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RIM offers free voice calls over Wi-Fi with BBM
Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, November 14 2012 @ 04:49 PM EST
Might it be possible to text one person and
chat with another at the same time? As in
texting your GF while chatting to your
boss?

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RIM offers free voice calls over Wi-Fi with BBM
Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, November 14 2012 @ 05:17 PM EST
Simples. If you're texting when a call comes in!

IME, the incoming call trashes your half-written message. And if you're
fat-fingered with a phone, that is a RIGHT pain.

I think my wife has been extremely infuriated on occasion - I think she's lost
an *important* message maybe *four* times - thanks to that little quirk.

Cheers,
Wol

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RIM offers free voice calls over Wi-Fi with BBM
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 14 2012 @ 07:11 PM EST
But why would you need a "split-screen"? you don't need any screen space for the voice call, just for the text chat.

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missing the point of windowing
Authored by: jrl on Thursday, November 15 2012 @ 02:25 PM EST
This has been something bothering me for a while about the
"tiny mobile screen" adaptations that completely miss the
point of windowing interfaces. Why bother at all if you
can only get one window open at a time? Why does it have
to be "split screen"? I don't mind having to grab a window
and zoom it if the text is too small, but I really really
mind that I can't display two or more windows.

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