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The SituAsian posted:Research in Motion CEO Mike Lazaridis: Media Relations savant Jobs and Ballmer went crazy before their companies struck gold, maybe this will save RIM
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So I (we all) got switched from windows mobile to blackberry at work a couple months ago and some of us are not understanding something. I'd never used one before. They're coming to me since I do the handheld part of the activations for our office. Helpdesk does the backend. It is enterprise activated with a BES. When I delete messages in outlook or move them out of inbox to another mailbox folder or a pst folder it still shows in inbox of the blackberry. Our help desk people have told me to make sure I have "delete on handheld and mailbox" checked in reconciliation options, it always is. They've had me re-do the enterprise activation (the handheld part) and regenerate encryption keys on mine and several others but the old messages are still there. I've seen something on a forum I found googling saying that if you shift-delete messages in outlook (I do) or always empty your deleted items folder real fast the bes won't sync it for some reason. You have to let them sit and stagnate in deleted items for a while. (what if I want to move to a folder?) but all that was from 2006 and surely doesn't apply? Something else was talking about either an exchange server patch or a bes patch that needs to be applied to correct behavior like this, any ideas? Also, do corporate plans with Verizon typically allow tethering and is there any wifi hotpot thing I can run on here? It's a curve 9330. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Apr 22, 2011 |
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Wagonburner posted:So I (we all) got switched from windows mobile to blackberry at work a couple months ago and some of us are not understanding something. I'd never used one before. They're coming to me since I do the handheld part of the activations for our office. Helpdesk does the backend. To fix the shift-delete thing, your BES admin needs to enable reconciliation of hard-deleted messages. I don't remember exactly what the option is off the top of my head, but they should be able to find it. The reason why is that the BES scans for deletes by looking at where messages move on the Exchange mailstore. If you normally delete something, it goes into deleted items, which the BES can see. If you shift-delete, then it never sees the message move, and ignores it. The fix for this is to turn on a message caching mode on the BES which keeps a record of the past 50-1000 messages in each user's mailbox which it then compares against the messages currently in the mailbox each time it rescans - if a message is gone on the mail store that exists in the cache, it realizes that the message must have been deleted and removes it from the handheld. I don't know if you can do it on BESx, it might be BES-only. Also you typically have to pay extra for the tethering plan. I think there's some apps you can buy that will enable it for free, though. Look for an app called 'Tether'. edit - http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB04853 is the KB on how to enable the hard delete reconciliation
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Thank you, I'll pass that along. Though I really was hoping we were doing something wrong with the phones and we could check one little checkbox and be good. (We're a really tiny office of a really big company, it's hard to get them to listen to us sometimes.)
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So I just switched to sprint EPRP and grabbed two blackberry styles and a incogneto for my son. We will save over 2grand in two years thanks to this. Anyways, I came from a HD2 running cm7 and I am actually really impressed with BBOS6. My last blackberry was a bold9000, and I am in love with this phone. Sure the browser isn't that great and flash doesn't exist, however: The battery life is better than the HD2 The Call Quality is better the HD2 I still love the email application better than android I think the music application is better than the stock android experiance, and better than *most* 3rd party android music players. Overall, I would give the phone a 8/10.
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So any of you guys going to make the playbook plunge? For all those... compelling reasons that I can't think of right now...
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I have a 64g Playbook now that I had preordered on the first day. It needs a couple of additional updates to add features that weren't ready for the release date and to deal with a few issues but so far it has been great. I am bridging it to my Storm 2 which allows me to check and answer e-mail and have calendar and PIM access as well as permitting no fee tethering access through the Bridge connection browser. I also have a 4G hotspot that I use for access as well. Multitasking and multimedia and video recording is very strong and its nice to have solid flash and html5 in the browser.
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Yuns posted:I have a 64g Playbook now that I had preordered on the first day. It needs a couple of additional updates to add features that weren't ready for the release date and to deal with a few issues but so far it has been great. I am bridging it to my Storm 2 which allows me to check and answer e-mail and have calendar and PIM access as well as permitting no fee tethering access through the Bridge connection browser. I also have a 4G hotspot that I use for access as well. Multitasking and multimedia and video recording is very strong and its nice to have solid flash and html5 in the browser. Do you know your user agent? I want to check my logs to see if anyone's using them amongst visitors.
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Scaramouche posted:Do you know your user agent? I want to check my logs to see if anyone's using them amongst visitors.
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Scaramouche posted:So any of you guys going to make the playbook plunge? For all those... compelling reasons that I can't think of right now... Get an iPad 2. The iPad is a lot better "SRS BIZNESS" tablet than the Playbook which is a BlackBerry without BBM or e-mail and will probably have a joke of a development community for a long time.
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Godzilla07 posted:Get an iPad 2. The iPad is a lot better "SRS BIZNESS" tablet than the Playbook which is a BlackBerry without BBM or e-mail and will probably have a joke of a development community for a long time. It will with that attitude mister 
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Yuns posted:Mozilla/5.0 (PlayBook; U; RIM Tablet OS 1.0.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.8+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/0.0.1 Safari/534.8+ Hmm, seeing browsers but no buyers yet. I should bug head office for one so I can test if the browser can actually finalize in the shopping cart.
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Godzilla07 posted:Get an iPad 2. The iPad is a lot better "SRS BIZNESS" tablet than the Playbook which is a BlackBerry without BBM or e-mail and will probably have a joke of a development community for a long time. The Playbook is actually a drat impressive piece of hardware and the QNX OS is really sweet too. We had some guys visit our office to show off the tablet in person a while back. They could hook a demo unit up via HDMI to 2 TV's playing 1080p video... which you can't do with the retail unit but it shows how powerful the little tablet really is. Considering RIM was also sending out free playbooks for people who submitted Apps there's a good number of free apps for launch. Because of the free tablets more developers will have the tablet in hand to support. We've got a bunch of playbooks @ work for development.
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ratbert90 posted:So I just switched to sprint EPRP and grabbed two blackberry styles and a incogneto for my son. We will save over 2grand in two years thanks to this. I do like Android, but it feels flaky and buggy. I'll probably get one eventually anyway because I like tinkering, but I'm not really in a hurry to get rid of my 9000. I was frustrated with the low RAM problem, but it's been almost completely mitigated by getting an app to reset the phone for me. BlackBerry gets the basics right, like calling, address books, and messaging. The basics are arguably still better than their rivals with how elegantly they work. Having the keyboard for shortcuts is something usually ignored. While they don't have flashy apps, they have enough solid functional apps for the purposes I need, that I can't complain. Ubersocial is a fantastic Twitter app that is comparable to any platform. Trillian on BlackBerry is amazing and possibly the best iteration of it on any mobile platform, I don't know how. Google Maps is outstanding; it blew my mind when I realised I could functionally do Streetview even on my old Bold. Even the browser is quite mitigated if you download BoltBrowser. I can surf SA and post from it at least (and have been for over a year.) Honestly I could go on a while. (In short, I also use KeePassBB2, Evernote, Go Reader for Google Reader access, Facebook, Wordpress, RestartMe for easy resetting/RAM clearing, BlackBerry Podcasts, BlackBerry Protect, BBWeather for a homescreen widget, Google Sync, GPS Tracker to get raw data for theoretically geotagging photos) I think the only shame insofar as apps go is that RIM bought Viigo -- a killer app for the platform -- and then apparently killed it. It's still pretty great for aggregating news, but stuff like syncing with Google Reader hasn't worked for something like a year now with no updates. Scaramouche posted:So any of you guys going to make the playbook plunge? For all those... compelling reasons that I can't think of right now... But the iPad is wonderful for the couch and bed, ha. It's almost the perfect computer for my girlfriend ... until she needs to do stuff like photo uploading and all of a sudden it's completely useless.
