http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ Discuss Everything BlackBerry en-US Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:25:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q http://www.berryreview.com/forums/search.php http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/ha-ha#post-24953 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:30:25 +0000 DanielH 24953@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I recently upgraded to the 9900 and I had my mind made up but didn&#39;t reveal any BB loyalty at all (except walking over to the 9900) and the AT&amp;T rep sold it pretty well. He asked if I already had a smartphone, then what I was looking for and when I replied I was looking for a QWERTY keyboard, he said that the 9900 was in his mind the best keyboard available and that he was actually impressed with it enough that he was using a 9900. I then asked if AT&amp;T was going to be offering any new Blackberry devices soon, the 9790, and he said probably not until year end or 2013 but he didn&#39;t say anything like &quot;we&#39;re holding out for BB 10 devices&quot; or &quot;Blackberry is coming out with a new OS and the devices are coming out...&quot;. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/jesus-christ-just-tell-us-when-20-is-coming#post-24952 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:21:58 +0000 DanielH 24952@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>...then again, after 2011, why announce anything? They didn&#39;t make the original playbook date, then the infamous native email in 60 days...what other deadlines did they fail to make that I&#39;m forgetting? OS10 was 2nd quarter &#39;12 if I recall and now all I&#39;m hearing is by year end... </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/jesus-christ-just-tell-us-when-20-is-coming#post-24951 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:01:28 +0000 BBA Brian 24951@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>1 week from the hard rumored 17th release date. </p> <p>Less than 3 weeks before end of February</p> <p>I am getting more pissed at RIM for not announcing anything.</p> <p>Everyday that goes buy RIM loses customers.</p> <p>WHAT THE FU*K!!! </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/always-cutting-edge-all-the-time#post-24950 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:16:11 +0000 kiddo2050 24950@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/rim-promises-blackberry-updates-while-you-work-1061992" rel="nofollow">This</a> (&lt;--- click here)is the kind of thing RIM needs to trumpet once BB10 comes.</p> <p>The article points out that because of QNX, BB10 phones will be able to download and update the OS without ever turning the phone off. No other OS can match this. RIM need to screem this from the mountain tops and show all sorts of other phone downloading and rebooting to get the new OS.</p> <p>Even if this is small practically they need to create the impression that this is a must and if you don&#39;t have it, your phone is out of date! </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/ha-ha#post-24949 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:54:46 +0000 kiddo2050 24949@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>The kid said QNX without prompting from me so he knew something. Of course I think if BB10 delivers on Android Apps and eye candy these &quot;kids&quot; might just come around and say BB10 is cool.</p> <p>The message here is that while RIM might think they need to appeal to &quot;corporate&quot; types the truth is most people come into those stores without a clue and those young sales people have a huge influence over phone choice. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/ha-ha#post-24948 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:19:03 +0000 certifiedRHCE 24948@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Things like this tarnish the BlackBerry name. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/os2-getting-closer#post-24947 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:39:16 +0000 Steve 24947@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Actually, I think Friday is a perfect day for release. People have the weekend to d/l and &quot;play&quot; with it. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/ha-ha#post-24946 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:36:58 +0000 Steve 24946@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>No, it was just another case of a person that doesn&#39;t know what the heck he was talking about. And the uphill battle that BB10 will be facing </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/os2-getting-closer#post-24945 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:07:41 +0000 kiddo2050 24945@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I wonder what they are perfecting? I hope they show us the love on Feb 14th ;-) But I think it makes more sense to release it for MWC Feb 27th. