i’ve read that the touch screen on the glyde is very unresponsive at times…sometimes it will light up like you touched it, but nothing will actually happen

if this is true, i wouldnt take the chance…but i like the design of the glyde more. i wish the dare had a slide out keyboard too

Yeah, Voyager impressed me more than the Dare, if only because it has a keyboard. I text a lot, and the on-screen keyboard on the Dare just doesn’t cut it. Try one out for yourself, but it just isn’t my cup of tea.

I also tried the Glyde out, but was seriously more impressed with the Voyager. I’d recommend giving it a try. I ended up buying it and really like it.

the voyager is just an EnV1 with a touchscreen on the front. get the EnV2 if you want a keyboard

I wasn’t impressed with the env2′s keyboard at all, was very awkward to use, the keys are tiny, and I kept hitting wrong buttons, especially with and around the arrow keys.

i just got the voyager today and so far i like it. it’s replacing a moto Q. i have to have a real keyboard, and have pretty big fingers. the voyager has a larger keyboard than the glyde and env2. The voyager and env2 are on sale now, too. got mine for 50 bucks.

I just went with the dare, bought it off some lady who bought it thinking it was a palm..

i like it so far

Blackberry 8830 is always a good choice, but verizon’s mandatory blackberry plan is ridiculous

There I fixed it for you. I currently have the EnV1 and really want a Dare when I can upgrade here in a few months.

When it comes to a local store I’m guna go play with it. I’ve actually built a few apps for android already (RSS reader stuff mostly) and I stopped because of sdk issues and I didn’t particularly like the first edition they released but the new videos of it are looking /good/

I have no idea how you can use windows mobile. That os just fucking sucks.

Symbian ftmfw. That being said, i will finally be using my upgrade on the dream.

i’m gonna jump on the HTC G1 presale for t-mo on Sept 17th. special pricing and early release for current t-mo customers speculated at $149 with a 2-year renewal. for that price and feature set, i owe it to myself to try it out blindly, although it’s gonna be tough to outdo my blackberry.

the htc dream. First phone on the market offered through tmobile that will run android! woot

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and you can always return it if it sucks balls

the HTC G1 should be pretty sweet,im not crazy about the design but hopefully Android should make up for it

now that i’m seeing the pics of this phone i’m actually kind of disappointed in the hardware. i like the sliding keyboard and stuff, but overall it just looks kind of cheap. if you compare it to current options from Apple and RIM, they’ve obviously put in a lot of thought to the design aspect. this phone just doesn’t seem to have any sexiness to it. so, it seems like a phone that’ll be interesting only to the geek crowd.

Yea, I just can’t fathom how HTC, the maker of he Wizard, the touch, touch pro, and the Xperia X1 came out with such a clunky, horrible lookng phone. I’ll probably get it anyway, but after hearing that the 3g is only half (3.6mbps not 7.2mbps) I’m not sure…

Okay, so I’m working on a project and I’ve got a battery that looks like this

it’s essentially a 3.6 volt lithium ion AA style battery with a few leads ran off. Problem is I can’t find a good charger/socket combo that I can build into the device to recharge the battery. I’m preferably looking for one that has an LED on the charger to indicate charging/charged.

I need a charger and socket capable to charge this battery…

what was wrong with this?

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Opera Mini

What else?

The ones i have currently are Viigo, BBSmart Alarms, Google Maps.

I highly suggest Viigo, its my most-used app.

another vote for viigo and google maps.

check out pinstack.com

Viigo
Google Maps
There’s mlb programs for your favorite baseball team
soft reset
facebook
weather eye
beyond411

Works fine on my 8820 with AT&T, use it almost everyday.

rss reader. just use opera.

works fine with my 8310 (curve) and I use it a ton

Viigo > Opera as far as RSS readers go. Opera’s rarely updates correctly and is slow as hell to load. I like the preview feature better too.

rss in general is lame.

To each their own I guess.

so is there a good video/media player for bb 8120? I haven’t been able to play any videos that weren’t recorded on the phone.. tried wmvs and mpgs..

on the new OS, but no. BB’s suck ass at multimedia

almost as much as you

I have opera, but are there any browsers that allow you to download without BIS?

wow Google Maps is awesome. I able to avoid traffic on the way home.

Anyone know a way to get Gmail on my phone without having BB service? I have unlimited Data (SERO)

I have a BB on SERO and nothing except basic voice worked until they got the BB plan added. I couldn’t even text message!

they say everything non-voice gets routed through the BB systems.

strange. I have unlimited text and I browse the internet on Opera and get directions/traffic all the time on google maps and I have no BB plan. I know there is a way to get Gmail on your BB but you have to go through the computer and load it on as a program or something because the gmail download site will only download from BB browser, not Opera Mini.

dunno, man. I originally signed up with the normal sero unl data plan and nothing except voice worked.

I called sprint and went to the special bb dept and they said it was a well-known issue and putting the bb service would fix it. They switched me to a sero "voice only" plan and added the bb codes and resent my service books. everything began working within 5 minutes.

I’ve done a lot of browsing of forums about this and as far as I know there isn’t.

there are gmail clients for the BB, is that what you are talking about?

no, SERO doesn’t offer free BIS, so you have to pay another 30 a month to them, and he’s trying to get around that, which won’t work.

Not yet. Which is the main reason I won’t buy a BB yet.

Someone tell me why I would want Skype for my BB.

Found it

Well, it’s another chat program like AIM/MSN/Yahoo/BBmessenger.

Also international calls are really cheap on it.

Oldish thread, but iskoot uses your minutes.]

doesn’t – pure data. No blackberry support, though

Any thoughts?

