Blackberry Neophyte requests assistance

[Stargate Nerd]

One small complaint - I found out RIM just made another version of the Storm for AT&T Canada. The only difference from the Verizon one? It has WiFi capability. That's annoying, as WiFi would be nice to have.

What kind of data plan do you have? I can't possibly see the wifi capability being useful if you're on an unlimited one.

Wifi can be faster and unfortunately unlimited data plans are usually limited which in turn limits your ability to stream music or videos. Not necessary, but neat to have in any case.

[rhoenix]

Wifi can be faster and unfortunately unlimited data plans are usually limited which in turn limits your ability to stream music or videos. Not necessary, but neat to have in any case.

Indeed, and looks to be added fun for the upcoming successor to the Storm model.

Also, I settled today on getting the e-Mobile Today Professional, and e-Mobile Planner. The Planner needs to be installed from within Windows onto my Blackberry, but Today Professional was able to install OTA. It required a weather plugin to show weather through the application (and there are ones for stocks and news as well, but I didn't get those), but shows all tasks, calendar entries, SMS messages, emails, appointments, a call log, and contacts neatly on one screen, and it does flip to landscape on the Storm nicely.

I'll give my full review of the Planner once I get home, but that seemed to be the best offering currently available.

[rhoenix]

As promised (or threatened, depending on one's point of view), my review of the e-Mobile applications Today Professional, and Planner.

Quite honestly, Today really should be just a theme one installs for conciseness' sake, as that appears to be all it does; it gives one a full-screen review of absolutely everything important to the experience of one's Blackberry (save for RSS feeds) viewable in short format for reference. This includes battery percentage (which is rather nice), total emails, total SMS texts, total contacts, all tasks, all calendar entries & scheduled appointments, with each section expandable for more detail if desired. News, stocks and weather plug-ins are available as well, though they do cost extra. I bought the weather plugin, which visually fits nicely with the rest of the application, though is set by zip code specifically, and doesn't bother trying to check according to GPS location. This isn't a deal-breaker, but if I'm coughing up money for a plugin, I'd like it to feel like it was worth it.

For shiny object-ness, I suppose it is, but for practicality, it could be better. The Storm edition certainly does detect when the phone is tilted to landscape mode and adjusts the view accordingly, but doesn't provide any real viewing advantage for doing so. Overall, the Today Pro application is very useful, and I have it running all the time, though I still do think that e-Mobile should've simply made it a theme and be done with it. But then again, they couldn't gouge people for proprietary addons - but I digress.

Planner is a concise, attractive-looking calendar/task/appointment planner, as the name suggests. It does this job neatly, with Agenda, Day, Week, Month, and Task views immediately available, as well as the time and battery power remaining (again, in percentage form). Adding a new item to any one of these is easy as selecting the category in which one would like to create, and the task/calendar item creation screen comes up as normal. No addons were noted, but quite honestly, this application doesn't really need one. This application does what is advertised, focusing on practical use, and still looking shiny enough to be cool.

In review, the Planner is awesome, and I have no complaints. The Today Pro app I have misgivings with, though it does do as advertised and give one a concise rundown of all one's important Blackberry-related stuff. It is very cool for what it does, but I would suggest the Streamline theme as a lower-cost alternative.

[Executor32]

Well, here I am, posting from my new Curve.

I love it so far, save for the mediocre camera. The media player is far superior to the shitty one my old phone had.