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BlackBerry Desktop Manager Coming to Mac
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Ditto, I have nothing but love for mac os x, and my ipod touch is great (hope the camera comes in the new version cause I will update), but I don't want to use my phone battery to listen to music. I want seperation. I also prefer the qwerty keyboard that has keys, personally.
Good timing for me, I have the blackberry 8900 & will be getting a mac mini when show leopard comes outs... I was wondering how I was going to sync my contacts & cal...
2 late
While it's nice to finally see it's also to late. I switched over to an iPhone and won't be going back. I grew tired of chasing my tail trying to keep my Blackberry sync'd with everything. I ended up double entering everything. One on the Blackberry and one time on the computer. It was sad.
It will be interesting to see if this DM really works?
While it's nice to finally see it's also to late. I switched over to an iPhone and won't be going back. I grew tired of chasing my tail trying to keep my Blackberry sync'd with everything. I ended up double entering everything. One on the Blackberry and one time on the computer. It was sad.
It will be interesting to see if this DM really works?
Yeah I like my Curves keyboard a lot. I did get used to the touchs keyboard but it took awhile.
Delightful!
Mac user - but business requires a BB - industry standard really. The iphone is nice certainly, and the platform seems (used an ipod touch alot) like a lot of fun. But it is hard to deny that the BB is built with work in mind - I think i've played Brick Breaker once on the subway, the rest of the time, the productivity of the BB is hard to beat!
Syncing so far really is like flipping a coin if it will work.
Mac user - but business requires a BB - industry standard really. The iphone is nice certainly, and the platform seems (used an ipod touch alot) like a lot of fun. But it is hard to deny that the BB is built with work in mind - I think i've played Brick Breaker once on the subway, the rest of the time, the productivity of the BB is hard to beat!
Syncing so far really is like flipping a coin if it will work.
Hah! It only took Apple moving into their product space and laying down the smackdown for them to write a version for OS X. There's nothing that can save them. They've been half supporting Mac Blackberry users for years, they aren't getting those users back and they definitely aren't going to get the "Halo Effect" switchers that are buying Macs to better work with their iPhones and iPods...To be totally honest it's pretty comical to see them scrambling while the shoe is on the other foot. It's pretty nice to see Verizon wriggling under the pressure of iPhone negotiations and watching their customer gouging gimmicks evaporating, because they have no leverage.
Yes, and I know a few Mac users who hate iPods and prefer Zunes.*
The world is a strange place.
*Boot Camp.
horray i guess
as a new owner of a BB Tour from Verizon for about 2 weeks not i have to say i have pocketmac and it syncs perfectly? i had a Storm for about a day it too synced perfectly, i have also had a curve and it too synced just fine, i guess i may not use all of the info that can be synced but i use Contacts, Calendar, media, music, photos, video, i have not tried notes so i can not comment on that. But all and all i have had great success with Pocketmac even though. I did find that it worked much better when i have a mobile me account set up. just my opinion, the new bb. software will be nice but not necessary.. and i love the new tour.. had a 3gs for about 3 weeks.... needless to say its nice to not be tied to a charging cable 24-7 I do a lot of emailing and messaging with work and it is nice to know that i will have great service wherever i go and i will have the power to keep going all day...... dont get me wrong the Iphone is a fantastic device but it has too many drawbacks for me to rely on it everyday. not to mention the lackluster service from at&t, you got to love it when you go in to the store and they tell you, "you should get rid of the phone and service its really not very good, trust me you will never get good reception with an at&t phone." that sealed the deal for me. back to Verizon and never happier.
sorry for the rant.. cheers!
as a new owner of a BB Tour from Verizon for about 2 weeks not i have to say i have pocketmac and it syncs perfectly? i had a Storm for about a day it too synced perfectly, i have also had a curve and it too synced just fine, i guess i may not use all of the info that can be synced but i use Contacts, Calendar, media, music, photos, video, i have not tried notes so i can not comment on that. But all and all i have had great success with Pocketmac even though. I did find that it worked much better when i have a mobile me account set up. just my opinion, the new bb. software will be nice but not necessary.. and i love the new tour.. had a 3gs for about 3 weeks.... needless to say its nice to not be tied to a charging cable 24-7 I do a lot of emailing and messaging with work and it is nice to know that i will have great service wherever i go and i will have the power to keep going all day...... dont get me wrong the Iphone is a fantastic device but it has too many drawbacks for me to rely on it everyday. not to mention the lackluster service from at&t, you got to love it when you go in to the store and they tell you, "you should get rid of the phone and service its really not very good, trust me you will never get good reception with an at&t phone." that sealed the deal for me. back to Verizon and never happier.
sorry for the rant.. cheers!
This is also anecdotal, but: I've had an original iPhone and an iPhone 3G. I'm a die-hard Mac user. I've been using and developing for OSX since it was called NeXTStep. I have an iPod Touch (original release) and I love it. As a multimedia device's OS, the "iPhone OS" is perfect and a joy to use.
