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The Official TOTA BlackBerry thread (pg. 60)
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by spiderpig
I suggest you guys go early, you might not get one if you don't as the lineups are huge.
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Dude... it's being sold all over the place; rather then just one store, and blackberry tends to be the brand of choice for professionals... not the type of people who would call in sick or take a day off so they can be the first one to have a given product thereby making the rest of the gender ambiguous trend whores jealous. It only stands to reason that there wouldn't be legions of fan boys camped out for one. Apple's target market laughs at the lack of line up; RIM's target market laughs at the fan boys camped out all night because Steve told them to.
I know it's not your strong suit but try to employ even a little bit of critical thinking. |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Dude... it's being sold all over the place; rather then just one store, and blackberry tends to be the brand of choice for professionals... not the type of people who would call in sick or take a day off so they can be the first one to have a given product thereby making the rest of the gender ambiguous trend whores jealous. It only stands to reason that there wouldn't be legions of fan boys camped out for one. Apple's target market laughs at the lack of line up; RIM's target market laughs at the fan boys camped out all night because Steve told them to.
I know it's not your strong suit but try to employ even a little bit of critical thinking. |
We got several in the office...all of them were pre-ordered, as you mentioned, from various stores. If you really wanted one today, you could pre-order it, and go pick up this morning.
Staples was advertising to just pre-buy it as all of their stock was being allocated to those who pre-bought first. Any leftovers would be sold on the floor. In this day in age, it doesn't make sense not to pre-buy. |
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| kotsy |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
but what great advantage is this device over your blackberry? To me its just another techy toy for people with too much money. |
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| LKD |
| most bestbuys and other retailers in the states were sold out by 10am...just an FYI |
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| Mach X |
Ok, now I finally have time to discuss the PlayBook...
Busy week!! EEK! :eyespop:
Picked mine up on Tuesday, did the updates and started using it. Out of the box, I was impressed with the device, hardware, screen, functionality, etc.
I was happy with what it was capable of and it's build.
I was not happy with the lack of apps in app world, BlackBerry Bridge functionality missing some key features and the promised Android sandbox or functionality available. Also, it was a right piss off that the Micro D HDMI cable did not come in the box.
Now, that being said, it's only been a few days, right now do I think it was worth it, paying all that the money? For what I got = yes, what it can do = no.
It does what I expected it to, but I did expect it to do more. Which it will, just not out of the box or at launch week. But when it WILL be able to do so much more? I think at that time I will be more satisfied with my purchase.
It's like having a brand new computer, out of the box it had solitaire and a few pictures and sample. It wasn't until you started uninstalling the core add ons, tweaking, adjusting your settings, adding new programs and apps, personalizing that it does what you really want it to do and be.
What sucks, at this moment there is no apps avail and some of the functionality is not available yet for various personalization, tweaks.
The other thing is that people (including myself) need to stop considering it a bigger BlackBerry, or expecting most of BlackBerry to port itself over. It's it's own new thing, a tablet. With a new software.
It's not a BlackBerry, it's not a PC. It's a device the compliments the BlackBerry and a device that compliments your PC.
BlackBerry Bridge is pretty sweet tho, can't wait for full BBM functionality and Birdge Files to be able to access more than just documents and include media like video, pictures, music etc. Also, it needs to access the on board memory of your device as well.
I love the feel of it, the weight, the screen. The colours POP and are so very bright. The battery life is sweet as well, a very big shock considering the drain the Torch was for battery.
Today and tomorrow are my first days off since I got my PlayBook, and 65+ hours of work later, finally I will have time to sit down and really geek out on it and see what else I can do to it and get it doing.
Anyone else get one and know of anything cool or had any problems?
I hate how there is no native file browser on the PlayBook... I tried dragging and droping some of my Chrome bookmarks into the bookmark folder of the PlayBook. Browser won't see it...
Put some .mobi ereader books into my books folder. No joy, Kobo wouldn't read it or see it.
And then finally, put a collection of videos on my PlayBook, the normal rips of movies in XVID and in avi would work. Your average run of the mill TVRip in HD plays just fine.
Any HD movie and high quality scene reelease/rip will play and look AMAZING! But no sound... hmmm |
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| goodnet |
| Playbook looks good, I'll probably get one eventually. For my purposes, in doing business - it would fill a gap where it'd be too inconvinient to use a laptop or even a windows tablet PC (i.e. informal customer meetings, "drop bys", restaurants, walking around) but I still want to convey information to customers or mine data where it'd be too ackward to do so with a smartphone. |
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| LiveTime |
Glad to hear everyone who has one is liking it. As someone who has been working on playbook at RIM, i'm glad to see other people enjoying it. I primarily just work on handheld hardware like curve and bold, but playbook has been fun to play with before it launched. Supposedly the sales were higher than analysts expected, so that's also good.
As for where the market it going...lenovo is making a tablet that will slide into a laptop dock and act as the screen when you plug it in. However, once again it doesn't make phone calls.
In my opinion, the company that really takes the cake and gets a big boost will be the one who develops a Moto Atrix like device but builds it well and contains a computing operating system. People won't fully buy into the idea of a phone-pc until they can run upwards of 60% of their current computer programs on the device. It's gonna take some serious thought and money to develop a product like this, but i've got a feeling MSFT/APPLE will reign supreme once again in this market due to the fact that they own widely used computing operating systems. I'd be willing to spend 2K right now if a product like this existed today.
Lots of fun and cool stuff to come! |
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| goodnet |
| quote: | Originally posted by LiveTime
People won't fully buy into the idea of a phone-pc until they can run upwards of 60% of their current computer programs on the device. |
Interesting. With this school of thought, maybe people would increasingly use normal desktop/laptops for content creation tasks (writing letters, school assignments, research, photo editing/managing, video editing, managing finances/taxes, etc). I also think the pricing needs to be netbook-agressive, to avoid the whole "I can just do this sh*t on my netbook/laptop!" buying objection.
The more tasks you can perform on a device that boots instantly & is highly portable, the better. |
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| Mach X |
| quote: | Originally posted by LiveTime
Glad to hear everyone who has one is liking it. As someone who has been working on playbook at RIM, i'm glad to see other people enjoying it. I primarily just work on handheld hardware like curve and bold, but playbook has been fun to play with before it launched. Supposedly the sales were higher than analysts expected, so that's also good. |
Support or R&D? |
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| Dr. Z |
| So I got my PB and it's ing sweet of course. But one thing, maybe someone here has one and ran into the same issue. How do I watch a youtube vid in one tab and then surf facebook on another? As soon as I switch tabs it pauses the youtube vid. :\ |
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| GGM |
| quote: | Originally posted by LiveTime
In my opinion, the company that really takes the cake and gets a big boost will be the one who develops a Moto Atrix like device but builds it well and contains a computing operating system. |
That phone is so disgustingly stacked hardware wise. I have no idea why it's not getting more hype out there but imo it blows almost every other phone out of the water in most categories. Fingerprint scanner for security is absolutely brilliant as well. And c'mon, dual core in a phone??? It's also does all this in more or less the same size as the iphone, I think maybe 5mm wider or something... |
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| Mortyman |
Just found a huge flaw with my Blackberry...
When you go into BBM and go to scan a group barcode... there is no way of exiting this unless you take the battery out. No button will exit from this screen, it just waits and waits and waits til it scans something. |
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