How to hate something with a passion

[TheBoatman]

For me it's my Blackberry.

This dam thing seems to have been invented just to wind me up!

All I wanted was a phone that can receive calls, take the occasional piccie and send the odd text message ~ as for the rest ~ forget it ~ I'm not interested.

I don't want to listen to music, recieve files or whatever other bo**ocks the thing does.

My "Blackberry" can have a really strong signal but then just "vibrate" to tell me that I've just missed a call (no ringing , just a vibration). I've contacted my supplier (Virgin) who said "no probs" just enter this code and your phone will ring for 30 secs before going to answer ~ I did this and some hope ~ if I don't answer it within 3 rings it's off to the answering service.

On serveral occasions over the last few months it has suddenly decided to "download" my entire company email "inbox" ~ 420+ emails ~ the dam thing beeped for nearly 15 minutes, leaving me with the problem of how to delete them.

It took me sometime to find out how to do this (delete them I mean) because the Blackberry software supplied with the phone is the most un-helpful software I have ever come across.

I hate my Blackberry ~ does anyone agree with me?

Peter.
TheBoatman

 

[Bav34]

Oh.

This very night ... no, last night now, I bought Mrs Bav a Bold 9780.

Oh

 

[elton]

I hate my Blackberry ~ does anyone agree with me?

I agree; you hate your Blackberry.

If you didn't want a so called smartphone, why didn't you buy a sensible but ordinary pocket telephone instead, such as the Nokia 6300?

 

[PerformanceSailor]

I see that our Doro PhoneEasy is available in the UK.
Ignore the ad chuff about 'seniors'.... it's just a good basic cell phone that is actually easy to see, and dial, and use.

http://www.doro.co.uk/Products/Mobile-phones-and-accessories/Doro-PhoneEasy-605/

We may yet get iPhones someday, but this is very economical (in the US thru Consumer Cellular) .

Cheers

 

[Tomahawk]

First Officer has dumped her Blackberry and HTC ind got a simple Nokia that doesn't even have a camera..Battery lasts for nearly a week. She loves it.. I keep the ifone.... sort of hate it but it does have some usefull aspects...

As to the OP..
I hate Gordon Brown with a passion... Why should be obvious..

 

[AndrewB]

I too bought a smartphone as an experiment. The GPS feature seemed a good idea. But it drove me mad at first, what with its habit of cutting out after a bare three rings while I was still desperately trying to perfect the screen-swipe that would open the call.

Worst of all though was to discover I was being charged £25 a month for news and weather feeds I didn't want and never looked at. It tooks days of experimentation until I found, in the deepest, darkest menu, the means of turning off the automatic wireless connection.

Now my phone hates ME! It is forever complaining that it can't download "essential" information. So, I'm back to using the brick again.

 

[Babylon]

I love my stupidphone.

One of the really stupid things it lets me do is remain human, especially in social situations.

I know someone who's so pissed-off at the way her husband's Blackberry has taken over his life, that she calls it his "Crackberry" !

 

[Nostrodamus]

Predictive text has no idea what I am thinking. It lives in a totally different world to me and we have fights. I wants one word, it wants another and it always seems to win. I just end up ringing.

What is this text thing all about anyway. It takes me three hours to send a text when I can ring and say the same in 5 seconds. Someone sends me a text and I just ring back.. far easier.

And... why should I have to pay when I am abroad when some prat rings me to sell me loft insulation...

 

[Babylon]

Predictive text has no idea what I am thinking. It lives in a totally different world to me and we have fights. I wants one word, it wants another and it always seems to win.

You could always switch the predictive text function off. Just keep quickly pressing the button that you'd normally press to toggle from lower to upper case, and you'll notice that the predictive text setting will also toggle on/off.

