Blackberry Torch

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Angry Birds is my go-to game at the moment, lol

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it’s slipping away

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I’m almost 100% positive that there is an app that allows your iPhone to have a pin, and go on BBM. I forget whats its called, and it might only be for jailbroken iPhones.

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angry birds is sweet

bing just buy a touch or an old iphone for cheap and play angry birds

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oh i shall… anyone on nyspeed selling a touch?

what do they do for anyways?

do you need to have a data plan?

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no data plan, they use WIFI for web access.

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Read an article about humans and their ability to write/type information at various speeds. I can’t seem to find the URL but here’s how things ranked:

  1. Computer keyboard
  2. iPhone
  3. Blackberry
  4. Handwriting
  5. Misc. smartphones

I bet I can type faster on my iPhone than most people can with a computer keyboard :wink:

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i guess i’ll have to jsut bite the bullet and buy one and see how it goes…

WTB: iphone for rogers

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Get the 4, it’s such a step up from the 3G and 3G S - definitely worth the price tag.

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3gs locked to rogers 400 bucks. i unno just tossing it up there since i have one.

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You would need a blackberry data plan at the minimum. No RIM servers = no BBM.

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you do realize that BBM is a messaging service through a secure set of servers that RIM controls, right?

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So? I’m sure there’s an app for that. There’s an app for everything!

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my cousin works at RIM and got to play with one of these 2 months ago.
hes getting one to swap out his 9700 with. says its amazing.

ill play with his in a week or so and update this post.

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Ive been playing Angry Bird. I cant get past level 4…yet

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My Nokia E90 had BlackBerry Connect on it, but I don’t think BBM. It was the first non-BB device to work with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and that was in '07-ish. I’m sure if I could connect to a BES on my Nokia someone could also work in BBM.

http://www.blackberrytoday.com/articles/2007/3/2007-3-27-Nokia-E90-First.html

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The problem is in the plan. In order to get Blackberry functionality on the Nokia you had to have the Blackberry data plan so you could use the RIM servers.
the iphone requires its own data plan, which you automatically get put onto. You can’t have both a BB and iphone plan.

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Ah gotcha.

In related news; Meh, there are nicer phones, architecturally, but if you want to visit Dubai someday, you might not be able to use your BlackBerry features: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/08/05/blackberry.uae.defterios/

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The server uses hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and transmission control protocol (TCP) to communicate with the handhelds. It also encrypts the data with triple data encryption standard (DES) or advanced encryption standard (AES).

RIM servers appear to just use http/https for data transmission (same as your web browser). You could probably write a program that would interface with it (if you could crack the encryption, which I don’t know much about), but they probably have other security measures like only allowing certain IPs to connect or something(just a guess).

It wouldn’t be impossible, but I am sure that you would need RIM’s cooperation.

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Hahahaha… I was thinking of posting that using the meme last night when I saw the news story then forgot. :tup: