8 things to do with an old Blackberry
In light of the recent dismal earnings report, the umpteenth delay of their new OS, and the fact that more people are using Facebook Chat than BBM, a new wave of former Blackberry enthusiasts will be collectively chucking their devices in the next few months.
Being a recovering Crackberry addict myself, I have recently decided to trade up. If you’re like me, you have several of these devices lying around. Rather than let these things collect dust, I’ve compiled a list of things to do with your old blackberry.
Before we get to what you should be doing with your old blackberry, I wanted to be clear – this is not an attempt to convert blackberry loyalists. Once upon a time, I too couldn’t live without the tiny, tactile keyboard, or the trackball that was rendered useless after an attempt to use it while eating fried chicken. I, too, longed to stare at the loading clock when doing simple tasks like sending a text message. I know the struggles.
So for those of you who have left Blackberry behind and have moved on to greener pastures, here are a few things you might do with your old devices:
- You can do the noble thing and donate to charity. Most carriers have recycle programs.
- Keep one as a backup in case your current phone suffers an untimely death.
- Smother it in peanut butter, or some other food product of your choice, and let your dog play with it.
- Use it to prop up wobbly furniture. The old curve works great under a table leg or unsteady barstool.
- Use it as a decoy. Inadvertently made eye contact with someone you don’t want to have small talk with? Start “typing an email” on your decoy device.
- Melt it down and fashion it into a cool new belt, or slippers for the homeless
- Gather your friends who also have old blackberries, channel your inner rednecks, and have a skeet shooting party
- Mount it on your computer or somewhere on your desk. The matte black screen is great reflective surface and will let you see if anyone is coming up behind you.
So play one more epic game of brick breaker. Hopefully by the end of this, your old blackberry will have gone the way of the dinosaur….It can’t hurt you anymore.
Author's note If you, or someone you know, is still willingly using a Blackberry as their primary device, they need an intervention.
guilty....thinking of upgrading to Samsung Galaxy III. good choice?
yeah, I'm a bit torn if I should wait for iphone 5 or go to android...what is tough is that I am so fast with email+text on my crackberry and that is what I am doing ~70% of the time. the touchscreen may kill me.
You will regret the switch to a touch screen the first week you upgrade but it gets easier after that. By the next month you'll feel weird without it. Plus, you can look at keyboards such as swype which may even increase your writing speed over a solid keyboard.
DON'T get android. I've had an android for the past 2 years (Evo 4G) and the thing always freezes and turns off A LOT. Just a heed of warning. Go for iP5
My roommates iPhone freezes all the time as well. Its going to happen to anything.
-Everything an iPhone does Android does -Everything Android does an iPhone cannot do There is just much more customization and features with Android, not everything phone is identical. Each release Apple says they have a new great product and they rarely make changes. They've added notifcation pull down and folders which my BB and Android had for years. They added a feature to send a text instead of answering a call which my Android does. They won't use flash (though that is ending on all mobile devices)
I've actually heard great things about the new Windows phones as well, its just too bad they have an inferior app selection
I don't really expect the iPhone 5 to be much different from the iPhone 4/4s. Maybe wait for the iPhone 5s - rumors of which will undoubtedly start to spread 3 weeks after the iPhone 5 is released. In any case, I think right now would be the worst time to invest in a new phone with so many new handsets coming out in Sept/Oct.
After months of denial, I have come to this conclusion about my beloved Blackberry as well. That shit is like four years old..
I just got the HTC One S and its the best phone I've had to date. I've never had an iPhone so I'll refrain from any anti iPhone comments for now...
Rumor has it that the iPhone 5 was actually Steve Jobs' last full product. That was the reason the 4S was so similar to the 4, because he completely ignored it to focus on his last product knowing his condition was deteriorating. If this is true, I fully expect to be wowed. I have a 4S and will be upgrading to the 5 most likely.
Hope this is the case and then it sucks.
Before anyone commits to an iPhone..... I'm a long time user of the iPhone (3, 4, 4s) and I'm sick of the weakness of the glass in the 4/4s. My iphone 4s has cracked twice in the last two months (paid $105 to repair, had to argue to bring it down from $210). And yesterday, the second crack, was the result of a 10cm fall. Literally 10cm on to pavement!
Expecting a big improvement, but god, I still love Apple.
I have one of the original android phones, and haven't been too happy with it. It's slow and often impossible to type on. Maybe the newer models are much better, but I wouldn't bet on it.
^ You are the 1st person I've ever encountered to say an iPhone is prone to freezing.
Not prone, its a good phone and my friends all love it. My roommates one just freezes a bunch.
Sometimes its good to check out older technology to see how they worked.maybe just me ha.
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