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/os2-getting-closer#post-24944 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:01:51 +0000 BarracudaBob 24944@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>The 17th is the latest rumored date. However, we have still no heard anything official other than by the end of February. I find the 17th to be a rather odd release date. Who releases a major update on a Friday? </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/ha-ha#post-24943 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:46:57 +0000 certifiedRHCE 24943@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Verizon head is so far up androids arse its not even laughable anymore. Verizons LTE is a joke x100. Not sure if that fool you talked to even knew what you were talking about unless he&#39;s an iBGR trooper. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/will-os2-be-on-par-with-the-iphone#post-24942 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:42:30 +0000 certifiedRHCE 24942@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;ll take a stab at this one since iOS is a POS in a walled garden. Overall QNX is better. app quality: No, Developer base: For now iOS has that. I don&#39;t think RIM wants to chase apple. I&#39;m pretty sure they want it to be the other way around. Give the 75 million subscribers they have what they ask for, to survive this last wave until the superphones are on market. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/will-os2-be-on-par-with-the-iphone#post-24941 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:09:38 +0000 kiddo2050 24941@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I know OS2 is not BB10, but for those using the developer version I&#39;d like to know if it is on par with the iPhone.</p> <p>For example do we still see things like disappearing apps when too many are open? Do you see a lot of high quality Android apps in App World?</p> <p>We&#39;ve had some good games come but when I spend sometime with the iPhone I noticed some very useful Apps like the OED (dictionary) that seemed to be totally on the iPhone (not accessed via web).</p> <p>Are these things there?</p> <p>Really just curious and also want to set my expectations correctly. if OS 2 is pretty comparable to iPhone we can hope that BB10 will allow RIM to focus on unique things rather than catch up things (not a negative comment, I&#39;m just really curious).</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/os2-getting-closer#post-24940 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:20:20 +0000 Terrence T 24940@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <blockquote><p><cite>DanielH <a href="//www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/os2-getting-closer#post-24939&quot;" rel="nofollow">said</a>:</cite><br /> Haven&#39;t heard anything in a couple days, is the latest still 2/17? </p></blockquote> <p>Or Feb 14? ;) </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/os2-getting-closer#post-24939 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:28:29 +0000 DanielH 24939@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Haven&#39;t heard anything in a couple days, is the latest still 2/17? </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/can-anyone-recommend-a-good-itunes-movie-converterh#post-24938 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:23:52 +0000 DanielH 24938@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I use Format Factory for converting pretty much anything. Definitely have converted videos for my 9900 using it. Haven&#39;t tried an iTunes video but I checked now and it looks like m4v is one of the types you can convert. Its a desktop app, if I recall its free and can be found on download.com or other sites. If I have the chance in the next couple of days, I&#39;ll try converting an iTunes movie on my own... </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/can-anyone-recommend-a-good-itunes-movie-converterh#post-24937 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:04:32 +0000 BBA Brian 24937@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Sup everyone,</p> <p>Can anyone recommend a good converter program to convert itunes drm video files to be able play on playbook? </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/mwc-2012#post-24936 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:08:03 +0000 kiddo2050 24936@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Skype would be cool. I don&#39;t get the whole netflix thing. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/9900-users-on-att-what-os-release-are-you-using/page/2#post-24935 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:36:37 +0000 kiddo2050 24935@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I work at a university and we get discounts, I think it&#39;s pretty common. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/want-to-buy#post-24934 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:34:57 +0000 kiddo2050 24934@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Hmm Sotrm 2&#39;s are pretty old, have you tried Ebay? </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/ha-ha#post-24933 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:32:50 +0000 kiddo2050 24933@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Just phoned up Verizon to talk about my bill. At the end I asked if I could upgrade after a year like I could on AT&amp;T. He said they wouldn&#39;t proactively offer me the upgrade but if I called in they might do that.