Back to BlackBerry

This is a Necropost - rescued from AudioBoo and transcribed by AI because I'm lazy.

Hello there, AudioBoo. I'm just in the middle of another grand phone experiment. I'm moving back to BlackBerry.

Yes, after about a year, year and a half of being an Android Boy, it's time to go back to BlackBerry. So I've picked up the Torch, which is the slider and I'm having mixed feelings. It's hard to go back.

I wanted to go back to a BlackBerry because it does seem so much better than the Android. The the email is more reliable. The calendaring is better. The the the text messaging, you know, works and the delivery reports happen in the same way which I find with Android are really quite weird. And this new BlackBerry seems to do a lot of things a lot better than the old BlackBerry. So this is OS six. So the browser is really good, but I'm I'm finding it a bit... It's a bit disorienting. Getting back to it.

The keyboard was the main reason that I got this because I love a hard keyboard. I just I just can't type on the on-screen keyboards on iPhones or on Androids or on anything. I make spelling mistakes. I can't get up a good rhythm. But this the keyboard here is I don't know whether it's slightly smaller or the keys aren't quite as firm, but it just doesn't feel right. And, oh, I don't know. It concerns me. The the camera's nice.

So there doesn't seem to be a hole for a for a lanyard for for wrist strap, which is a little disconcerting because that's how I killed my last BlackBerry by not using a lanyard, and it slipped out and went thunk uh onto the cold, hard pavement of Dusseldorf.

One other thing, which I'm finding slightly weird, is the the BlackBerry's insistence that I have a SIM in here. So with Android, I can do everything with on on just Wi-Fi. I can download apps. I can send emails, but here it it doesn't seem to let me do much without a SIM so I can get on the browser. OK, but going into APP World says you do not have sufficient wireless coverage or your connection to the wireless network is turned off, but it's not. I've got WiFi. So seems rather beholden to the SIM.

I'm gonna try it. You know, I'd give it a few a few days, maybe a few weeks. Let's see how I get on with it. It's got a nice nice clunking slide. Listen to that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Touchscreen is weird. The touchscreen is good on the on the BlackBerry Torch. But what's weird is the buttons below it are clickable. Whereas on Android, Certainly the last two Androids I've used, they've not been. So you have to touch on the screen, but click on the bars below the buttons below, which is is weird, but the track balls nice.

I'm sure I'll get used to it. And hopefully, my next my next audio boo will come from a BlackBerry.

Come on, AudioBoo team, Let's make a BlackBerry client. Well, client, when I say "we" I mean "you". And by "make" I mean "code furiously".

Right, onwards and upwards.