It's almost over 9000!

Ever since drowning my phone at the beach from Vu/Ivan's birthday earlier this year I've had to use the old Samsung u900. Until today that is, when this thing I bought off eBay finally decided to arrive.


Might mention that I bought something from AmiAmi (Tokyo) on the same day, and it arrived 3 days earlier on Saturday (Aussie post for you). It’s the Blackberry Bold 9000, was throwing it up between this and the updated 9700 (Torch FTL) but the halved price, virtually identical design and features convinced me to go for the older model. Also the fear of not being able to properly set up 3G rendering most features useless. Thankfully it worked straight away without further config (unlike the u900 which refused to let me on Planet 3).


So why a Blackberry? Because RIM are everything Apple isn’t (and vice versa). The iPhone has many rivals but none are as big a threat as RIM… and in the corporate world Blackberry remains king. People who call in at work with mobile issues will all have one (actually iPhones aren’t even supported) so I’ve had the opportunity to see what these things are capable of. But mostly because I admire their unique designs, immune to the iPhone trend (whereas Sony, HTC, Samsung, Nokia etc have at some point borrowed ideas from Apple). There are no large touch-screens or slim/sleek casings. Or 12 Megapixal cameras with HD video recording. Or apps that make fart sounds or pretend lightsabers. Instead you have fat, chunky bricks with small displays and heaps of buttons. Put it into your pocket and you get the illusion of a deformed third testicle before your pants drop completely. But that’s exactly what makes them so awesome.


Only about 3 times as thick as an iPod Touch! The phone won’t even fit into its own case…


Btw, anyone up for doing something next week? Due to Christmas break I will likely have some time off, what about you guys?