New Blackberry fan from the Nokia world.
Hello Crackberry this is my first thread, first post, and last but not least my official first blackberry which is the Q-10!! I finally arrived. I will try to make this post brief as possible as I can and not make it a long post. I have been lurking this website for atleast the past 3 years but since I bought my first BB 2 weeks ago, I decide to finally join this site!! Well all my phone life I been a Nokia fan from 02 til this day. I been an on and off Blackberry fan for about 6 years. The first time I held and played with a BB was sometime back in 09. I had a cousin from Las Vegas that came and visit me and he was using a trackball blackberry. Anyway he was using it as a temporary phone until his TMO G1 phone was fixed. He didn't know how to handle it so he gave it to me to play with. I didn't really read the book I just surfed around and realized how easy it was and how great the phone was. So I gave him a few cool ringtones and some apps here and there. And he turned out to like it now that I customized it. But I haven't seen him since so I don't know if he actually continued to use it which I won't be surprised due to this Android monopoly.
Another story, about a year later my mom needed a new phone. She got some generic touch screen phone and I don't remember the company. I guess it was an LG. She took it back and I talked her into a BB. Customize the phone for her and she loved it. She had it for maybe a year and a half or 2, it went out and now she just has a regular dumb-down Nokia phone. The only phone I went out to before a BB was this LG scoop phone which was the worst phone I ever had!! I went back to my Nokia phone for about 5 years max. With Nokia moving to Microsoft and not producing anymore PKB phones I decided to try out something new. And what do you know?? I chose Blackberry. I always said to myself that if I ever was going to leave Nokia, then BB would be my go to #1 choice.
I never owned an Android, but I played with it numerous times to know it is not for me at all. My GF has a Galaxy S3 and her battery life is terrible!! I always thought that Android was overrated and was forced down to people's throats. I refuse to use a smartphone that has terrible battery life. I don't care about the coolest phones or coolest apps. I'm not a big social media or app junkie. All I need is the bible, poker apps, GPS, browsers, and that's it. What I need for my phone is to be reliable, durable, productive, and last but not least BATTERY LIFE!! I need my phone to last a long time and Nokia and Blackberry does exactly just that!! Provides great battery life which is very important to me. I've seen so many times coworkers of mine with iphones and androids hugging every outlet in the building while I smirk my face with great battery still going on.
In conclusion. The BB Q-10 is very very nice!! I ordered it from Amazon and somehow someway got the Arabic version which I don't understand why. But of course I just put it into english. I updated the software to 10.3.1, got all the amazon and Google play store. The battery life is amazing!! I get 1.5 to 2 days with easy light use. I'm not a big hardcore user all I do is text, call, poker games, and very little wifi from time to time. But I have most of my internet usage on my laptop/HDTV. I'm looking forward to my journey with BB for years to come, their phones are so underrated for me and its refreshing to try something new. Q-10 is my current phone for now and I retired my Nokia E5 for now, but will use that as a back up phone and get a newer Nokia E6 to use as a back up phone as well in case something weird goes on with the Q10. I'm not going to give up on Nokia based off they're my first phone brand. I had so much memories with them and I still have a place in my heart for the brand. It is very very possible I will buy a WP10 Nokia in the future. But it depends on the size of the phone because I hate super large phones smh. Right now I'm enjoying this Q10 and hope they come out with something similar. I also tried the Classic which is really really nice. I thought about that one, but the phone was just a tad too much big. So I figured to get the smaller phone Q10 and update the software.
Anyway crackberry welcome me to this board and I will be asking for advice if need be. Keep up the good work and I'm enjoying the new phone I'm satisfied!! Hope to see more BB's like this Q10.