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Blackberry Advice

Postby SE13 » Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:26 am

Can anyone recommend these phones?

Wife's contract expires tomorrow, and she's quite keen on either a Blackberry Bold or Blackberry Curve.

Firstly, what's the difference?

Secondly, are they any good?

All comments welcome.
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby whee » Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:34 am

Never owned one mate, so my opinion counts for f**k all in all honesty.

However, I know lots of people who do or more appropriately, have owned them, varying from lads like me who want something a little slick to pull out the pocket, to senior forces officers/businessmen etc.

Largely, they're happy enough with the software. It's the scrolling wheel/Touch screen/general look of the phone that most have complained about.

The most important bloke I know, who has one, used the words "We should have got iPhone's" to describe how he gets on with it.

Get her into a Carphone mate, she'll be able to have a play with a few of the smart phones on the market and find out what she gets on best with.
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby Swan » Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:48 am

i have a blackberry pearl just a smaller version of the bold i think they are great and you can get all the apps that i- phone have with a blackberry i'm told..

my next phone will be a blackberry
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby Swan » Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:25 am

ive never used an i-phone but the email and ping options are easy to use and works well for me since i email a lot.. you can even set up your other email accounts to go to your phone, but if you get a lot of spam mail it get get to being a pain in the but..
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby mg86 » Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:29 am

Jay22 wrote:Have used the curve and it's an excellent phone. Not sure about the curve, so can't compare the two.
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby Leody » Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:25 am

whee wrote:Never owned one mate, so my opinion counts for f**k all in all honesty.

However, I know lots of people who do or more appropriately, have owned them, varying from lads like me who want something a little slick to pull out the pocket, to senior forces officers/businessmen etc.

Largely, they're happy enough with the software. It's the scrolling wheel/Touch screen/general look of the phone that most have complained about.

The most important bloke I know, who has one, used the words "We should have got iPhone's" to describe how he gets on with it.

Get her into a Carphone mate, she'll be able to have a play with a few of the smart phones on the market and find out what she gets on best with.


Way I've always thought about it... if you want a phone for email/calling and texting get a blackberry. If you want a phone for entertainment, music, video and useless games get the iPhone.

Personally I don't like the touch screen and I don't use my phone for anything but texting, calling and email... sooooooo I have a blackberry.
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby Swan » Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:26 am

Leody wrote:
whee wrote:Never owned one mate, so my opinion counts for f**k all in all honesty.

However, I know lots of people who do or more appropriately, have owned them, varying from lads like me who want something a little slick to pull out the pocket, to senior forces officers/businessmen etc.

Largely, they're happy enough with the software. It's the scrolling wheel/Touch screen/general look of the phone that most have complained about.

The most important bloke I know, who has one, used the words "We should have got iPhone's" to describe how he gets on with it.

Get her into a Carphone mate, she'll be able to have a play with a few of the smart phones on the market and find out what she gets on best with.


Way I've always thought about it... if you want a phone for email/calling and texting get a blackberry. If you want a phone for entertainment, music, video and useless games get the iPhone.

Personally I don't like the touch screen and I don't use my phone for anything but texting, calling and email... sooooooo I have a blackberry.


you can get the same aps for i-phone for a blackberry
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby GunnGunn » Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:28 am

I prefer the email service on the iPhone to the Blackberry, i also prefer to txt using the touch screen, much faster than on the miniscule keyboard you get on the BB.
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby Leody » Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:12 pm

Swan wrote:you can get the same aps for i-phone for a blackberry


That may be true, but I wouldn't care nor would I know...

I have a computer for apps, because it can run them properly and I have a phone for texting and calling and reading emails... and responding to emails on occasion.

I've personally never seen the use of half-assed applications on phones that don't really do much... :dontknow:

I've tried plenty of them and even used some for a few weeks, never really found any I couldn't live without. Or didn't prefer to live without.

Call me old fashioned, I don't know...
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby Rockin' Robin » Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:24 pm

So my Nokia on contract broke, and I have a year left, so my dad gave me his old Blackberry, I put my sim card in and it's working fine.

But I'm trying to work BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) and it's quite confusing. My friend added me, but I didn't get a request? So I've added her, but it's been pending for a while and I'm sure she would have accepted it by now.

I'm not even sure if it's actually working, or if I'm on it but it's just actually... inactive?
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby Leody » Sun Oct 10, 2010 5:31 am

Not really sure where your problem would be... :dontknow:

I've used it quite a bit with my Storm, and I always just add the persons PIN and boom its set. You should have gotten a request from her right away if it was set up right. And as far as I know it is always active. And I don't know of any phone option to turn it off..
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby Rockin' Robin » Sun Oct 10, 2010 8:47 pm

Guess I can't use it then. :(
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby Leody » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:43 am

Check under Options > Security Options > Firewall and make sure that "PIN" isn't being blocked.
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby IMF » Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:02 am

I've got an old beat up pearl with an O2 sim in it. Apparently you have to activate blackberry services with your service provider to use PIN, 3G etc.
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Re: Blackberry Advice

Postby Rockin' Robin » Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:59 pm

Awesome, cheers. :)
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