6 Months in - The Torch Sucks Donkey Balls
The BlackBerry Torch, with it's full-screen touch interface and sliding keyboard, looking like an appealing phone at the time. Until I actually started using this phone, I found out how horrendous it really is.
First, the processor is so underpowered for this phone that there is severe lag in navigating windows and exiting applications. Using the browser is akin to the Chinese Water Torture test. It is so slow and tedius, and when you connect to a web site, most of the time you don't get any data returned at all. The phone is 3G, but the data rates I'm getting from Telus would indicate sub-par dialup (14.4 kbps). I tried in vain to search for some information using the blackberry web browser but gave up after 15 minutes of even trying to get a response back from my search query. I picked up my apple iPod touch and found the search results in seconds.
I have never hated a device so much as this. When you make phone calls or if you receive phone calls, the touch screen activates when you put the phone to your face. Any slight movement causes your caller to either be placed on hold or put on speaker phone. Multiple times per call. After a while you give up making phone calls and use only the speaker phone.
The applications available for the blackberry aren't the best. Some games - if you can call them that, run so slowly on this underpowered piece of crap that I wonder if the device is emulating another machine to play them. My previous Virgin Mobile phone could play games better than this piece of shit. And that phone was worth $50 new, not the $600 that Telus charges if you buy the phone without a contract.
I would have ditched this phone months ago but it's through work. So I don't have a choice as to what device I can use. Sadly I would have accepted the much superior iphone over this. Hell, at this point I would have even accepted a Windows 8 phone, or maybe the Samsung Galaxy 2 with Android OS on it. I can't explain the level of frustration of having to reboot your device after ANY application is removed. And it takes over FIVE MINUTES for the blackberry to boot up! I know! I timed it!
RIM needs to begin releasing quality hardware and software. This sub-par hardware and software is wearing thin, thin on casual users and thin on business users. Having a 3 day outage for blackberry mail is simply unacceptable for any business. I feel sorry for people buying these phones. With most hardware now having dual-core and graphics acellerators, the blackberry hardware is so far behind the curve you're better off buying a cheap phone from Walmart. At least then you'll have a phone that can competently show you a menu tree without pausing or putting your callers on random hold or speaker phone settings.
After 6 agonizing months with this phone I can say without any doubt or hesitation it is simply the worst phone I have ever used in my life.
First, the processor is so underpowered for this phone that there is severe lag in navigating windows and exiting applications. Using the browser is akin to the Chinese Water Torture test. It is so slow and tedius, and when you connect to a web site, most of the time you don't get any data returned at all. The phone is 3G, but the data rates I'm getting from Telus would indicate sub-par dialup (14.4 kbps). I tried in vain to search for some information using the blackberry web browser but gave up after 15 minutes of even trying to get a response back from my search query. I picked up my apple iPod touch and found the search results in seconds.
I have never hated a device so much as this. When you make phone calls or if you receive phone calls, the touch screen activates when you put the phone to your face. Any slight movement causes your caller to either be placed on hold or put on speaker phone. Multiple times per call. After a while you give up making phone calls and use only the speaker phone.
The applications available for the blackberry aren't the best. Some games - if you can call them that, run so slowly on this underpowered piece of crap that I wonder if the device is emulating another machine to play them. My previous Virgin Mobile phone could play games better than this piece of shit. And that phone was worth $50 new, not the $600 that Telus charges if you buy the phone without a contract.
I would have ditched this phone months ago but it's through work. So I don't have a choice as to what device I can use. Sadly I would have accepted the much superior iphone over this. Hell, at this point I would have even accepted a Windows 8 phone, or maybe the Samsung Galaxy 2 with Android OS on it. I can't explain the level of frustration of having to reboot your device after ANY application is removed. And it takes over FIVE MINUTES for the blackberry to boot up! I know! I timed it!
RIM needs to begin releasing quality hardware and software. This sub-par hardware and software is wearing thin, thin on casual users and thin on business users. Having a 3 day outage for blackberry mail is simply unacceptable for any business. I feel sorry for people buying these phones. With most hardware now having dual-core and graphics acellerators, the blackberry hardware is so far behind the curve you're better off buying a cheap phone from Walmart. At least then you'll have a phone that can competently show you a menu tree without pausing or putting your callers on random hold or speaker phone settings.
After 6 agonizing months with this phone I can say without any doubt or hesitation it is simply the worst phone I have ever used in my life.
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