[Smokeaire]

My wife was out in the garage digging through old boxes. She has Garage Sale fever. She found a box of mine containing old office stuff and other long forgotten items. In digging through it I found my very first BlackBerry, a tiny (in this day of elephant size smartphones) Curve. This phone has to be at least 9 years old. On a whim I decided to see if the battery would even charge. The result is pictured below:

It's a pity wifi wasn't introduced into phones back then. It would be interesting to see what would happen if it could connect to data. Oh well.
I thought I had only owned two Curves, this makes it three that I have owned.
Yes. That is the back of an iPad it is laying on. The old meets the (somewhat) new.

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[texn884]

sweet

[Griffin2012]

Funny you mention old Blackberries, I just found my old 8700C. I tried to charge but no go, pulled the back and the battery was swollen. I had the 8310 and what a great phone it was back in the day.

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[Smokeaire]

The batteries in my other two Curves are dead. I would love to be able charge those, I guess I could try to find batteries for those. I'm not sure I want to spend the money.
What was very personally sentimental that I did find on the phone was all the text and emails between the wonderful woman who later became my wife and myself. The wall paper seen is a picture she sent to me. Since we lived 2,000 miles apart this Curve was my only method of communication with her. It did its job well.

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[rawkerboi 07]

Very well maintained

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[agarwal.apar]

Wow! Very well maintained.. not to mention, it was a great device!

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[bhrgvr]

I just woke up my old 9860 from 2 years back... powers up. Just using it as a regular phone now

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[Smokeaire]

Very well maintained

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Wow! Very well maintained.. not to mention, it was a great device!

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It really wasn't maintained at all. It was dumped into a box with all sorts of needless cords, office junk, and other miscellaneous stuff, and stored in the garage for 5 years. It endured freezing and sub-freezing temps and the extremes of Summer Missouri heat.
These Curves were built during a time when phones were expected to last, when people dropped their phones and expected the phone to work fine. These were not built to be throw away phones.

[StormyDivine]

I wish I still had a working blackberry. I do miss it


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[spcurtis81]

Ha. A month or so back I dug out my old 9700 and actually got a pay as you go sim for it to give it a go. Loved being reunited with it but its OS just couldn't compete with modern phones unfortunately and the novelty wore off. Lovely hand set though.


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[danielcj]

My old 8320 is our home phone and it does have WiFi.

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[Smokeaire]

I do wish my other two Curves had working batteries. I'm sure one of the phones have WiFi. I should look it up.


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[JamBueree]

I kinda miss these old BlackBerries actually.

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[jdesignz]

Still looks new and maintained! Gudjob!

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[nimra]

Funny I had just a few day ago woke my old Treos, not BlackBerry's but kind a brothers

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[Smokeaire]

Funny I had just a few day ago woke my old Treos, not BlackBerry's but kind a brothers

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Wow! That is impressive. As I wrote above these phones were built to last and great batteries. Kind of fun playing with these.
Thanks for posting.

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