Sprint is doing $99 for a brand-new 8330 Curve. Do that.

How’s third-party software support on the Curve? It’s pretty hard to argue that either the Curve or the iPhone are really just phones, so the quality of the software matters a lot.

Um, there are so many programs out for the Curve. I really don’t know what apps you need, but everyone is developing for it. Maybe not an iTunes apps store, but there is virtually everything you’d need.

If you are a stock trader, the E*Trade Mobile Pro is developed specifically, and exclusively for Blackberry. I also really like the Yahoo Go!/Yahoo Onesearch applications.

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I have my 8330 with Sprint on their $99 Simply Everything Plan, and I abuse the hell out of it. The Sprint Navigation is really good, compared to my Magellan Maestro 4250. I don’t even use my Magellan anymore. The Sprint TV and Sprint Radio are also nice features. There is no plan AT&T can offer that will match what the $99 SEP can do, especially for the price. And it’s only $99 for the Curve from any of the major providers right now anyways, so I wouldn’t buy one used for $100.

I would buy it since its no strings attached, then flip it on ebay

To answer your question, the curve (I’m using one now) is more of a messaging/productivity phone than the iphone, and the iphone is more of a media/internet phone

I’ve had both, and if the iphone were cdma I’d probably have one again because I listen to a lot of music and use the browser more than any other thing on any of my phones. Instead I use the curve because bb os is stable and windows mobile pisses me off to no end

2 comments:
- i put Opera on my Blackberry 8703e and that’s a serious contender for Safari on the iPhone. i hate the shitty scroll wheel navigation, but the ball on the Curve would probably make it awesome.
- Opera 4 doesn’t seem to have copy/paste either.

Unfortunately up in good ol’ Maine we don’t have Sprint..But thanks for the info haha.

My roommate and I tried to get T-mobile to match the deal that best buy has right now brand new curve for 50$. He was on the phone for over 2 hours with T-mobile and get nothing but the run around and the best they could do was knock 50$ off the 250$ that he paid for a brand new one. Went to Best Buy tried to get one myself and I wasn’t approved for a regular plan. (another story) So my roommate ended up just keeping the new one for the 250$ and actually sold me his for only 50$. So all and all I made out pretty damn well.

well it’s only phone, not a matter of life and death, so you did good

so i figured signing up for tmobile, then getting an unlocked version of these phones online.

what you think?

tmobile is crap.

Sure it’s cheap, and their CSRs are nice… but what good is that when you can’t make a call because the coverage SUCKS or you are waiting for days to get a page to load or a picture to send because their data network was out-dated in the 1700′s?

My friend has a Centro, and it’s a piece of shit. When he ordered it, we both thought it was amazing value for money. However, after 8 months it’s very obvious why it’s so cheap! It’s a piece of junk.

But then you have a Sony phone on the other hand. That’s just fail and aids.

WOW, you really suck at wireless stuff!

what do you suggest?

i’ve just been looking today, and i need a phone asap, the one i have has crapped out

blackberry pearl or curve are amazing phones.

tmobile is a great wireless carrier if you never want to go over your minutes. the problem is that you can’t use them because you can never get a reliable signal. but, it certainly keeps your costs down.

So, if i’m stuck with AT&T for now, and live in the area i do…what phone would be my best bet for getting signal inside the house?

change address to an area that gets NO coverage according to their coverage maps…. Port number to a decent carrier and get your etf waived. DONE.

forcing your phone to roam will also help encourage them to waive the etf.

Verizon requires you to wait 1 year from when the initial contract is signed. You would have to pay for the full price of the phone listed without contract price.

So say you wanted a Voyager that is $150 with 1 year contract, you wouldn’t qualify since your 1 year isn’t up from your previous phone. You would end up having to pay $500+ for it.

And unless your parents added you as an authorized user of the account, you can’t just walk in and add or change the plans.

unless you know the password and say your the authorized user

yea go commit identity theft…. that’s not illegal, or anything

when you have permission to do it smart guy…………..

no, when you have permission then you’re listed as an authorized user on the acct and don’t have to claim to be someone else.

fucktard.

you said your parents are ok with you getting a new phone, so go and check out the phones and then talk to your parents so they go with you. you won’t have money if they don’t give it to you anyway…

I have the newest divx codec, and the newest xvid codec.

now…

why would some divx files play with video and sound, and others with video and NO sound?

it’s driving me nuts

well, i believe divx is just a video codec and most have their audio encoded as MP3. maybe these files are using something different for the audio.

i like to use Any Video Converter (for PC) to tell how a particular video file is encoded. you don’t have to do the conversion if you don’t want, but it’ll give you info on the file format.

according to:

you basically have to flash the phone to get rid of the att firmware.

FUCKING ATT FAGGOTS!!! now that i’ve gotten that out of my system… Thanks man… i appreciate the help… though that does bring up another question: How the fuck do i go about flashing my phone? It’s something i’ve never had to do before, and the whole process might as well be written in ancient Klingon for all the good it’d do me.

If you don’t want to do that, then 300kb is the filesize limit.

I’m willing to do it, just don’t know how.

I thought with SE phones, you can put any MP3 song as the ringtone, and it’ll play the first 20-30 seconds of it?

With my w300, it would play the track until the phone kicked the call back to voicemail. If VM didn’t pick up after 4 "rings" or so, then theoretically, yeah, it’d play the whole song.

With the w580i, it’s not a matter of the phone itself, but with ATT’s firmware that poses the limitation. Hence flashing the phone to replace the firmware with something else, while not destroying functionality with ATT’s systems.