Something Shiny

I was just having a conversation the other night about reaching my maximum capacity for Apple related enthusiasm. Yeah, ok, their stuff is fine, but it’s really much more evolutionary than revolutionary.

In an attempt to balance the scales a bit, I offer this counterpoint that popped up on CrackBerry.com yesterday. Beware, there’s some language you probably don’t want pumped outside of your cube for all the world to hear.

The iPhone Ad You’ll Never See | CrackBerry.com.

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Alright, had it for less than a day, and already I’m hooked on my new (to me) Blackberry Curve. They really ought to market themselves better to the non-business crowd.

So far my favorite thing about it (other than it does everything it’s supposed to really well as opposed to pretty poorly, that’s right, I’m talking about you WinMo), is the Slacker app. It lets you cache stations on your memory card so in areas of poor service (like my house) you can still listen. And even if you are in an area of decent service, listening to cached stations requires less juice than listening over the air (listening to over the air streaming is fully supported too though so you don’t have to cache anything).

Eventually my love will undoubtedly turn into bitter hatred, but we’ll get to that later.

In the search for the perfect phone, I decided to dip my toe into the Blackberry pool. I’m now not so patiently waiting for my new toy to arrive and reading up on all things Blackberry.

I’m pleasantly surprised to see a huge number of enthusiast resources. I’ll admit I was anticipating less of the fanboyism that surrounds the hot gadgets, but Blackberry seems to have it’s fair share of zealots. Is Blackberry the one for me or will the lack of a touchscreen* drive me mad? We shall see.

*Part of the appeal of the Blackberry for me is the physical keyboard, so the Storm isn’t an option for me at the moment, plus I’d like to stick with Sprint for the time being.

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