I do not, however, love the iPhone. Indeed I hated it's ridiculously short battery life and the awkwardness of typing on a software-keyboard. Apple's refusal to allow background apps is asinine and the iPhone 3.0's "push-notification" system is a very miserable substitute because it only works when you're connected to a network - and in my line of work, that's frequently not the case. (Closer to home: what if I want to run a background app while I'm on an airplane with the iPhone in Airplane Mode? No joy.) A common file-saving area so that you can share files between applications? Nope, sorry, not provided.
Not to mention that the iPhone's interface paradigm involves you dragging your finger through a smear of ear grease.
Though it seems great at first glance, the iPhone is, upon closer inspection, a rather badly-designed platform. It might play music and flip photographs when you rotate the device, it might even be great at playing games, but as a working device it's miserable. Completely useless.
One day I was driving back from France and I found myself switching the phone off after every conversation because it was burning through battery life like nobody's business. I thought to myself "this is ridiculous... what if I get stuck somewhere and I don't even have enough battery power to call someone? What if somebody needs to call me and can't reach me because my phone is off to preserve power?" I called Apple and complained. They told me to switch off 3G (which I had, incidentally; but then again, what's the point of touting hardware functionality that needs to be shut down to preserve power?) and to switch off Bluetooth (I was driving! It's quite sensibly an offence to drive with a phone pressed to your face!). Beyond that, Apple was adamant everything was peachy and normal.
I hung up the phone and thought "screw this". The next day I wondered into my office, defeated, and asked to be issued that BlackBerry Bold I'd been offered so often but had always declined.
I love it to bits. It has a good keyboard, an integrated interface, a bright screen. Best of all, it's a good phone, and offers excellent battery life even when running on 3G with Bluetooth enabled. It holds a signal far more successfully than my iPhone 3G ever did, from exactly the same places - I can finally make and receive calls from my bedroom, where my erstwhile iPhone regularly fell off the net.
I've been constantly frustrated by the difficulty of synching my BlackBerry to my Mac. PocketMac and Missing Sync raped my contacts and calendars. Routing through Google with Google Sync and Spanning Sync is a constant affliction, my contacts are regularly mangled. I've been on my knees praying for a BlackBerry iSync plugin. No matter. This software from RIM will do fine. It's exactly what I needed. I can't wait.
you've summed up my thoughts about my work-issued bb curve perfectly!
anyway, the whole bb-vs-iphone debate has been had lots of times, so while I don't agree with almost any of your description of using the iphone, I won't get in to it. Suffice to say I'm glad you've found something that works for you and that you'll be getting the software you need to make it play nice with your mac.
My iphone friends usally love my curve. Even my diehard mac lover friend...works for att has an iphone, but also is getting bold, because in his words "is probably the best phone you can get." And he loves mac stuff. hes also been regional manager for alltell and a few other companys
So happy to hear this. I won't touch the iPhone until it switches to Verizon. Until then I love my BB Storm but have really missed syncing with my Mac.
yawn. Blackberry is such a crap company.
how many years have we had to wait until they released compatibility with XP pro64?
how many years have we had to wait until they released compatibility with XP pro64?
this can only be a good thing for customers, but I'm a little surprised RIM thought it was worth the time. I can't imagine mac users are a terribly big part of their customer base... though I've been known to be wrong on rare occasion.
I don't know for a fact, but it's probably a larger portion than you'd think. Pretty much anyone who is issued a phone for work is given a blackberry.
As a side note to all the people who have blackberries on here, I've never owned a blackberry. But my roommate just got one and he says it crashes all the time and other people I know that use blackberries say the same thing but seem to think this is acceptable behavior for a device. Is this normal? He brought it to the sprint store to complain and the techs there even said it's normal for it to crash once or twice a week.
Yes, but do they want to sync it to their mac? I have a work issued bb and it doesn't go anywhere near any of my personal information.
Sounds like he probably needs to 1) Make sure he closes apps instead of just backing out of them and leaving them running in the background; or 2) Download the free app Quick Pull and set it run once a day.
The only time I ever have my BB crash is when I have way too many apps open at once, or I decide to use an app that is a memory vampire (like App World) and forget to close it.
With experience your roommate will learn these things and his crash problems will nearly cease. I use my BB all day long and it probably crashes once every 3 months, and it is always preventable if I'm paying attention.
Sorry, I meant to reply to this, too. I have to agree, there are a lot more BB/Mac users out there than most people think; even more than I thought. When Crackberry reported on RIM's announcement of the upcoming desktop manager, close to 200 Mac users replied to the blog posting in a matter of hours.
Really, it makes sense to me when I think about it. We Mac users are Mac users because we want the best. Until the iPhone came along, Blackberry held the consensus "best" status in the smart phone market. A lot of people are in the habit of using BB, or are in a contract, have them issued by work (as you pointed out), or (like me) just find Berrys to be better devices. Personally, I am a creature of habit, and even if I thought the iPhone was better, I likely wouldn't switch unless I thought it was significantly better. I suspect there are many Mac users out there like me.
Yeah some people don't realize that when you back out the program it doesn't always close you have to actually choose to close it. There are some other little quirks that you have to get used when I first start using. That said I've never had mine crash which one does he have ?
