Blackberry App Store (World) … 5/10

Posted on April 24th, 2009

To be fair to Rim I thought the store would be a disaster, hard to use or just clunky but it wasn’t. I had an iphone for awhile and I can say that it basically works the same way. Of course you don’t get any of the “cool” applications since Rim believe they know better and that business users don’t want accelorometers or anything groovy in their phones.

The biggest problem is stability of the phone once you start using applications from the store. It basically sucks – even just running 3-4 applications caused the phone to become extremely slow and within a few days unstable until it reboots or I reboot it.

Apple don’t allow applications to run in the background, for good reason! Rim of course, knowing better – let you do this and it kills the device. I tried using just a single application and closing it down when done but the load speed is too slow. Leaving just this single (weather) app running makes the phone un-usable. Who is to blame … not sure – might be a crappy application but I never had a bad iphone app kill my phone so I blame Rim :)

So right now, I give it a 5 out of 10 – nice to get some useful applications for once but hardly worth the effort since the phone is now dog slow. I was testing this on the Bold (9000) with .247 software package.

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