WARNING:
this is not a complimentary post at all so you could be offended.....
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| Picture courtesy of Google Images but I have that very same phone right to the colour match. |
She is sitting there looking pretty I know. Do not be fooled. This
is most probably the most useless "smartphone" I have ever used. I
doubt very much that she has even one iota of tech intelligence that qualifies
a gadget for the word "smart".
But before I go flying off let me tell you
why I asked Himself (hubby) to invest his hard earned money (R5000 -almost
$500) in this phone for me which is now the bane of my techie life.
Previously I used Nokia right up until
they had problems and then moved on to Apple. Both products I've loved right up
until nokia fell off the market *sad* and iPhone just became financially
impractical. Problem with apple is that you have to pay for everything from
data to sending text, etc...
Ninety five of my working life is spend
online and not being interested in the expensive contracts that come with smartphones,
I decided to look for alternatives.
Blackberry seemed like a very good one.
One of their most popular packages offers everything except calls for just R60,
under $6 a month, this seemed perfect.
My only overhead in my blogging business is expensive data for
mobile.
So you can see why this would be the
perfect solution only if this damn phone was user friendly.
What do I dislike so much about this nearly $500 phone.
If you use apple you are familiar with
iTunes that comes pre-installed in your device.....well Blackberry has App
World.....not automatically downloaded into the phone.
Most irritating because how are you supposed to start populating
your phone. But this is just a minor inconvenience easily solved by downloading
the app into the phone....ONE WOULD THINK.
But nooooo I tell you nooo.
First you have to register for a Blackberry Id which I did a
thousand times over and the darn thing kept giving me errors and failures to verify...
You might be thinking duhhh....go to a
service centre and get it sorted....i would have done so if it had been my top
priority but as a stay at home mom and business person I tell you every moment
spend out on chores has such a long list of to do’s that for 4 months I never got
the time.....I still haven't but last week I finally got the email account and
pas words to work as the new ID and the phone told me I was already registered
some time ago….news to me. I changed password, got in amd wallah...this should
have been the end of it.
Well I can tell you with absolutely
certainty that my issues continue because now the darn thing wants me to
install cookies or something or other and I have had it. I don’t know where
that is enabled...I have read the manual and if you know me then you know i
have to be beyond desperate to start looking through boxes for manuals or
googling.
In a nutshell I am still in the same place
i was months ago...I have not been to the mall in about 8 months but I suppose I
will have to pay a visit just for my blackberry. Grrhhh
I haven’t even told you about the consistent
downloading problems....its just stops to buffer in the middle of everything.
You could be trying to dail number to make a call or look up a page and you can
bet on it "hanging" on you for unreasonable lengths of time
For a phone of almost $500 one would also
expect to get dual view on the camera at least....well at this point you better
be grateful if you get a decent pixel shot from the single view....
The point of this rant... This is the most
user UNfriendly gadget I have ever
used in all my gadget history.
If you have a sudden irrational
and overwhelming desire to throw your money down the drain, then I strongly
recommend buying Blackberry Bold 5 for #Christmas.
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