When I bought my Bold it didn't come with the slim little leather case but the Curves did. Luckily the owner of the telecom place is a client, so his salesgirl just gave me one of the ones from a Curve since I didn't want the clip-on one I could have had for free.
As far as I know, you cannot buy the slim leather cases, even from RIM and there is no third party beltclip-less version that has a magnet in it to put the phone to sleep. So I guard my little leather phone case like it's made of platinum. I lost the one I had for my Pearl and never found a happy replacement.
Edit: Oops, was reading the previous page, my post relates to the discussion of the leather sleeves that BB's (used to?) come with.
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the thing with the cases though, is that i HATE the huge cases that clip onto belts. I want a small, skinny case that will cover the screen while I'm not using it.
LOL, I don't think I'm that old, and can't wait to get a holster for my new iPhone. The lint and the simple fact that the phone falls out of my pocket everytime I sit down dictates this. Even worse with these large touch screen phones is the fragility of them.
Maybe it's better for ladies with purses to carry a non-holstered phone.
I won't ever buy a phone that doesn't have a decent holster option available to it. I have wrecked far to many phones on keys to have my phone in the same pocket as them.
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I won't ever buy a phone that doesn't have a decent holster option available to it. I have wrecked far to many phones on keys to have my phone in the same pocket as them.
not sure about your pants but mine tend to come with 2 different pockets in the front
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Nice. Got the full body for my 9700. Only cost $2.85 to Calgary for USPS mail. Guess I shouldn't have bought the $5 screen protector at the Richmond night market.
Seriously, who cares which company is doing better than the others?
I think it's a good idea to know, no one wants to lock into something that's on its way out the door.
For those who just spit out their coffee and are preparing to fire, I'm NOT saying RIM is going out the door, I'm just saying why it's a good idea to pay attention to such things. I don't think RIM is on the way out, but I do think they are in a position where they have to try harder and be better if they want to keep up in the consumer market, the new phone is a small step in that direction. I don't see that graph about people's desires for their next phones as a death knell, but I do see it as a wake up call for RIM and if they don't step up it'll be harder and harder for them.
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I think it's a good idea to know, no one wants to lock into something that's on its way out the door.
For those who just spit out their coffee and are preparing to fire, I'm NOT saying RIM is going out the door, I'm just saying why it's a good idea to pay attention to such things. I don't think RIM is on the way out, but I do think they are in a position where they have to try harder and be better if they want to keep up in the consumer market, the new phone is a small step in that direction. I don't see that graph about people's desires for their next phones as a death knell, but I do see it as a wake up call for RIM and if they don't step up it'll be harder and harder for them.
Well, as mentioned today on Crackberry, as long as there is a need for physical keyboards, there will always be a Blackberry. And I don't see phyiscal keyboards going away, both for those not used to touching a screen, and, those who just need the keyboard (ie trying to text in a cab or something that bumps around or getting use to the feel of keys and being able to type with one hand). RIM has cornered the market there. As they have making all devices suitable, security and infrastructure wise, to the corporate market, obviously. The sacrifice is of course not having a wide open source or allow too much onto the phone/network that could compromise that security.
Don't get me wrong, the apps on IP and on Andriod are kind of neat, as are large screen and some of the specs are impressive. But for most, as long as the phone works, some neat basic apps make things easier (like Poynt, Google Maps), texting is available, and browsing the web is painless, those are still the core apps for over half the people with smartphones, I venture to say.
Of course, that will continue to evolve. Through all these latest releases, some of the neat features of phones make me think about swaying from BB...but then thinking how much I'd use those 7 homescreens, or various apps or heavy multimedia features, and then having to get used to a new type of touch screen, in the end its likely the BB Torch as the next phone...back to the keyboard, even if the OS doesn't have some of those bells and whistles that I may or may not use, on screens that may or may not actually make the phone too big (once again).
Well, as mentioned today on Crackberry, as long as there is a need for physical keyboards, there will always be a Blackberry. And I don't see phyiscal keyboards going away, both for those not used to touching a screen, and, those who just need the keyboard (ie trying to text in a cab or something that bumps around or getting use to the feel of keys and being able to type with one hand). RIM has cornered the market there. As they have making all devices suitable, security and infrastructure wise, to the corporate market, obviously. The sacrifice is of course not having a wide open source or allow too much onto the phone/network that could compromise that security.
Don't get me wrong, the apps on IP and on Andriod are kind of neat, as are large screen and some of the specs are impressive. But for most, as long as the phone works, some neat basic apps make things easier (like Poynt, Google Maps), texting is available, and browsing the web is painless, those are still the core apps for over half the people with smartphones, I venture to say.
Of course, that will continue to evolve. Through all these latest releases, some of the neat features of phones make me think about swaying from BB...but then thinking how much I'd use those 7 homescreens, or various apps or heavy multimedia features, and then having to get used to a new type of touch screen, in the end its likely the BB Torch as the next phone...back to the keyboard, even if the OS doesn't have some of those bells and whistles that I may or may not use, on screens that may or may not actually make the phone too big (once again).
I heard an interesting comment that I think bears repeating - the iPhone and Android devices are more like pocket computers. The Blackberry is a phone and communications device first and best.
The key issue for RIM is going to be convergence - are people going to continue to want portable computing and best-of-breed phones in separate packages? Or will they make tradeoffs to have a decent if unspectacular phone in their mobile computer?
More than likely there is enough demand in the market for both regardless. It doesn’t have to be an either-or argument. From a pure numbers perspective, I don’t think RIM will hold on to any kind of sizeable lead in the smartphone space, but they can be a strong third pillar in the mobile space without doubt.
I heard an interesting comment that I think bears repeating - the iPhone and Android devices are more like pocket computers. The Blackberry is a phone and communications device first and best.
The key issue for RIM is going to be convergence - are people going to continue to want portable computing and best-of-breed phones in separate packages? Or will they make tradeoffs to have a decent if unspectacular phone in their mobile computer?
A good comparison.
Spinning this another way, are people going to see the advantage of having more "mini computer" type applications in their IP or Android mini computers at the expense of a more solid communicator?
Do I see myself ever needing a great 4" (as opposed to a lower res 3.2") screen to watch a movie on my phone or play a lot of games? Or, to do a lot of mobile "computing" on the go? No. If I'm going to be sitting somewhere like a plane for that long, I'll use my laptop or get a small 10" netbook for my multimedia experience.
And, if its serious mobile computing that needs to be done, I can tether that laptop/netbook to my BB for any intensive data surfing that is better still than an IP or Android Device. Also could even tether the BB to an Ipad or Ipod Touch to use data/apps there too.
