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Blackberry pros and cons

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rocketman;1347839; said:
Mine can record video and stream it to the web via qik, tether to my laptop, play NES games...
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That may have sealed the deal for me :lol: :banger:

what do they use for the arrows and buttons?
On top of that, I've been downloading apps like crazy and have copied over about 60 albums (4Gb worth of my 8Gb iPhone's capacity) to cover my music needs, plus have Pandora in case I want to listen to something different.
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I see that you owned a 4g ipod. Did you ever own a bigger one?

Anyone out there with massive ipod libraries find that they get by just fine on their new iPhone? That's my only concern with buying now, since I'm on the later end of this generation's iphone.
 
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jwinslow;1349319; said:
That may have sealed the deal for me :lol: :banger:

what do they use for the arrows and buttons?
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The app overlays a controller on the screen:
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If you hold it sideways you get a translucent overlay as well:
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It's not perfect, but it works. I can play Excite Bike.

Anyone out there with massive ipod libraries find that they get by just fine on their new iPhone? That's my only concern with buying now, since I'm on the later end of this generation's iphone.
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I make a lot of playlists, so I set mine to sync with my most favorite ones everytime I plug it in. It keeps the music I listen to the most on my phone. Like Dryden said, if I want to listen to something else, I fire up the Pandora app.
 
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jwinslow;1349319; said:
what do they use for the arrows and buttons?I see that you owned a 4g ipod. Did you ever own a bigger one?

Anyone out there with massive ipod libraries find that they get by just fine on their new iPhone? That's my only concern with buying now, since I'm on the later end of this generation's iphone.
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By 4G I meant 4th gen, it was 40Gb. I have a 2000 disc collection the takes about 150Gb of drive space. I have never found a need for that much portable music. 2Gb is still more than you can listen to in one day, and besides, you're probably going to be syncing the phone for other reasons anyway, so it's not that hard to drag and drop 10-20 new albums.
 
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I have the Blackberry Curve, and I love it.

I feel like it has so many useful features, and everything that it has it does well. It makes it really easy to keep your schedule in line, set reminders for yourself, and having access to your email and the internet is awesome.

Plus, if you use texting alot, the set up for it is very functional and makes it easy to keep track of all of your messages.

I know the 30 bucks a month can add up, but if you can afford it, i highly recommend it.
 
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I have an 8830. The complaints I have it that it sometimes freezes up and you have to remove the battery. Also the key board is really hard to read in low light. It's blue LED, hard as shit to read.

I am looking at the Storm. But I might just go to an Iphone and change services. I love Verizon, but the Iphone is sweeeet.
 
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So... the Storm is a no-no? StarBUCKS, do you still love it?

I have the Curve for work, and I like it. I have a weird problem where sometimes calls make it totally shut down, but I think thats more because my cheap-ass work gave me a re-furb instead of a new one.

My personal phone is the Samsung Verizon two way flip phone thing that I got 2 years ago and I love it. Its starting to really get worn down and was thinking of going Storm because I want some of the internet capabilities, but want to stick with Verizon...

So far only jwins and StarB have strong opinions, and they are in two different ways.

Anyone else?
 
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Bloomberg.com: Canada

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd. executives James Balsillie, Mike Lazaridis and Dennis Kavelman must pay a combined C$9 million ($7.3 million) in fines and legal costs and repay the company an additional C$68 million to settle charges they benefited from improperly priced stock options.
The maker of the BlackBerry smart phone showed a “fundamental failure of governance” by backdating stock options, Ontario Securities Commission Vice Chairman James Turner said at a hearing in Toronto today. “This was not fraud, rather it was negligence.”
A three-member panel of Canada’s main securities regulator approved a settlement following a probe of stock options awarded over 10 years to the company’s top executives. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company backdated 1,400 options, setting a price lower than the issuance price to increase the value of the securities. The Toronto Stock Exchange prohibits this practice.


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Balsillie is not allowed to serve on any publicly traded company’s board for at least 12 months as part of the settlement. Kavelman, the chief operating officer, was barred from joining any board for five years.

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Research In Motion and the executives involved have also proposed settlement offers to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve a separate investigation, the firm said in a Market Wire statement
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