Expansys-USA / MobilePlanet: You didn’t care about me as your client and delayed the shipment of my device for weeks. You not only broke a record in customer dissatisfaction but you blatantly lied and for that, you lost me as your client.
At the risk of sounding like an grouchy old man, I have to ask the following question: What is the problem with good customer service these days? Doesn’t anyone care about the money us customers spend anymore? I would assume that with the economic/financial downturn the world is in right now, companies would make an extra attempt not to annoy customers away with bad customer service!
According to berryreview.com (who got the news pics from a tipster) you will soon have the option of running the Blackberry OS as an application on your Windows Mobile device.
This is what RIM is officially calling the BlackBerry Application Suite which we told you about in the past that is posed to replace the aging BlackBerry Connect. Essentially the BlackBerry OS is running as an application on Windows Mobile virtualizing the BlackBerry OS. From what I can tell this will have all of the BlackBerry 4.2 OS features in it.
I can certain see where there would be some people that would love this, but I don’t think I would be too nuts about it. Obviously this will give companies the option to buy either a Blackberry or a Windows Mobile device, but is there really much advantage? I know our IT guys would not want to have to support a virtual BB app on a second platform when you can just buy the Blackberry. This is more likely to appeal to individuals that have to use Blackberry for work but are willing and able to buy their own device and expense it.
Am I missing anything with the above statement?
The obviously additional point here is that Windows Mobile can now do the same stuff using an Exchange server, so it isn’t like the only option for companies is the Blackberry server.
Anton D. Nagy had a very cool tip to “undock” your SIP and have the flexibility to move it anywhere on your screen. Currently, you SIP is docked at the bottom and although it works well there are times that you might like to move it to allow easier text entry when inputting a URL into the address bar or you want to read something that is being covered by the SIP.
So how do you change it? Easy!! Edit your registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\SIP and change the value of Dragstyle from 0 to 1, followed by a soft reset.
After the soft reset you now have the option to drag it anywhere on the screen by tapping and holding on the band at the top of the SIP dragging and dropping it to your liking. When you close what ever program you are using and open it (or another) the SIP is located bask at the bottom but it is NOT LOCKED and can again be easily moved when needed.
I use Pandora at home all the time to listen to my favorites music while I’m sitting at home working on my PC. It has been a great experience and now it is even better! I caught a story today over at Windows Mobile Louisville that Pandora was available for some Windows Mobile devices. So with out even checking to see if my device was supported, I picked up my Motorola Q9m, entered http://www.pandora.com and in a second I was downloading a cab to my device that installed and with in a few seconds I was logged in and listening to some of my favorite music. I guess I was lucky that it was supported on my device but I expect that more will be coming and soon.
Check it out and see if your device will work … it really is terrific!
There has been a lot of rumors swirling around about the iPhone an Wal Mart. There was the rumor and more. Well, it’s now sort of official and the pricing rumors have been debunked. The rumor didn’t make sense anyway, Wal Mart prices normally end in 7. Anyhow, so much for the NDA Wal Mart signed with Apple, huh?
Yep, a brand new iPAQ 910 for one of our lucky readers. This is a sweet GSM phone that Julie is actually reviewing right now. (not the one we are giving away, the one I bought) I have posted some comparison photos and an unboxing of this phone too.
With Palm set to announce some big news at CES, things might be looking up. Palm has taken a beating in the media this year. Some warranted, some not. Either way, the Palm Centro has taken the world by Storm. Small, affordable, and full of features, it’s a great entry level “Smartphone” for anyone.
Mobilitysite has been fortunate enough to get our hands on one of them in one of the Holiday Colors to give away in these Birthday Contests.
What do you think? Are the UMPC dead? Here is what Gail Levy, marketing director of TabletKiosk, the maker of the first UMPC to hit the market has to say about it:
Every month, our eo sales continue to grow as more of our customers find the benefits of using a mobile, 7" touch screen computer, and at CES 2009 we will be showing our latest line extensions which we have developed in response to customer requests.
Our customers are attracted to the eo line because of its 7" touch screen which can run the full Windows OS. This is key because they are running or accessing full X86 applications and cannot use Windows Mobile, CE, or any other condensed program to run their software. The 7" screen can output to 1024×768 resolution without sacrificing viewability.
In our experience, these customers never utilized any of the consumer-friendly "Origami Experience" applications , which were designed by Microsoft to increase productivity, because these programs were simply not developed for business usage.
So to those that are nailing the coffin closed, playing taps or sitting "shivah" for the UMPC form factor, consider if you really saying goodbye to the UMPC as Microsoft’s promise of the do-everything, inexpensive, mobile computer (the one being handily replaced by the netbook and mobile phone). From my perspective, the 7" touch screen tablet has a very bright future and isn’t going away anytime soon!
It took me a while to understand it but at the end I came to the conclusion that the original concept from Microsoft just transformed it self in a wider concept where we have now a group of devices within the range between 5 to 10 inches that before was not almost targeted and when it was the price was extremely high. Like Gail I believe that we still see in the future UMPCs and Tablet PCs. Including within the UMPC category notebooks and 7 inches “Origamis”.
After a several month-long beta, Nokia’s souped-up email app — appropriately called Email — is getting booted out of Beta Labs and going gold as part of the Messaging suite. The company is touting that the final product includes tons of changes that came from feedback through the beta cycle, and it’ll be going live first in Australia, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom and Venezuela — in other words, you good folks will now be paying for the opportunity to use it. The remainder of the world gets to keep using it for free until it’s commercialized in their locale — which, if you’re in the US and Nokia Music is any indication, might be a long time off.
We’re still no closer to determining just how many BlackBerry Storm sales have been reversed by now, but either way, said handset is reportedly Verizon’s “best-selling device.” Interestingly, it’s up to your best guess as to what that really signifies, as the quantity of Storm devices sold remains tightly under wraps. In other words, you could take that to mean it’s the bestselling right now (highly probable) or that it has already outsold all other VZW handsets in two short months (not at all probable). In other, more substantiated news, RIM has proclaimed that it sold 6.9 million smartphones between September and November of this year, which — coincidentally enough — is exactly how many iPhone 3Gs that Apple sold through in its Q4. So RIM, whenever you feel like dishing out that exact figure that only everyone, everywhere is waiting for, we’ll be listening.
Expansys-USA / MobilePlanet: You didn’t care about me as your client and delayed the shipment of my device for weeks. You not only broke a record in customer dissatisfaction but you blatantly lied and for that, you lost me as your client.
