Idiot.....Now how has this thread come to that?
EXACTLY 5 days....SO WHY DOES A 5 year old (and i agree crap) phone do something that a new SUPER DUPPER GREAAAT smartphone can't?
Because 5 years ago phones did not have always on internet connection like the blackberry, iphone, and any android handset, possibly the new WinMob 7 as well, batteries lasted that long because the phones never made use of the internet 24/7 like the modern day smart phone do. With all the upgrades batteries has still been the 1 thing thats been left behind, they literally cant make them any bigger and keep the phones small. This is why they have started releasing UMTS handset, Vodacom, MTN and Cell C already support UMTS. UMTS is the upgrade to HSDPA allowing up to 21.6mbps network at a similar frequency to GSM, this will allow handsets to have the high speed internet without the major battery drain, something current and future handsets really need. UMTS also allows the high speed network to travel up to 3x further greatly extending network coverage without needing new towers or signal boosters.
And the cheap nokias do that but we talking about comparing a R3000 phone, thus we should compare it towards the relevant target field? (and those nokia have like 6 convience keys btw)
Its not a nokia so no point comparing it, nokia makes outdated mainstream handsets, they need to move away from symbian as its a dead OS, its not open source so it will never reach the diverse potential of blackberry, iphone and android, the only advantage nokia has is battery life, but thats simply because its features are still int he stone age.
Do myself favour use convience keys.....Thx o but wait convience key, compose option is only for email....Wait didn't you say it took 2 days to memorise this...hope u not writing an exam on this?
And don't say put text option on your main screen cos what's the point in a central and integrated mail box? And if u do still have to scroll down to compose text...
stop being lazy, ur scrolling and clicking 3 times, it it takes u more than 1 second then your too slow. its not a nokia, stop expecting it to work like 1, if you wanted a phone to work like you nokia you should of bought a nokia
The point is why do we pay for these things, and no one ever listens to the consumer? And trust me i know how to google, OS6 is a minefield of problems and users complaining. and after charging the battery to full and then not using it for anything today the battery is now at 65%....YES 3g is off.
the minefield of problem to which you refer is all leaked releases, the 9300 got an official release not even 2 weeks ago,t he 9700's was released yesterday. They are leaks, aka beta, problem are expected, the reason for the complaining is so that the problems can be solved for the official release. That battery drain is a bit high i will admit, mine last 2-3 days with normal usage. Normal culprits would be not having done the proper charge cycle when you got the phone or an excess of applications running in the background.
Maybe it's just me, maybe mine is faulty but still the point is it's not an improvement over the basics (phone, message ) and after all it is called A PHONE!
As i said before, sms messages is the least used feature with blackberry, since i got mine i went from over 300 sms's per month to barely 20, and you will hear similar drops if you speak to other berry users, email and instant messaging has made it almost redundant.
It's an opinion use it don't use (i know u won't). Also please don't get so upset over a piece of plastic i'm not insulting your spouse ( although with some people i wonder) we just talking idiot (me) to GEEK (obviously you) on is this really a better phone then i think. And the reason i'm not posting this on sites like crackberry because of being called an idiot, and how dare i insult their "loved ones". Besides it's lame not having a credible arguement to one point and then acting so hurt? Thx for your help so far....
Just to add to my point reading this article
http://crackberry.com/blackberry-101-adding-and-customizing-contacts-os6 yesterday i was meeting with a client and when i wanted his contact details i would normally just type the number (in os 5) the press bb button add contact bobs uncle it's done. In OS6 it doesn't work like that when u type anything it searches and adding a contact needs to be go to Contacts click add contact (bear in mind u probably scrolled miss about 5 times at home screen due to favorite menu etc. ) by this time my client was getting very annoyed with me playing on my "gameboy" and said just sms me a contact card and i literally shuddered to think how !@#$ i was gonna do that. Sure those menus look pretty as hell but business minded folk don't want perdy we want to go home before rush hour traffic!
The battery issue sounds normal on .380
http://forums.crackberry.com/f216/memory-leak-6-0-0-380-9300-a-563759/
Will give it a week then chuck it for something else.