</p> <p>Then I said it was because the new BB 10 phones were coming out. He said ya they loook really good but they are very far behind and prob not a good idea to go with Blackberry again...</p> <p>I sure as hell hope RIM knows they have these problems. The keep saying they have excellent carrier relations, but I know my sotry is not unique.</p> <p>You can either cry or laugh, so : HA HA </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/bbm-on-playbook-simple-question#post-24932 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:26:49 +0000 kiddo2050 24932@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Well when I send something via BBM on the playbook it will show a clock or transmission symbol rather than updating to sent.</p> <p>When I send email sometimes the send button doesn&#39;t work or the screen doesn&#39;t update so you don&#39;t know if the message is sent or not.</p> <p>I know some or you run 2.0 so may not have these problems but I doubt I&#39;m the only one running 1.0 who has them. </p> <p>Also I&#39;ve update to a new 9930 and still the same issues. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/bbm-on-playbook-simple-question#post-24931 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:01:55 +0000 BBA Brian 24931@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <blockquote><p><cite>kiddo2050 <a href="//www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/bbm-on-playbook-simple-question#post-24927&quot;" rel="nofollow">said</a>:</cite><br /> My bridge sucks.</p> <p>Also I think there are a lot of uses for native BBM on the playbook. Example create a photo on scrapbook send it via BBM... Tons of other cool stuff will be on the playbook that you&#39;ll like to send to BBM friends and groups. </p></blockquote> <p>Why does your bridge suck?</p> <p>Also, I believe you can do all that already through BBM Bridge </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/want-to-buy#post-24930 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:41:20 +0000 Terrence T 24930@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <blockquote><p><cite>powdah <a href="//www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/want-to-buy#post-24929&quot;" rel="nofollow">said</a>:</cite><br /> I do not see another place for this post so please do not flame me.</p> <p>My Storm2 is dieing rapidly and I do not want to use my upgrade for an OS7 phone as I want the BB10 phone. Anyone have a Storm2 they want to give away or sell.</p> <p>I am sorely tempted to go the Verizon Galaxy Journal when they release it, but BB thoughts just will not go away. I would go to OS7 if I could afford a Playbook, but that is not in the books until the economy changes.</p> <p>thks </p></blockquote> <p>Thats quite easy.. ebay has many... But my new (yes brand new - as went for 1-1 exchange before warranty end) STorm 2 is now in my dry cabinet :D </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/want-to-buy#post-24929 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:36:22 +0000 powdah 24929@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I do not see another place for this post so please do not flame me.</p> <p>My Storm2 is dieing rapidly and I do not want to use my upgrade for an OS7 phone as I want the BB10 phone. Anyone have a Storm2 they want to give away or sell.</p> <p>I am sorely tempted to go the Verizon Galaxy Journal when they release it, but BB thoughts just will not go away. I would go to OS7 if I could afford a Playbook, but that is not in the books until the economy changes.</p> <p>thks </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/bbm-on-playbook-simple-question#post-24928 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:29:15 +0000 BarracudaBob 24928@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Brian and I aren&#39;t saying they shouldn&#39;t get BBM working natively. They just don&#39;t need to make it a priority. That&#39;s why it won&#39;t be included in the OS release when it first comes out. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/bbm-on-playbook-simple-question#post-24927 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:20:04 +0000 kiddo2050 24927@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>My bridge sucks.</p> <p>Also I think there are a lot of uses for native BBM on the playbook. Example create a photo on scrapbook send it via BBM... Tons of other cool stuff will be on the playbook that you&#39;ll like to send to BBM friends and groups. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/mwc-2012#post-24926 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:14:10 +0000 BarracudaBob 24926@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I just noticed that RIM is in the App Planet Hall at MWC 2012. I&#39;m not sure, but I think the location may tell us a little about what they are up to. I used to think they might wait to release PlayBook OS2 until MWC, but now I&#39;m thinking they will release it the week before and announce a bunch of new big name apps at MWC. Maybe we&#39;ll finally see Skype and Netflix if we&#39;re lucky. