Blackberry=Whackberry » BlackBerry Devices

What more with a Tour?

TCS — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:59:42 +0000

With the ever changing world of wireless smartphones why has RIM released a device which again, doesn’t bring anything new to the table. The BlackBerry Tour, which has been heavily marketed by Verizon Wireless and Sprint, has demonstrated RIM’s lack of ingenuity in the wireless marketplace. Keep it up RIM and you’ll end up like Motorola… So why is the public so blind when it comes to the re-packaging of the same old crap? Actually, it’s even crappier considering it lacks wifi. The device does have a nice form factor and all, but us true “mobile warriors” can see right through all the smoke and mirrors to reveal the same old boring device… a whole 1+ years after the initial boring devices were released. (bold and storm) Join the revolution!!!

BlackBerry 8520 Mac Compatable…Who cares???

TCS — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:45:23 +0000

While other device manufacturers are brewing up some pretty sick OS tweaks and new OS’ all together… The people up in Canada are giving us something that should’ve been there from the getgo… Cross-OS compatability for desktop software (almost-obsolete btw) should be a no-brainer…How about giving us something new and spicy… How about a refresh to the boring java-based excuse for an OS. Maybe a useable touch based interface… something snappy like the iphone, android, or WebOS. It’s not quite do or die for RIM, considering they make in the neighborhood of 50% of their profits from BES/BIS service, but it’s getting there with each new device launched on their “same ol” platform.

BlackBerry PIN/Service Book/Activation issues

TCS — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:59:30 +0000

Incident for BlackBerry PIN to PIN service for subscribers of “The Americas

Network”

Impact: BlackBerry subscribers may experience delays in receiving PIN

messages and may receive an “x” when sending PIN messages.

Incident Window Start Date and Time: 23 July 2009 14:46:00 (EDT).

Duration: Ongoing

Seems like BlackBerry’s PIN messaging went down for a short while last night. This would affect all those users wishing to send super-secrect messages… Sorry guys, but it looks like you’ll have to learn how to use good ol email to communicate. RIM still seems to be ironing out some kinks with their Network Operations. Several system wide outages over the past few months could mean nothing or everything depending on how your organization uses their services. It can be easy to get lured into the ease of deployment, the all-in-one solution, the ease of troubleshooting ect… But when you throw an outage here, an outage there… it quickly becomes an IT nightmare. One unexpected outage can easily become 50-100 phone calls and emails. As for other enterprise class wireless messaging solutions, I have yet to see the same sort of security issues.

BlackBerry and Simultaneous Voice and Data

TCS — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:31:38 +0000

Think about it this way, there is only one BlackBerry which can do simultaneous voice and data… The BlackBerry Bold…. As for other smartphone devices…. Hundreds of umts/hsdpa devices ranging from windows mobile to symbian to android (in the near future). Imagine talking to someone on your mobile device while they’re in the office. They say, “hey, I’m going to email you this picture, let me know what you think before I go ahead….(insert the rest of the scenario here…)” then you realize that $350 BlackBerry storm is worthless when it comes to data transmission while on a call. “you say, ok, I’ll check it out and call you back…” what a pity….