 

[Zagato]

Never went near the things - used to drive me mad in meetings the amount of time it used to take for these gadget boys to just look into the diary part and type in a new meeting

I still think a simple Filofax is more efficient but you wouldn't have the latest must have toy. I drove some mates up to a car factory tour, the first half an hour they spent sitting in the back like a couple of teenage girls, all thumbs, no conversation, damn things take over people lives

 

[Daydream believer]

Yes but the point is that what we really want is a phone with easy to read numbers & screen & buttons we can press without pressing 6 others at the same time. I never use the camera & all the other rubbish, i hate texts.
All i want to do is get a good solid connection & a clear conversation without running round trying to get into a position 100 yards down the road to make a call
It seems that someone ought to suggest that to the manufacturers.
Might make a good invention

 

[pugwash94]

Obviously you guys haven't got it yet.

If you want a phone then buy one - there are dozens available. The iPhone and such like are not really phones - they are computers that happen to have a phone in them.

I find my pocket computer really useful! I make films on it - which we sell. I update client's websites. I dictate documents which are turned into text - reliably. I keep track of multiple projects with a very effective project manager app.

It acts as a Wi-Fi hub and gives me a faster data connection than my home one (6MB download 1.9 MB upload).

It also doubles as a really effective chart plotter via an app that gives me all the charts for the English Channel for £30.

The "phone" actually has more computing power than was available to send men to the moon. Strangely, it probably does take a little effort to understand how to use it. So if you don't want to have an extremely powerful pocket computer don't buy one and complain when you can't be bothered to learn about it.

 

[Fantasie 19]

Yes but the point is that what we really want is a phone with easy to read numbers & screen & buttons we can press without pressing 6 others at the same time. I never use the camera & all the other rubbish, i hate texts.
All i want to do is get a good solid connection & a clear conversation without running round trying to get into a position 100 yards down the road to make a call
It seems that someone ought to suggest that to the manufacturers.
Might make a good invention

Let me introduce to you to the phone of your dreams

Nokia 1200, black and white screen, no camera, only have to power it up every 3 weeks or so..

 

[flawed_logic]

As to the OP..
I hate Gordon Brown with a passion... Why should be obvious..

+1

Sent from my stone tablet

 

[Marsupial]

my Nokia 5210 is now 14 years old, makes calls and send texts, is water-proof and theft proof - no self respecting teenager would be seen dead with it - so I can leave in a bar for a week and it will still be there!

 

[BAtoo]

Yes, hated mine.. Was very pleased when it went into the water with me when I fell off the boat

Dug out its predecessor - Nokia E71 - much better bit of kit.

Now bitten the apple (iPhone4) & like that.

 

[RadiumRob]

I have one provided by work, so have no choice but to use it.

It's the worst, least user-friendly, despicable electronic device I've ever encountered. I could produce a vast list of things it does that seem designed to inconvenience and antagonise, but what really makes my p**s boil is when I have been composing an email for five minutes or so and it does a security lock down part way through and demands my password before letting me continue - surely it could wait until I've sent the blasted thing. Topped only by demanding I change my password part way through an email, then insisting I type "blackberry" when my chubby fingers mistype a unique and memorable eight digit alphanumeric password that requires fumbling with the shift and alt keys.

Personally, I can't wait for RMI's shoddy design and functionality to make themselves extinct.

 

[TheBoatman]

I'm really happy with your replies.

It seems that I'm not alone with my hatered of the dreaded "Blackberry" phone.

Some members asked why I had got the dreaded Blackberry ~ well I can tell you that it was because I was paying X £ per month and I decided that it was to much.

I contacted my "provider" and they said you need this phone (Blackberry).

Was I taken to the clearners or what.

Peter.

 

[haydude]

I hate my Blackberry ~ does anyone agree with me?

Peter.
TheBoatman

It isn't just the blackberry it is all the smartphones. I have carried my Ericsson T39 until last year, a fine piece of kit paid £600 back in 2001. Everyone was making fun of me, a friend even gave me his old mobile phone that was newer than my T39, but I kept the T39 until this year when I finally got my first android phone. FGS! It has become a problem even finding the button to end a conversation. The first few times I thought I was ending it, but it kept billing me.

After all, everything I need to do is to talk with a phone. Can't do anything else because I would need a magnifying glass.

If it weren't because I can no longer find decent replacement batteries (only chinese that won't hold a charge after three weeks) I would go back to the T39.