New Blackberry 9790
Good afternoon everyone... Just picked up the new Blackberry BOLD 9790 touch screen... It is a huge improvement from my 9700... Having the touch screen option is very iPhonish, I like it... Only issue so far is that the screen icons are rather small and you need some really good accuracy to activate the right icons... Loading and scrolling speeds are quite fast with the 1Gh processor... All in all, not a bad unit to go with... As stated before though, I would still pick the iPhone over the BB... The only reason I don't is because it is a corporate phone and has to run on the Enterprise system... Oh well, still much better than it's predecessors...:)
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The new Blackberry actually specs out equal to or better than the iPhone. Let alone the Android phones like the one I bought to replace my Blackberry. I have serious issue with some of Apple's business practices, not to mention their latest two were already obsolete when they were released as far as specs are concerned compared to the phones that had come out weeks before.
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Im still a Droid guy but looks like a nice phone
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Originally Posted by SupplySgt
(Post 428568)
The new Blackberry actually specs out equal to or better than the iPhone. Let alone the Android phones like the one I bought to replace my Blackberry. I have serious issue with some of Apple's business practices, not to mention their latest two were already obsolete when they were released as far as specs are concerned compared to the phones that had come out weeks before.
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I have an old blackberry curve floating around that i had before my android phone. I liked it, but imo android is just far better. I did like the torch 9850. Full touch screen, never got to try it though
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Blackberrys are messaging phones, not app phones.
Perhaps with BB10 they will make the transition to more APP friendly, but they have always been primarily an email and messaging beast. Battery is bad? That is very odd. Perhaps it is just playing with it for right now? Did you do all the typical new phone battery setups, and make sure you don't have many programs running all at once? |
Originally Posted by ChibiBlackSheep
(Post 428581)
Blackberrys are messaging phones, not app phones.
Perhaps with BB10 they will make the transition to more APP friendly, but they have always been primarily an email and messaging beast. Battery is bad? That is very odd. Perhaps it is just playing with it for right now? Did you do all the typical new phone battery setups, and make sure you don't have many programs running all at once? |
I wouldn't go that far as far as quality of build. My old blackberry was FAR more durable than iPhones that my friends have had. And I'm hard on phones too. To be honest, number of apps played absolutely no role in my decision when I upgraded. What apps the Blackberrys do have was enough for me. I never found myself wanting any additional apps. I have way too much to do to make use of 95% of the apps out there. I looked at the performance and in that the iPhone came in last. Even the new Blackberry has a better processor than the iPhone 4s. Not to mention, I wasn't paying 200+ bucks for a non-4G phone. And I sure as hell wasn't paying that much for an inferior phone as far as hardware in general.
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Originally Posted by SupplySgt
(Post 428599)
I wouldn't go that far as far as quality of build. My old blackberry was FAR more durable than iPhones that my friends have had. And I'm hard on phones too. To be honest, number of apps played absolutely no role in my decision when I upgraded. What apps the Blackberrys do have was enough for me. I never found myself wanting any additional apps. I have way too much to do to make use of 95% of the apps out there. I looked at the performance and in that the iPhone came in last. Even the new Blackberry has a better processor than the iPhone 4s. Not to mention, I wasn't paying 200+ bucks for a non-4G phone. And I sure as hell wasn't paying that much for an inferior phone as far as hardware in general.
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Originally Posted by 03JGMonte
(Post 428572)
Im still a Droid guy but looks like a nice phone
It's got a real nice feel to it... Slim but still weighty enough to feel like a quality product... Also the keyboard wraps around the edge a little, very comfortable... Plus I'm old school and love the chrome trimmings... :rotfl:... :) |
I don't know what network you are on but I'm on Verizon and the Verizon version is not 4G. That was one of the biggest factors in my decision as my phone was really old and on it's last legs and I just couldn't wait 6 months or more on a 4G Blackberry. Wasn't gonna pay that kind of money for a 3G phone (which also would have eliminated the iPhone even if it wasn't inferior)
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Originally Posted by SupplySgt
(Post 428613)
I don't know what network you are on but I'm on Verizon and the Verizon version is not 4G. That was one of the biggest factors in my decision as my phone was really old and on it's last legs and I just couldn't wait 6 months or more on a 4G Blackberry. Wasn't gonna pay that kind of money for a 3G phone (which also would have eliminated the iPhone even if it wasn't inferior)
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Oh yea I just noticed you're in Canada. I'm guessing Bell is a CDMA network then if you're not getting 4G (I'm pretty certain none of the CDMA blackberries are 4G). I THINK the GSM blackberries are all 4G now. Not completely certain on that but I think I'm correct.
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Yeah we have the 4G phones on GSM
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Originally Posted by ChibiBlackSheep
(Post 428641)
Yeah we have the 4G phones on GSM
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I'm holding out for the BB10 phones, so I'm not on GSM 4G yet :)
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I don't know about speeds on the GSM 4G networks but with my new HTC I'm pulling down 13-16Mbps during peak demand hours and over 40Mbps in the middle of the night. This is just unreal, especially for it being my first 4G experience.
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Originally Posted by SupplySgt
(Post 428697)
I don't know about speeds on the GSM 4G networks but with my new HTC I'm pulling down 13-16Mbps during peak demand hours and over 40Mbps in the middle of the night. This is just unreal, especially for it being my first 4G experience.
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Keep in mind during times of higher demand, 13-18Mbps is more normal. I work nights though so a lot of times when I'm on my phone it's not during peak demand hehe.
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Originally Posted by SupplySgt
(Post 428714)
Keep in mind during times of higher demand, 13-18Mbps is more normal. I work nights though so a lot of times when I'm on my phone it's not during peak demand hehe.
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Mine runs at crazy fast speeds on 4G takes no time to load pages & download stuff
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Must be nice to have 4g, i have a 3g sim card in a 4g phone, no super speed for me:thumbsdown:
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