What phone do you have?

[Hayleigh]

iPhone 4s but the battery is awful. At least my blackberry would last a full day before it ran out

[mrwoooooooo]

hoteluser taking the blackberry bashing a bit too seriously

[Jack!]

hoteluser taking the blackberry bashing a bit too seriously

Hoteluser isn't one to back down from an argument!

HTC Desire (Old school) Running 4.0.4 with INT2SD, Lovely.

[HotelUser]

Many of your rebuttals consist of "well I don't need that". People of North Korea think they have it good, until they escape and realize that it's everyone else who has it better. In the first place they thought they had it good because they never knew what they were missing out on. When it comes to phones, this is you and essentially almost every other BlackBerry user. You think what you have is good but it's actually a giant heap of bulky crap in comparison to what is, infact, truly good.

You can defend (as you have below) your purchase but I've brought to the table the fact that your phone is statistically inferior to other phones for similar prices and you cannot refute this fact. Even below you've still yet to rationalize why you rightfully minded purchased something worse, when you could have gotten something statistically better at no greater consequence. I think what happened was you thought there was virtually no differences in hardware and software between your BlackBerry, and other phones on the market.

slides are usually touchscreens too, and prone to being broken.

HTC has released handsets in the past such as the HTC Dream, Desire, Touch, Magic and the Nexus One which all have trackballs/trackpads so you don't need to use the really simple and finger friendly high resolution touchscreen.

Prone to be broken? Show me the statistical analysis which you're basing this claim on.

since when have you owned a blackberry to know how bad it is? my phone often searches faster than my dad's iphone when we're on the same network!!

Since like four phones ago when I was stupid enough to own one before switching to an HTC Vogue. They're god awful and outdated in software and hardware for years, and anybody who buys one is grotesquely misinformed and didn't research what they were buying before they bought it. It's even worse because the company is hurting severely because just now everyone is just beginning to notice how big of rocks they are, and it's impacting Canadian employment (because they're a big employer here and is annoys me how because of the companies stupidity folks have/will lose jobs).

don't need it any faster, does everythin as soon as i tell it too

You could of gotten something better for the same price, and the reason that you didn't is that you "didn't need anything faster".

"Hi. I bought this really expensive and overpriced shed to live in instead of an equally priced house, because I don't need a house to live in. I'm fine with a shed."

Choosing the worse item out of two equally priced items, is not justification as to why you choose the worst item out of the two equally priced items.

I honestly don't know how I afforded 4 quid for a 4GB memory card Tough times indeed... I have 4 'alarm' songs and a few photos stored, don't need anything more!

A slow and small 4GB memory card. Could of had a Samsung handset with 64GB solid internal memory

1) hyperbole
2) does on a blackberry
3) it's fast enough for me
4) i. do. not. need. any. other. apps. The only app I'd like that's not available on BB is StarMap, but, as like so many other things, technology takes the fun out of stargazing.

Nobody "needs" apps, but they get them because they're fun/awesome.

You cannot experience this because you've never experienced what it's like to actually have a phone capable of apping properly.

As afromentioned: Choosing the worse item out of two equally priced items, is not justification as to why you choose the worst item out of the two equally priced items.

I didn't say I didn't, I just said I don't need them. I realise that I'm using basic upload/download speeds for every little thing, I'm not stupid, but it's pretty much instant!

It only feels fast (and not painfully slow) because you're not used to using a smartphone, wherein it is actually fast.

I don't really care that you're saying it's fast, because if you go here:

http://geekaphone.com/compare/Samsun...erry-Bold-9780

Their breakdown comparison between your phone and an *old* Galaxy shows that the Galaxy is faster.

It's a fact that your BlackBerry is slower, whether you want to see it or not.

Once again I'm not stupid, I know blackberry are being greedy by the way they need to have data plans but that's exactly why i'm not on a contract! Your beloved apple is WAY more infamous for overcharging for effectively, **** materials, so don't even start that. It'd be going offtopic so I'm not saying any more on that.

Beloved Apple? I'm defending my points with examples of Samsung Galaxy handsets, not iPhones :S

Phone goes in pocket, camera in bag. Not a problem. And boohoo, 5mp, phones are phones cameras are cameras.

