Should I keep my Tp2 or...

[triffeh]

One thing that's always affected my choice of anything is knowing that if a product is targeted at businesses it's going to have better reliability and/or build quality than something that is not. It's why I bought a Thinkpad instead of an XPS, it's why my last Blackberry (a Curve 8300) had an unrepairable trackball issue, and it's why I got the TP2 instead of the Pre. Since the Pearl, Blackberry's been putting out phones to appeal to the masses, and their reliability has dropped.

Businesses make large orders. If 30% of a line of laptops targeted to gamers have issues, the gamers deal with it through the warranty and it's not critical that they lose their gaming machines for a week or so. If the same thing happened to a line of laptops targeted to businesses, it would result in a huge productivity loss to the businesses and the subsequent decision to buy from a different manufacturer in the future.

If I'm getting a computer or phone and I can't choose each individual component and put it together myself like I can with a home PC, I will always go with something targeted more to business users and businesses. I've been burned by reliability issues almost every time I haven't (only counterexample is an LG slider feature-phone that put up with stuff that would have destroyed most phones and lasted 4 years besides...had it for 2.5 years before retiring it, then it came out of retirement a bit over a year later when my Blackberry decided it didn't like its trackball or any replacement I tried).

[Herbal954]

ive had a 3g, jailbroke it..hacked it to the max and was unsatisfied, with the phone with the huge bill and with the lame coverage, you sir darkman sound like an iphone fanboi...take it to modmyi

[rdcrds]

Keep it

[Herbal954]

if you even have to question it, return it...it doesent deserve you. thats just my opinion though

[pimpsuprazx]

Originally Posted by Herbal954

if you even have to question it, return it...it doesent deserve you. thats just my opinion though

so true herb, so true =D>

[Herbal954]

Originally Posted by pimpsuprazx

so true herb, so true =D>

<3 dont forget to hit the thanks button lmfao

[pimpsuprazx]

Originally Posted by Herbal954

<3 dont forget to hit the thanks button lmfao

rofl, if I thank you your gonna need to thank me for thanking you

[Herbal954]

roffle

[aarondeep]

Wow this thread has gotten off a total tangent, I was hoping to see some opinions about what this good community thought about the options out there that are about to hit VZW.

Most of us verizon/sprint customers are here because of the network reliability and coverage and are forced to use devices that are available to us. Until recently with the Palm Pre and new Android announcement the only powerful devices available to us have been blackberries and HTC Winmo phones.

The OP was just askin for an opinion on what he thought was a good user forum with open-minded users who would give him an honest opinion instead of start another stupid Winmo vs iPhone war.

When my friends ask me what device to buy, I usually tell them to buy an iPhone or a Blackberry... why not windows mobile? because the user experience out of the box is not up to par and most of my friends are pretty computer illiterate and don't have time we have to tweak their phones to death.

[Herbal954]

with my friends i usually dont do the whole "what phone should i get thing" that falls under the same category as "can you fix my computer"