Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL
is LNPA still on track for next spring ?
By March 14, 2007 Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and the mobility division of TELUS Communications Inc. will be required to provide WNP to their customers in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Québec. This means that customers in any of these provinces will be able to switch to any service provider in that province (wireline or wireless) and keep their phone number.
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Sep-11-2006 17:17
Cosmic Fur
Debbie Downer
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Mississauga, Canada
I hope Pearl doesn't do well. BlackBerry makes business devices. I don't know many business people who are big on sharing mp3s and snapping random pics of their girlfriends.
If I had a company and was deciding between getting the BlackBerry Pearl for my employees or another BlackBerry device that has no camera and no mp3 player (and is thus probably cheaper), guess which one I'd choose.
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Sep-11-2006 17:41
rabbitjoker
aural sadist
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
quote:
Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
I hope Pearl doesn't do well. BlackBerry makes business devices. I don't know many business people who are big on sharing mp3s and snapping random pics of their girlfriends.
If I had a company and was deciding between getting the BlackBerry Pearl for my employees or another BlackBerry device that has no camera and no mp3 player (and is thus probably cheaper), guess which one I'd choose.
This device is clearly targeted towards consumers who want a less business focused phone and a more consumer oriented device.
Personally, I've avoided buying a BB because it would put me into a situation where I would have one device while at the office (business functionality) and one device for personal use (consumer functionality). I don't want two devices, nor do I want to have to give up various features during certain usage senarios.
The Pearl solves this problem - it gives me all of the BB's business functionality - but also a small, slick phone that would be just as well adapted to a social use device.
If a business is providing an employee a business only device - clearly the Pearl may not be the best option - but where more and more consumers are having input on the device they use and actually demanding more robust features from consumer devices I think the Pearl is RIM making a giant leap in the right direction.
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Sep-11-2006 18:15
magikb
Home of Lix and Jenn²
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: on the other side
^^^
the Pearl is a definite leap in the direction to target the non-business users, but the ones who do use them for their correct purposes atm won't be as hyped on those I bet.
I love my blackberry but I HATE the keyboards on those. My 7100v is the greatest and I thought that I would never want to go back to the full size BB, but now I have my eye on the 8707v and full size keyboard again. I miss that.
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Sep-11-2006 18:23
StereoPrincess
sassy one-piece
Registered: May 2001
Location: SPFRI
too bad it has a horrible name.
Pearl just reminds of of feminine products.
Sep-11-2006 18:30
Cosmic Fur
Debbie Downer
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Mississauga, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
The consumer device that doubles as a business device market has a lot of competition though - notably Nokia and Sony Ericsson, and both of these companies know what they're doing very well.
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Sep-11-2006 18:31
Möbius
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto
quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
I'm sold on the Pearl.
As soon as the LNPA become official I'm switching to a Pearl.
I suggest you wait for one more slash
Rogers Wireless’ GSM/GPRS/EDGE network
Sep-12-2006 00:09
monishb
Transformed
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Vancouver-Toronto-Dubai-Mumbai
the nokia n73 is a insane phone
i like the samsung d 900, but lacks a lot of multimedia space as comapred to many other phones in the market.
Sep-12-2006 00:35
rabbitjoker
aural sadist
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
quote:
Originally posted by Möbius
I suggest you wait for one more slash
Rogers Wireless’ GSM/GPRS/EDGE network
Come March-07 hopefully the UTMS will be good to go as well.
