blackberry Torch owners

Hey,

Gona upgrade my phone soon from a very old razor. My B-school seems to all use blackberries so I wanted to get one as well. I wanted to get a Torch but the reviews online have shaked me up a bit. I wanted to know if anyone knows how efficient it is to use. I may opt for a 9700.

 

I personally have an iPhone but one of the Partners at my firm just got the torch and I was in charge of setting it up for him. The first phone he got was a total lemon and he had to return it. Personally, I don't like it. It seems like they tried to emulate the touchscreen functionality of the iphone but it just came out jumpy and cheap. Not nearly as smooth to operate as the iphone, and if you are going to have AT&T's crappy network, you may as well get an iphone. However, I do like the physical keyboard more than the keyboard on the bold.

Overall, I wasnt a huge fan of the phone.

 

blackberries are horrible get an iphone or an android. the UI is far superior, and they both have huge app stores.

physical keyboards are overrated when compared to touch keyboards. i have both a blackberry and an iphone and the iphone is definitely faster for typing. the predictive text is pretty good and i end up making fewer mistakes.

 
mercury:
physical keyboards are overrated when compared to touch keyboards. i have both a blackberry and an iphone and the iphone is definitely faster for typing. the predictive text is pretty good and i end up making fewer mistakes.

Swype is even better. You press down once and zig zag over the screen, pausing very briefly over letters as needed and lifting up your finger at the end of a word. It figures it out from what path your finger follows and has good predictive and corrective abilities.

After using it for 10 minutes I was typing way faster than on my iPhone.

 
Best Response
southernbelle:
who gets a blackberry for their personal phone?

the only reason to own a blackberry is because it is required of you for work

nobody has a blackberry for their personal phone. they suck. suck. suck.

You obviously haven't been on a college campus in a while or in high school. Every girl I know has a BB. It is the "cool" thing to do. I personally have owned 3 BB's and love the Iphone. I hate ATT, but the simplicity, usefulness and quality of the Iphone is great. I have been looking at Droid phones a lot more though and I think they are coming into their own. They might be enough to make me switch sides!

 

I used to be a loyal iPhone user until I updated the firmware. I have an old version of the iPhone (the 3G) and upgrading the firmmare completely screwed up my phone, it sucks now. It's so bad, I actually can't stand using it.

I'm torn between going the BB route, maybe a Droid phone or some kind of an HTC that has windows mobile.

 

If you check e-mail and send messages multiple times in the day then the BB is the way to go. The Torch is a nice step up from the Bold/Curve; but nothing hugely significant is new. Just a few upgrades here and there which make the usability easier (much better calendar, multi-page web browsing, etc.).

Cell phone aficionados may not be satisfied with it. If you're about tons of apps (e.g. you need an app with 7,000+ cocktail recipies), web browsing that uploads pages two seconds faster than the competition, and all the other phone novelty stuff then the BB may not be for you; but then again it comes to what you use it for (you wouldn't buy a Porsche to go to the shops, and you wouldn't buy a Prius for track days). I like if for the e-mail friendliness and the physical keyboard.

 

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