I LOVE MY BLACKBERRY

And  Now for a little Shameless Promotion for a Company I love—Blackberry. 

I know, I know everyone loves the iPhone. We all have opinions—and here is mine– you don’t have to agree with it!  When I got ready to get a new phone a year and a half ago I consulted my phone tech expert, Debora Goy.  She told me if I was really interested in doing business—the Blackberry remained my best bet.  So that is what I stayed with.

When I took Mike’s business phone from a Land Line and wanted to do a lot of social networking—I upgraded to the Q10.  Loved it!  Loved it!!  But then they introduced the new iPhone and the price on the older models fell to almost nothing!  So I switched—full knowing it could become a black hole with all the Apps!  And it has.  I read my  newspaper, do a lot of Social Networking (Facebook, 4-Square, Houzz, Twitter, Linked In, etc.) for Mike’s work.  And on and on!

When it comes to e-mail I prefer being able to see all my accounts separated on the Home Screen and knowing if an important e-mail might have arrived in a certain account., Blackberry Wins.  Switching screens for punctuation is annoying on the iPhone.  Finally, being a typist, I love a physical keyboard. My personal cell phone remains a  Blackberry.  Once someone laughingly asked my why I had 2 cell phones—was I a drug dealer?   Only if joy and happiness are drugs!

I then encountered something odd when attending a seminar in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.  The iPhone was never on—I was trying to get a signal—trying—trying.   Then I switched to the Blackberry—it was working just as usual.  So I wrote Blackberry and Kiyomi, a Public Relations Manager, answered me promptly with this information:

“I looked into the question about the WiFi. I hope I’m explaining this correctly. Apparently, we stay connected to the WLAN even when your phone goes to sleep which helps keep a good WiFi signal. And it also helps keep the red blinking light we are known for going when you get a new message. iOS turns off the WLAN when the screen goes black. Likely to conserve power. This makes staying connected to the WiFi more difficult. We do some things on the battery saving side so we don’t have to worry about this. “

Then, as I walked around the Convention Center I encountered others who had also made the switch to an iPhone (often at their company’s insistence) and wanted their Blackberry back!!

PS I keep running into people who want their Blackberries back for work!  I am hardly alone in this - and they aren't just oldsters like me!