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Old 16 October 2011, 02:11 AM   #1
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Blackberry Torch 9860 all touch

Hello there

Im thinking of upgrading to the new all touch BB 9860, I want to know of if anyone has been using it here at TRF and their opinions pros and cons. I want to know mainly how the touch keyboard is for typing (is it similar to iphone?) I donot really compose long emails as such and my work really doesnt depend on the blackberry hence im considering this phone over BB 9900.

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Old 16 October 2011, 04:32 AM   #2
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I tried it and hated it. It's so far behind iphone and droid.

It types quite a bit like the iphone. The one benefit I saw was that it would let you type with a suretype keyboard like on the old BB Pearl. My typing accuracy improved a brazillion percent when I tried that, but it was not enough to save the phone. To bad Apple will never adopt that idea.

I'm not a fan of BB 7 OS. The phone would be better with a decent OS. Maybe the playbook os they are porting will be decent, but it's probably too late unless the thing is a world beater and they allow activesync.
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Old 16 October 2011, 05:17 AM   #3
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BB is a dead technology, just look at the latest outage. It has to process all data sent through a central server? Come on...

If you don't favor the keyboards of the BB and don't need it for work, look to iPhone or Droid.
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Old 16 October 2011, 10:27 AM   #4
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What did one Blackberry user say to the other?





















Nothing, this week.
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Old 16 October 2011, 11:05 AM   #5
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Don't listen to the haters, it works great.
Check out this link:
http://forums.crackberry.com/blackbe...thread-638348/
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Old 16 October 2011, 11:16 AM   #6
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I miss the gratification of the blinking red light of my blackberry.
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Old 16 October 2011, 11:35 AM   #7
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Don't listen to the haters, it works great.
Check out this link:
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Hmm, some very favorable Playbook reviews on that site...
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Old 16 October 2011, 12:44 PM   #8
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I don't know about this new model, but my Blackberry Tour 9630 rocks! Made like a Rolex.
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Yes I admit the last week we had a 3 day blackout and the whole BB community had to check into a rehab! but I ll always be a blackberry loyalist! :) Its just I want to try this non conventional BB phone.

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Old 17 October 2011, 01:39 AM   #10
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Hmm, some very favorable Playbook reviews on that site...
Yea, it's weird. Blackberry users tend to like Blackberry. What I don't understand is why some Apple users want to bash Blackberry so much. If you don't like their products, no biggie. I have a Blackberry and I love it. I use it for phone, calendar, email, and internet. Very few apps if any. I also have an ipod, which I also love. Both great products. You seem to spend a lot of time, on several threads, on a watch forum, bashing Blackberry. The OP just asked a question. Free speech.
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Old 17 October 2011, 07:00 AM   #11
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Yea, it's weird. Blackberry users tend to like Blackberry. What I don't understand is why some Apple users want to bash Blackberry so much. If you don't like their products, no biggie. I have a Blackberry and I love it. I use it for phone, calendar, email, and internet. Very few apps if any. I also have an ipod, which I also love. Both great products. You seem to spend a lot of time, on several threads, on a watch forum, bashing Blackberry. The OP just asked a question. Free speech.
An observation only. The site favorably reviews a product the world considers a dismal failure. Brings the other reviews into question, unless one is specifically seeking a "good" review regardless of the merits.
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Old 18 October 2011, 06:38 AM   #12
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Bubble Bash 2 and other titles free from RIM to compensate for last week's business interruption...

Could NOT write this as fiction.

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville...fer-free.html?
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Bubble Bash 2 and other titles free from RIM to compensate for last week's business interruption...

Could NOT write this as fiction.

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville...fer-free.html?
HAHA. Hilarious. And that came ONLY after getting flack for doing nothing - not on their own accord. I read an article that compared this to the Sony gaming network outage - for a game, not even work/professional/whatever-related, Sony gave out free legitimate games and rebates, etc...
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i had a blackberry for about 6 years and upgraded to the iPhone and i haven't even looked back! best move i ever made!
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Old 22 October 2011, 02:35 AM   #15
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RIM's co-CEOs claimed this week that new software and new hardware will ship someday and solve everything.

New Blackberry OS

To be fair, WebOS made this claim years ago.
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RIM's co-CEOs claimed this week that new software and new hardware will ship someday and solve everything.

New Blackberry OS

To be fair, WebOS made this claim years ago.
Except that WebOS had the software usability and feature stuff down - the OS simply required more hardware specs than they had the capability to release. That, and no carriers wanted to adopt new Palm/HP hardware because it was such a dead horse by the time new handsets started surfacing.


Ultimately, there is one glaring problem that the non-Apple, non-Google mobile players face. They don't have a healthy app ecosystem. I'm not holding my breath, but at least RIM seems to be embracing Android app porting and played with some minimal support of Android apps on Playbook.
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Except that WebOS had the software usability and feature stuff down - the OS simply required more hardware specs than they had the capability to release. That, and no carriers wanted to adopt new Palm/HP hardware because it was such a dead horse by the time new handsets started surfacing.
Understood. It pretty much ends the same way though, with Cisco, Oracle, Bain, or Tim Horton's purchasing RIM for the IP portfolio, promising to reenergize the platform with massive investment, then quietly slitting the platform's throat and letting it bleed out.

The faithful will see the fire sale as a sign of platform resurgence. "WOW, RIM sold so many Playbooks at $59.50 closeout pricing!!! That's going to bring so many new developers into the fold, which will bring great apps, and maybe they'll open source BBX, and manufacturers will adopt the OS, and Blackberry will rule the world!".

It won't be pretty for RIM. Watch the December 15 earnings before you spend another nickel with these clowns. The horrific results of the last few quarters will seem like "the good old days" after they reveal what's been happening.

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Ultimately, there is one glaring problem that the non-Apple, non-Google mobile players face. They don't have a healthy app ecosystem.
AGREED.

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I'm not holding my breath, but at least RIM seems to be embracing Android app porting and played with some minimal support of Android apps on Playbook.
"Soon" is not an embrace. Real geniuses ship.
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Old 22 October 2011, 03:41 AM   #18
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i had a blackberry for about 6 years and upgraded to the iPhone and i haven't even looked back! best move i ever made!
X A MILLION....used BBs for the last 5 years and switched to the new iPhone 4S last Friday...AMAZING! Should have switched sooner!
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