November 20, 2009
RIM, seriously, this is kind of bullshit at this point.
Let it be known that I will never buy another Blackberry.
I mean, in general, I’m pretty happy with my Blackberry Bold. The keyboard is awesome, and it does all the neat phone internet things that I want it to be able to do. But while on my trip, I realized that the camera is defective on this phone. This is the third defective Blackberry Bold I’ve gotten. This is just ridiculous at this point. I’m going to abuse my warranty again, but gods.
It’s not just bad luck, either, I don’t think, as EVERY one I’ve had has had basic flaws. The cutting out of the mic on speakerphone and the inability to read SD cards, even though it has a slot for it and really needs it, seeing as it has almost no internal memory.
I had always heard such good things about Blackberries, and most of it revolved their keyboard. If they can get that structurally perfect, which is really is, I’m just kind of confused why they’d have so much of a fucking problem with the rest of the package. Needless to say, my next phone will either be running Palm’s webkitOS, or Android, I can promise you. (And hey, if you have an unlocked G1 you’re ditching for one of these better Android phones, sell it to me cheap!)