Two weeks ago I noticed that this model of Blackberry mobile - with Orange - had finally dropped below the £300.00 mark and I went into the Orange shop to enquire further.
At the same time as I was talking to one of the sale assistants a girl who had been listening jumped into the conversation and asked if I had considered the brand new Blackberry Curve 9300 as this phone had been upgraded to almost the same standard as the "Bold" model - with GPS and Orange maps preloaded.
I went away and compared the two and after finding out that the only obvious differences between the Bold and the new Curve were that the Bold had a five-megapixel camera and the new Curve only had a two-megapixel one. Also the Bold was using the version 6 software and the new Curve was still using the version 5 software.
As my birthday is in April I speered the wife if she would go halfers for this new phone and she happily agreed.....( Whoopeeee ! ). I bought it last week.
The phone is phenominal for what I want out of it but there is one important problem:
The phone was advertised with pre-loaded Orange maps to go with the inbuilt GPS and that was one of the main reasons I finally decided to buy it.
What a problem I have been having with the Orange maps !
The instruction booklet tells me that the maps should be available via a dedicated icon on the home page, BUT....No dedicated icon when I looked for it !
I asked the assistants in the shop about this - no joy. I went online with the phone and tried to find out what was up - no joy. I went online with my computer straight to Orange and could find nothing about Orange maps other than I had to go to the "My Account" page and download an app' to make the maps work at a fiver a month. No problem, I thought. When I searched every page and nook and cranny in the "My Account" section I could not find an Orange maps download anywere. Not even for a fiver.
As a last resort I went to the telephone customers services and the first person I spoke to, ( with a thick Pakistani accent ), had no clue what I was talking about. She said that she would pass me to a "technical expert" and all that he could tell me was that I had to go online ???? I told him that the "Orange Local" maps that were to be found online were crap as they were much too small and they obviously did not use the onboard GPS to fix my position. I was given a position of a town five miles away. When I told him this he hung up on me ! ( Was I fizzing ).
This problem is still up in the air and I will tell you all about what develops !
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