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Originally Posted by Sahil How exactly does the barcode work? Can I download bbm5 OTA? |
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Originally Posted by sammyboy Guys can someone provide their experiences with the new 299 plan for Airtel?
How is the connectivity ?
Is there an extra charge for roaming?
How is the speed when it comes to downloading large emails?
I cant really find any reviews of the plans anywhere so wanted to check. |
You can use it when roaming (have to stay on airtel though) the connectivity and all is good. The speed is also quite good for downloading attachments. As far as I know emails are just text right, they come over lightning quick for sure.
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Originally Posted by navin Guys I might get a BlackBerry (Tour 9630, Bold or Curve 8900) soon. Scary thought for me. I like the Tour from their paper specs but Vodaphone does not have it. The Bold is too big and the Curve is too small.
Not my choice of phone (my office insists). If it was up to me I'd still have my old Siemens S4. It was a real phone. |
Can totally see that you're quite scared to move away from something that you're used to. You need not worry so much. We all BB nuts are here and trust me there is a reason that BB's are a industry standard platform. It will very well seamlessly integrate into your life. One piece of advice though. The Curve series (8900/8520) and the Bold type (Tour/9000) keyboards are quite different in a way. The curve has spaced keys. I suggest you play around with both to see which one you get used to better. It depends on person to person. And yeah Siemens did make some good phones back in the day.
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Originally Posted by navin What should I worry about? Email is one worry. I dont want a phone that will ping me all night. Will it recieve emails when it is off so I can look at any urgent stuff in the morning? Can it decide between junk and good emails? |
There is a amazing level of customization available on the Blackberry in terms of many things. In each and every profile you can set notifications for each and every app, sms, email anything. And yeah each and every profile has two modes inside holster/outside holster. So basically depending upon if the phone is in your pocket/charger/belt holster you can make it behave differently!
The Bedside mode like mentioned before specifically exists for the problem you stated. Email download is lightning fast, dont you worry. You'll have all the mails waiting for you on the way to office.
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Originally Posted by navin Does BB have a simple calculator and an alarm clock. My present phone has both and these are 2 of the most useful features I find in my phone. My present phone (Sony G900) is nice becuase I can switch it off but the alarm will still work if the charger is plugged in. This way i am not bothered by SMS and phone calls but I still have use of the alarm. Will a BB do the same? |
Oh come on, really?
The Calculator is there and its quite nice infact. The Alarm is quite nice and has loads of features like different behaviour depending on the bedside mode as well as automatic disabling on weekends. Oh your last question about asking would it not go off incase you switch off the phone will be answered when you shut off the phone with the alarm activated.
It will say something like
Shutting down, next on time XX on day date year. Impressed right?
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Originally Posted by navin I will continue to be a Vodaphone user but is the BB better on Airtel than Vodaphone? I called Vodaphone and they said I can get 10 email accounts on this phone!!!
I dont want to read 10 different accounts - I dont have 10 accounts, I have 3 which is a lot in itself. I want to read all my emails together in one screen. Can the BB do this?
Also they told me that I can get my Yahoo Messenger on the BB. How will this work? like it does on a PC? |
Vodafone is quite nice, I've been using them for quite sometime and other then initial goof ups I've never had to call customer care. The Email app is inbuilt into the OS, you can set up any number of accounts as you like. You can arrange them in infinite ways actually. And change the notification behaviour depending on the email account as well like I mentioned before. There is a main Mail icon which groups together all the email and separate account icons as well. You can get your Yahoo, Facebook, MSN, GTalk, Jabber, Skype etc messengers on it! Once you get used to the keyboard you'll be hammering away on it most of the time.