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May 09, 08 - 09:38 am Comment from: January 24, 1984

Looks cheesy.

How embarrassing for them!

They're all second class without OS X....period

Surely they have more than that up their sleeve...is this a decoy?? If not, then I would do as said in Road House... "Dig a hole".
The fact that the silver outer edge is plastic makes me embarrassed. Only one product line and now this. Truly embarrased.

Looks like my first calculator from 1975

Looks like a Skoda with a Lambourghini logo glued on crooked.

A friend of mine has the HTC copy of the iPhone and it looks a lot like the iPhone exterior and the icons also looks like those on the iPhone. But it has a stylus because the screen is "pressure sensitive" (like the old pocket PCs) and the animations are very crappy, looks like you are seeing a power point presentation in every animation of the screen.

Also, it lack of java does not allows to install anything (iPhone does not have java also, but you can install far more applications and far more better ones). They organize the SMS messages in the old fashion way, not like a chat conversation in the iPhone.

I am telling you this because no matter how well they look the other "iPhone killers" or how much better hardware they have, as long as they do not have iPhone OS, they are just a bunch of crappy dumb devices from the past that are just well dressed.

May 09, 08 - 10:07 am Comment from: dd

When all a company can do is go, "Hey, look! Our phone looks like their phone!" It's time to give up!

May 09, 08 - 10:10 am Comment from: dd

It really occurs to me that not one company has learned from Apple. Not one other electronics (or computer) company gets what customers want. They always play catch-up and, even then, still manage to get it wrong. Nokia had at least 10 years to come up with something and they kept producing the same crap with a new screen.

May 09, 08 - 10:15 am Comment from: Zune Tang®

Obviously way better than an I-Phone and it has IT support in the enterprise. Now if it only ran Windows Mobile…

Your potential. Our passion.™

May 09, 08 - 10:16 am Comment from: Jay-Z

Yawn – less than 60 days until iPhone 2.0

I just think it's funny that the main upgrade to the BB over the last few years has been a trackball. I was really excited about trackballs. Way back when I got my first powerbook in 1994.

May 09, 08 - 10:36 am Comment from: iWill

Yet another RiM job. . .

@iWill

. . . . and anyone who actually buys it thinking it's anything like an iPhone certainly will have a funny taste in their mouths.

May 09, 08 - 10:55 am Comment from: Jubei

Why are the icons so old looking. Kinda like Black and White or monochrome like the old computers. Is that how they got the GUI to respond faster by dummying down the graphical elements of the UI? LOL

@ Tune Zang

You're slackin' buddy. Gotta come up with something better than that, to keep us Mac Lemmings entertained....

I wonder if it still has a WAP browser. WAP web browsing is so pathetic. If you have not used a WAP browser, just Google the term "WAP is crap". I first heard the term years ago when reading an interview of one of the executives at NTT DoCoMo.

Basically browsing the web with WAP is not much better than browsing the web with a DOS based web browser. Why people put up with that crap is beyond me. It is one of the reasons why I have not yet purchased a smartphone. I will be giving the new iPhone serious consideration when it comes out.

May 09, 08 - 11:08 am Comment from: CYxodus

WAP is for wimps.

May 09, 08 - 11:12 am Comment from: HMCIV

Is it me or does the MDN emoticon look a lot like Stewie Griffin?

That's what the graphics reminds me of. A vector based black&white;arcade game from 1979.

Actually, the phone looks like many of Blackberry's earlier phones with the rounded corners and keyboard though jazzed up. The OS is evolutionary as the reviewer pointed out and he gave it a good review.

So if someone comes out with a phone that does everything the way Apple's iPhone does, they're accused of being derivative and if they just come up with their own thing which doesn't copy iPhone, then the accusation is 'it's not OS X'.

May 09, 08 - 12:15 pm Comment from: Cubert

@HMCIV,
What?!?!? MDN's emoticon? Maybe if you squint and look at it sideways.

and why do I feel compelled to point out that it has a low battery.
Good Lord it's a slow day

May 09, 08 - 12:21 pm Comment from: Cubert

Gotta love the sound of those chicklet keys.

Wow, they gave the thing some futuristic icons and a PS3 background. Then when you click on one of the icons, your dropped into the same mess of Windows 3.11 looking menus like before.

After seeing RIM's rebuttal to the iPhone, I'm really starting to think Job's wasn't exaggerating when he said the iPhone is 5 years ahead.

May 09, 08 - 01:33 pm Comment from: Petey

Is it me of is that interface got too many icons??

Jesus - it looks like an alpha version of OS X.

You only need to click through 20 menus to get to the option you want.

LOL

Thank God "It’s no iPhone" as I now know it a Blackberry it will be more secure, more productive, more reliable and have HSDPA.

May 09, 08 - 02:42 pm Comment from: Petey

re: Thank God "It’s no iPhone" as I now know it a Blackberry it will be more secure, more productive, more reliable and have HSDPA.

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...and you forgot the most important feature of all!

Running a Windows OS that could be infected at any moment over bluetooth with over 100,000 virus's.

Yep - thank god its not an iPhone.

And I'm soooooo glad about that, because it means I can have a safe and secure phone experience from a company that creates the best mobile devices in the world.

As far as RIM and Blackberry are concerned they died when Apple joined the mobile phone business.

R.I.P. RIM