Oh if anyone is doing a contract, do it through Caya. $25 gift card and free Whistler lift pass. Not a bad deal at all.

Good thing i dont use either! Facebook and twitter are always the first things i uninstall.

@knight604 im guessing you bought 2? Fido effed me. Went in to pick it up after work, but nope the whole system was down. Will have to wait til tmrw.

i got white from fido as well...so you are not the only one. Instagram can be run if you download the app the has been "sideloaded" for android. The blackberry itself does not have to run android, as it supports android 2.x.x

phone os is definitely top notch and puts bberry back in the spot with iphone and android. once they have the app selection, i think they could convince some people over!

Sad thing is not much apps right now, i side loaded Hookt and whatsapp.

I am waiting for them to release a native one..

Whatsapp has problems , a bit laggy and you cant message people, they can message you cause your contacts with sync.

Hookt is no problem but a bit laggy as well.

i've sideloaded google maps and that one seems to work perfectly fine for me.

i also got a snes emulator sideloaded as well hahaha playing super mario rpg for fun

I imagine most of the apps that are expected to come should be available by the time of the US launch in March.

So far everything seems to be running great. I cant believe how snappy things load. Its super quick and smooth. The OS feels 'lite' if you know what I mean, it doesnt feel bogged down.

My brightness is fine. Theres a suggestion that the dim/yellowish screen might have been the evaluation units or early runs. There is a thread on crackberry trying to figure it out.

My battery life is good. I had it plugged into my pc for abit while I was transferring stuff over but It has been unplugged most of the day and it has only dropped maybe 30%. Ill know better tomorrow.

I've never seen a browser (pc or mobile) load a page as fast as this thing too.

The one thing Im having a bit of a learning time with is how you can access bbm or txt via their respective apps OR via the hub. If Im in bbm via the app, sometimes I forget I didnt get there from the hub and you cant swipe over to the hub the same way. It isn't a problem, but those with the device will understand what I mean. Will just take some time to get the habit right.

There was some concern with Gmail push syncing not being supported. But I have done some tests and my emails configured via IMAP on gmail are coming within 30 seconds of being sent, so there doesnt seem to be an issue.

Same. Can't live without whatsapp
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can anyone get the facebook profile images to sync with contacts? only twitter and linkedin profile images gets synced for me

also, is there a way to 'hide' apps?

Are unlocked version available in stores now? Or contract phones only

Same devices I have. Except for the z10

Mine took the facebook contacts with numbers and auto added to my contacts lol.

Mine did too. I turned it off tho.

I turned my facebook off too..

now does anyone know how to 'enter' in another line when typing up a text message? it's present when typing an email but not when composing a text message

Tips and Tricks :

anyone try blackberry link yet? it took an awful lot of time to install properly....

Can anyone confirm that the new z10 has UMA.

I live in "a Rogers dead zone" area and my trusted 9790 has it.

TIA

mine installed properly without any problems.. this is on a mac though.

sam? no it doesn't...i checked yesterday

probably is because a mac...im getting java errors. it's working now but its crashing very frequently...

The Z10 does not have UMA, currently.

It's been mentioned, the Z10 is UMA capable, but issues were encountered during carrier testing and it is temporarily unavailable, which seems to be a very reasonable explanation. It's unlikely Blackberry would remove UMA capability with the introduction of the Z10, Q10 and BB10 given the value users have given the feature in prior generations; especially given Blackberry's strength in developing markets where it is an even more useful feature. The Canada, UK releases seem to be glitch testing grounds leading up to the American release, and a delay would be consistent with that fact too.

Good news

i had a hell of a time getting link installed. it wouldn't install properly off the phone, so i downloaded it from blackberry.com and it took 2 tries to get right. it kept hanging.

then when i got it finally installed, it took a couple tries before i could transfer my old phone over, and then a couple more tries before i could put new things like pics on the phone. seems to be working well now tho

Just ordered a black Z10 today off my corporate plan, should be here next week :D

I tried looking for a successfully converted instagram .apk -> .bar on the web but couldn't find any. As far as I know instagram is one of the only apps that can't be converted properly. I would love it if you provided yours =]

it runs but it hangs...no point...only thing functional 100% is google maps under android