Comments on: BlackBerry Bold video mimics iPhone, except it’s fake

By: Brown

Brown — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:44:26 +0000

WTF does stock price have to do with this?? Most stocks are down hell I’m losing 60 on my 401k every couple of days. I have 1st gen iphone and a curve and they both have there own place and time. My reasons for not upgrading to a 3g iphone are 1. AT&T doesn’t even have 3g where I live 2. Iphone 3g is the same thing as the 1st gen with 2.0 so I didn’t want to waste my upgrade on it. Im thinking about the bold or the i907 (if it even comes to AT&T). I’m a fan of apples and blackberries so I say buy both..fruits good for ya!!

By: Leandro m

Leandro m — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:02:02 +0000

Ok, this has been nerve racking for me; when does the bold actually release and will it be available for t-mobile? any answers, great fun.
leandro

By: slide

slide — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:42:53 +0000

bob has a lot of anger.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:25:26 +0000

bluehorse: I know he was talking about buying it the following day and if he did, he would have lost $20 per share, read my post again, moron. Verizon? Last I checked Apple ran on AT&T, your mother.

crazy legs: I’m glad you bought more yesterday, way to buy more after they missed two targets, again, idiot. Oh and today? You’re down another 5 points. Like I said yesterday your fanaticism is costing your children’s (God help them) college fund. Should have sold at 140 and salvaged the money you had left. It’ll be down under 110 today with an opening below 100 on Monday. RIMM = Crashed. Goodnight suckers.

By: bluehorseshoe

bluehorseshoe — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:47:18 +0000

@ hellno…I mean Bob…

You’re a retard! The guy was talking about buying the stock on the drop the following day, not @ 140. Try following the bouncing ball if you can.

And how’s that Verizon job going? Your site sucks!

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:00:31 +0000

yeah alot of stocks took the plung today becaus oil is trading at $140 a barrel. more people have ben spending the majority of their incomes on gas

By: crazylegs

crazylegs — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:07:56 +0000

Weak stuff Bob. really weak. i happily bought more today. 2.6 mlns subs this Q. that’s the next data point.

is it really true you post by hellno on rimarkable?

By: 1337

1337 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:14:40 +0000

Hard drive?! LMAO! Show me the iPhones HDD, RIGHT NOW!

SD cards are great for running media. I have 2500 songs and several movies on my 8120 with an 8Gb mSDHC. They all run fine.

iPhone sack riders, the lot of you.

By: BB still better...

BB still better... — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:35:52 +0000

everyone chiiiiiiiill. Its an add, thats all and nothing more. its not trying to stop world hunger. its just like every other add you see for a car, or a tv, or a device, etc. I think they believe people that use a blackberry are relatively educated, although I use that loosely, and realize thats really not the the way it will look and or work. Everyone knows how a BB will work.

the iphone and BB are 2 COMPLETELY different deivices for different market segments. Hell women cant type on it with nails. bottom line, emailing/texting is to hard on the iphone, BB has it nailed and will continue too. As a note I have both, BB is better hands down. When I’m walking around NYC I may bring my iphone, mainly because of the browser and maps. I downloaded google maps for my BB and boom there you go. Iphone? just to hard to type….

By: bob

bob — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:44:19 +0000

INC… not sure how you invest, but if you invested yesterday as an “awesome opportunity to buy” as you stated, well you’ve down -20.00 in the red today. HAHAHAHA That’s what you get for being a BB fanboy! Should have sold and salvaged what you had left at $140… keep losing your money over your fanaticism.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:42:42 +0000

Hey crazylegs you moron, how’s that rimm stock price today? What’s that -20.00 HAHAHAHAHA You dumb BB fanboy, thats what you get for not selling yesterday at 140 when I told you too. Missed all the estimates and the delay of that trash BB. SELL SELL SELL BB NOW! SALVAGE WHATS LEFT!

By: crazylegs

crazylegs — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:21:59 +0000

RIMM’s stock is reflective of the voting machine that is wall street. In the long run, the weighing machine kicks in and true vale is achieved. You cannot say anything about RIMM’s stock if you have not read the conf call transcript or listened to it. What they are doing is to forgoe near term earnings blow outs for investing in scale. marketing was just one of the areas they increased spending in. they also built another NOC and acquired a gsm patent portfolio that the ceo referred to as extremely fortunate. I love that the stock is down because this gives me more opportunity to add to my already significant position. how bad are they doing if they raised new sub additions to 2.6 mln this quarter vs. 2.3 and 2.2 mln for the last two quarters. seems they have some confidence in what they are doing to give this guidance with the iPhone being launched soon.

By: Steel Valor

Steel Valor — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:12:00 +0000

Remember when M$ had to bail out Apple? Let’s try to stay on topic and NOT be elitist n00blets.

By: ChrisNYC

ChrisNYC — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:51:53 +0000

RIMM down 16, ouchers.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:08:05 +0000

Yeah who cares LOL. Must have been a very slow news day.

By: ChrisNYC

ChrisNYC — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:29:32 +0000

Looks like RIMM is down on marketing spend mainly, you know, all those new commercials aimed at going after the consumer catagory.

Sounds to me like money well spent, but the shares will get hit hard as the momentum boys run for cover.

