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Hi to all,
I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong forum but I couldn't find any better place for this request.

I'll probably switch soon to an internet enabled phone and I decided that, why not?, one of the factors to take into account for the choice would be the ability to properly access the BB website.

I'm not sure I can talk about the phones I'm currently targeting without breaking the no-advertising rule, so I would simply like to hear any experience on issues and limits on functionality that I should be aware of, particularly on most recent systems. I guess the match viewer is one of the biggest issues, uh?

Thank you for any help.

On the iphone, you can use everything on the site except you can't watch the live games (or replays). But accessing forums, training, writing BB mails, using the transfer list etc is all fine on the iphone.

i use it from my mobile phone and i have all the features except match viewer and i cant open scrol down menus

Everything works on the Motorolla Droid

In order to watch live games you have to look for a phone able to reproduce flash in his browser (Most of the time, what maters here is the capability of the OS of your phone).

Iphone OS doesn't support flash so you can't have watch live games (or replays) on phones that uses this OS.

Android (a "common" OS) usually will not allowed you to do it most of the time. I almost sure there are some devices who have managed to run flash. HTC has been able to do it (be sure to check if the specific model you are looking has this feature) and Motorola has achieved it also on at least one of their recent Android powered phones.

Samsung will be releasing a new OS called Bada on one of their most recent phones (wich should be in Europe this month). Bada will support flash so it is very likely that you would be able to watch the games on it.

About RIM (the ones of blackberry) I don't really know much about their flash posture.

So, talking about smartphones, you shouldn't have any issues with the site for virtually all recent phones. The only concern would be the flash support wich will decide wether you can or can not watch live games, and this is something I strongly recommend you to look specifically for the ones you are targeting.

If you have a symbian phone you can download skyfire and watch games since it supports flash..

First of all thank you all for the feedback, it was very appreciated.

Regarding symbian phones, I know they support flash (or at least, skyfire does) but as far as I know the support is a little sloppy. So to be more specific, has anybody tried the site, including but not limited to the match viewer, with an s60-5th based phone like the nokia 5800 or 5230?

Last edited by gselfish at 04/04/2010 15:05:46

If you have a symbian phone you can download skyfire and watch games since it supports flash..

I just forgot symbian and maembo, wich also support it.

I'm not really a nokia-like user :P

I used skyfire on my windows mobile phone to watch the games.

I use to play bb using my mobile phone - Symbian 9.3 - since the very beginning of the game, since season 6.

I tried few browsers and now i'm writing using opera mini.

Opera mini. A browser that saves my traffic and money :)
+little traffic consuming. If the speed is not so big - it also means quicker surfing.
You can use it at every phone
-unable to watch the match
unable to use drop down menu
unable to set the draft preferences
unable to copy text(if the opera version is<5)

opera mobile.
A very nice browser.
+you can use drop down menu
you can copy the text
you can write exactly in the place you are going to, but not in a new window like in opera mini
multi-tabs
-you can't still watch the matches
it consumes more traffic and ram. It can be critical for old models. You need ram >100mb to use it with comfort. New phones lack this disadvantage for sure.

Skyfire
the only browser that can watch the match. Everything is ok, except:
-too many, so many traffic
too many free ram needed
still unable to use chat
there is no multi tabs. I mean there were not at the moment i tested. It was near 5-6 months ago.

Some more browsers, like ucweb(china) and others also exist, sure :) but they are not friendly with flash either.

All these browsers will work with 9.5. And there is also a standart browser, i don't know what it is like at 9.5.

*still hope that it will be possible to watch the match with my mobile phone before i change it to nexus one :)
to complete it - there should be an alternative to flash matchviewer.