Comments on: Why I hate BlackBerry

By: Dicky

Dicky — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:25:43 +0000

Fab to find others that hate the BB! Have also had one for about 2 months, today will be the last day. I have already contacted my provider and had the email removed, and now am going to move the sim card back into my trusted palm centro. No more crappy trackball, no more turning itself off, no more pisspoor email program, back to touch screen simplicity and all my old apps. Love this site as I thought I was the only one as all my colleagues love them!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:49:07 +0000

No call record. I Noticed this a few days ago actually. Trying to figure out how to activate it since I was woken up by a call from my store in the middle of the night and wanted to get the conversation recorded so I could understand exactly what was happening in the commotion when I was more awake!
Other than that, everything has worked fine minus odd glitches here and there but I’ve experienced these minor problems with all technology. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the durability of this phone since mines gone flying out of my hand on more than one occasion.

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:51:24 +0000

I agree. BB’s suck big time!!! I hate it so much I can’t even find words to describe how pityful these phones are!!!

By: patel

patel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:54:30 +0000

It is just a user’s education. I have been using it for past 2 years without any problem. By the way BB is a business phone not a multimedia phone.

By: Radius

Radius — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:55:44 +0000

1) Some find it useful and others do not. I think one of the main reasons it isn’t here is device memory. The other probably has to do with overall security.

I also know in some places it’s illegal to record someone without their knowledge so I think perhaps RIM just wanted to avoid that whole issue and remove the feature.

2) Trackballs are hit and miss with a lot of people. The earlier version of the Curve made it easy to change, now it’s a matter of voiding the warranty to do it on your own. No easy solution but personally I’d do it myself and carefully replace the warranty sticker so no one ever knows what I did.

3) I am not sure what the deal here is. In fact there was talk of making the shutter sound mandatory from a legal standpoint not too long ago just for the reason of people sneaking pics of others. Being that a regular camera has a shutter sound I don’t see why this could be considered a problem at all.

4) This one is a software bug. If you set the camera and hit the back button it saves your settings and exits. However, if you hit the call end button it doesn’t save it. The call end button is a kind of “jump out” option, not a back up and save option. It works this way for most apps in fact.

5) This is a config item. You can have the keyboard auto lock on a smaller interval if you like. Personally I go manual everything as I like to micro manage my technology. Fortunately as you say there’s an add on application so no real problem.

By: Dayle

Dayle — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:53:17 +0000

I absolutely love my Curve but I have had a problem with it, I’ve only had it for 2 weeks and I’ve already had the trackball playing up on me, first it wouldn’t scroll left then it would scroll up, I have just had to swap it out with the trackball from my old Bold, I wouldn’t mind having to do this after a few months of heavy usage but I’ve been using it very lightly for 2 weeks, how pathetic is that?? So I can relate to your 2nd point

By: SilverSfr

SilverSfr — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:42:09 +0000

1. No call record function

I never had a phone with this feature and I am not sure that I would ever use it.

2. Trackball problems

Keep your hands clean Refurbished in not necessarily worse than new. It could mean that someone else found the problem for you and it’s been fixed!

3. Can not mute the camera

legality

4. Alarm did not go off that morning

I have my alarm set to go off Monday through Friday at 5:00. I have never had it fail.

5. No auto keyboard lock..!! (really)

I have mine set to lock when holstered so no problems for me.

P.S. I really rally like my 8900

By: Brijesh

Brijesh — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:08:33 +0000

Yes, you are right. I can get all other apps and social networking sites and all. I have installed many apps but I don’t use them much. I am in-front of my work PC or home PC all day. I schedule my meetings and tasks from Office Outlook and Lotus notes. And I sync it to BlackBerry. And the main purpose for my smart phone is to remind me of meetings/task when I am not at my PC. And BB does that perfectly fine and thats the main reason I will stick to my BB.

Thanks for your view though.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:38:38 +0000

so, it seems that the only issues are #1 and #2 (which you should get a replacement for) but a handful of benefits are Viigo, Gmail, GPS/mapping, QWERTY keyboard and instant messaging/social networking access.
sounds like a net benefit to me unless you use call recording all the time and don’t want to pay for a 3rd party app.

Actually, I don’t think you are expecting enough from your Blackberry. Its a smartphone so you need to think about it differently. It can (and should) be customised. install apps, change settings, connect to the internet. Don’t just treat it as a “get what you’re given” featurephone

By: Brijesh

Brijesh — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:07:46 +0000

Well, nice observation Andreas. I am not using it for push email. The main reason I got BlackBerry is because I wanted the “Task” functionality, and that is working like a charm. I have no complain about that. My old phone didn’t have any smart-phone-like features, but it did very best on what it was supposed to do. I think I am expecting too much from my BlackBerry, but it shouldn’t have let me down on some basic features.