Fluck ‘em, I wouldn’t bet the farm against the Canadians.

That said, I’m buying the new iPhone myself. It’s too slick to pass up.

By: G.Quagmire

G.Quagmire — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:58:57 +0000

http://gizmodo.com/5019769/blackberry-bold-hands-on-its-great

So yeah, it renders & switches apps pretty freakin fast. That video isn’t gonna win any Oscars for cinematography, but it gets the idea across. And unless they’re totally lying:

“How’s the browser? Damn skippy. It not only renders Giz correctly (a feat that makes most mobile browsers cry blood), it’s fast (thanks AT&T), and zooming in and out with the trackball works pretty well.”

So, let’s see, what else? Copy & paste? MMS? Shooting actual, moving VIDEOS with the built-in camera? Sync with iTunes? Slingplayer client? divx? IM clients?

Of course I’ll reserve judgment till I get my hands on both devices.

By: Prorock

Prorock — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:26:15 +0000

bob rocks! Anyways I have owned many BBs and an iPhone. There are pros and cons to each one. I thought BB was the best you can get until I received the iPhone as a gift. Still like BB but never was as impressed as I am with the iPhone. They are both very nice devices but I think the iPhone is the best for what I want a phone to do. We should all just give the BB – iPhone war a rest. Let’s attack something else. I hear Moto is down. Who else got some kicking boots on?

By: bluehorseshoe

bluehorseshoe — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:20:29 +0000

Oh, and Bob is an idiot from varios boards, better known as hellno. Stupid posts with little thought.

By: bluehorseshoe

bluehorseshoe — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:14:12 +0000

This is a surprise that it isn’t a real phone? Wow, how naïve. And I have to agree with the many posts here, you guys are so pro apple. I’m an apple consumer, but find it interesting with your style of reporting. RIM has exceeded Apple in sales of phones and new customers since the iPhone came out. RIM must be doing something right.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:14:35 +0000

@ eJay

My last word on this.

As for the MMS – almost everyone in my life does NOT get email on their phone a la bb or iphone, etc. So yeah, I MMS pix of my son to them all the time. It’s not horrible and iPhone shouldn’t be ignoring this.

The video is fake. All of it. Even the hand. I don’t care. I know the phone will kick serious, serious ass. But I may not wait. I’m a “cut my nose off to spite my face” kind of guy. E71 will have BB support.

@ bob:

By: quickbrownfox

quickbrownfox — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:38:10 +0000

“Nothing on that video is real except for the person’s hands over a green screen. And that’s still questionable.”

Speaking of this…I just noticed something…look at the video screenshot pic, i.e. the area below the Space key – is it just me, or is the skin of the person’s hand going INTO the silver trim? Gives new meaning to the phenomenon of people getting attached to their devices…

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:38:06 +0000

yes it is infectious lol

By: Conrad

Conrad — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:43:45 +0000

Correction. Its (not it’s) negatives are indefensible. (I’m turning into Galvatron with the spelling!)

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:42:12 +0000

lol cut and paste should be standard issue and come stock with the OS already installed

By: eJay

eJay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:41:11 +0000

Well…if by horrible you mean who would use MMS if they have a full featured email client, my guess who be yes for people who still have flip phones with T9.

Well we both agree stereo Bluetooth would be sweet and even though I love the iPhone I mean WTF seriously with the copy/paste? I highly doubt Apple will do it anytime soon. Maybe iPhone 3 but who cares, I loves me some mobile safari…

By: Conrad

Conrad — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:21:59 +0000

@ eJay

Are *you* serious? You said MMS is horrible. What does that even mean?? I use it all the time and it’s not “horrible,” it works.

You agree stereo BT would be nice and cut/paste can be added by 3rd party applications. Assuming the latter is true, which none of the Apple folks mentioned, I don’t want a phone I need to tweak. So you agree with Galv’s points.

Last years bullet points? Exactly! LAST year’s. Why these are unaddressed is beyond me. I thought the only choice I’d have to make is if I can live without a true keyboard.

IPhone has a LOT going for it but it’s negatives are indefensible.

By: dondgc

dondgc — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:11:22 +0000

I think there are a lot of extreme comments on either side, but this is not a good day to have bought RIMM.

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By: dan

dan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:27:37 +0000

dude why does bgr always act like rim is losing business or doing poorly? i mean i switched to an htc device awhile back but last i checked rim was only continuing to dominate, not slowing down any at all. yes i know alot of people are picking up iphones but that has not affected rim yet. most people i know that use bb’s are boring and own old handsets… that they love like whores love crack. im sure when its time to get a new phone they would be thrilled with the bold. new yet familiar. and functional. period.

By: eJay

eJay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:17:15 +0000

@Galv – Are you all serious? No MMS? No Stereo Bluetooth? No copy and paste? Not open to third party developers? Those are last years bullet points. MMS is HORRIBLE. Stereo Bluetooth would be nice and copy and paste can be added via a software update.

And did you miss the iPhone 2.0 roadmap? Miss WWDC also? Its open to developers and that third party action is gunna be SWEET.

Also its pretty funny they rendered a WHOLE video and everyones like ohh well give them a pass. Give me a break the Bold is done…