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teethgrinder posted:Yeah, I don't know man. I don't really understand the media's hatred for BlackBerry. No they're not as shiny as iPhones and Android phones, but they're still decent pieces of hardware, and besides the browser, the OS is solid. They're leagues ahead of Symbian at least. quote:I do like Android, but it feels flaky and buggy. I'll probably get one eventually anyway because I like tinkering, but I'm not really in a hurry to get rid of my 9000. quote:BlackBerry gets the basics right, like calling, address books, and messaging. The basics are arguably still better than their rivals with how elegantly they work. Having the keyboard for shortcuts is something usually ignored. Even after going away from blackberry and owning: A G1 A hero A palm pre A galaxy S A Nexus One A G2 A HD2 A mirad of dumb phones all in the course of two years, the blackberry keyboard is still the best I have used, bar none. Why can't other companies get it right? Funny enough, the pre keyboard was the closest. quote:While they don't have flashy apps, they have enough solid functional apps for the purposes I need, that I can't complain. Ubersocial is a fantastic Twitter app that is comparable to any platform. Trillian on BlackBerry is amazing and possibly the best iteration of it on any mobile platform, I don't know how. Google Maps is outstanding; it blew my mind when I realised I could functionally do Streetview even on my old Bold. Adding to that, from what I understand people who have tons and tons of apps on thier phones tend to only use a few of them more than once, and I have a nook for that. quote:Honestly I could go on a while. (In short, I also use KeePassBB2, Evernote, Go Reader for Google Reader access, Facebook, Wordpress, RestartMe for easy resetting/RAM clearing, BlackBerry Podcasts, BlackBerry Protect, BBWeather for a homescreen widget, Google Sync, GPS Tracker to get raw data for theoretically geotagging photos) 
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Adding to that, with the caveat of "ONCE YOU GET USED TO IT," BlackBerry has done multitasking for a long time and I think it's still implemented far better than iOS. Another issue is that every application multitasks and exits differently which is unfortunate, but functionally still great when you're aware of it. It just doesn't do well for non-techies. I'm mostly stuck with a 9000 because it's normal in Canada to have three year contracts. I could pick up a Nexus S now contract free (as of this month), but it's still a significant amount of money, and I feel reluctant to spend it on something where the guts are already somewhat obsolete compared to the US market. edit: Viigo still exists! It just hasn't been updated for a long time. You've searched App World? I can definitely still see it there. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Apr 27, 2011 |
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teethgrinder posted:Yeah, I don't know man. I don't really understand the media's hatred for BlackBerry. This post is just riddled with hilarity. Android isn't flaky and buggy. And then to immediately say your low RAM (major bug that made me hate my old Blackberry) is easily mitigated by completely restarting your phone is really funny. The basics aren't hard to get right, even a Nokia bar from 2000 gets the basics right. Trillian on BB doesn't even support push messaging does it? I believe it's all polling. And yes, if you download a third-party browser, the web experience is finally on par with Android's from a year ago!
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big mean giraffe posted:This post is just riddled with hilarity. Android isn't flaky and buggy. And then to immediately say your low RAM (major bug that made me hate my old Blackberry) is easily mitigated by completely restarting your phone is really funny. The basics aren't hard to get right, even a Nokia bar from 2000 gets the basics right. Trillian on BB doesn't even support push messaging does it? I believe it's all polling. And yes, if you download a third-party browser, the web experience is finally on par with Android's from a year ago!
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I haven't looked at the browsers and which are better or not (just noticed that os6 the browser got waay better). What's Bolt browser? Is it installed by default, or do I grab it from app centre? Is it wise(r) to use on a Bold 9700?
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Bolt is a free, decent mobile browser. I'm using it on my 9650 as Opera Mini doesn't work with trackpads. Just go to boltbrowser.com on your phone to get it.
