you want much lower resolution close-ups.

(Is that why the LOL, nath?)

curve 8520 v 8900... one has awesome new track/scroller thing (less annoying than the pearl) but the other has better screen resolution.

i had an 8900 for a minute. it was alright for what it was but i had gotten used to 3g so i had to move off blackberry (t-mobile still needs to get it together as far as smartphone selection - do they even have touchscreen blackberrys yet?)

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/compare/product-attr-compare.jsp?products=1528&products=1686

I got the 8900 (definitely way nicer than my really ancient pearl). Tmobile doesn't have the storm - verizon's got a monopoly on it I think, but I refuse to go back to them and I don't want to pay for at&t juat to have an iphone.

aargh

why does technology hate me so much? trying to d/l twitterberry and it's just not working. says i need to alter my browser configuration but every time i change it to "internet browser" it resets itself automatically to "vodafone live" - why the fuck does it keep doing this??????

i also really want to set it so that it vibrates when i get phone calls or text messages but NOT emails. no idea how to do this.

twitterberry was really messed up on my new blackberry - it would give me the notifier in the top of my home screen and the led would flash and i couldn't get it to go away. some forums said it's a common issue w/ twitterberry. i just deleted it. gotta find a different app. i don't knwo about the dl issue though :(
which bb do you have?

go into your profiles settings and you can set individual alert preferences for each type of communication.

bb bold. might try ubertwitter, i'm just going by what seems most common on my twitter feed.

ubertwitter failed as well! "907 invalid COD". technology rage here.

i have viigo but i can't figure out how to update, only read!

our brave new digital future.

am basically following all the steps here - http://orangatame.com/support/?id=50150000000M7fh - but no matter how many times i do step 5 and save, it defaults back to "vodafone live". WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY just whyyyyyyy

says i need to alter my browser configuration but every time i change it to "internet browser" it resets itself automatically to "vodafone live" - why the fuck does it keep doing this??????

Mine did that for ages - I think you need to changeit in both Browser Configuration and General Properties. Still, Twitterberry works fine on mine, and it's exactly the same as yours, so no idea what's happening there.

but i changed it in general properties first as per the instructions! and it just keeps switching back automatically.

it also won't let me log into twitter AT ALL while browsing. AAARGH i hate this stupid machine.

Are you saving before you close?

yes!!!!!!!!!! repeatedly! everywhere!

Also, are you doing this in the Browser itself or on the main Blackberry Settings menu?

Try whichever one you aren't doing.

So that would be Options -> Advanced Options -> Browser, and then change the default browser configuration that way.

in the browser. and it worked suddenly and randomly when i did exactly the same thing as i'd been doing in vain all the other times. fuck this technology shit.

struggling with the profiles now. can't see how to set a default alert for different things?

Haha now NEVER CHANGE IT AND NEVER SWITCH IF OFF EVER AGAIN.

Srsly, whoever devised Level 16 on Brickbreaker is the biggest cunt that ever lived.

got an onyx last week

new trackpad is like buttah

ok, sigh, how the hell do i get photos off the blackberry and on to my mac?? keep trying to drag and drop them but it says "the finder cannot complete the operation because some data in <jpg file> could not be read or written (error code -36)". and i want to throw it all across the room and tear the head off whoever invented these cursed machines.

Email it to yourself?

is there a way to do that with a load of pictures at once?

does anyone have the 9650? how's the battery life? browser?

ugh i can't decide if i should get this or stick with my samsung "multimedia phone"

also tempted by DROID but i don't want a shit battery life, that's really important to me.

i will be free of my 6 year relationship with BB as of 10/17/2010!!!!!!!!

Evo vs. iPhone4 vs. Incredible?

I have a second hand Blackberry in a drawer. I broke my current phone at the weekend and spent all Sunday afternoon trying to figure out all the hows/whats/whys of it before I decided to just give up and stick my SIM in an old Nokia 3310

Pretty happy with the new Blackberry Curve (I think mine is 8330). The newer browser is a huge improvement. I kind of don't want an elaborate gaming/music/app device so much as just a good way to check and send e-mails on the go and occasionally get directions or a quick food recommendation. I find the BB well-suited to this and I like the BB keyboard (probably the main reason I didn't switch to another brand). My stubby fingers and touch screens don't get along.

gah, what's the best ilx stylesheet for the blackberry (8520)? the iphone one has all the text in a thin tiny column in the middle of the screen and i don't see an option for a mobile stylesheet (though i did c&p <a href=http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?xml=true&stylesheet=mobile.xsl&boardid=40>;this</a> but i cant get to search or the individual boards or anything from that link

Old.css works fine on mine.

that's loads better, thanks matt.

what are the best settings? i find that when the list of threads comes up its in real tiny text so i zoom in but then have to select 'column view' to be able to read it properly, same with each thread too. is there a way of setting the blackberry browser to do this automatically?

I beat that brick breaker score *sunglasses*

oh wait, no I didn't. i only got 25010

can i unbump this

Ha ha brickbreaker is pretty good for a crappy game!

you're right...it is crap. full of glitches and terrible level design...75% of the levels after 13 seems designed to be obnoxious and require a few lucky bounces to complete. and yet I keep playing it...hmmmmmm (hmmmmm)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DsToYffGBY

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204624204577177184275959856-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwMjEyNDIyWj.html

stop fucking constantly freezing on me you cunt and just work properly

Anyway, nice enough interview with Matt Johnson:

https://defector.com/blackberry-director-matt-johnson-is-not-wearing-an-outfit

I recognized Cary Elwes, but needed a reminder in the credits of his name. Didn't recognize Michael Ironside at all...my strongest association with him is Scanners, 40 years ago.

I completely missed out on Blackberries. They definitely had a pop-culture moment in the mid-2000s, when someone like Paris Hilton would be widely known for using hers. Some called them crackberries because they were apparently so addictive. But what features did they have that garnered that much attention? Was it just their web-browsing and texting capabilities? Throughout their heyday, I was on old Nokia bricks and flip phones. When I graduated from those, smartphones had already been a thing for several years.

According to the movie, phone + web + texting was revolutionary. But, as Paris Hilton might say, I am so not the person to answer that.

It was the keyboard, man
And email
And push notifications