Coming from BB storm2 to the fascinate
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I came from the BB Storm (original one). but YES I agree.
2 things you are going to notice / miss:
E-mail that actually works
LED blinking notification light
2 things you are going to notice / miss:
E-mail that actually works
LED blinking notification light
I'm also coming to the Fascinate from the Storm 2.
Email on this phone *should* "actually work" but it sure didn't when I first got the phone. I almost took it back because the stock email app would work fine for a while then for no apparent reason would stop checking for new POP messages. I switched to the K-9 email app and that took care of that issue. Email sync was one of the issues listed in the maintenance release that came out a few days ago, but I haven't tried the stock app yet to see if it works right now. I think I do like the stock email app a little better than K-9 aside from the sync issue.
In the beginning I had a lot of problems with the connection bouncing between 1x and 3G. At times the Mobile Hotspot was completely unusable because of this. The bouncing between 1x and 3G seems improved after the update.
I might miss the notification LED. It is nice to have in meetings when I have the phone silenced. I might have to install NoLED for that.
I thought the Storm2 had an awesome GPS receiver, very fast and worked indoors in most structures. The Fascinate's GPS needs a workaround to get it started, which takes a long time even with the workaround, and does not seem as effective indoors.
In a previous thread I commented about battery life and charging time. The Storm 2 was a clear winner there for me.
I'm also finding that I was pretty spoiled by Blackberry's automatic text replacement and conversion features.
But, aside from these gripes, I am pretty happy with the Fascinate. I'm getting pretty good at Swype, and I'm getting used to a lot of the other things that are different. I'm realizing that there are reasonable tradeoffs, like, if I want to have an incredibly fast mobile web browser I'm going to have to lower my battery life expectations a bit, etc. After a week with the Fascinate I dot think there's any way I could go back to using the Storm2.
Jack
Email on this phone *should* "actually work" but it sure didn't when I first got the phone. I almost took it back because the stock email app would work fine for a while then for no apparent reason would stop checking for new POP messages. I switched to the K-9 email app and that took care of that issue. Email sync was one of the issues listed in the maintenance release that came out a few days ago, but I haven't tried the stock app yet to see if it works right now. I think I do like the stock email app a little better than K-9 aside from the sync issue.
In the beginning I had a lot of problems with the connection bouncing between 1x and 3G. At times the Mobile Hotspot was completely unusable because of this. The bouncing between 1x and 3G seems improved after the update.
I might miss the notification LED. It is nice to have in meetings when I have the phone silenced. I might have to install NoLED for that.
I thought the Storm2 had an awesome GPS receiver, very fast and worked indoors in most structures. The Fascinate's GPS needs a workaround to get it started, which takes a long time even with the workaround, and does not seem as effective indoors.
In a previous thread I commented about battery life and charging time. The Storm 2 was a clear winner there for me.
I'm also finding that I was pretty spoiled by Blackberry's automatic text replacement and conversion features.
But, aside from these gripes, I am pretty happy with the Fascinate. I'm getting pretty good at Swype, and I'm getting used to a lot of the other things that are different. I'm realizing that there are reasonable tradeoffs, like, if I want to have an incredibly fast mobile web browser I'm going to have to lower my battery life expectations a bit, etc. After a week with the Fascinate I dot think there's any way I could go back to using the Storm2.
Jack
I noticed the s switch in 1x and 3G, but it leveled out after the update. I use my wifi ay home, which I could never get to work on my storm 2. I too will be trying the noLED app.
As for the email sync issues, after the update it does seem to be better. I have the yahoo app and use gmail, so the only one syncing to the app itself is my college email which I don't get too often so I don't notice any issues.
I guess my GPS may be slow, but again not anything I used on the storm 2 that often.
The one thing I don't notice now, but will miss now that I think about it is the global capabilities
As for the email sync issues, after the update it does seem to be better. I have the yahoo app and use gmail, so the only one syncing to the app itself is my college email which I don't get too often so I don't notice any issues.
I guess my GPS may be slow, but again not anything I used on the storm 2 that often.
The one thing I don't notice now, but will miss now that I think about it is the global capabilities
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I also came from a Storm 2. Today I had to use it to look at all my bookmarks and get them entered into the Fascinate. And honestly I was ready to throw it across the room by the time I finished. Because it's deactivated I couldn't use the native browser, but I was using Opera almost exclusively anyway. But trying to swipe on the storm after using the Fascinate for a couple of weeks was downright painful! And the Storm truly does feel like a BRICK in comparison.
I missed all the instant emails, etc. at first, but admittedly Gmail comes instant, I now have Good for my work account (which is instant) and my personal comcast account gets very little action...so I've adjusted. However I do feel a bit out of touch since moving to the Fascinate and for me, I think it ALL boils down to the lack of an LED. If I don't hear my phone notification there is virtually no other reminder. If it at least had a blinking LED I would know something happened that I might want to check. It's very, VERY frustrating.
My hope is that somehow someone can come up with a way to get the lower soft keys to blink or something. And of course I don't want it to use up any battery doing that.
I think if it had an LED it would be perfect for me. It does so many things better than the Storm I'll learn to live with the things it doesn't have.
I missed all the instant emails, etc. at first, but admittedly Gmail comes instant, I now have Good for my work account (which is instant) and my personal comcast account gets very little action...so I've adjusted. However I do feel a bit out of touch since moving to the Fascinate and for me, I think it ALL boils down to the lack of an LED. If I don't hear my phone notification there is virtually no other reminder. If it at least had a blinking LED I would know something happened that I might want to check. It's very, VERY frustrating.
My hope is that somehow someone can come up with a way to get the lower soft keys to blink or something. And of course I don't want it to use up any battery doing that.
I think if it had an LED it would be perfect for me. It does so many things better than the Storm I'll learn to live with the things it doesn't have.
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