How My BlackBerry May Benefit You
Through a very fortunate circumstance, I was recently admitted to the ever-growing community of BlackBerry users. Owning a BlackBerry is a wonderful feeling — it’s like having the Internet in your pocket, wherever you go.
At any point in time, you can check your mail (both work and gmail), read your feeds, check your calendar, instant message someone, navigate yourself on a map, check the weather, glance at the New York Times headlines, go to a website, set your alarm clock, listen to music or podcasts or watch video, read e-books, play BrickBreaker, calculate useless things, make phone calls, and play with the infinite number of notification settings, from one vibration to three for each of the above.
But more than a gadget, the BlackBerry 8830 has changed my life – a little bit. And it may change yours too, even if you never get one.
Necessary AdmissionsFirst, I will admit that the urge to check a buzzing BlackBerry is irresistable. Steward Mader (no idea who he is, really — just the author of an interesting post) expresses a common observation among the BlackBerry crowd:
I was out to dinner the following Saturday night, and directly witnessed the effect of tethering people with BlackBerries. While we were out for dinner, a couple sat down at the table next to us, obviously on a second (or maybe third) date. Throught the next hour, they both proceeded to check their BlackBerries about every 5-10 minutes. … There were multiple times when one or the other would reach for their BlackBerry while in mid conversation, and just start spining the scroll wheel while the other was still talking. (“My pocket vibrates, therefore I am. Would DesCartes agree?”...
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