Comments on: BlackBerry OS 5.0: your first looky looky

By: brandon

brandon — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:15:45 +0000

Well, as far as I’ve seen the biggest update is bb messenger really, like some other people said a better browser and how about better html email??, not only that the video playback is somewhat sketchy on my 8330m and when I play a 3gp file it may hesitate to load say, youtube mobile, it won’t work but then you go back and do it again and it loads, and I even have 3 bars, and I would LOVE to see and update on these silly icons, if they are moving ahead with all these snazzy new phones, aka tour, then they shuld rlly update the look of the os and its themes, altho it is not top priority I’m sure, I still found my htc touch pro to have a lot more customitability etc. But the buginess, well we won’t go there…..

By: jezreel

jezreel — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:49:59 +0000

I have a curve 8330 and I have try with my desktop manager to down load movies on my bb. And mine is a 4.5 os and still can not do anything and no movies download! How do I jailbreak my bb curve 4.5 os to do what the 8900 or the 9000 bb do? I am new. And forgive me for my ignorance if I sound as a simpleton in these matters which I am just learning about when I boutgh my bb curve from alltel now verizon wireless. Can I have a jailbreak geohot or dev team please to do these things? Please anwser me and to all of you posting thank you for your patience. Thanks

By: thomas schiavone

thomas schiavone — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:05:46 +0000

The way it goes. Is rim releaae beta version of there os to carries and devs. Then carries and dev send in bug fixes and when carries belive the os is up to there standers thell release it to the public carriers try there harddest release a stable os cause if they didn’t that means customers will complain the shat isn’t working and thell lose money by x amount of ppl. Calling tech support witch intern cost them even more money gets use .. So basically carriers are looking out for customer satisfaction and there own gross and revenue

By: chris

chris — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:31:23 +0000

Will the 5.0 os be available for the 8800? I’ve though about ugrading devices and I’ve had the curve 8320 and the build quality just doesn’t seem as good and the storm seems to be getting the same dust behind the lens issue as the 8300 series. Anyway I’m sure you’ll keep us posted. Thanks

By: amanda

amanda — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:51:59 +0000

i just updated my bb 8310 yesterday from os 4.2 to os 4.5, and i must say, im not impressed. the only changes were no memo pad, which was an app that i had used quite frequently, and a video and sound recorder app… rim needs to start getting more creative to be honest.

By: abril

abril — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:37:28 +0000

were i can get it ¡¡ for my blackberry 8300 pleaseeeeeee¡¡

By: abril

abril — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:32:13 +0000

were i can get it …. for my 8300

By: Ketan

Ketan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:28:49 +0000

is 5.0 available now?

By: tavella

tavella — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:01:35 +0000

I believe the 8700 series is going to see an upgrade to 4.5 so the possibility of a 5.0 release for the 8800 series is quite possible. I guess it depends on the amount of memory the operating system takes to run. It appears most of the 8800 and 8300 (with the exception of the 8330’s) only have 64 megs of ram where the 8330’s have 96. Not sure if this will be a factor or not.

Why waste the time on adding in the new theme from the 4.6+ OS’s when developing the baseline code. The theme will be one of the last things developed IMO.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:18:08 +0000

I know it’s a simple request, but ALL that I ask for in a future update (and it better come soon) are two things. First is one extra line in the appointments app that let’s you choose a Profile to be active during that appointment and then have the Profile switched back to previous after the appointment. Is it really that hard??!!! Second, the alarm clock app needs to have a dual-alarm function and the ability to program the alarm to go off at certain times for different days. I hate having to program the stupid thing every night. Really simple guys… I guess these suggestions are a little too intuitive for RIM to have thought of them though.

By: FloRcha

FloRcha — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:18:13 +0000

Hello everyone… I just wanted to ask you a question. If this new version will be released, the OS 5.0, will it work for BB 8800 too? Because all I read is that it will be for the Curve…
I wanna be updated too!!!
Thankx everyone…

By: sorba

sorba — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:12:48 +0000

es una garcha

By: jazzyl

jazzyl — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:23:03 +0000

Well looking forward to get the 5.0 version….when is the bold going to be available in South africa?

By: vincent mac

vincent mac — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:52:01 +0000

Time will show that v5.0 will look nothing like this garbage rumor. Kind of like BGR’s garbage release dates You guys have interesting stories, but too many are fables. Sorry.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:28:14 +0000

Would like to read a review based on your current use of the Bold- read the early iPhone/ Bold comparo. Curious what you think of the production ready version now. Thinking of switching from iPhone 3G. Thanks.

By: I want a Bold

I want a Bold — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:44:34 +0000

AT&T dropped the ball on this one. And to think I recently dropped nextel for this. Well now I know how the rest of the world feel’s when a new product is launched in the here in the states, but not elsewhere.

touche’ AT&T

but if nothing happens by mid October then I’ll pay the early termination fee and go back to nextel. and that sucks.

By: Bla1ze

Bla1ze — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:14:44 +0000

@Fantom Cause the “next step” you speak of is fixing 4.6 finalizing 4.7 and fixing the already existing issues with that and why in gods name would you even want a beta 5.0?..look at the screenshot, it’s so freakin beta they still have code from 4.6 implemented just to make it work!

And you wanna load it onto your device? Apparently you must enjoy JVM errors and device crashes if that is the case lol!!

By: Fantom

Fantom — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:14:24 +0000

I want to know why there aren’t any beta copys of 5.0 floating around? If they are “so close” to a release of 4.5, then why not move to the next step? Besides, who knows when the Bold will be available in the U.S.; heck it could be Christmas!!!!!

By: blah

blah — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:59:11 +0000

let’s hope and pray that 5.0 brings us a “real” browser… how difficult is it to port webkit anyway

By: Jmartens

Jmartens — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:21:25 +0000

am I the only one that doesn’t see anything special with this release?

Where is my HTML email, where is a better BB browser, what about file support so I can store email attachemnts on the memory card?

There are so, so many other things.

-1

By: CJC

CJC — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:33:55 +0000

Have they fixed that whole “properly sync with IMAP” thing yet?

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:37:59 +0000

LOL MAC ROFL MAC

By: JaggedXJ

JaggedXJ — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:31:57 +0000

Wish there was more cohesive support & rollout of RIM’s OS. I’m running 4.5 (official Orange UK) on T-mo US @ the suggestion of a tmo rep after my 4.2 JVM 517-ed. Loving the new (catchup) “features” & “stability” but hating the unsupported nature of the beast with various apps & themes. I will likely pay out of pocket for the Javelin when it’s out.

By: Chino

Chino — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:28:21 +0000

When is the 8350 for nextel coming out??

By: tavella

tavella — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:28:12 +0000

I still say AT&T is holding it up. Could be iPhone or could be the software. It took Sprint almost a year to work with RIM to fix the EVDO data dropping problem with the 8830. They kept pushing it aside and sending me replacements until one of their employees started having a problem and posted a message on their buzzaboutwireless website. The wireless providers have controlled Windows Mobile phones software forever.. HTC-6800… Enough said.

By: b

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:51:04 +0000

JL-
http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com/blog.php?b=86

WHERE IS THE ATT UPDATE??? F*CKERS

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:27:04 +0000

So B, would it be safe to say that the VISUAL enhancement would come later in the dev process?

By: JL

JL — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:10:29 +0000

so where can i download this?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:01:19 +0000

Where’s 5.1?

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:39:50 +0000

I can’t wait for this to come out! If this comes out in a reasonable amount of time, I’m sticking with my Curve 8320 instead of the Javelin or Pearl Flip.