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ratbert90 posted:please, blackberry wasn't built to browse the web, and don't get me started on all the posts on this forum about random rebooted and poweroffs on android phones. I had them all the time with cm7 and stock android "Not being built to browse the web" isn't an excuse, especially in 2011, and I've had one random reboot in over a year of owning an Android phone, and that was because of a problem that was my fault.
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Captain Charisma posted:"Not being built to browse the web" isn't an excuse, especially in 2011, and I've had one random reboot in over a year of owning an Android phone, and that was because of a problem that was my fault. anecdotal evidence ahoy! Go look up the moment if you want some laughs. And the web browser IS Getting better.
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big mean giraffe posted:This post is just riddled with hilarity. Android isn't flaky and buggy. And then to immediately say your low RAM (major bug that made me hate my old Blackberry) is easily mitigated by completely restarting your phone is really funny. The basics aren't hard to get right, even a Nokia bar from 2000 gets the basics right. Trillian on BB doesn't even support push messaging does it? I believe it's all polling. And yes, if you download a third-party browser, the web experience is finally on par with Android's from a year ago! First, it's true that I haven't even seen Android 2.3 yet. I haven't seriously followed them or tried them recently since I decided I couldn't really afford to change to one yet. Second, until very recently, Android phones are like 6-12 months behind the US in Canada. Even then, modern phones are rare and exclusives. The Nexus S is finally available everywhere as of a couple of weeks ago, but it's not even the "best" Android phone any more (if you're measuring by hardware power anyway.) That said, my Android-using friends and coworkers have all complained about dropped calls, freezes and restarts to the point where they regret ever buying the phones. But these are probably 1.6-2.2 builds. As for basics, the Symbian Nokia 6790 I got was atrocious. I don't think I can actually say a single good thing about any of its basic functionality. What don't you understand about the word "mitigated." It's a major flaw, but I found an easy way around it. It's also a three year old model and modern BlackBerries don't even have the low-RAM problem. I don't know what Trillian does, but it's great on battery usage now (by the second build, the first one was awful) and messages appear to show up instantly when I observe. It also nicely integrates with the messages app. Well uh yeah, thank you for agreeing with me re: browser. Because people don't download third-party apps to fix anything on Android or iOS. (As tough as Apple makes it to have anything that "replicates functionality" approved.) Steve Moore posted:Bolt is a free, decent mobile browser. I'm using it on my 9650 as Opera Mini doesn't work with trackpads. Just go to boltbrowser.com on your phone to get it.
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My mom owns an iPhone and her friend owns a BB. They want to text without paying the huge bill to text internationally. I hear Kik is good, but in the iPhone app store it says RIM doesn't allow it. Is that true? If so, what's the easiest, best and free solution to text between iPhone and BB?
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I've been using Whatsapp, but someone above mentioned Trillian. Both of which would just use dataplans.
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:My mom owns an iPhone and her friend owns a BB. They want to text without paying the huge bill to text internationally. Why not just something like Google Talk? And Blackberrys are better, but I still find them clunky. My favorite it does well though is the "just type" search they basically stole from Palm. In the end, I notice that 3G internet seems to take longer on a BBerry vs Android, and I really have no explanation on why. Great for email, improved media features, but I still feel BBErry is behind. Very curious to try out the Playbook though. Oh and for anyone who wants BBerry on Sprint the Style is free with contract starting Sunday.
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Duckman2008 posted:Why not just something like Google Talk? It's slower because it goes through the BIS, and yeah, it's annoying. edit* I *JUST* got my styles 2 days ago, would it be a good idea to head the the sprint store to see if they would discount me the 100$ on the phones?