I guess you better tell that to the countless millions of Facebook users who upload photos from their phones to Facebook then. They will be crushed to learn that taking advantage of having a camera with you at all times via your phone is the wrong thing to do!!!!!!

Him, and as far as I'm aware he already does, as he doesn't have his own charger and has to rely on other people's.

I've charged my iPhone once this week once, and as for Android phones:

http://blog.laptopmag.com/best-batte...g-smart-phones

It looks like we've got some pretty good battery happy candidates

Clearly you're very lazy then. Pressing one button isn't exactly the epitome of 'active' but still

If I'm lazy what are you, because I for one don't blow hundreds of dollars on out of date bulky under preforming phones.

Obviously they don't FEEL flimsy but they don't feel, like, there. IDK how to describe it, but I like to know I'm holding a phone

Well you not wanting to use an onscreen keyboard is just "lazy" of you :rolleyes:

Yeah I wasn't ripped off at all. Buying an iPhone, that's being ripped off. What I meant is, my phone works fine for me without one so it doesn't really effect me.

I can buy a $99 iPhone 4 on contract or I can buy a $99 BlackBerry on that same contract. The iPhone 4 will have hundreds of thousands of more apps, an accelerometer, better screen, better CPU, better browser, nicer interface, voice controls (siri if I want to jailbreak), faster data and better battery life. Yeah, buying an iPhone over a BlackBerry is a colossal ripoff!!!!!!!111one

I don't need to rotate my phone. When I'm on the phone the screen turns off to conserve battery life. I don't play many games, only ones that need the keyboard/trackpad. If i want to invoke voice commands I press 1 small button.

Yeah I didn't need this feature either, but I realized that since I can have it at no greater expense, I might as well have it.

Since you don't need javascript and stylesheets when you browse the internet, why don't you go ahead and turn those things off?

Since you don't need to use your monitor at its native resolution, why don't you go ahead and set it to 640x480?

Since you don't need the fullest extent of your computer's CPU to use it, why don't you intentionally underclock all your cores to 288mhz?

You wont do any of those things because doing any of them is stupid. You shouldn't use Internet Explorer 6 or Netscape Navigator compared to Internet Explorer 10 or the latest version of Firefox because although it wont cost you more either way, one is clearly better than the other, so choosing the worse item just because you don't absolutely need the better option is pretty much the definition of stupidity in my books.

My package only covers basic things, so it wouldn't cover that. I barely like video calling on skype so why i'd need that on a phone is beyyyonnnnddddd me.

If you live in the UK or the US then there's practically public wifi oozing out of your ears. You also said you had a laptop so I'm going to assume you have wifi at home, unless of course you plug in your laptop using an rj45 because you don't "need" wifi (wouldn't surprise me at this point).

yes for 3x the price I paid for my phone... and my package is so cheap you can't get a similar one for androids!
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I can literally go on kijiji or eBay and find an Android phone for $100 (that's like 50 pounds) that's off contract and that has better specs than yours, go do that.

My stance is more... you need to realise that not everyone's like you. People like different things, people have different needs/expectations from a phone. I don't see the point in paying as much as I did for a decent laptop and decent(ish) camera and paying another huge lump (which quite frankly, I don't have) for something that performs the same functions. I did a bit of research when getting this phone but I had a blackberry for 2 years before I got this one, and the only issues I had with it was because of how badly I treated it.

I don't care if you are so unlike me that your skin is purple, your hair green and that you have 52 piercings on the surface area of your left knee. Your stance is that you're trying to justify your purchase of a phone which is in both hardware and software worse than another phone which you could have purchased instead.

For the price I paid I could get probably the worst HTC and an eigth of an iPhone, not particularly useful.

Go look at what I said about eBay and Kijiji and please drop me a PM in two weeks telling me you've dropped your BlackBerry in the river.

I think you need to realise that not everyone is like you.

Fortunately I already realize this because I (heavens forbid) don't presently have within my possession a BlackBerry, but instead I have a smartphone

[lawrawrrr]

Many of your rebuttals consist of "well I don't need that". People of North Korea think they have it good, until they escape and realize that it's everyone else who has it better. In the first place they thought they had it good because they never knew what they were missing out on. When it comes to phones, this is you and essentially almost every other BlackBerry user. You think what you have is good but it's actually a giant heap of bulky crap in comparison to what is, infact, truly good.

