So, as I mentioned last week, my work laptop died horribly... again...
I also mentioned that I was on the crackberry from then, until my new work laptop arrives. Which was supposed to be this week, but I figured it wouldn't be.
As it happens, looks like I'm right about that, as it hasn't even arrived from the vendor to our desktop support folks (who have to reimage it with our corporate image, security software etc...), and they'll take a day or two with the thing before I can pick it up.
Anyway, the earliest I'll probably get the thing is Tuesday, so I will have been sans work PC for two weeks.
Joy.
As it happens, my blackberry has been getting progressively crappier as time went on. I don't install any third party apps... hell I don't even use the thing as a phone 90% of the time, I just use it for email and calender...
But ooooohhh how many email and calendar items I use it for.
I get about 300 emails a day, many of which are in rich text format, many of which have large attachments.
Also I have on average 30 or so meetings a week, and many of those ALSO have large attachments (which I hate, and attempt to discourage whenever possible, but for some reason "project managers' LOVE attaching crap to meeting invites).
At any rate, I would do a hard reset on the damn thing every day, and still within a couple hours, the response time on the POS would be completely unusable. I'd press a key or receive an email, and I'd get the hourglass spinning for 20 or thirty seconds.
The real problem is, I have a Blackberry Curve 8330, and it's a piece of crap. Slow processor, not much memory etc...
So I called up our blackberry support people (we have a department in verizon dedicated just to us, which is nice. Instead of the half hour on hold most people get, we get 30 seconds or so) and I described the problem, and what I was doing about it etc... and at first the rep was confused, but then I told her about the workload I was putting on the poor little bastard...
Yeah, about half way through the description, she's audibly nodding and saying "oh yeah, I know EXACTLY what the problem is".
Basically, the poor bastard can't handle it.
So, they arranged to upgrade me (again, we have our own department in Verizon. We get upgraded whenever we need to, don't need to wait two years. There are a few perks to being one of the largest companies in the world).
I got my new Blackberry Tour 9630 today.
DAMN...
It doesn't suck.
No, seriously... I know... A blackberry that doesn't suck didn't compute here either, but there it is.
Basically it's got twice the CPU and 8 times the ram my curve had (528mhz and 256mb ram, vs 225mhz and 32mb); plus it's a world phone with a GSM radio (and sim card) for international, and a 4 gb "media card" (they don't let you store apps on the card for some reason, so it really is just for media. Also a 2gb is standard, but they give us 4giggers for some reason).
No, it's still nowhere near as good a mobile computer as my iPhone and I doubt it's as good as the droid (and mobile computers is what the iPhone and Droid really are. The BB is really more of a smartphone); but as an email device that will only occasionally be used as a mobile computer , it aint bad.
Too bad they decided to change the cradle and the charging cord AGAIN.
Anybody got any app suggestions? Also are any of the visual voicemail solutions for BB on Verizon other than crap?
