Moving from Blackberry to...

[jobber604]

With the recent Blackberry outage and the annual few day service disruptions, I've decided to move on from my current Blackberry Bold 9700 which I've had for 2 years. I personally have decided that I'm going towards the direction of Android phones, specifically Samsung devices. I mind as well start a poll and see what other people's plans will be for their next smartphone.The decisions, the decisions...so much smartphones to choose from.

[kmc5]

Sad too hear that BB is dying, it's Canadian too. But if you are looking for an Android phone like the Samsung... The phone and the tablet is under a law suit for copying the iPhone. Samsung might have to change it's operating system because apple says it is infringing on their device.

Android is pretty much like IOS5 or iPhone is like Android. (But iPhone came first so...)

Anyways, one thing my friends have notice that their phones, which uses Android, will no longer get up-to-date firmware like the new ice cream sandwich... Usually after 2 yrs there is no more updates. Also within 2 yrs android only gives u 5 mini updates or so...
Where as the iPhone has lots of updates. iPhone will most likely give u a better long time investment by giving you at least 3 major updates! I have an iPhone 3GS, i updated from IOS 3 to ISO 5. So it's still good for another year.

Best wishes
Kai

[jobber604]

It is very sad to see BB slowly slip away from the competition. That's the reason why I went with BB with my last HUP - it's Canadian. I think with any software upgrades, they'll have it's bugs and issues. For my BB, it was because the hardware is not compatible with the software - I see why BB would want it's older berries having the latest OS, so that it'll lag and crash leading you to "have" to get a new device every update or so. The hardware on the BB devices are seriously obsolete compared to the newest Samsungs etc. At least the iPhone hardware is underclocked so that the software runs smoothly. That my insight into BB's downfall...not able to keep up with the technology and relying too much on it's 'secure' servers. It's like throwing all the eggs in one basket. I look forward to my next upgrade whenever Rogers decides to update it's new line of Samsung android devices.

Anyways, with the speed of technological advances, a 2 year lifespan for a smartphone is already obsolete.

Perhaps Motorola's the way to go since it'll soon be owned by Google

[tony1928]

My company is currently also evaluating whether we should drop the whole BB BES platform. Almost a decade ago, no one could argue BB was king for corporate high security push email. Now that gap has narrowed greatly and in fact, their need for the RIM servers has now become their weak link instead of a strength. The only thing holding us back now are people that still want to retain the keyboard. There's just nothing close for high volume efficient emailing. On the "standard" BB's people often say they can email with one hand without looking. Anyways, other than that, I think we're going to end up opening up our corporate mobile devices to iphone and androids. I'll probably end up with an android since I despise the whole itunes thing.

And yes, it is sad to see BB slipping away. Hopefully it can reinvent itself but I think they let the lead slip away and fell behind badly. Not sure they can recover.

[Adz1]

my company has supplied us with the samsung galaxy tab.
i am no tech type guy and found it very hard to figure out at first.
But after using it for a few months i can honestly say i don't know what I'd do with out it.

[jobber604]

My company is currently also evaluating whether we should drop the whole BB BES platform. Almost a decade ago, no one could argue BB was king for corporate high security push email. Now that gap has narrowed greatly and in fact, their need for the RIM servers has now become their weak link instead of a strength. The only thing holding us back now are people that still want to retain the keyboard. There's just nothing close for high volume efficient emailing. On the "standard" BB's people often say they can email with one hand without looking. Anyways, other than that, I think we're going to end up opening up our corporate mobile devices to iphone and androids. I'll probably end up with an android since I despise the whole itunes thing.

And yes, it is sad to see BB slipping away. Hopefully it can reinvent itself but I think they let the lead slip away and fell behind badly. Not sure they can recover.

I too am going android as I'm not too much of an Apple fan . Galaxy Nexus, unlocked, running the more current firmware...

It's amazing how the backbone of BB, "security", may be their eventual weakness. Talk about a SWOT analysis. Btw, one handed typing on the BB is not safe when driving a car

[tony1928]

Ah but its great for stealth emailing under the boardroom table! Right hand above with a pen taking notes, left hand below using the BB. Classic. Lol

Btw, one handed typing on the BB is not safe when driving a car

[neven]

as I've never been a fan of apple myself it was a no brainer to go for the android system. As for the legal battles between Samsung and Apple, much of it is frivolous, an exert from apples claim vs the galaxy tab

1. a rectangular product shape with all four corners uniformly rounded;

2. the front surface of the product dominated by a screen surface with black borders;

3. as to the iPhone and iPod touch products, substantial black borders above and below the screen having roughly equal width and narrower black borders on either side of the screen having roughly equal width;

4. as to the iPad product, substantial black borders on all sides being roughly equal in width;
5. a metallic surround framing the perimeter of the top surface;
6. a display of a grid of colorful square icons with uniformly rounded corners;

7. a bottom row of square icons (the “Springboard”) set off from the other icons and that do not change as the other pages of the user interface are viewed
Do you actually think it makes sense?

A bit much eh? that can include pretty much every device that used a touch screen (digital photo frames anyone?). Plus the 'colourful icons' existed long before the ipad. they are claiming software as intellectual property simply because its in a tablet.

but the real issue is european law, more specifically, Community Design. Its like a patent, but based on a general description and maybe a photo or two, Nothing else. You have your paper work correct and you get the Community Design. Apple filed theirs in 2004. Because of German law in regards to injunctions, apple filed their case in germany. Samsung not being able to argue that their product doesn't meet the criteria of apple's community design, gets the injunction automatically. Challenging the community design though will be done afterwards. European law makes the injunction cover the whole European union. Except Netherlands, they denied apples request. Now here's the best part.

Samsung or another big tablet/phone player is bound to have some vague community design law that apple violates and they now opened a can of worms. Already a smaller garage company has filed in germany against apple. So pretty soon there may be both samsung galaxy's and apple i-products may be banned in europe.

as for here. The software and hardware design is definately different between the phones/tablets, and the dimensions aswell. I strongly doubt that having the screen fill most of the surface and the device being black and symmetrical will hold up in courts.

[neven]

Ah but its great for stealth emailing under the boardroom table! Right hand above with a pen taking notes, left hand below using the BB. Classic. Lol

in the old days you'd be called a pervert for such motions!

[tony1928]

Hahaha, so true. Nowadays, people just roll their eyes as they know what you are doing.

in the old days you'd be called a pervert for such motions!