RIM BlackBerry Users here?

I never was really intresstet in BlackBerry Mobile Devices but however the new BlackBerry 9000 Bold seems intressting to me, because it has a 480x240 Pixel Display and I like the QWERTY keys.

And 4 years ago cell phones were like this...



Now they have touch screens, video cameras and a billion of other things in them...

Hm, this phone looks to me like it was out of the 70s or 80s years.

The new BlackBerry is a thing of beauty. Though I've always been a little put off by how wide they are to accomodate the QWERTY keypad, even if it is better than the alternative Palm went with (making the keys so small you need to file your nails to points to use them). That's partly why I'm more drawn to the Pearl, which I'll probably have before the week is out.

yeah, that phone is a bit more than 4 years old.

1983 to be specific (70s I think brought us the car phone/cellphonebag whatever thing)

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I've got a Pearl, which is kind of annoying when I want to surf the web, but really functional for me because of its small size. I like being able to just throw it in my pocket and not have this (other) huge, hulking mass getting in the way of everything.

I have the Palm Centro and the button size did concern me at first. After using it for a bit they really aren't a problem. The made them individual enough to give you a pretty solid feel from key to key.

You know what makes me wonder. How people communicated back before 1995?

I believe that's when cell phones started to get popular.

We used rocks. When we wanted to talk to someone, we threw a rock at them to get their attention.

I heard then how did you text message? And send cute little pics of your kittens to your friends?

'95 was all about the beeper. Phones didn't really start to get affordable therefore popular until the late 90's.

For texting, we'd carve on the rock. For the kittens, we'd tie the kitten to the rock.

Somewhere there's a man still selling beepers.

Sometimes I kind of miss it. When someone pages you, you decide when to call them back. I know you can do the same thing with phones but when it's a phone the urge to respond immediately is so much stronger.

And that right there is why I don't have a cell-phone.

I applaud.

I know even 5 year olds have cell phones.

Remember when people used their cell phones to call people?

If I could avoid it, I wouldn't have one. Somehow I have managed to con myself into believing that it's a "necessary business expense". Bollocks.
It's only "necessary" because the commercial world dictates I can't get a job without one. That is forced purchase without representation. Fucking parasites.

Remember when somebody was saved from being killed.
When there was 0 bars?

Oh wait that never happened. But at least her kewl new cell phone had TV on it. Looks like she won't be watching Gossip Girl anymore...

You almost always make me LOL.

I also have the pearl. It is pretty handy for me to keep my oh so exciting life organized, use the internet to find local shit when I need it, and best of all, to download books on.