Week 1 With My New Black Berry Curve

Posted February 2, 2008

I love it.

I never realized just how much I missed the form factor of my T-Mobile Dash until I got my Blackberry. I’m finding that I don’t miss Windows Mobile though. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those Crackberry addicts that hate the Windows Mobile OS, I just don’t feel it’s right for me. And no, a Mac is not next on my list of things to buy.

blackberry-curve-8320-t-mobileThe one issue I’ve had with my Berry so far is the small piece on the very bottom in the middle of it, which happens to be the mass produced piece that carriers stamp their logo on and snap on to cover the antenna.

 

Since it was ordered online the store “100% cannot” exchange it, and according to them by the time that I do get it back to the warehouse it will be out of the 14 day exchange period, and will then be covered under warranty, giving me a chance of getting a refurbished one as a replacement. So, I’ve decided to go at it myself. Hopefully my big sausage fingers and a small pry tool, maybe with a dab of some sort of super glue, will fix it.

Back to what I like about it. The messaging app, is great. All of my accounts in one box (and no, I didn’t make that snazzy @tmo.blackberry.net address for myself yet). Blackberry users are also issued a PIN which identifies yourself on RIM’s servers, and you can send peer-to-peer messages which are not taken out of your SMS.

8800tmobileuszen-421 Aside from the usuals; calendar, address book, tasks (all of which sync with no problems with my Outlook), messaging, IM, web browsing,the interface is great. Besides looking for the settings initially, there’s been no hunting for anything: Everything’s right there.

Battery life is amazing as far as handsets go. It was at 40% when I went to sleep the other night, and 2pm the next afternoon it was at 35%. Another great thing I like is the option to turn an e-mail into a task. From the messaging screen you open a menu, click the option to turn it into a task, and the e-mail is copied into your task list. So simple, yet so smart.

Anyway, all in all, I love it so far. If you have a Blackberry and want my pin, just let me know.

2 Comments so far

  1. Steve on February 3rd, 2008

    It’s nice to read you exeperiences with your new BlackBerry. I hope you will write some more about after a while.

    I bought myself a new phone as well this weekend, after a lot of thinking about which one to buy, I got the Sony Ericsson K850i, that’s the Sony Ericsson with the 5 Mega pixel camera. I am really lovin it so far.

  2. Urspo on February 3rd, 2008

    i still think you are better off with two dixie cups and some string.

    Urspo’s last blog post..No Garden

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