Blackberries are awesome!

February 13th, 2007, 12:16 pm Josh Houghtelin Tech, Hardware

I got a blackberry a while back through work because I was mutilating the family plan I have for Zippy and I. I didn’t have much in the way of options for a smart phone so I ended up picking out a blackberry. I finally got around to unlocking the darn thing so I switched my personal phone and work phone sims and got the unlimited data package from t-mobile which was surprisingly only $20/month. With that change in place I started surfing around the net and really learning what the blackberry can do. I didn’t even know it was hugely java based.

Needless to say, I am now thoroughly enjoying this swiss army knife of phones. I downloaded and installed a million applications and have found a few to be quite useful. Time management tools, email, gmail, and instant messaging are definitely at the top of my most-used applications list. If any of you reading this have a blackberry I would appreciate any software suggestions or usability tips you might have.