Blackberry connection issues 2012/06/30

[abjater]

OS10 on hold till early next year. Seems there are things happening behind the scenes with RIM and Samsung and maybe Google/Android. Info bit sketchy at present.

I'm Berry for life - I refuse to even touch an apple-crapple. Nothing that Apple can do, is better the what we have on our Berry's. Better encryption, BBM, the all-inclusive BIS plan, upgradability, how many free aps... list goes on.

I'm content to deal with a day or so NO-BIS per year, afterall its man-made stuff that do fail, no matter how much we try and build it for 99.9999% reliability and up-time.

Seems BIS is having an off-weekend.... it faded away again.

 

[Dolby]

I've had a BB for a number of years and always defended them.

But they're lagging horribly, they're slow ad my biggest gripe is BIS (although this could be the network). I'd rather pay for 2mbps than have 'free' 80kbps data

* I say 'free' because I've actually been charged between R5-R30pm for data anyhow ... Over my BIS cost

 

[akescpt]

Mtn went offline for a couple of hours this afternoon! Phone became a paperweight!

 

[hj2k_x]

I've had a BB for a number of years and always defended them.

But they're lagging horribly, they're slow ad my biggest gripe is BIS (although this could be the network). I'd rather pay for 2mbps than have 'free' 80kbps data

* I say 'free' because I've actually been charged between R5-R30pm for data anyhow ... Over my BIS cost

3G speeds for me on BIS are perfect. 3G battery usage on my 9900s however...

 

[Dolby]

Perhaps a location thing.

Im in JHB with 3G and 5 bars, and getting 1.6kb/sec as we speak. That's less than half dial up speed ...

 

[hj2k_x]

Perhaps a location thing.

Im in JHB with 3G and 5 bars, and getting 1.6kb/sec as we speak. That's less than half dial up speed ...

I see. But I dont think you should take today as a measure of anything much - is it always that slow?

 

[Dolby]

Not 1.6kb/sec slow ....

But usually I get a max of 10-15kb/sec

 

[burn]

This thread is so 2000's....

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

Sigh. I really hope OS10 works out. Things which make me a BB devotee: full qwerty keyboard, BBM, BIS and the light to notify you when anything happens. Give me a droid with those features and I'll change today.

Same here, OS10 looks awesome but RIM really don't have the time one their hands to stall the release of it. But my dad got a Samsung GS3 the other day, and I look at that phone and every time I think that screen is so gorgeous, the speed and fluidity is unmatched plus the great appstore! And with all that, I still wouldn't know what I would do one day without my Berry But then again as the mobile data revolution in SA is really rolling fast it is beginning to render BIS sort of useless, which is kinda the point of my Berry, as what happened in most first world countries where 'cap' is not part of their vocabulary.

I have a friend of a friend from Holland on a working visa here and he said internet (Mobile data at that) is extremely expensive here. He told me he lives just outside of Amsterdam and he pays about 20 euros for a 25mbit connection at home. Of course uncapped.