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Re: Blackberry Curve problems (opis BlackBerry Curve)

Karmen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:14:44 -0000

I have both - BB Curve and Nokia N95. Nokia's battery life is also very short and camera's activating time is too slow.

Re: Blackberry Curve problems (opis BlackBerry Curve)

Alex — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:09:55 -0000

I'll vouch for the N95. It does suffer some of the same problems though:

- Battery life is poor (3-4 days max). This is typical of most 'smartphones'. Solution: simply charge it every night. I bought a charger for in the car, for the holidays.

- You'd hate the interfaces. Yes, multiple, because you've got a mirad of ways to start any application. They all suck.

Then again, being a Euro-phone the N95 doesn't mind SMSing. It also includes Nokia maps, which isn't as hip as Google Maps it does work disconnected. I tend to use it every so often, it isn't bad. I've had a few forced reboots in the half year I have the N95, not enough to be bothered about.

The normal browser (Webkit-based) is OKish, but you can install Opera Mini which I've heard is much better. Email client supports POP and IMAP + encryption, which is good enough for me. In all the rest (HSDPA/UMTS, 5MP camera) it's a decent boring all-rounder. Plug in a 8G miniSD card, and you'll toss your ipod even, it's good on the music side as well.

Then again, you don't want to email much with the normal keypad. If you email a lot with your Crackberry and seriously want to switch to a N95/96, get a bluetooth keyboard (or don't switch).

Biggest plus for me is being able to code natively for my phone, or Java or Python. Geekgasm!

Re: Blackberry Curve problems (opis BlackBerry Curve)

gandalfar — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:00:20 -0000

The question is: how do you sms contact of user A to user B?

Re: Blackberry Curve problems (opis BlackBerry Curve)

Jan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:56:07 -0000

hm, for SMS you just find contact in Compose press BB key and choose Send SMS? :) no copying of number :)

P.S. thanks for linking.

Re: Blackberry Curve problems (opis BlackBerry Curve)

gandalfar — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:00:14 -0000

Actually I saw N96 now in London. It's all about mobile video watching, so not the direction for me :(

Re: Blackberry Curve problems (opis BlackBerry Curve)

UrbanSkudnik — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:55:28 -0000

My advice would be that you either wait for N96 and see what Nokia has to offer or choose one of the E series (E71 is sweet). Those N95s that I saw weren't withstanding the test of time very well... And battery life was also in the range of 2 to 3, maybe (sometimes) 4 days.

Re: Blackberry Curve problems (opis BlackBerry Curve)

aquatix — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:29:44 -0000

You might also want to consider the Nokia E71; it's almost the same form factor as the BlackBerry, but it looks to me as a way more decent (Symbian) device. I've heard some good stories about it too and am oggling it myself as replacement for my Sony Ericsson m600i. If only it had a touchscreen :)

Re: Blackberry Curve problems (opis BlackBerry Curve)

Bufo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:57:41 -0000

Hi Jure, tnx for the pingback! Well, I agree with you, the interface is horrible. My first post was mainly about the aproach the provider did, even though I forgot to mention why I'm pitching it in my blogpost ;) . I haven't jet posted a review of the usability but the user experience is really bad.

Re: Blackberry Curve problems (opis BlackBerry Curve)

Matjaž — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:49:57 -0000

iPhone doesn't support sending contacts via SMS, too. :-(