This my story from the beginning
Before I post this, I just want to make it clear in no way shape or form that I'm running down crackberry, any posters, and RIM... I'm not about that...
For the past several months, I have been contemplating purchasing a BlackBerry Curve.. My cell phone contract is up (US Cell) and my Moto razr won't hold a charge for more than 5 minutes. My thought process why buy a $40.00 battery when phones are in the $100.00 range.. After seeing numerous ads on tv my enthusiasm really skyrocketed.
So then I go to a few us cell places and look at this device and say, wow, this is really cool.. There is a ton of stuff that I can do with this thing... Well like 10 days ago, I was ready to buy this device and I happened onto this site (which is awesome by the way) and I started lurking on the 83xx site DIH, thats the phone I want to get, the general Blackberry forum and a few other sub forums within CrackBerry.. One of the first things I said to myself, was OMG this is freaking nuts...
Anyways I said, I want the challenge of learning this device so I joined the CB community.. And started posting questions like anyone would.. To be honest, the more I posted, the more I checked out the entire forum the more frustrating I got.... From memory optimization, deleting .xml vendor files, backing up 3rd party apps the list goes on and on... In my continued reading, I would see posts like, I bricked my blackberry during an os update, my phone do this ot that,my phone was working fine until fill in the blank, the list goes on and on.. And I'm thinking why? Why bother with this, who needs the hassle.
I sat down and thought out loud to myself ( Yeah, was talking to myself) :) Why would I need this phone... And I thought and thought.
1. I'm an assembly line person and every job comes down the line every 45 seconds.. So there is no way I can use it at work.. Come lunch (30 mins) I clean up, eat, and talk to my wife... We work 10 hour shifts, I get to bed at 4am.. Wake up at noon, do my chores, exercise, go on the net and back to work
2. Most places we travel to have wifi, so we just bring out laptop with us and most of the time we do travel, we are out of us cell 'sEVDO and as you know, browsing the internet can be quite slow if not on 3g OR EVDO
3. I do run so if I get a sms or email, that would be fun trying to respond back OR browse a mobi site. Same thing could be said when I walk my dog (purebred siberian husky) How do I send an email or sms with one hand? Very difficult
4. So in the end, why pay $25.00 + tax for something I would hardly use? Mind you I'm thinking of reasons to buy and use this thing and I cannot for the life of me (in my case) think of a valid reason...
5. I have been posting on Packer message boards here for 10 years + so I know how message boards work.. Doesn't mean I have to like them.. So anyways, I would post a question..Typical response, use the search engine...Or a poster would link you to another thread that is anywheres from 10 to 50 plus pages long and I could be on page 20 before I find the answer... If you think about it, most everything on this board or with the bb is search able...
In the end, the BB is one cool, sexy device, but given my circumstances, I came to the conclusion why? And with that, a huge burden was lifted....
"R"