Blackberry 9900/9930

Robbo · 17 Oct 2011 at 15:54

Emjeadea said:
its still a standard blackberry and they really need to move on if they want to keep up with the likes of android and apple

That's a rather random comment? Do you have a point or something?

Yas786 · 17 Oct 2011 at 16:20

chrismscotland said:
I've just bought a Martin Fields screen protector, not put it on yet but they seem to be highly regarded.

Yep same one i use on my 9900, in fact its the only screen protector i use on all my blackberries. But tbh the 9900 has hardened glass and someone did try and scratch the screen but didnt have much luck...seems like the screen is tough enough, personally i wouldnt take a chance though.

Big Chris · 17 Oct 2011 at 16:21

chrismscotland said:
I've just bought a Martin Fields screen protector, not put it on yet but they seem to be highly regarded.

Spawn said:
Yep same one i use on my 9900, in fact its the only screen protector i use on all my blackberries. But tbh the 9900 has hardened glass and someone did try and scratch the screen but didnt have much luck...seems like the screen is tough enough, personally i wouldnt take a chance though.

Sweet, I''ll look into this one then. Cheers

chrismscotland · 17 Oct 2011 at 16:24

I should really get round to putting it on, came in the post this morning.
Also ordered the Blackberry Charging Pod/Stand, seems nice and will let me charge my Blackberry while I'm at work so I can use it as my music player too.
Although it seems to be missing some plug adaptors, ordered from Mobilefun and it only came with a US plug!!!

Magic_x_uk · 17 Oct 2011 at 23:59

http://crackberry.com/
looking at this post, we will be getting some freebies for RIM's problems last week. That is kind of them.

chrismscotland · 18 Oct 2011 at 08:47

Blackberry Dev Con kicks off tonight, hoping to see more of their "future" QNX phones and hopefully the OS update for the Playbook!

Magic_x_uk · 18 Oct 2011 at 14:50

Just got of phone to upgrades (Orange)
9900 being delivered tomorrow.

£31 pm,
free handset
1gb internet
600 minutes
unlimited texts
BB package

and 2 swapables whatever they are.

Myshra · 18 Oct 2011 at 15:18

Swapables are free stuff, if you're a man these basically are Free Music (Deezer, bit like spotify) and free Sky Sports stuff. If you're a bit of a simpleton then there's always astrology from Russell Grant

. Whatever you do, don't take mobile tv (other sites work fine like tvcatchup) and goCommute is copying other apps you can get so don't bother with that one.

Full list is here: http://newsroom.orange.co.uk/2011/0...imedia-swapable-benefits-on-pay-monthly-plan/

Big Chris · 18 Oct 2011 at 15:25

Magic_x_uk said:
Just got of phone to upgrades (Orange)
9900 being delivered tomorrow.

£31 pm,
free handset
1gb internet
600 minutes
unlimited texts
BB package

and 2 swapables whatever they are.

I tried getting this deal after someone else on here posted it and they said 1GB internet wasn't possible! I might try ringing again...

Myshra · 18 Oct 2011 at 15:40

That deal is Panther 36 with a £5 discount (probably loyalty). Panther/iPhone deals are the ones with 1GB allowance/swapables.

Redman · 18 Oct 2011 at 16:48

Myshra said:
Pretty miserable to see BB sales pre and post incident, the 9900 will probably recover by xmas though, it's a blinder of a office phone.

Speculative question, but do you think 9900/9360 prices are likely to fall over the next month or so if sales continue to be poor (due to the outage)?

I'm in the market, and there's a nice looking panther 26 deal on mobiles.co.uk currently (200min, 750mb, 3000 texts @ £26pm & £35 for the bb9900), but the devil on my shoulder says offers will come if sales are poor

Magic_x_uk · 18 Oct 2011 at 21:23

well I did not go for orange care as was told by the lady from retentions the blackberry has a 24 month warranty. If anything should go wrong with it in that time they would replace it within 24 hours via courier.

Orange care only adds cover for if phone is stolen or lost. so therefore saving £6 pm.

I hope SHE was correct in what she told me! ???

cheechm · 18 Oct 2011 at 21:59

Magic_x_uk said:
well I did not go for orange care as was told by the lady from retentions the blackberry has a 24 month warranty. If anything should go wrong with it in that time they would replace it within 24 hours via courier.

Orange care only adds cover for if phone is stolen or lost. so therefore saving £6 pm.

I hope SHE was correct in what she told me! ???

Yeah but you're more likely to lose/have your phone stolen than for it to break on you.

Myshra · 19 Oct 2011 at 08:48

Redman said:
Speculative question, but do you think 9900/9360 prices are likely to fall over the next month or so if sales continue to be poor (due to the outage)?

I'm in the market, and there's a nice looking panther 26 deal on mobiles.co.uk currently (200min, 750mb, 3000 texts @ £26pm & £35 for the bb9900), but the devil on my shoulder says offers will come if sales are poor

RIM phones bizarrely hold their value (well, it's because they have a captive market, no competition and a forced sphere of control) so on the whole, not really. Christmas will see some discount but that's ages away and I'm not sure what's going to happen, they may just try to bulk shift the SGS2 stock every network has.

chrismscotland · 19 Oct 2011 at 08:51

I'd agree I don't think you'll see much price drop on the 9900, its the latest and greatest BB phone and like Myshra says they tend to hold their value well, I'd just go for it, you won't regret it.

chrismscotland · 19 Oct 2011 at 11:14

Don't know if anyone uses Spotify but its finally launched for Blackberry today: http://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2011/10/18/introducing-spotify-for-your-blackberry/

Says no OS7 support, but apart from having to get rid of a few error messages it seems to work fine on my Bold 9900.

Magic_x_uk · 20 Oct 2011 at 19:35

Can someone link me to the latest OS/firmware.

Do I need it? Got my BB9900 from Orange yesterday. Slowly getting used to it. Certainly a step up from my 8900 from the last 22 months.

Keep forgetting it has a touch screen though

I have at the moment
7.0 bundle 1672 (V7.0.0.353,platform 5.0.0.544)

Is that latest and if not. Do I need to upgrade?

Thanks.

Redman · 20 Oct 2011 at 20:37

Another silly question. Do phones 4 u brand their phones? The 9900 on orange panther 31 24 months is free from phones4u, but £99 direct from orange grrrr. Same deal at carphonewarehouse too by all acounts.

Big Chris · 20 Oct 2011 at 21:28

Anyone use Whatsapp? A bunch of my mates are on it so I'm giving it a go, seems pretty cool so far. Does it fully close when you close it though? Or is it eating into my 500MB even when nothing's going on? Using it on WiFi at home but concerned about when I'm out and about.

cheechm · 20 Oct 2011 at 21:51

Big Chris said:
Anyone use Whatsapp? A bunch of my mates are on it so I'm giving it a go, seems pretty cool so far. Does it fully close when you close it though? Or is it eating into my 500MB even when nothing's going on? Using it on WiFi at home but concerned about when I'm out and about.

I'm never sure, but I doubt it uses too much anyway. Think of it as a basic messaging like texts. Each character is a byte. So you have plenty of "room to manoeuvre".