BlackBerry Storm set to launch November 15th
0. phoneArena posted on 27 Oct 2008, 03:26
The wait is almost over, as the Storm is on its way...
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51. (unregistered) posted on 27 Oct 2008, 15:11 0 0
I still want to know if they're gonna make good on the crappy Pearl's and give us a rebate!
67. Kezia (unregistered) posted on 27 Oct 2008, 20:00 0 0
Price determines whether I purchase or not. If more than $300 its a no for me. I can work with my DARE!
74. elgee02 (unregistered) posted on 27 Oct 2008, 22:34 0 0
Unless you bought your Dare at full retail you wont be eiligible for an upgrade, so for the Storm you will be looking at full retail and I can guarentee you this will full retail well above $300
126. (unregistered) posted on 29 Oct 2008, 14:37 0 0
yep, i had to pay full retail for my env...NOT WORTH IT. belive me if you have a decent phone try to work with it untill your contracts over or buy another phone off ebay. my env was 405$
139. (unregistered) posted on 02 Nov 2008, 08:06 0 0
Full retail means the unsubsidized price...like if your contract isn't up for renewal yet, or you aren't eligble for your new every two plan yet. The full retail is rumored in the $500-$600 range, while contracted (subsidized) price is flipping back and forth between $0, $99, $149, and $199 (I've seen most all of these on the internet the past couple of months, and these 4 prices seem to be the most widely accepted).
152. (unregistered) posted on 11 Nov 2008, 17:50 0 0
u r retarded if u paid $405 for a env. full retail price was at $319.99 if that!!! and the env is a great phone. u could never please everybody!
155. (unregistered) posted on 12 Nov 2008, 12:19 0 0
lol sure is........so Kezia might as well stop dreaming
2. vzw fanboy (unregistered) posted on 27 Oct 2008, 06:54 0 0
thats good the stores are opening 1 hour early. i hope this phone is not more expensive than when the voyager came out. i cant wait to see it.
76. PLEASE HELP (unregistered) posted on 27 Oct 2008, 23:20 0 0
Ok, i need to get a new phone and i need one from VZW, that has the best e-mail and text messaging capabilities. Ex. on my Q, i have to go to a menu and request that my new emails be sent to me. I want them to come in just like text messages and be ready for me to check them when i look at my phone. I really need help. PLEASE HELP ANYONE WITH BRAINS >_>
81. (unregistered) posted on 28 Oct 2008, 09:05 0 0
blackberrys will "push" and alert you when you get an email.. just use the set up wizard and it will give you different time intervals that it pushes the emails... the most common is five minutes... so every five minutes it checks and if you have an email it alerts you and its right there on the phone.
89. (unregistered) posted on 28 Oct 2008, 11:45 0 0
wrong - blackberries receive/push your emails through instantly. There is no wait time. I usually get my email on my blackberry before it even hits my gmail.
96. (unregistered) posted on 28 Oct 2008, 15:59 0 0
no your wrong, It pings the system every fifteen minutes until it recieves an email and then every five after it recieves an email, then back to fifteen after it has recieved an email within the five minutes
98. The_Real (unregistered) posted on 28 Oct 2008, 16:05 0 0
Actually you are wrong; Blackberries can be setup in 2 ways, through a BES or BIS. If a Blackberry is through a BES the time interval can be adjusted. If setup through BIS it is carrier dependant. For example T-mobile has set their servers to push out every 15 min. This varies on exactly how quick you will receive your email, anywhere between 5 sec to 20 mins, probability shows that if you get a new email with a 15 min send time you will receive an email on your blackberry in 50% of the time the carrier has set the push.update.time variable, 7.5 mins on average.
118. (unregistered) posted on 29 Oct 2008, 10:32 0 0
I have the curve and sell for Verizon and I get my E-mails instantly, work and personal. All of my e-mails have came to my blackberry before my actualy e mail. Blackberrys are the best phones for e-mail. In fact I like my Curve more then my voyager and dare
140. (unregistered) posted on 02 Nov 2008, 08:13 0 0
it's impossible for your email to hit your phone before your email server -- that doesn't even make sense. The way these work is usally (BIS method) - checking the server every couple of minutes (set interval on the phone or provider, depends on phone and provider - this one looks like VZW + Storm = 5sec - 5min interval) for new mail. If you have no mail *on the mail server*, you won't get it on the blackberry. hence, why it's impossible for you to receive e-mail you haven't yet received. For corporate environments (BES method) - the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) acts as the mail server for your (often) work account - this is what the BlackBerry "syncs" with. The lag you may be experiencing could come from a client that you use (Outlook, Thunderbird, KMail, Evolution, etc), as each of these have intervals they check mail with. If your company/mail server uses POP, there is probably going to be a lag. If IMAP/Exchange, they use the same "Push" technology that the Storm utilizes - email is instantly sent and received by maintaining a constant connection with the server. IMAP is usually (from my experience as an Exchange Administrator) slower at updating the Push data than Exchange.
