http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/ Engadget Mobile Comments for BlackBerry Thunder touchscreen phone in live shot http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/
Just wonder how the BB users are going to like touchscreens?]]>Jun 8th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 1:04PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/
If you're "fast" on the crap suretype keypad on the Pearl, I'm guessing you could be just as "fast" on a touchscreen keypad. Compared to a full qwerty unit, suretype sucks.]]>Jun 8th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/
I am sorry but I can type as fast if not faster on a sure type or even a numeric keypad as a qwerty keypad. As a matter of fact my speed on a numeric keypad is way faster than a qwerty keypad...it all depeneds on you...but if your not comfortable with T9 or predective typing then please don't be hatefull to other types of keypads... ask any one who nows how to use T9 and they will tell you the same. think about it 9 buttons Vs. 30+ buttons]]>Jun 8th 2008 8:51PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 1:12PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 2:49PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 8:38PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=3186

http://www.rimarkable.com/is-the-blackberry-getting-an-accelerometer]]>Jun 8th 2008 9:29PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 22nd 2008 12:32AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/i sure hope it is]]>Jun 8th 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 5:27PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/
I hope the screen is VGA and works well, Touchscreen is ok for casual email and text. ]]>Jun 8th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 6:32PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 7:11PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 8th 2008 10:29PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/
Personally, I like the ability to read my email more than send it, so a slightly slower keyboard will be no problem. This phone is gold in my eyes.

And to gr8vibe, how many innovative phones come out as GSM only? I'd say a HUGE number! And they're not specific to any one carrier (assuming it's not locked). I'd say GSM users still have the HUGE advantage over VZW customers (or any other CDMA customer) when it comes to "novelty" phones!]]>Jun 9th 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Awesome post. I'm not a big fan of the Blackberry UI (Windows Mobile all the way), but I REALLY ADMIRE RIMs ATTENTION TO ERGONOMICS in terms of hardware of course. I Just love the way a Blackberry feels in the hand including the button placements and navigation choices.

About the hardware keyboard versus the software keyboard:
I used to be hardcore fan of hardware keyboards, I could not do without. But then I got my XDA flame, and installed TouchPal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO9bLCNP2RQ&eurl=http://www.cootek.com/intro.aspx
I realized I can, ironically type faster on a touch screen keyboard than on the EXTREMELY generous keyboard of my Vodafone V1640 http://msmobiles.com/news.php/5424.html
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This means that the application, itself, should determine what that application uses in terms of available API Modes (GPS, DATA, etc.), while the cellular network should work to provide proper data and voice connections only, provide Assisted GPS (A-GPS) when available (though phones with on-board gps chips capable of autonomous reception--like the SiRF III or MTK chipsets--would be able to receive a stand-alone GPS satellite signal by themselves without A-GPS assistance), and work to be number one in these areas, rather than virulently working to keep progressive features--like the aforementioned GPS issue, Multi Media Messaging, Audio and Video Streaming Technologies--from providing their end-users with a full experience.

I went through hell with a BlackBerry 8830 that had it's GPS chip crippled by Verizon Wireless engineers and set up so that only Verizon Wireless's GPS program "VZ Navigator" would work on it. VZ Navigator is fine for non-pda style phones, but totally sucks when used on a pda-style phone like the 8830, for which I paid over six hundred dollars.

Companies like Verizon Wireless should be forcibly excluded by the United States Federal Communication Commission from participating in profit-making bandwidth purchase incentives if they do not allow unhindered access to the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System run by the U.S. Department of Defense by phones with native GPS capabilities like the 8830.

Sprint Wireless, Alltel Wireless, U.S. Cellular, and the other North American (US and Canada) CDMA carriers do not cripple the 8830's internal GPS chipset or limit that chipset's use. Verizon Wireless does, and should be excluded from the market, until it becomes a friendlier company, gets out of it's early-90's TDMA-based "I'm better than you" attitude, and understand that to "Advance The Radio Art" (as Amateur Radio Operators are wont to say), one needs to establish an open development environment that permits collaborative, open development, equally open API's, and most important, mandates that ALL NATIVE FEATURES--ESPECIALLY GPS--BE ENABLED!

Until Verizon Wireless adopts this process, stops its draconian disabling of native features on its phones, no one should purchase any type of phone or plan from this carrier.

--Firefishe]]>Jun 16th 2008 4:59PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/Jun 19th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/08/blackberry-thunder-touchscreen-phone-in-live-shot/
HOW COME NO ONE ELSE NOTICED IT... BB IS MAKING A HUGE MISTAKE BY LEAVING THE SIGNATURE "PEARL" OUT.. HOW CAN A PHONE IN THIS DAY AND AGE BE MISSING A NAV PAD, BALL, OR, WHEEL]]>Jun 23rd 2008 4:27AM