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ratbert90 posted:anecdotal evidence ahoy! Go look up the moment if you want some laughs. Your example is literally the worst Android phone ever made? Duckman2008 posted:In the end, I notice that 3G internet seems to take longer on a BBerry vs Android, and I really have no explanation on why. Great for email, improved media features, but I still feel BBErry is behind. RIM loves telling the carriers that Blackberry data is less pressure on networks, which I'll leave up to you to decipher
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The trade-off is that the data is compressed. I used to be surfing SA all day long at work and the max usage I ever had was 200 MB a month. I had assumed it was slower just because of the CPU but this makes more sense, duh.
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Captain Charisma posted:Your example is literally the worst Android phone ever made? how about all the other problems with Samsung phones? at least my GPS works consitantly. look at the g2x, widespread freezing problems. random reboots on Motorola devices I have seen. good try though. quote:RIM loves telling the carriers that Blackberry data is less pressure on networks, which I'll leave up to you to decipher
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ratbert90 posted:how about all the other problems with Samsung phones? at least my GPS works consitantly. look at the g2x, widespread freezing problems. random reboots on Motorola devices I have seen. good try though. Samsung phones suck. No one is arguing there. To each his own dude, but if you want to argue about phone problems, I suggest you google problems on the Blackberry Curves 8530 and 9330. Awful awful phones. Style is way better, but the Evo outperforms it every day of the week for most uses. All smartphone platforms have their glitches, and Samsung phones at this point will just always suck, so I think arguing on any platform based on the other being glitchy is retarded. It comes down to feature set and hardware that fits what you personally want. If you love the Style, more power to ya dude, I gather it fits your needs fine. I would go nuts if I owned a Style personally. To each their own.
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Duckman2008 posted:Samsung phones suck. No one is arguing there. Thats what I said to begin with, BMG and captain charisma came in and said that android phones are perfect and NEVER glitchy. My original post is that the browser is better on android and so are games and there are many apps, however blackberries are just fine for 90% of the people out there, and I don't understand why they have such a bad rap. I agree with your post. edit* I mentioned Samsung, LG, and Motorola in my post. Also, Samsung is a huge chunk of Android phones out there, so people are getting bad impressions of Android thanks to them.
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Nexus S is built by Samsung. I haven't seen many complaints with that... is there something I should be aware of? If my Bold bought it overnight, that would probably be my go-to replacement. Another thing is that the vast majority of "adults" (say roughly 35 and older) I see with iPhones don't even use apps/games. At all. Calling and sometimes email, and that's it. They'll listen to music if their kids load them up for them. But they're flashy.
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I thought this was a Blackberry thread not a Blackberry vs Android thread, who cares, move on. For those who aren't here to poo poo on the Blackberry I am currently using BB OS6.0.0.499 on my 9700 and its running pretty smooth. The cursor disappearing in the facebook app and other areas no longer occurs, can't confirm if the memory leak has been fixed as I haven't noticed the memmory leak on any of the earlier leaked OS's myself. iCaPpY fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Apr 29, 2011 |
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Is there a way to get a cheaper plan on AT&T for your blackberry? It's just a personal phone, and I use to have this Medianet unlimited text/200mb plan for 20bux that I was using with my old HTC Wizard phone before i picked up this old Blackberry bold. In the last 3 months through AT&T changed my plan to this $45 plan for 1500 txt/2GB data. I definitely don't need this, I already lowered the to text 1000 to save $5, but is there anyways to lower the 2GB to 200MB? I barely ever go to 100MB as is. I heard on Android, there is a way to spoof the EIN of your phone to a non smartphone. Could a Blackberry accomplish the same thing?
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Femur posted:Is there a way to get a cheaper plan on AT&T for your blackberry? It's just a personal phone, and I use to have this Medianet unlimited text/200mb plan for 20bux that I was using with my old HTC Wizard phone before i picked up this old Blackberry bold. In the last 3 months through AT&T changed my plan to this $45 plan for 1500 txt/2GB data. AT&T already offers a 200mb plan, are you just looking at data only plans or something? I'm not sure about those but I know I have a 200mb plan for my Torch.
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