Enjoying LTE Saki?
Its been on and off for the last 2 weeks but today i have been on LTE all day… man its fast!
yes
Not so fast at home right now but decent at work.
30 mbps at work and about 15 mbps at home
Impressive speeds there. Does it haveuch of an impact on battery life?
no idea. I have only had these phones in the LTE era.
My Samsung Note battery lasts a full day which is pretty good considering I use the shit out of it, have WIFI and BLUETOOTH on full time, have a huge screen on auto-brightness and frankly don’t really worry about battery life, ever.
Fack that’s fast. . . way faster than the broadband I have at home. Time to get LTE and keep my unlimited plan lon
Wow, I’m the only one still using a Blackberry lol. I don’t care what anyone else says, I still love it 
Pretty crazy huh? That’s a tidal wave shift. When I got rid of my blackberry a few months ago, I shorted the stock (it was around $15 then and is $8 now…but I certainly am not claiming to be clairvoyant…it was $150 a couple of years ago lol). I figured if longterm die-hard corporate users like me were switching, that must be the end of it.
They will maybe have a place as the low cost provider for third world countries etc. and may see sales sustanence that way, but man…in the premium market they are just an afterthought. The massive growth around the world in smartphone usage will keep them alive for a while though.
RIM needs to stop making phones and focus on just making operating systems.
Imagine a BBX type OS on a galaxy S3.
My only beef with blackberry is their lack of innovation. They are always 5 steps behind the iphone / android market.
Yeah they are “always” behind…behind the market they fucking created.
I think you meant to say they have recently fallen behind but for a decade they were LIGHT YEARS ahead of these guys.
Just to get back to the poll…I have the 5…
Going backwards, I have my work 4, my old 4, 3GS, 3G and the original. I’m just too tied into iTunes, AirPlay, and FaceTime at this point to switch, but was pretty close to going to the S3.
sell those old phones if you still have them. There’s gold in your desk drawer!
Heck, I just sold a blackberry Torch for $180. iPhones fetch $200 all day.
Yeah, the kids use them and already broke a couple. Oddly enough, the 1st gen phone is the one that keeps on ticking, almost 5 years later
Invented? or copied from Palm and their treo which was on the market a few years before blackberry?
Ok so once blackberry finally had web support in 2003 it had 4 good years of being the only descent option available… until 2007 when the iphone came out. Thats where they fell behind and never caught up.
But between the palm and the blackberry… other then BBM RIM was never LIGHT YEARS ahead of anything… they had a slight advantage and BBM took them forward in the days before texting.
Lol ok. I remember having email blackberry devices long before palm was anything.
My worry is that since I hate all the other phones on the market that I’m going to end up having to use something I don’t like when RIM stops making new handsets…
Sigh…
Well you get to upgrade at least 1 more time with Blackberry 10. After that only time will tell unfortunately.
Finally got to stretch my phones new LTE legs lol
nice download speeds…
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r17/xbora_vr6x/Screenshot_2012-10-09-15-03-35.png
And since speed tests = dyno’s … i wanted to see how fast that translated out in the real world.
Downloaded a 400 meg file in under 5 minutes at 3540 kb/s. I will need to download a much larger file to see how high i can really go with actual download speeds!
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r17/xbora_vr6x/Screenshot_2012-10-10-08-12-18.png
Great analogy! Speed test.net puts my cable connection at about 42mbits/s. I never see that in real life. I suspect the rest of the internet is the bottleneck 
42 megabits = 5 megabytes per second
That is also a peak value, not an average value.
Your download shows average speed. A.K.A. area under the curve.
Your speedtest # is your peak speed, A.K.A. your peak WHP.
p.s. fastest my phone every had on LTE was up in the 50 megabits per second range. incredible LTE.
^^ yep when I said I never see those speeds, I meant I never see 42 megabits/s (I always write it out) ie I never see 5 megabytes/s. Except for multiple downloads which is rare.
ahh gotcha. You watch the little speed counter the whole time?
http://www.featurepics.com/FI/Thumb300/20081025/Yuppie-Staring-Laptop-Screen-942258.jpg