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I'm currently using a W800 as my MP3 player and camera phone and a Blackberry 7100v for accessing my work email via BES. I've being looking at the P990i as the ultimate all-in-one device for me, but the apparent lack of true multi-tasking capabilities in the current firmware leave me very hesitant.
I'd like to hear from P990i users running Blackberry Connect, browsing the web regularly and making and receiving a lot of calls. Can the device handle at least this much? Is it still capable of the occasional MP3 and photo without impacting the push email? Can anyone offer a comparison of BB Connect on P990i vs BES on RIM devices?
I know I'll probably end up waiting for the feedback on the Feb firmware before making a decision, but there are some great BNIB deals on eBay right now and I'm sorely tempted to get myself a nice Christmas prezzie!
[ This Message was edited by: HappyHammer on 2006-12-23 21:43 ]
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Posted: 2006-12-23 22:07:12
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I havn't tried BlackBerry, but uses my P990i as MP3 player and for e-mails every day. The MP3 spayer is very good. I don't expect good quality, so that one may not be very good, but exept from that, so is it a good MP3 player. I use a 4 GB MS PRO Duo memory card, and it works great. I have 500 MB og music and 500 MB of video. No problems, no lag or anything.
Outlook is retired. I use my P990i for all e-mails, exept from the large once. It's expensive to download them, so I use my computer to download large e-mails. But all the small once are downloaded, read and answerd by my cellphone. Works great, exept from large e-mails, because it gets out of memory
The web does also works great, exept from memory problems and XML error. But all this should be fixed in the new FW. Otherwise is the web browser great. But because of large bills, I prefer Opera Mini. It's faster and much cheaper
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Posted: 2006-12-24 00:10:16
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@HappyHammer
Just think about it look at the amount of phones for sale the pages of complaints and the drastic price reduction. If this phone was so great why are so many people dumping them? and why has the price dropped by so much?.
Yes you will get those that claim it's brilliant and don't worry the next firmware will fix it all, so far those firmware upgrades have done little to resolve the main issues and some are beginning to doubt it will ever be resolved. Only you can decide if it's right for you or not but i would advise looking at some of the other Symbian forums to see what people are saying and then decide. But if you intend to use this as a business phone and all of what you want to be able to do is critical or important i wouldn't go anywhere near a P990 yet if ever but of course this is just MO.
Marc
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Posted: 2006-12-24 01:55:26
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@Dogmann
You're right, I've seen a lot of bad reviews and forum posts, but there are also a lot of people that seem happy with the device "once you get used to managing the RAM prob with SM" etc.
I'm just wondering how many of these happier users are business users, allegedly the target market for this device? How many are able to use BB Connect reliably and still use the P990i as a phone for business calls (without rebooting half way through), calendar, web and the occasional multimedia activities?
If there are other symbian forums which have more business users posting on this kind of topic, please let me know where to look.
Thanks
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Posted: 2006-12-24 10:35:55
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@HappyHammer
I will PM you some links.
Marc
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Posted: 2006-12-24 11:58:34
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I currently have a W800 as my mobile and a P990 as my Blackberry, this is due to contract commitments and in the new year the P990 will become my single all in one device.
From my experience i would say the main problem is not the memory issues but the very slow and sluggish response from the UI while using BB Connect, it can take ages to open your inbox so much so i have to delete emails to speed things up. Forwarding and replying takes too long in comparison to the RIM devices and alot of the time i end up not bothering whereas i would with a RIM device.
Personally i feel it just needs to be sped up which hopefully the next update will do as its the hanging and flashing busy that pisses me off and wastes my valuable time, not what you need when its your business tool!
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Posted: 2006-12-24 12:52:00
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I'm a business user and I run BBC on my P990. Although it was a pain to get it to work (until I found the BB tutorial in this forum) I have to say it works just fine. I too was not very happy with the the P990 when I got it mainly due to the lack of freeware and rather buggy performance but now after more then half a year I'm quite happy with it. I do not have any issues with multitasking performance. My main issues are poor battery time (had a P900 before) and that I can't open any email attachements. However I've heard that BB users have the same problem and BBC have one advantage over BB in that emails sent with BBC comes into your Exchange accounts sent items folder.
When only GSM network is available I can't be connected to BB and internet at the same time but that is not due to the multitasking capabilities of the unit but rather because they use different internet accounts.
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Posted: 2006-12-28 17:23:10
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