A Public Apology
So, I really love my Blackberry Pearl. I have never been one of those "put every piece of technology you own on a belt holster" type of person, so it's nice that I can get all of those crackberry features all while being able to fit it into my pocket. I wish it took video and had GPS, but I'll live.
One thing I haven't really become accustomed to is all of the little keys. I have previously used slider and flip phones, so locking the keypad has never been a problem. Unfortunately, I haven't really made it a habit of locking my Pearl before I put it in my pocket, and therefore I have at least a couple of pocketdials a day. People who would normally be interested in a phone call from me (or at least my ego hopes that they are interested) are instead greeted with the strange sounds of whatever is going on around me, filtered through my pocket.
For some reason, whenever I pocketdial, my phone tends to pick my entries that start with K. My friends Kat and Katie have been very patient with me, but I think it will be a long time before they respond to any of my phone calls because I usually call them a couple of times a week for no reason at all. I would like to say it is through no fault of my own, but really it's all because I am lazy.
To all my friends, and Kat and Katie in particular, I promise to at least think about locking my keypad more often than I have been doing. Most likely nothing will change until I get my iPhone, but I am going to give it a try!
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Ahhhhh...the hip holster. I was out last night and one of the guys in our group (whom I'd never met before) was rocking the holster. He also spent half the night checking his BB, taking phone calls and basically trying to look important.
Fungdart.
You can call me from your pocket any day, J-Mokers.
Ms. T ... I am familiar with asswipes who do that at happy hours. Instead of making themselves look important they just look petty and small.
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So I have this new job in DC working on Capitol Hill and everything. ANd if there is one thing about Capitol Hill, it's a total Crackberry town. You cannot walk by anyone who is not facedown looking at their freaking Blackberry. So I figure, hey, I'm nothing if not a conformist. Where’s my crackberry?
Luckily for me my girlfriend is a big shot telecom analyst. Good friends with all the wireless people. She’s the kind of person that would look at the phones at Best Buy and say "Jesus, this is the kind of shit you would find in Russia like 4 years ago". I love my girlfriend. SO she tells me the end all be all of phones is out.
The Nokia e61i. It’s got everything. 3GS technology, wi-fi, works overseas, 2 mega pixel camera, 64 mb memory, mp3 player, blackberry, outlook, and its unlocked so you can take it to whatever provider you want.
So I get it shipped overnight to me because I need it NOW NOW NOW. Unfortunately ZI have it shipped to my work address, at the House of Representatives. And unbeknownst to a newbie like me, everything is held for 48 hours while it goes through rigorous safety screenings. So now I paid 30 bucks to overnight this 500 dollar phone and I won’t get it until next week.
Yeah me.
Edhill - that so sucks!!!
Mokers - I have a friend who does this all the time - we call it cockdialing - I have some interesting conversations with his balls!
I remain happy without even a cell phone. No one bothers me, I bother no one. I figure out where I'm going before I get in the car. I know what I'm going to buy before scanning the aisles.
And I have no friends. Like, EdHill won't even call me on his fancy-dan new Nokia... b/c I won't answer anyway! Ha!
I too have the Pearl (in white) and quite frequently the pens and lip glosses in my purse conspire with the BB to make unwanted calls. Sometimes they even send garbled emails, which I'm sure are lewd and possibly illegal in some eastern European languages.
Otherwise, it's a great little phone. I'm loving the GPS and have gotten to level 24 on Brickbreaker.