You can defend (as you have below) your purchase but I've brought to the table the fact that your phone is statistically inferior to other phones for similar prices and you cannot refute this fact. Even below you've still yet to rationalize why you rightfully minded purchased something worse, when you could have gotten something statistically better at no greater consequence. I think what happened was you thought there was virtually no differences in hardware and software between your BlackBerry, and other phones on the market.



HTC has released handsets in the past such as the HTC Dream, Desire, Touch, Magic and the Nexus One which all have trackballs/trackpads so you don't need to use the really simple and finger friendly high resolution touchscreen.

Prone to be broken? Show me the statistical analysis which you're basing this claim on.



Since like four phones ago when I was stupid enough to own one before switching to an HTC Vogue. They're god awful and outdated in software and hardware for years, and anybody who buys one is grotesquely misinformed and didn't research what they were buying before they bought it. It's even worse because the company is hurting severely because just now everyone is just beginning to notice how big of rocks they are, and it's impacting Canadian employment (because they're a big employer here and is annoys me how because of the companies stupidity folks have/will lose jobs).



You could of gotten something better for the same price, and the reason that you didn't is that you "didn't need anything faster".

"Hi. I bought this really expensive and overpriced shed to live in instead of an equally priced house, because I don't need a house to live in. I'm fine with a shed."

Choosing the worse item out of two equally priced items, is not justification as to why you choose the worst item out of the two equally priced items.



A slow and small 4GB memory card. Could of had a Samsung handset with 64GB solid internal memory



Nobody "needs" apps, but they get them because they're fun/awesome.

You cannot experience this because you've never experienced what it's like to actually have a phone capable of apping properly.

As afromentioned: Choosing the worse item out of two equally priced items, is not justification as to why you choose the worst item out of the two equally priced items.



It only feels fast (and not painfully slow) because you're not used to using a smartphone, wherein it is actually fast.

I don't really care that you're saying it's fast, because if you go here:

http://geekaphone.com/compare/Samsun...erry-Bold-9780

Their breakdown comparison between your phone and an *old* Galaxy shows that the Galaxy is faster.

It's a fact that your BlackBerry is slower, whether you want to see it or not.



Beloved Apple? I'm defending my points with examples of Samsung Galaxy handsets, not iPhones :S



I guess you better tell that to the countless millions of Facebook users who upload photos from their phones to Facebook then. They will be crushed to learn that taking advantage of having a camera with you at all times via your phone is the wrong thing to do!!!!!!



I've charged my iPhone once this week once, and as for Android phones:

http://blog.laptopmag.com/best-batte...g-smart-phones

It looks like we've got some pretty good battery happy candidates



If I'm lazy what are you, because I for one don't blow hundreds of dollars on out of date bulky under preforming phones.



Well you not wanting to use an onscreen keyboard is just "lazy" of you :rolleyes:



I can buy a $99 iPhone 4 on contract or I can buy a $99 BlackBerry on that same contract. The iPhone 4 will have hundreds of thousands of more apps, an accelerometer, better screen, better CPU, better browser, nicer interface, voice controls (siri if I want to jailbreak), faster data and better battery life. Yeah, buying an iPhone over a BlackBerry is a colossal ripoff!!!!!!!111one



Yeah I didn't need this feature either, but I realized that since I can have it at no greater expense, I might as well have it.

Since you don't need javascript and stylesheets when you browse the internet, why don't you go ahead and turn those things off?

Since you don't need to use your monitor at its native resolution, why don't you go ahead and set it to 640x480?

Since you don't need the fullest extent of your computer's CPU to use it, why don't you intentionally underclock all your cores to 288mhz?

You wont do any of those things because doing any of them is stupid. You shouldn't use Internet Explorer 6 or Netscape Navigator compared to Internet Explorer 10 or the latest version of Firefox because although it wont cost you more either way, one is clearly better than the other, so choosing the worse item just because you don't absolutely need the better option is pretty much the definition of stupidity in my books.



