{"id":121,"date":"2004-10-25T20:59:18","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T00:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2004-10-25T20:59:18","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T00:59:18","slug":"speaking-of-rim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2004\/10\/25\/speaking-of-rim\/","title":{"rendered":"speaking of RIM&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it looks like they have a new toy. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberry.com\/blackberry7100\/\">7100-series<\/a> looks a lot more like a phone than the old style Blackberry unit. They&#8217;ve changed the keyboard significantly, and from the demo it appears that they&#8217;ve taken the best of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t9.com\/\" title=\"Once I found the &#8220;Next&#8221; key, things got a lot better\">T9<\/a> and blended it somewhat with the QWERTY layout. It even has real phone features that are fun (like polyphonic ringtones), and have a form factor and battery life that is pleasing. I wonder if this is the phone McK&#8217;s been playing with across the pond.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t even heard of this little unit, but it was announced back in September. Sadly,  it seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rim.com\">RIM<\/a> still refuses to add a touch screen. With a device that touts itself as a browsing device, I really have to wonder what they&#8217;re thinking when they design this stuff. I wish I knew someone that worked there, so I could throw heavy objects at them while shouting &#8220;add a touchscreen and stylus already!&#8221;. That&#8217;s my major beef with my 7750 &#8211; it&#8217;s great for email and scheduling, and pretty much sucks for everything else, mainly because of the input system and ridiculously slow software.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve been playing with the new Treo, and am very tempted. Of course, I still think PocketPC is the way to go, but have yet to see a decent implementation of the phone\/PPC combo. Ok, enough babbling. Cool looking toy, I wonder if my provider will pick it up, or if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogers\/\">Rogers<\/a> &#8211; a company I will never buy services from willingly again &#8211; has an exclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it looks like they have a new toy. The 7100-series looks a lot more like a phone than the old style Blackberry unit. They&#8217;ve changed the keyboard significantly, and from the demo it appears that they&#8217;ve taken the best of T9 and blended it somewhat with the QWERTY layout. It even has real phone features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}