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/bbm-on-playbook-simple-question#post-24925 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:14:03 +0000 BBA Brian 24925@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I have voiced this thought before regarding BBM and Playbook</p> <p>At this point I would imagine the high high majority of Playbook users own a Blackberry phone.</p> <p>Thus, with the bridge feature, there is no need for native BBM</p> <p>Because of this, its very low on the concern list for users, thus, its not getting focused on with all RIM&#39;s resources.</p> <p>I am never far enough away from my phone, even in my home, that the bridge bluetooth connection fails, so, I am always connected </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/bbm-on-playbook-simple-question#post-24924 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:37:04 +0000 BarracudaBob 24924@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I think the toughest part is syncing messages you send. They need to show up on all your devices, but not get alerted as a new message. Receiving messages on all your devices is not that difficult. They could look up your BBID based on your PIN and send the message to all other PINS associated with it. They could switch BBM to work off BBID instead of PIN but that would require a lot more work. Either way, I think it means recoding a lot of BBM.</p> <p>I don&#39;t understand why everyone is so upset that native BBM isn&#39;t on the Playbook. If you already use BBM then you have a Blackberry and can just use the bridge. If you don&#39;t already use BBM then you aren&#39;t losing anything so there&#39;s no reason to complain that you don&#39;t have it. Still, I would like to see it show up as a native app. I just don&#39;t think it&#39;s a high priority issue. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/9900-users-on-att-what-os-release-are-you-using#post-24923 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:12:02 +0000 Ronen Halevy 24923@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>Yeah my wife&#39;s grad school, NYU Stern, is the one that has the sweet 20% discount along with loads of perks like waived activation fees! </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/bbm-on-playbook-simple-question#post-24922 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:51:33 +0000 kiddo2050 24922@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;m going to bet that once we get BB10 phones and 4G playbooks, RIM will have figured out how to link those two PINs on the NOC. Why? Because you are paying for two data plans and they will be happy to solve this problem.<br /> Time will tell if I am right, but I&#39;d bet quite a bit of money on this. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/berryaddon-public-beta-ndash-awesome-little-all-in-one-utility/page/2#post-24921 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:47:02 +0000 liza-minnelli 24921@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p><img src="http://www.webcam-steamate.com/cookies/35/b/happy.gif"></p> <p>Tim let me know about the public beta of BerryAddon from an unknown company called Twinkler Software Products. It is in free beta right now but it looks like they will be charging for it in the future since there is a registration page. It just popped up on the radar in the last few [...]If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:</p> <p> * Preview: PocketDay Version 5.1 Part II<br /> * PocketDay v5 Feature List Released<br /> * New Version Of Free xColorEvent Released – v.0.96.4 BETA 2<br /> * Persistent.im Beta – Free Group Chat &amp; Cross IM Network Compatibility – Awesome Stuff!<br /> * xContact: Easily Insert Contacts Information Into an Email </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/bbm-on-playbook-simple-question#post-24917 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:37:33 +0000 PB Forever 24917@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I think it&#39;s purely a tech issue but even Apple or Droid wouldn&#39;t be able to overcome that issue. Just think about it... if you have one phone number and somebody texts you, you&#39;re only going to get that message on that number not on another number on another device. It&#39;s exactly the same with a PIN. If Apple&#39;s iMessage was based solely on PIN then people receiving their iMessage can only receive it on one device. </p> <p>Unless it&#39;s an email there are no communication devices that can accept the same message on two different numbers. </p> <p>And I think BBM still has to go thru their NOC which is connected via BES or BIS and not by Wi-fi which is probably another reason BBM won&#39;t be native to a wi-fi only PB. If you bridge with a BB then you&#39;ll get your BBM and if you want BBM that much then that&#39;s incentive to get a BB phone. </p> http://www.berryreview.com/forums/topic/9900-users-on-att-what-os-release-are-you-using#post-24916 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:24:38 +0000 DanielH 24916@http://www.berryreview.com/forums/ <p>I just found out that my grad school is signed up for student benefits, signed up and am hoping there is some monthly discount in there and not just hardware and accessory discounts...won&#39;t know for 2 months. @Tim and @Ronen, is that the employee program you&#39;re signed up for? Also, thanks for the info... </p>