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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Once an alternative to BBM becomes popular, BB is done. Seems like the only reason anyone my age has a BB is for BBM. Eventually people will realize it isnt worth a junky phone for a texting program. I had one for a couple years, and frankly I hated everything about it.
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I don't even get the big deal about BBM. I had a BB for 3 years and stopped using BBM after a month. It pissed me off that people could tell whether I had read their message. And since text is unlimited, why even bother with BBM? The text program keeps it in a conversation like sequence anyway. BBM is useless.
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
What they really need to do is specialize and corner one section of the market instead of trying to appeal to everyone. I have a Blackberry and I like it, and most people I know who do a lot of field work use them and prefer them because they can put up with a lot more abuse than some of the other products out there. If you're going to get them dirty, drop them and expose them to the elements, Blackberries are the way to go. When it comes to the general market though, Apple and Android are just more pretty and bubbly. If I knew that their wasn't a good chance of me standing outside in a muddy field during rainstorm using my phone, I'd probably get an iPhone.
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I sort of agree, and I sort of disagree. I'd rather not drop my iphone, but I did just that yesterday. Glad I have this $50 otter case on it.
As for the rain, I was standing in a parking lot this morning, in the pouring rain, getting screwed by a faulty machine, so I decided to take a picture of the phone number of the complaint line, as well as the machine ID number. I thought to myself that I'm glad I'm doing this with an iphone rather than a BB since you can just wipe off the phone with a sleeve and it's dry. No buttons or crevices for water to get in and under.
And Slava, the search function you seek does exist on the iphone. You scroll all the way to the left and just start typing the contact you're looking for. It's exactly the same as BB.