If you live in the UK or the US then there's practically public wifi oozing out of your ears. You also said you had a laptop so I'm going to assume you have wifi at home, unless of course you plug in your laptop using an rj45 because you don't "need" wifi (wouldn't surprise me at this point).




I can literally go on kijiji or eBay and find an Android phone for $100 (that's like 50 pounds) that's off contract and that has better specs than yours, go do that.



I don't care if you are so unlike me that your skin is purple, your hair green and that you have 52 piercings on the surface area of your left knee. Your stance is that you're trying to justify your purchase of a phone which is in both hardware and software worse than another phone which you could have purchased instead.


Go look at what I said about eBay and Kijiji and please drop me a PM in two weeks telling me you've dropped your BlackBerry in the river.



Fortunately I already realize this because I (heavens forbid) don't presently have within my possession a BlackBerry, but instead I have a smartphone

Quite frankly, I can't even be bothered to read that. Simply put...


I LIKE MY BLACKBERRY IT DOES EVERYTHING I NEED IT TO AND I HAVE NO ISSUES WITH IT THEREFORE I DO NOT NEED ANOTHER PHONE.


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[Hiding]

iphone 4s, love it

[Sharon]

stop attacking people because they have a blackberry, sorry for not getting the hoteluser seal of approval before buying a phone. if she likes the phone then accept it?

I HAVE A BLACKBERRY BOLD 9700 though I'm getting an iPhone 4S soon

[lawrawrrr]

stop attacking people because they have a blackberry, sorry for not getting the hoteluser seal of approval before buying a phone. if she likes the phone then accept it?

I HAVE A BLACKBERRY BOLD 9700 though I'm getting an iPhone 4S soon

Don't be ridiculous, you can't possibly like a blackberry even if it does everything you need it to and more

you have to fork over at least twice what i paid for an iphone plus a stupidly expensive contract because there's basically no other options for iphones whereas i can get exactly what i need very cheaply

but i can't possibly like it because it doesn't have a billion mp camera or an accelorometer which obviously doesn't effect me

[HotelUser]

stop attacking people because they have a blackberry, sorry for not getting the hoteluser seal of approval before buying a phone. if she likes the phone then accept it?

I HAVE A BLACKBERRY BOLD 9700 though I'm getting an iPhone 4S soon

Laura is a big girl, and we're both capable of debating the pros and cons of different cellular handsets. The only "attacking" going on here is from you and Lizzy who don't have anything relative to contribute to the discussion, but are only urked that I'm telling your friend that I don't like a product she owns (and if you think that's the definition of attacking then oh, dear). Laura clearly has enough backbone to defend her opinions, and if you would like to jump in because you feel an obligation to your friend then by all means go ahead and post your own thoughts and your own opinions If your only point is, "don't argue with her she's my friend," then that's just ridiculous.

Quite frankly, I can't even be bothered to read that. Simply put...


I LIKE MY BLACKBERRY IT DOES EVERYTHING I NEED IT TO AND I HAVE NO ISSUES WITH IT THEREFORE I DO NOT NEED ANOTHER PHONE.


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Meanwhile millions of others will continue to use statistically better phones than yours that they got at the same expense

[lawrawrrr]

Laura is a big girl, and we're both capable of debating the pros and cons of different cellular handsets. The only "attacking" going on here is from you and Lizzy who don't have anything relative to contribute to the discussion, but are only urked that I'm telling your friend that I don't like a product she owns (and if you think that's the definition of attacking then oh, dear). Laura clearly has enough backbone to defend her opinions, and if you would like to jump in because you feel an obligation to your friend then by all means go ahead and post your own thoughts and your own opinions If your only point is, "don't argue with her she's my friend," then that's just ridiculous.



Meanwhile millions of others will continue to use statistically better phones than yours that they got at the same expense

No way can people get a better phone than mine for the price I paid. No, I didn't buy it from Blackberry direct, or even new (technology exchange, but mint condition), where the same place, an HTC (not the wildfire as i know thats worse) or iPhone was substantially more than that. I understand you think I could have got a better spec, but not at the same price, I wasn't prepared to pay any more than I did.