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during which ancient egyptian month will blackberry die?
thout
paopi
hathor
koiak
tobi
meshir
paremhat
paremoude
pashons
paoni
epip
mesori
gasthred
banop
RIM'S GONNA KEEP GOING BABY!!!
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A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
i think i said august in the last thread but i think im going to revise that upward to june. lets go june 13

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A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

how the gently caress is bbry still in business?

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
why do all messaging apps have stickers now. is it one of those things you can't understand unless your a 13yo girl?

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

Nelson MandEULA posted:

flatmate's dad is visiting from toronto. he wears a z10 on a holster. :cripes:

read that at first as "fishmech's dad" and for a minute i was jealous you 2 were so tight

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
what is the difference between the navy and the marines like literally all I know is they both have to do with water and they each think the other is a bunch of rear end in a top hat faggots

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
xi feel like you guys are being facetious but that was a serious question!

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

downs-syndrome Voltron

mods?

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

infernal machines posted:

the one and only infrastructure DC?

are you loving serious

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

FrozenVent posted:

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-19/hands-on-with-the-blackberry-classic

greatest pictures in a phone review article since the slice of cheese

quote:

The Bloomberg piece also recalled an October blog post from Chen in which he reflected that “it’s tempting, in a rapidly changing, rapidly growing mobile market, to change for the sake of change—to mimic what’s trendy.”

No danger here.

:thurman:

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

if u want to do ad fraud why would you do it on a platform with approx 10 users

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

:eyepop:

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
is that walkie talkie service still around? i heard the chirp the other day in the store and it really surprised me, i thought sprint shut that down a while ago

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

mishaq posted:

why would you do that and not just have a phone call in public on speakerphone at that point

you must be lucky cause i see people doing this all the drat time

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

Bonzo posted:

I want a sexuTablet. or a suckYou one.

good news!

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
so at least you'll have lost your anal virginity

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

mishaq posted:

i wonder how long that was kept a secret from whatever hr/marketing director though "hmm, this new .jobs domain would be great to snap up to redirect to our careers site!" internally


:ms:

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

Kenny Logins posted:

pro-TO or anti-TO or whatever else, i think we can all agree that the Lunney meltdown is spectacular and that's what really unites canada as a people

i have irish in me, which makes no difference because i refuse to believe in hereditary traits

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
keep going. I am un ruffled. cool as a cuke. check and mate darwinists

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1w8sFOj4bA

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

Bonzo posted:

Qaadri called the assembly's policy "handicapping, retarding and penalizing MPPs" — much to the ire of Harris, who thought his use of language was inappropriate.

im now imagining ontarios legislature being made up entirely of 16 year old tumblrites

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

Pinterest Mom posted:

I join the many, many people across Canada calling on him to apologize and explain why he chose to use derogatory references to people with disabilities in a petition ostensibly about technology. We are dismayed‎ by Mr. Qaadri’s behavior that reflects poorly on all of Canada – and especially to Canadians with disabilities who are incredible contributors to the nation.

Bonzo posted:

Qaadri called the assembly's policy "handicapping, retarding and penalizing MPPs" — much to the ire of Harris, who thought his use of language was inappropriate.


goddamn thats tumblr-level outrage

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

~Coxy posted:

that article is wrong; blackberry never dominated smartphone sales

it didnt?

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
No, I'm not going to get an iPhone, quit emailing me about it. I'm not getting one because I already have a phone that's better: it's called the Nokia E70, it's the pinnacle of human achievement, and I love it more than my family:

You've probably never heard of the E70 because Nokia's marketing team is busy finding every last dick in the universe to suck, so I'm going to do their job for them and tell you about this product. And no, I'm not being paid to do this. I'm just tired of the iPhone fanboys shooting huge sticky wads and high-fiving each other (literally) over their stupid cellphones.

First of all, the E70 has a full keyboard, not some lovely stripped down, tap-and-pray smudgy piece of poo poo. Nokia uses a technology that's even more advanced than the iPhone's tap screen, allowing you to actually feel the keys you press as you're pressing them! The technology is called "tactile response," and it allows you to do things like dial a phone number without staring at your screen like a poo poo-chucking ape. In fact, every other cellphone ever made has this technology, sometimes called "buttons."

This keyboard will not only stomp your colon, but the colons of distant relatives of the human species such as lagomorphs, and hypothetical colons of children you haven't even had yet. Want to type a backslash? No problem. Ampersand? You bet your rear end. On an iPhone, you have to press an additional button that opens up an alternate keypad that will allow you to type numbers and punctuation. So typing something as simple as elipses (...) requires you to tap your finger 9 times. Enjoy your phone, losers! People like me who have poo poo to do will stick to a keyboard that doesn't have its lips wrapped firmly to the user-interface equivalent of a throbbing dong:

lovely.

When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead. He claimed that the phone was three devices in one: an iPod, a phone, and an "Internet communications device." Oooh, an Internet communications device?! AWESOME!

It's not three devices in one any more than my laptop is you morons. Using Jobs' loose definition of what constitutes a separate device, technically my laptop can be considered 8 devices in one:

A clock
A calculator
An "Internet communications device"
A phone (I can make voice calls with my modem)
A pornographic media storage device
A video player
A word processor
And an "iPod" (see below)

There's no such thing as an iPod. The word "iPod" is a marketing tool for a hard drive with software that plays mp3s. Yeah, doesn't sound so sexy now, does it you chimps? And an "internet communications device" is officially the douchebaggiest way of saying "it has a browser." So actually it's just a phone that plays mp3s and has a browser. SNORE.

The Nokia E70 not only plays mp3s, video, has a full browser and Wi-Fi, IMAP and POP3 email, and Google Maps, but you can even run terminal software to telnet or SSH into remote servers. What that means in non-geek is that my phone is invincible. I can literally do anything. I can reboot my web server if I want, and sometimes I do just because I can:

All of this power from a phone that's over a year old, and it only costs $360. Even the browser kicks rear end:

Here's a non-biased, side-by-side comparison of some key features of each phone:

iPhone Nokia E70
Resolution: 320x480 352x416
Storage: 4 or 8 gigs (fixed). Unlimited. The E70 can use hot-swappable 2 GB mini SD cards, so you can have as much storage as you want.
Can customize ringtones with your own mp3s:
Can record video:
Screen turns into a smudgy piece of poo poo after a few minutes of use:
Can send MMS messages:
You have to send your phone to Apple when the battery dies and risk getting your phone lost, stolen, or damaged in transit: Yes. No.
Plays MP3s:
Holds your phone hostage to Apple for new software updates because Apple won't allow everyone to develop applications for it:
Voice dialing:
Can record voice:
Instant messaging: No. Yes.
Can't do fundamental tasks like copy & paste text: Yes. No. Double negative, bitches!

There you have it: the most objective comparison of two cellphones ever made. I think I'll take the rest of the afternoon off and copy and paste text on my cellphone because I can.

5,953,307 people who bought an iPhone hadn't heard of the Nokia E70 until now because Nokia's marketing team is too busy tossing salad to get the word out.

Back to how much I rule... • New Book Announcement • Store • Email • •

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

buttcrackmenace posted:

9:00 am. one of my co workers popped in to request administrative assistance installing the bb manager app onto his work PC

reason? he needed to finish setting up his brand-new passport

which he just bought yesterday

it is now after 5pm

the initial device configure has not completed yet.

he has had a sprint rep on the phone all day walking him through the the install.

serves him right

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

In 1997, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. The next year, it turned a profit of over $300 million. How was this possible? They admitted to themselves that their products needed to change radically.

“You know what’s wrong with this company?” said Steve Jobs at the time. “The products suck.” The company went on the release the iMac, and later, iPods, iPads, and iPhones. Today it is the most valuable company in the world.

Can this happen for BlackBerry? It’s more possible than you think.

Last month the company released its most innovative product in years: the BlackBerry Priv. This new phone solves nearly every issue that contributed to the firm’s epic collapse, namely a lack of apps, a clunky user interface, and outdated hardware. BlackBerry may have found its version of the iPhone in one product.

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

infernal machines posted:

how the gently caress do you even get cowboys like this in corporate it?

the data center hosting the business critical software my company makes has gone down 5 times in 3 months so none of our customers can log in for a good half day or so

no changes have been made to data center personnel

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

PleasureKevin posted:

legalize weed now bastard
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A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt

quote:

The Arctic Research Foundation was set up by Jim Balsillie, a Canadian tech tycoon and philanthropist, who co-founded Research in Motion, creator of the Blackberry.

now if he could only find where his customers went XD

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A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

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http://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?articleNumber=000038179

Overview
BlackBerry is announcing product obsolescence for BlackBerry Business Cloud Services as of the dates set out below.

End of Sale/End of Support

BlackBerry is committed to providing you the highest level of customer care while you determine your future strategy. Please see below for key timelines and support option.

Milestone Target Date
End of Sale May, 2016
End of Support August 26, 2016


RIP

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