Blackberry: Classic or Dud?

Blue - Blue is for Bluetooth. A flashing blue light indicates an active connection via bluetooth. Enable/disable this feature under Applications > Options > Bluetooth > Menu > Options > LED Connection Indicator: On/Off

Green - Green is for coverage indicator. Who really wants to be continuously reminded they are in a service area? Not me. Enable/disable this "feature" under Applications > Options > Screen/Keyboard > LED Coverage Indicator On/Off

Red- This is the good one! A flashing red light indicates a new message is waiting. Check under your messages folder for any unread items. You can choose to be notified of new messages visually under Applications > Profiles > Advanced > [Select profile you wish to modify] > [Select message type you wish to modify] > Repeat Notification LED Flashing/Off

Yellow - Yellow indicates that you are running out of battery. Find a charger quickly! Thanks Catt!

^ copied from some blackberry forum

Thanks carne dude. My bluetooth headset is off, so I dunno what it could be.....

SOMEONE ELSE IS CONTROLLING MY PHONE OH NO!

red is the crackberry nipple calling you

Also where is the best place to download ringtones from? I

There are probably better but funtonia.com has unlimited ringtones/realtones for a set fee.

Ok am I an idiot? I'm trying to install opera mini, and it says to scroll down to the bottom of the user agreement and hit the accept button. Yet I see no accept button anywhere on the paqe?

That confused me too, but I don't remember what I did exactly. Could it be that you scroll, then hit the menu button and there's the "accept" option?

hey y'all, finally got one. Classic late adopter. I wanted an organizer phone so I didn't have to use my clunky planner all the time. Also honestly I just felt left out with all my fellow law students using them, lame as that is.

I wonder how it compares to an iphone. I don't think I could live without my iphone (hah!).

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

Pull the battery?

yeah that'll probably work but i want to know why and i want it to NOT DO IT. i genuinely think all technology is a) not controlled by me in any way b) out to get me

Any obvious reason why my Blackberry (I know, I know) has suddenly stopped receiving emails? And any obvious fixes, aside from "switch off for five minutes"?

Hmm. It works if I connect to Wifi.

I was hoping this thread was bumped because someone bought a key one

Saw a review of BlackBerry yesterday by Matt Zoller Seitz, who I like as a TV writer. Didn't read it, but I've seen the film now and will. I know he liked it--surprised.

I found the three principles so hard to take--one yells and scowls nonstop; one is a cartoon geek; the David Foster Wallace guy wears the same dopey expression the entire film--I wanted out after about half an hour. (When Saul Rubinek appears, he puts those three actors to shame just by acting human-like. Rich Sommer--Mad Men's Harry Crane!--does all right too.) The soundtrack is much better than Air's, but to little effect. (Didn't get "Waterloo Sunset" at the end for a few seconds, but then, duh, I figured it out.)

I've never owned a cell phone, but I associate the BlackBerry with Obama in 2008, so having everything falling apart at that exact moment (a bit earlier even) was somewhat confusing.

It was all right enough as a film, a watchable trifle but the leads are indeed one-note aside from Beruchel. I gotta give credit to makeup/costumes departments though in that I didn't recognize either Cary Elwes or Michael Ironside, and their names are right there in the credits.

I'm sure it's not my thing, but Glenn Howerton screaming is, so I'll still give it a watch

He does scream with proper business asshole verve.

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