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CNN Weighs In On Last Weeks BlackBerry Outage

by Adam Zeis on 30 Dec 2009 02:50 PM
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Just yesterday we got a great video from CNN on the BlackBerry Boom in Indonesia, and today we came across this one courtesy of @impalass96 regarding last week's data outage. The video makes some good points that we can all relate to ("a stressful period for some") and gives a brief description of what happened to cause the outage. While it doesn't reveal anything terribly detailed, they did quote Kevin's original blog post about the outage (but managed to steal my BBM title to throw on top of it?). I wonder if anyone in the video is a CrackBerry user? :-)

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: CNN, data outages
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Posted by Diggs31 Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again" unfortunately...and hopefully not as bad as that one

 
 
Posted by deloreancowboy Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

This should teach me to read subjects of posts... I was wracking my head wondering were that quote came from... saying it over and over until finally I said "you are the harbringer of death Kara Thrace".

I really should have read your title... subject

 
 
Posted by Kevin Michaluk Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

funny... first time i saw that video and i saw the quotes i was like, "who the heck said that? wonder where they pulled that quote from?"... then later i realized i wrote it. ergg. :)

second. for a bb outage video, there are a LOT of iphones in it. watch it again and take note. kind of funny.

 
 
Posted by jcorv58 Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

Lol, I noticed that too, stay out of our videos Apple!

 
 
Posted by webmastir Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

i can't wait to switch.

 
 
Posted by Dr.bones Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

Over the christmas holidays I got a chance to experience a droid and iphone first hand. I use a 8330 BB and enjoyed teasing those in my family who didn't own one. Well, I'm here to say good bye BB...We had contest to seeing who's phone could obtain the information the quickest useing several different applications. I got beat every time. Their applications loaded way before mine and sometimes 3 to 4 mins. ahead of mine. Their content was better and it looked just like the screen on my lap top without the jiberish. I can not wait for my upgrade to become available!!! It's time to get back on board with real time capabilities.

 
 
Posted by jkpitcher Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

You are using an older BB. They might have been using wifi which is definately faster and all the new BB's have wifi now. They are using the most current phones and your not. Give the newer BB's a try with your test and see what happens.

 
 
Posted by Se7enth Sinn Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

My Droid never stops getting emails, IM and texts lol...

Go Mets!!!!

 
 
Posted by syb0rg Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

as long as your battery holds up... so that might be till after breakfast....

 
 
Posted by syb0rg Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

as long as your battery holds up... so that might be till after breakfast....

 
 
Posted by snakester9 Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 874 days ago

I have a droid, and my battery makes it all day. It's slightly worse than my 8330 was, but the phone makes it totally worth it. Night and day difference.

Now, my friend and his Droid Eris, that's a whole different story...

 
 
Posted by 1happilymarried Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

I've only had my BB 8330 for a few days & the emails are driving me crazy! Is there a way to filter them?

 
 
Posted by yourlife Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

Mobile link for video??

 
 
Posted by webmastir Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2009/12/24/chernoff.blackberry.outa...

 
 
Posted by webmastir Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

short link for 1 above: http://bit.ly/5GCVoo

 
 
Posted by yourlife Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

Thank you

 
 
Posted by impalass96 Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

Hopefully they don't decide to do any updates tomorrow!

 
 
Posted by jazzejohn Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

Did that lady say that she lost her contacts in the outage? what??

 
 
Posted by lonestar1135 Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

hahaha yea I saw that. She may have been the only one that lost contacts due to a server outage. Human error?

Also, Allan has a really annoying voice.

 
 
Posted by bigtime2 Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

She was probably thinking of that Sidekick outage. Or she completely did not know what she was talking about.

 
 
Posted by MRCUR Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

She was probably referring to BBM and not being able to contact anyone. It's still very odd what she said, but I'm not surprised. People that aren't true "CrackBerry" people aren't any smarter on their BBs than your average Joe.

 
 
Posted by Dr.bones Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

The BB was sold to me in April '09. My neice has an older Samsung without wifi that's thru AT&T that's much faster than my 8330. Just not impressed with BB's anymore.

 
 
Posted by bigjman Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

that's why they should have left well enough alone & kept the old style messenger!

 
 
Posted by MRCUR Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

It wasn't a bad video, but I do wish they didn't show so many iPhones in it. I'm sure they have enough footage of just BBs, but instead they throw in the colorful iPhones.

I really wish they had told people to upgrade their BBM though. They made a good point about the fault coming from the newer BBM versions, but didn't mention that RIM really needs everyone to upgrade.

 
 
Posted by stchandler82 Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 875 days ago

Two months ago I purchased the BB Storm 2. Added a line on 12/23 and chose the HTC Eris (the Motorola is just hideous) I wanted to keep my Storm because I still liked the BB. After 1 week of playing around with this phone, I'm over the BB. I'm going to put the Storm 2 on eBay and pay the early termination.

 
 
Posted by Cap_172R Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 875 days ago

True.. too many iPhones in that video! Oh well, i must say that day was horrible, no data for so long lol! To me, the best part of the video was when they featured Kevin's posts on the outage!

 
 
Posted by Crestus Friday, Jan 01, 2010 873 days ago

Hands down I would take my BB 8350i over a Droid.
Besides having Direct Connect, not even a Droid
Can effectively push POP3/IMAP email to its
Devices like a BB. ;-)