Blackberry

[DaveM]

I have often heard people that own a Blackeberry saying they could never live with out it. Well up until Friday I was the type of person that could not even send an SMS on a normal cell phone let alone do the internet. Getting my Blackberry on Friday night has changes all of that I now see what people mean about not being able to live without one means :ya2: It has now brought all my comms into one small package that I can use on the move. I have a email account on it and I also have my other mail account forwarding to it, so I have my mail completely covered. The Blackberry chap apps keeps me in constant contact with family and friends that have one. I also have Google Talk for Brackberry loaded so this covers my friends that do not have a Blackberry.

The GPS is one of my main favourites as this is something I have needed for years in my job, so if it was just for this it was worth the change. There are also plenty of other handy apps that you can load. I still got a few features to learn about that I have not even looked at yet. So if you were ever thinking about getting one it is well worth it :y115:

 

[CarlS]

I don't even know what an SMS is; so I guess I can't send one either! If I were still working, I could see the value in having one. I have a good GPS and I can read a map. I have a cell phone for, oddly enough, making telephone calls. I have a computer for email and a notebook when traveling. And the places I travel to have limited cell phone reception anyway. Here in the States, it is easy to find a Wi-Fi hotspot. Sometimes it is great to get away and not be bothered with the outside world!!

 

[DaveM]

Well Carl I must admit the one feature I have not tried yet is making a telephone call h: :ya2: The thing this side our internet is very expensive so you don't find free hookups anywhere and if you need to use these public hookup you end up paying a small fortune :tongue:

 

[CarlS]

In that case, I can definitely see the advantage. We have a chain of restaurants, Denny's, which are inexpensive and found in almost every town, particular along the interstates and major US highways. They offer free Wi-Fi. Most truck stops have free Wi-Fi. Nearly all motels and and hotels have free Wi-Fi as well as hospitals and many doctors' offices. A lot of locally owned restaurants also have Wi-Fi. Major airports have free Wi-Fi.

There are also many folks that do not have their private Wi-Fi secured. You can drive through a neighborhood and easily find an unsecured Wi-Fi. Not that I have have ever done this. :y114:

 

[Rocky]

[quote author=CarlS link=topic=11538.msg57591#msg57591 date=1297000774]
I don't even know what an SMS is; so I guess I can't send one either! If I were still working, I could see the value in having one. I have a good GPS and I can read a map. I have a cell phone for, oddly enough, making telephone calls. I have a computer for email and a notebook when traveling. And the places I travel to have limited cell phone reception anyway. Here in the States, it is easy to find a Wi-Fi hotspot. Sometimes it is great to get away and not be bothered with the outside world!!

This pretty well sums it up for me too.
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[DaveM]

We lock ours down so tight because of the price all round :silent: Glad to hear you have never used anyone else's connection :y114:

 

[Rocky]

Last year my wife got a laptop and the first time we turned it on we had a wi-fi signal from somewhere nearby.
She didn't use the laptop very much and continued to tap into the signal from time to time.
I suppose it's stealing, but I don't know what the consequences are with the source such as added cost to the consumer, etc.
Anyway, the signal suddenly ended a few months ago and just recently I bought a router, but have yet to set it up for her - and I will have it secured.

 

[DaveM]

Well I have all our internet apps connected to my router via WiFi in the house and its great to be able to connect via a laptop from different location in the house

 

[DaveM]

Well my interney is down again so I am sure glad I have the BB now

 

[CarlS]

Rocky, unless the whoever owned the Wi-Fi was paying bandwidth charges, and that is rare in North America, it did not affect the owner of the system. Someone nearby in our neighborhood has an unsecured Wi-Fi. I have tapped into it just to see if I could. The danger of an unsecured Wi-Fi is that a hacker could tap into your computer thorough it. A good hacker could most likely hack into a secured Wi-Fi; but he would then have to hack through two firewalls to get to our computers.

Dave, I have our Wi-Fi set up the same as you. We can take a laptop any where in the house or the yard and go online. I was hoping your internet would be fixed by now. Is it still down or is it intermittent?

 

[DaveM]

Friday and Saturday my download speed was good but upload very slow. Sunday it all fell apart again back down to around 500 bytes - 1.2 KB/s, same this morning. So I am now at a loss as what I can do further to sort it out. IF the company that I am with does not come to the party today I am basically screwed. I have plenty of screen captures to send them so let just hope they will start finding out what the issue is. My connection to the Dslam (ADSL exchange equipment) sits at a constant 10 meg but from that point on it falls apart

 

[hemibee]

Since you are a new Blackberry user you might need this if it should quit working.

http://www.flixxy.com/my-blackberry-is-not-working.htm




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[DaveM]

:y24: I have seen it before but still love it each time I watch it :y18:

 

[Silli]

[quote author=CarlS link=topic=11538.msg57591#msg57591 date=1297000774]
I don't even know what an SMS is.............
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You probably (correctly) call it a "text"

 

[CarlS]

[quote author=Silli link=topic=11538.msg57637#msg57637 date=1297061274]
You probably (correctly) call it a "text"

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Ah, thank you. I surmised that must be what he was taking about. I don't text via my cell phone. My typing is slow and bad enough on a standard keyboard - much less on those itsy bitsy, teenie weenie cell phone buttons! I have texting turned off on my cellphone so I don't get charged if anyone tries to text me.

 

[DaveM]

The BB has a normal keyboard layout although very small it makes it easer than a cell phone layout where you have three letters per button

 

[CarlS]

That would make it easier; but those little keyboards and I do not get along. I have enough trouble with a netbook keyboard.

 

[DaveM]

Now this is cool :y18:

http://maps.BlackBerry.com/?lat=-33.94750&lon=25.57870&z=2&label=+Granville+Road%2C+Newton+Park%2C+South+Africa&address=Granville+Road&city=Newton+Park&country=South+Africa

 

[CarlS]

That is cool. Is that where you work?

 

[DaveM]

No just waiting outside the wife's work to pick her up :y114: