Comments | inhumandecency: its name is "Brigadier Bobblesby"

inhumandecency

its name is "Brigadier Bobblesby"

Jul 11, 2009 11:57

I finally gave in and got myself an iPhone. Since my old palm phone was stolen at the gym, I'd been using my blackberry pearl, which kept me constantly full to the brim with bile and disdain. (there's a broken parallelism there. I wonder which bodily humor is the appropriate metaphor for disdain.) It was slow and clumsy in all the wrong ways, and ( Read more... )

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griffjon July 11 2009, 20:49:54 UTC

Amazingly parallel to my own iPhone decision-making; I'm a huge mac-advocate, but own only 2 apple-made items myself, and one (my shuffle) was a gift.

tanac July 11 2009, 20:56:43 UTC

cool! Moderately related question - do you still have the blackberry, and is it by any chance either open network or at&t compatible? Jeff hates (^ infinity) the cheapo phones we got when we reupped and wants a blackberry, so I'd be happy to acquire it from you (someone I can trust, as opposed to the internet).

inhumandecency July 11 2009, 21:18:43 UTC

Oh hell yeah! It's an AT&T device and I'd love to get it into the hands of someone who wants one.

As far as I know it still works perfectly. There was that time I waded into Lake Michigan and forgot I had it clipped to my belt, but it appears that only the LCD screen was damaged, and once I replaced the screen it seemed to be as good as new. It gets decent reception, is verified to work with wired and bluetooth headsets, and has a good screen and speakerphone. It doesn't have many signs of wear.

One caution is that it's the Blackberry Pearl, and you should make sure Jeff knows about that model before getting it for him. It's extremely small for a blackberry, but it has an unusual keyboard design that the user community finds highly... polarizing.

tanac July 11 2009, 22:02:32 UTC

Turns out the AT&T store person mislead us (shocker!), and the blackberry data plan is separate than the one we already have, and twice as much/month to boot. So, looks like not. Thanks, though :)

inhumandecency July 11 2009, 22:42:25 UTC

They may be lying. I have successfully used a non-blackberry data plan with a blackberry. I think they just want people on blackberries to have unlimited data plans, so they don't run up $1,000 bills in per-megabyte charges and flee the country.

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madhatter85 July 12 2009, 02:34:09 UTC

Oh boy oh boy! Have you given it a name yet? All iPhones deserve a name.

inhumandecency July 12 2009, 03:03:09 UTC

Check the subject line for this post ;)

madhatter85 July 12 2009, 03:10:25 UTC

Well my face is red!

Nice name though.