Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Bye, bye BBM....

I finally gave up on my BB 9300 3G. The first few months was fun. I actually signed up for twitter and was more active with fb because I had the unlimited data plan and all the BB goodies with it. It was also fun connecting with some of my friends that also had Blackberry phones as they are always a BBM away.

Unfortunately, I slowly felt the phones slowly ageing technology. I was happy with the qwerty keypad. I always was. But, the screen was too small. I don't have perfect eyesight, so seeing small images on the phone makes it hard for my eyes. Next is the phone memory. I found myself deleting apps every now and then. And there were very few on my phone! The phone would sometimes freeze. I constantly had to do a battery pull, clear log or do a soft reset just to get it jump started again.

I slowly gave up on it. Since I acquired a Samsung galaxy tab 7.7 (I might give a short entry about this) a few months back, I slowly fell out of love of my BB as I was beginning to embrace android again. (Add insult to injury was that Globe Telecom's service was on the fritz these past few months so I used my BB a lot less). So, I finally sold my BB and acquired another Android phone.... Pantech Sky Vega 4G LTE (No, it's not another china phone. It's the 3rd biggest mobile phone manufacturer in Korea). I'll be happy to make another entry about my 2 weeks and counting with this phone.

To cut my story short, it was fun having a BB in hand and I wouldn't mind getting another one. If they finally launch their OS10 sometime soon, and if it looks promising enough, I might have a look at it.