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12-17-2011, 11:17 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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Not here. Maybe the app is free, but when I had my Blackberry, my carrier at the time charged me like 20 cents for every BBM message (sent and received), because I didn't have a plan that included BBM. I rarely used it and so I didn't think it was worthwhile to purchase the add-on plan, which was an extra $20/month and included stuff that I didn't really need, like call display, call answer, and call waiting.
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12-18-2011, 12:45 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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If you have a choice between upgrading to a phone whose features you don't need or care about, versus reducing the contract payments of your current phone that meets all your needs, you should obviously go with the reduced contract.
I probably don't need to explain that any further, but I'll do it anyway... Even if you wanted cool bells and whistles of a new phone, you'd still be coming out ahead with a prolonged contract costing you less money in the long-run that you could be buying hookers and blow with.
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12-18-2011, 01:11 AM | #13 (permalink) |
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If you don't want to upgrade, my suggestion is to keep your current phone.
This is a lot of information about my history with the now discontinued razr. I have an iPhone it's nice. I would keep the phone you have now if you like it and you don't want to upgrade. |
12-18-2011, 05:09 AM | #14 (permalink) | |
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Its not that I don't want to upgrade, I just want to make a decision on if its WORTH upgrading. I could go either way.
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12-18-2011, 05:27 AM | #15 (permalink) | |
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That being said, I had an EVO 4G. Great phone, if you're someone that spends a lot of time dicking around on the internet, or want to record videos and post them to your facebook so you can pretend like you have friends that care about the boring things you do in your life, or if you want to mess around with weird little apps that do things like tell you the ohm rating of a variable resistor. So really, a great phone for a dork like me. But if all you really want a phone for is making phone calls, texting, and using as a goddamn watch, then I don't see a point in upgrading. Most of the stuff on newer phones is really JUST bells and whistles, or an excuse to be lazy, or some horrid comibation of the two. My EVO got thrown against a wall by a psychotic bitch, and so now I'm back to my five year old LG Rumor2, and though it glitches out on me sometimes, I can still get everything I need to do with a phone done.
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12-18-2011, 05:42 AM | #16 (permalink) | |
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1. Price 2. Apple 3. iTunes But they are very good phones. As for BB: The more expensive BB's (Bolds) are usually the better ones. I've got a 9700 bold myself and it works perfectly. It's incredibly fast (faster than any other smartphone. It should be as it's got quite some limitations ), the battery life is three full days. I have to agree with you on the apps, there's not too many really good ones. Not legally free, at least. But I like my blackberry. Sound quality is decent, the camera is remarkably good, the speed of the thing is absolutely astonishing. Downsides are some limitations to the OS. For instance; I can't set different types of notifications for all my e-mail accounts. I've got my personal account I would like to check all the time, but I've also got a forumaccount for my own forum that I only want to check every once in a while, manually. Can't be done. I also dislike the fact that there's no calender information on the homescreen. You have to open a window to see what appointments you have coming up, not practical. Another problem is that it can't handle big web pages. They're awful on phones, I know, but I don't mind waiting. The phone just goes 'this web page is too big, can't be opened'. ****. Doesn't happen too often, but it is still annoying. Seems pretty serious, but most of the time the things I mention aren't that bad. What I really dislike is the fact that the blinking light that tells you you've got an e-mail or sms or whatever, just keeps blinking untill you open the message. I wish there was a button to turn it off. Sometimes I want to read it later and I don't want that light to be blinking all the time. That's really the most annoying thing about the blackberry. I know you can turn the light off, but I like the idea of having a light that tells me that something 'has just happened'. Anyway, as a phone, a camera and an internet device (facebook integration is really epic, as is MSN, Whatsapp, BBM) it's perfect. As an alternative to a netbook, like thos new day iPhones and Android phones are, it isn't. Too limited. But then, my BB was 15 bucks... I mean, come on .
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12-18-2011, 05:48 AM | #17 (permalink) |
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Can I just point out that MP's says nothing about the quality of the camera?
It only says how big the image gets, but a big blurry image is still worse than a small sharp image . It's somewhat like a TV. You may have a big ass TV, but that doesn't mean it's got a better image than a really small one Come to think of it; with those tiny plastic lenses most phone camera's have, the only thing loads of MP's will do is show you very precisely how bad the lens is. Anything above 2mp in a phone camera is pretty useless. Come to think of it, anythinga bove 5mp in any camera is quite useless unless you want to make a picture the size of a building .
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12-18-2011, 06:23 AM | #18 (permalink) | |
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s_k - Congratulations. You've managed to ramble on for two pages about absolutely nothing the thread was asking for information on.
Kindly **** off. Edit: Also, having recently done some research about DSLR cameras, you're talking out your ass about cameras too. Away with you!
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12-18-2011, 07:46 AM | #19 (permalink) | |
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I seriously can't stand iPhones. BlackBerry > droid > iPhone, in my personal experience. As an aside, I have thrown my phone in anger on numerous occasions, dropped it from tall heights, out windows, etc. and it just has some light scratches.
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12-18-2011, 02:49 PM | #20 (permalink) | |
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