I have a Blackberry for work. A Pearl 8100 to be exact, a nice enough phone all told. It's small enough to carry around, allows me to access my email anywhere and has a lovely web browser for those evenings spent stuck in stationary traffic on the M50 north. The battery life is fairly ok and you can spend hours customising it until it practically runs your life. It does have one flaw though. Receiving calls...
When I pickup a call I have to count to 4 before the person on the other end can hear me. I can hear them perfectly for these 4 long seconds and, without checking caller ID, I can tell quickly if they've called me before. Someone who's been introduced to the idiosyncrasies of my Blackberry will be quietly counting to 4 before speaking while everyone else is saying "hello... hello? Is anyone there?..."
It is a fairly major flaw in a device that is primarily marketed as a phone though isn't it?
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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