William

For blackberry, of course! But consider the pointers I bringing across here! It will be good to try that for the rest if the platforms.

One thing to note. I realized that both iphone/ipod touch & andriod phones r using the same software & designs. While blackberries r using “shortcovers” app.

Nothing is wrong about that. I just find that “shortcovers” seems to perform slower that kobo app on my iPod Touch. Well, maybe my Storm 9550 is the problem, & I don’t doubt it.

Okay, I’m impressed by kobo book store. Able to sign in a single account & read on different smartphones, readers & even on your desktop or laps.

Kobo has more books than kindle store. At least, Kobo have the books I’m interested / looking for.

So, these are what I think will do “shortcovers” some justice:

A. Give us night reading feature. Yes, I read at night. The screen, is too bright for me.

B. Add a delete button on books we do not want on our devices. However the entire library & information still remains on the account we have.

C. And add an “Add” button anytime we want to re-download on our devices / smartphones.

D. Lastly, have more new paragraph to break the words. Also allow the alignment to justify between our blackberry screen.

Yep. That’s all & nothing else. Overall, good job in everything. U guys made e-readling an pleasure for us.

When I trade in my beloved Bold 9000 for the latest Storm 2 (9550), I made a terrible mistake. And this one mistake, is turning into a snowball effect.

I’d observed the problems I have with Storm 2, they are more like “Touch Screen” problem than hardware issues. Sure, the connection isn’t great, SurePress is quite a pain sometimes. Yet, BlackBerry and Storm made me believe that though Touch Screen will eventually be the standard for future smartphone, the future is not with them. And RIM, continue to lose this market.

a. SurePress is not THAT impressive. Strange enough, I don’t complain when I’m using Bold 9000 to type long emails, but SurePress made my thumb hurts. And not being able to put my phone down to type (have to hold it up to type every time) make me look so stupid in front of other smartphone users. Especially, iPhone users.

b. Screen Orientation lock. For the love of GOD, the screen keep turning & turning & turning. I cannot lie aside to read my Football News or eBooks which I purchased from KOBO. Android and Apple understand how users wants it to be. The only time the screen alignments don’t work well is during the time I need it to play music. WHICH, is really okay for me. So fair to say, RIM failed in doing a good user interface OS.

c. Apps are ugly, unappealing & extremely expensive. Simple, an app for syncing Google News Reader to your smartphone. BlackBerry with “Unread” VS iPhone with PULSE. IT’s Beast VS Beauty. All BB apps are so “Windows CE/Mobile 4.0″. In fact, I might feel better holding a O2 XDA Windows Mobile (2004). At least I will feel less embarrassed. Oh, Unread for BlackBerry cost you USD 9.99 but Pulse from Alphonso for iPhone or iPod Touch cost only USD 1.99. Work the math.

d. Poor Social Networking. And now, OS6 is too late to change anything.

Yes, I’m going to stop using BlackBerry. Slowly. The only thing why I’m holding on is the BlackBerry Messaging. I’m using this to message my girlfriend in Singapore. Once whatsapp is more stable & ready for Android or AJ got herself an iPhone, I’m going to kick this piece of technology-junk out of my life.

To whom it may concern,

this is a very angry customer complaining about your service.

I have a plan with you, telkomsel. And, I travel very often to Singapore. This trip, I am having a one week stay. So against my better judgement, your repeated, 4 – 6 times sms A Day finally got me to “register for data roaming”. On top of this, I even register for a unlimited BIS data plan for 3 days.

Before everything, do you have any darn ideas how much it cost to send that many sms as advertisement?? Even if that’s free of charge, its very very VERY annoying. And I really doubt those were free. Oh come on, what are we talking about. It’s telkomsel. Over-price plan and under-performing services. The only thing I stick to you guys is that you have more cell towers in Indonesia, comparing to other operators.

So all you do is to bug your customers to pay for more money. Here I have, already 350,000 RP (+- 40 USD) in your pocket. Thinking that I will have a better service after all these money.

Guess what? Now, my blackberry just could not connect. AT ALL. Now, I did all the hardware reset, re-registering and blah blah blah. Resend Service Book, CAN NOT. Before these, my BB was working fine. After paying more money, my bb is no good to me.

It is Singtel? I don’t know. It is Telkomsel, I don’t know. It is my BlackBerry, for sure NO. 2 days ago, my BB can still message my friends back in Indonesia.

What I want? Simple. As your customer, I spent about 120 USD a month on your extremely over-rated and highly expensive blackberry plan. FOR 2 FREAKING YEARS. Do your math and tell me if I deserve some decent answers from you guys on, WTF is actually going on?

Now, what I really want? I want to give you both of my middle fingers. The very first thing I do when I get back to Jakarta, is to get a XL or Indosat BlackBerry service to replace you. FOREVER.

FU. Seriously. FU guys.

Ok, so it appeared that BlackBerry has its own death grip. To test it out, we have an unique app named “death grip meter” for BlackBerry. If you want to try it out for BlackBerry, you can go HERE on your BlackBerry web browser.

Not bad, not bad…

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