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so i finally caved in a got a blackberry storm an hour ago. now where are all these cool little things everyone talks about? so far all i see this thing doing is surfing the web and making phone calls

I am guessing you got the storm2?

apps are in the app store

That's pretty much all I use mine for... The Google Maps app is MONEY though... just like the regular Google Maps it does give me some fucked up directions every now and again, but overall I love it.

As far as making calls goes, the phone sucks. People have trouble hearing me a lot and with the touch screen I always accidentally hit speakerphone, mute ,or something when I'm holding it with my shoulder.

nah just the storm. i have a laptop for wifi. having it in a phone is kind of gay

go to blackberry.com and download their app world.

Do the same for crackberry.com

Get all your BB friends PIN for their phone. Use your BB Messenger. Its awesome

Bullseye... message being sent
Check mark... sent
D over check... delievered
R over check... read by reciepient

ITS JAWESOME!

You don't use messegner at all, do you? :lol:

I would return that shit, the storm sucks compared to whats out there.

I agreee with Blackberry app word and Crackberry.

I also added...

Flixster Movie reviews and trailers for movies on video or in theaters.

Scoremoblie Sports scores.

Urbanspoon Restaurant one armed bandit. It allows you to chose location (it can find your location and use areas around you), type of food and one of four price ranges. You can lock any, all or none of these and let it spin. It then picks a restaurant for you, gives you user reviews and lets you just click on the phone number to call the resturant.

Poynt Give you a serch engine or business or personal phone numbers, movie info (it will even tell you theaters are near you and what they are playing, times they are playing and prices), you get a button for restaurants which you can search by name, cuisine or ones near you. You can also map it to find your way there.

Weather app I have the one from the weather network. Tells you the weather forcast.

TFLNBerry Text from last night app for when I have nothing to do.

Scanlife Its an app that will scan a special bar code in the Metro (a free paper here) and that will take me to the internet to more stories related to the one your reading and so on.

James

Having wifi on a phone allows you to get online without using your data plan. If saving money is gay then I'm coming out.

James

You shoulda got the iPhone. Storm II is decent but the first one is crap.

And I forgot. BB Messenger kicks all kinds of ass. I loved my Treo because of how it handled text messages. BBM is like it but knowing that someone checked the message is cool.

I never wanted to own a BlackBerry but now that I have it BBM might keep me from ever leaving.

James

I use Score Mobile too...love it.

Where did you get the TFLN app? I can't find it.

Does the Storm's screen not go off when you put it to your ear? If not...what a joke, that's 3 year old technology now!

I found it using the Crackberry app. In the app go to app store, free apps then search for tflnberry.

James

I'm not sure but I would guess it would be in the settings. I could shut off my touch screen on my Treo. I didn't do it but I could if I wanted to.

James

Thanks!

I also use the MSN messenger because I have a ex that I still talk to that uses it.

James

No problem.

James

I like UberTwitter, Pandora, The Hockey News. Facebook app SUCKS, but the Myspace app is decent.

iphone still only works with that shit network.

Not to mention most wi-fi spots are much, much faster than 3G. NOT having wi-fi on a smart phone is gay.

i usually carry my laptop around with me so if there's a wifi spot i'd much rather use that than a phone.

i dont see what the problem is. it's a pretty good phone from what i've seen so far

Wait a couple days til the memory goes to shit and you have to do a battery pull.

Pandora

worth mention again!

I like Slacker's app better for the Storm.

Whats the difference?

Most would rather use a laptop but not everyone has one with them all the time. So by the sounds of it you don't really needed but its still a great thing to have in a phone.

James

Can anyone tell me if wifi is faster than 3G on a phone?

Yes. (At least on my Droid). Haven't tested the Blackberry yet.

Wifi Speed
3569 kbps download speed
1116 kbps upload speed

3G Network (Verizon)
1086 kbps download
806 kbps upload

Good to know. I picked up the Droid yesterday.

The wifi on my corporate iPhone is MUCH faster than AT&T's 3G.

Wow, that looks considerably faster.

Not sure how much it affects it, but the 3G test was done in a moving vehicle.
The Wifi was done about 15ft from my computer at home sitting on the couch. But Wifi is faster all the time, from what I have noticed. The Wifi at my district office is ridiculously fast, compared to my house wifi.