When did the day come that your BB came to the rescue?
I've been a CrackBerry since 2006 and havent turned back. I didnt get into using apps until 2008 (sad to say). I thought it was cool to have some things on it, but never realized how helpful they could be.
I now have the 8900 as my personal phone and can't let it go. I have multiple apps on it, but apparently cant live without Google Maps, Viigo, Slacker, and Poynt. I wont go into too much detail to bore you, but here's my story...
I agreed to go on a trip with my girlfriend to Dallas for the weekend to visit one of her friends - I cant stand being stuck in a car during long road trips. We're looking at approx a 4-hour trip. Plus, it doesnt help much that we both have different tastes in music. I brought along my noise-reduction headphones to listen to my music during the ride. (Best $40 I recently spent if you asked me)
We leave San Antonio around 3pm in cold, rainy weather and hit Austin pretty soon. ATX rush hour traffic blows and ended up adding another 1 1/2 hours to the trip. Luckily, around North Austin, I pulled out Google Maps and found an alternate route around the congestion and FINALLY got us out of there. (Should've thought of that sooner.) Since I had my phone out, I plugged in my headphones and started to Slacker out with my cache radio stations. (By the way, didnt know Slacker had a comedy channel - HILARIOUS stuff on there!) We get passed Waco later in the trip, and BOOM - more congestion for 20 - 30 mins. Good 'ol Goog Maps found us another route and laughed at the almost mile-long "parking lot" as we exited. Mind you, I'm still doing the Slacker thing the whole time and my GF is wondering what I'm laughing at for 20 mins (Comedy station).
There was only so much I could look at during the trip, so "click" - hello Viigo. Read all of my latest stories and articles during the ATX "bumper cars" and various points until we get to DFW. Apparently the new ipod nano sucks.
When we finally get to the DFW area, 6+ hour total trip thanks to the damn traffic jams and rainy weather! - I was using the Goog to get us around the whole time. Also, Poynt was kind enough to find me corner stores for the hangover medicine, restaurants to replenish my energy, gas stations to replenish the car, and bars to make me hungover again!
I gotta say, Viigo and Slacker really made this trip bearable. Plus, the GF was happy to listen to her own music at the same time. Google and Poynt made getting around simple. The funny thing is, I brought my laptop and PSP to entertain and guide me during the trip and never had to use them once. That's when I realized that BlackBerry is the way to go...
What about you all - When did you learn that you didnt need anything else?