Comments on: What would make you give up your BlackBerry?

By: Cooper

Cooper — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:30:11 +0000

@roksteddy great comment – of course we would never ditch our BlackBerry devices, but the post was not about that. We wanted to see what the rest of the crowd had to say. People just like you who have used the devices and have seen the alternative options available to them. We wanted to know what people would change and what they felt needed improvement.

You gave us all of that =)

- thank you for stopping by.

By: roksteddy

roksteddy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:58:07 +0000

This is a dumb article, and biased. OF COURSE you’ll never dump your blackberry, you work for BB Geeks. What would make me dump my blackberry? How about sucky web browsing capabilities? In the era of multi touch screens and feature rich webkit based OS and tons of multimedia games, the best RIM can come up with is the Storm…. and 1 GB of memory. What would make me dump my blackberry? How about the drive-you-nuts battery pulls? How primitive. This is officially recommended solution by RIM btw, and most users agree that pulling the battery once every two weeks or at least a month is recommended to keep the system running smoothly. Hard reset is wonderful though, it brings me nostalgic memories of the 1990s. I remember when I had to do hard resets on my 386AT computer once a week.

What would make me dump my blackberry? Not much. Except for the iPhone, MyTouch, Nokia or Pre. Push email? A lot of it are already on all of them. Let me ask you back: What can RIM promise to offer so I don’t dump them? Oh, too late. I already got MyTouch. I love it.

By: bambam

bambam — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:17:46 +0000

i would really like more free app for blackberrys i mean look at the iphone it has more than 10,000 apps out there i would maybe trade my blackberry for an i phone in the future if i dont see more apps for this device i mean i kno is not all bout apps but i would love to have cool apps on my phone that i can use or i can entertain my self

By: BBGeekcast: November 21, 2008 - Episode 39 | BB Geeks

BBGeekcast: November 21, 2008 - Episode 39 | BB Geeks — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:38:15 +0000

[...] President-elect Barack Obama and his impending separation from his BlackBerry. While I asked what would make you give up your BlackBerry earlier in the week, I got to wondering if I really need it at all. Answer: if only for email. [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:31:48 +0000

Flash.

Two years in a row at Adobe Max, Adobe has been hammering the Flash platform on mobile devices. First Flash Lite, and now full-on Flash 10 on mobile devices. Not once do the words RIM or Blackberry come up.

Flex apps and Adobe AIR apps on mobile devices are on the horizon- they demoed a Flex app last year in their “Sneak Peaks” that could interact with the phone OS.

Symbian already runs Flash- if just Flash 8. WinMo, iPhone- even Android is getting Flash on the mobile.

If RIM doesn’t get in on the act, I’m going to either buy a Nokia or an Android. RIM isn’t the only email heavyweight anymore.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:46:52 +0000

Well I have the Blackberry Bold on Vodafone and I have had nothing but trouble whereas my 8800 has always behaved itself so I’m tempted to get it swapped for something else.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:17:11 +0000

Nah. The pres dosen’t make enough $ to justify the ditching of the BB. I’d ditch it if… Don’t know the reason yet.

By: idl3mind

idl3mind — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:54:56 +0000

Getting elected President of the USA, heh