The Research in Motion home page, RIM.com, has been in dire need of a makeover for quite some time. Well, it looks like the Waterloo, Ontario based BlackBerry making behemoth has finally decided to bring RIM.com in line with their other BlackBerry.com related web properties.
Check It Out! RIM.com Gets A Fresh Coat Of Paint
by Robb Dunewood | Dec 3, 2009 | BlackBerry | 7 comments
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I can already feel the comments coming, so, let me just say, I know that RIMarkable is long overdue for a complete design makeover. Yes, I know that RIMarkable is hard to navigate. Yes, I know that dark backgrounds are soooo 2003. I know, I know, I know… 🙂
Worse still RIM’s BB OS is long overdue for a complete design makeover. Yes, we know that RIM’s BB OS is hard to navigate. Yes, we know that the UI soooo 1990. Yes, we know that the single point failure aka a system based on a NOC (Network Operating Center)-based architecture is soooo 1990. But hey lets hear it for RIM’s new, cool looking web site.
Does anyone find it interesting that they chose to use a picture from Shanghai in CHINA? That looks like it was taken from the Bund right across the river from the unmistakable Oriental Pearl TV tower. Are they trying to say something?
@The Rock – functionally the UI works the exact same way for all intents and purposes as say the iPhone. You have a home screen and you select icons from there. How hard is that? It may look a little dated, but it works very well – and in many cases better than the iPhone. For instance, the app switcher is key. Just hold down the menu key and voila, you can switch apps directly. The iphone makes you close the current app, then find the new one you want to open. And often times, the new app is restarted from the beginning as opposed to being exactly where you left off last, like every app for the BB. This makes the experience much more efficient day to day.
You can’t polish a turd.
Yet my comments still stand as the truth. Polish that.
I can polish a turd.