Gidday Folks
As posted on another forum ...
I have been a computer consultant for just on 40 years.
Trouble-shooter of last resort for a major Australian company (Teletax Systems - part of the MYOB group at the time; now fully incorporated into MYOB).
In this role, I had a 100% success rate in problem resolution.
The last time I saw s/w as shoddily written as this was Novell Netware v2.15b.
EVEN Vista was better (not so sure about Windows ME ... ).
BTW, for those thinking of jumping ship to Apple or Android, I assessed both of these AS PHONES before buying my Blackberry Torch 9810 in January this year. At country Telstra shops, these are NOT recommended for "Remote Rural Use", even though some of them do get the select 'blue tick' for this use (only about 5 phones do ... ); just that they don't actually work very well in such circumstances. My 9810 does ... It also works better than my wife's Nokia N-95.
I downloaded 7.0.43 at the instigation of my installed version (6.0.B38, IIRC – auto update).
Spent 3~4 hours trying to get past “Preparing sync preview” message.
Tried installing 7.0.44 over the top of 7.0.43.
Still didn’t work.
Un-installed 7.0.44, leaving ‘User preferences’ on the PC.
Re-installed v.6.0.B38 (thank God I keep everything … ).
Now syncs just fine again.
Beautiful product (Torch 9810). Both in the physical sense, and technologically.
LOUSY software and support. Not even a phone number in Australia!!
Half of the s/w I have downloaded from Blackberry App World doesn’t work; or work properly.
The device does not work as seamlessly as my old Palm PDA Tungsten E2 (went for a short swim in a swimming pool, about 2 seconds – doesn’t work anymore … ).
It SHOULD all work much better, IMNSHO. After all, 6 years later technology.
I am still trying to find a database manager that works properly!!
Just not good enough for one of the very best devices of its kind ever made, IMHO.
JK