In no particular order …
- Annoying that it doesn’t come with even a cheap little carrying case. I know, carrying cases for cell phones are so passe — but I always feel very uncomfortable with the phone in my shirt pocket (since it can easily bounce out). I have one on order …
- On the other hand, very cool that the “standard” BB cases for the Curve have a little magnetic plate in them that the phone can detect — so you can set different ring/vibe combos for having it in or out of the case.
- And I like that it charges (optionally) off the USB port of my computer. One less thing to plug in.
- Setting up the filtering of Exchange messages — and telling it which folders to send, which messages to not send, which to flag as High Priority — was a bit of a pain. Not for having to do it, but because various messages and configurations are tucked away. That said, now that I have it set, it seems to be working great.
- In general, way too many configuration applets and options and places to change things around.
- Smaller and lighter than my Treo (thinner, at least, and shorter, though a scosh wider). Certainly smaller than this.
- Have to figure out how to rearrange the icons/applications/folders. Way too many of them (see above).
- I’ve gotten SplashID and the GMail extension installed. Fairly painless.
- A dedicated mute button on the exterior. Who’d a thunk?
- I’ve stopped convulsively grabbing for the stylus. The little track ball is fine, but it still seems
- I miss having a dedicated period (.) key. Alt-shifting or hitting the space bar twice is fine, but it will take me a while to get used to it.
- Voice dialing! Woot! And it works with my Bluetooth headset! And it has a faboo speaker for speakerphone capacity!
- Good forum for information.
So far, so good.
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Comments are borked on the Windsource post. All I was going to add, however, was that my bill hasn’t changed at all. I dunno whether this is because of my consumption vs. no-longer applicable surcharges for ‘regular’ energy, but whatever: the bill’s right where it’s historically been for me.
Sounds a lot nicer than my Pearl (from which I’m posting this comment);
Sounds a lot nicer than my Pearl (from which I’m posting this comment).
Heh. Thought it timed out and resubmitted, fixing a typo. 🙂
NP — comments were wonky yesterday.
The Pearl is a nice phone. I decided (primarily) that I wanted a full QWERTY keyboard, rather than doubling up letters on each key. To each his own.
I’m getting the hang of the funky keyboard. The typo yesterday was because I had the wheel’s horizontal sensitivity at 100, to facilitate games of BrickBreaker. I clicked on the period, and the wheel scrolled to the semicolon as it was clicking.
I suspect your screen is larger than mine, too (2.25″ diagonally). I’d probably still have to use my reading glasses, though.
I tried a bluetooth earpiece, but it didn’t work with the mp3s, so I went back to an uncomfortable earbud. I spend more time at work listening to music and podcasts than talking on my phone.
Whereas I don’t expect I’ll be using it as a music device.