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Originally posted by TexSkills:

I used to love my Crackberry.....until I discovered Android

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I was never a fan but got my wife to upgrade to a BB 8300 a few years ago: giant mistake. I guess that model for Sprint was a dud, as she had problems with it starting 3 months after she bought it. The last month or so before she qualified for an upgrade she was taking it to the Sprint store to get replacement batteries because it wouldn't charge. They'd give her a few batteries to last her the week and she was ecstatic when she got rid of it.

My wife's best friend just got one assigned to her for work. Trying to use that thing again was odd. The track pad on hers gets stuck a lot so she's constantly pulling the battery out to reset it.


Funny thing is I cracked out my old Motorola Q9c (I have all my old phones dating back to 2000) a month or two agao and powered it up for nostalgia's sake. I was still able to navigate it just fine, I was surprised at how comfortable and functional it still felt 3 years removed. If that thing had a bigger, better quality screen and a better processor I probably wouldn't have felt compelled to jump to Android. Main reason I got rid of that one to begin with was the phone started having problems charging and battery life was dropping drastically (needed to be charged mid day).


I also can admit and appreciate that if the iPhone had been available to other carriers when it launched I probably would have never even really looked at Android. I'm glad things worked out the way they did, otherwise Android wouldn't have had a fighting chance in the US.

This post was edited on 3/26 1:36 PM by dmm5157