30 days on the brambly mobile device
So I've had my BlackBerry officially for 30 days. Is it the Storm? Is it the Bold? Is it the latest, greatest thing ever to come from RIM's labs? No. It's the tried and true Curve, acquired used and by a private party so as not to extend the ol' contract. Do I love it? Unequivocally and emphatically, yes.

It's not just the exceptional call quality and text/email abilities that the phone itself is known for (and by themselves would be enough to garner such praise even if the phone did nothing else) but all the other little things like the camera, media player, facebook app, the Google Mobile Apps (thank you Paul Feng), Opera Mini 4 for those sites that the proprietary browser just won't open, and so on.

Mainly, though, what I realized during this 30 day period during which I've taken countless photos and videos of David (and immediately proceeded to upload those to facebook after snapping said pics), and communicating seamlessly with friends close, distant and long-lost as if they were sitting right next to me, is that this is a tool that I wish I had (perhaps any smartphone would have done just fine, I'm just partial to this here BlackBerry) especially during the time of David's birth and the first several months thereafter. Those newborn days were times of a healthy combination of joy, chaos and quiet bonding, but I admit that there were more than a few moments of isolation and profound loneliness that I feel might have been cured (at least partially) with a small device that could have kept me connected to the world I felt I had suddenly left behind.

Better late than never, though. I no longer have to hear the nagging from certain family and friends to upload some more damn pics of David already because I've now overexposed him on facebook. So there!
- posted by Connie @ 1/04/2009 09:39:00 AM