Blackberry Bold 9700 to HTC Aria?

[SysAdmNj]

I was originally thinking of leaving AT&T for Verizon to get the upcoming Droid X but not so sure I want to lose the grandfathered unlimited data plan I have and I also got to admit I like the voice/data simultaneous ability of AT&T's 3G network. With that being said, how bad am I going to miss push email, led/custom notifications? How easy is it to root aria and load whatever I want onto it?

 

[Dnasty777]

Just picked up the Aria today coming from the 9700. Not going to lie, I already miss push email/notifications but not enough to make me think this is a bad decision. This phone truely is pretty awesome. The Android OS is wayyyy better than the OS 5 on the 9700. I haven't tried rooting yet. I fugure I'll wait until the new phone factor wears off.

Bottom line: I'd make the switch again.

 

[Ausmike]

Hello everyone;
Sorry am NEW to this forum and WOW what a find.

I am a very mature GSM USER ( yes kinda says my age but been using GSM phone since SUITE-CAASE SIZE MODELS OF MOTOROLLA !!!) ... so have pulled apart few of those GSM codes in my life time

So to the topic on this thread - Blackberry VS Andriod > not that I want to be against any CUSTOM / PROPRIETARY code etc.... but I like the idea of OPEN and USER BASED code developments for GENERAL USE

Andoid has few 'pains" in my view ,,,, just not sure how to fix these:
1) looong leadtime to 'call connect' from dial/send buttons ( yes there is a carriewr componant etc ,,, but keeping APPLES 3 APPLES ,,, android is lots slower
2) Blacberry gives the added "custom Encrypt" for all comms ( havent come across these in adnriod YET!)
3) Lots of "brands" to choose - so often confusing marketing blah blah ,,, often confuses people/users of some features and functions in Andriod where is BLACBERY does do a great job of educating funtions features etc on their OS

in summary , ATT will CARY OVER your data & voice Plans , dont matter what phone you go to ... so in short you can choose any phone aslong as its GSM

hpe this helps < sorry for extra bits aboce pls ingore>

cheers

 

[cHarley04]

Have you tried Googling "push email android apps"?

 

[CallMeAria]

Not sure how outdated this info is but for push email: http://m.androidcentral.com/using-gmail-your-own-personal-push-mail-server

Sent from my cm7 Aria.

 

[dandrumheller]

Not sure how outdated this info is but for push email: http://m.androidcentral.com/using-gmail-your-own-personal-push-mail-server

Sent from my cm7 Aria.

This is the solution I am using... my home isp is in the stone age still and will not push pop mail to Google, so there is some slight delay as Google polls my pop account roughly every 15 min, but as soon as it shows up in gmail it gets pushed to the phone. The only other downside is that you are stuck using the gmail client.

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