I recently added a line to my AT&T account so I could get a bold. I had it for a day, and then returned it. The screen was extremely sharp. Beautiful. But whether it was an issue of font size, or the screen's contrast (or a combination of the two), the device was causing me headaches.
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Funny, the first time I got a Curve was in August when I was visiting my son in Texas. I picked it up at the T-Mobile store, played with it for a full day and returned it the next day. My two main gripes were that it couldn't render HTML emails and the lack of a decent office suite to read and edit Word docs. I actually liked just about everything else about the device, but these two issues were show-stoppers for me and why I returned it.
Not long after returning home to Virginia, T-Mobile made the update to OS 4.5 available, which OS addressed both of my gripes. So a couple weeks ago, I reordered it (and at $150 cheaper than when I first got it!), loaded OS 4.5 and I've been pretty much a happy camper ever since.
PI on the BB is still a non-starter as far as I'm concerned, which is a same because I've been using it on my Windows Mobile devices for years. On my Curve, anyway, it's really slow and hard to control (I want to go to a certain date and it doesn't, scrolling through dates is very slow, etc). I know Alex and the PI crew are working diligently on improving it and I really want it to evolve to at least a useable state so I can use it on my BB. I'm sure that point will arrive sooner rather than later.
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I am a longtime fan of WMobile HP Ipaq's. I have always loved the flexibility of WMobile with many apps to choose from. We went to the Blackberry Curve as a corporate solution for mobile email and scheduling. Now I am a big BB fan even though good apps are few and far between.
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My friends a nut and has been using a Bold for over a month. I'm not sure if he got it from HTC directly or Rogers in Canada but it says AT&T on it.
Let me say from just looking at it, it's quite impressive. I like the faux leather back. I can't think of any WinMo device that looks this "professional".
Overall he loves this thing. He's had all the WinMo devices back to the Jam and had the iPhone for a while.
Some things that weren't mentioned. Some may be obvious.
Good:
Push Email
I'm sick of paying for hosted exchange. I don't even like Outlook. Having everything sync up like magic is great but instant search is not so instant. What's the free version of a push solution for WinMo? Hotmail Live, Xpress Mail, System 7? They're all weak. Setting an imap account to 15 minutes is easy, but the pocket inbox doesn't even tell you when the last connection was for POP/IMAP. Sometimes I hit Send/Receive and a bunch if emails come in from hours ago.
Google Sync
Google's Sync for the BB syncs the calendar directly to the BB calendar. RTM does the same to tasks. No need to sync to Outlook 1st.
Bad:
BB browser is painfully slow. We're both on AT&T (I have a Tilt). Any mobile formated page I load comes in a good minute before his. Opera Mini is about a 20-30 second difference in favor of WinMo
SMS:
It's not threaded and major pain in the but to use after have any threaded sms solution.
BB Bold or Storm or iPhone, it doesn't matter. I think I'm just giving up on WinMo.
Jason
Yeah but what about Windows Mobile, I am in a dilema, I want to return to Windows Mobile from the iPhone but media integration is so poor, I take it you agree thats why you use the Zune.
My favorite media player for mobile devices is CorePlayer. IMO, it is the best video player in any mobile device, and is relatively inexpensive. In default mode, it produces an excellent picture, and has a plethora of adjustments for those so inclined. The best thing about CorePlayer is its ability to play most current Codecs without the timely conversion required for most other players. Copy the video files in their native formats to an SD card, and chances are CorePlayer will play them natively without a problem. It also does a nice job streaming video from NAS' via WiFi. I use CorePlayer on a 4" VGA HP210 with excellent results, and it also plays well on a PPC2003SE Toshiba e830 which also has a VGA screen. Best video player I have used on any mobile device, bar none. I don't use the WM devices for music much, but Windows Media Player seems to work fine for music on the few occasions I have played music on it.
I do like the Zune also, but all the required time-consuming video conversion gets old quickly for me.
One doesn't need to be a 25 year-old female either:
My wife is 56 and has struggled with every PDA I've ever tried to get her to use, Palm, Pocket PC, whatever. But she's gushing about how she'd like a Blackberry.
They must be doing SOMETHING right, and as your story indicates, SOMETHING is A LOT.
My wife is 56 and has struggled with every PDA I've ever tried to get her to use, Palm, Pocket PC, whatever. But she's gushing about how she'd like a Blackberry.
But has she used one, or is she just watching their commercials and thinking it looks easy? The former would be an informed decision, the latter could just be succumbing to hype.
I think Apple's new iPhone App Store commercials look great, for example. I'd like some of those apps on Windows Mobile (especially the one that "listens" to the radio and tells you what the song is). But that doesn't mean I'm going to get an iPhone (even if Verizon carried them) -- I love my Motorola Q9m's keyboard, and hooking it up with the Celio Redfly is even better.
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