I still feel like it was a better communication tool compared to the smartphone touchscreens of today. Really miss the good old days.
Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#2I wished I had a Blackberry when I was a much younger, but personally I miss Windows Phones a lot more.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#3I definitely miss the keyboard and the fact that it was a device optimized for writing.
The audio out was damn good for its time too.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#4I wished I had a Blackberry when I was a much younger, but personally I miss Windows Phones a lot more.
Windows Phones were awful in general but provided something that no full featured smart phone can: simplicity.
Notifications? Hardly. Browser? Barely works. Apps? Pshh. Instant messaging? I hope you like SMS! Games? There’s a couple good ones you never heard of that won’t be maintained.
But heck, if you want peace and quiet and while still offering the basics in good form, the Windows Phone couldn’t be beat.
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#5I vastly prefer on screen keyboards. I'm faster with them, it requires a lighter touch, and the auto correct is good enough.
What I miss about blackberries is that they were messaging devices, with OS level integrations around messaging that went beyond the notification system of today.
For 90% of messages i send, i could simply use a generic sms style interface through a system-wide messaging app, only jumping into the apps themselves from time to time. I think palm had that, but it was too little, too late.
unihertz makes a blackberry clone btw, check it out
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#6I do miss my Treo. I preferred it to my Blackberry. Both were better and less distracting than my current ad-presenting spy box.
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#7I miss my Pearl, but not the other BlackBerry devices I had.
I like how you could type on it without looking. It's been a decade and I still have typo issues with touchscreen phones. A post this long would likely have 4 noticeable typos if done on my phone.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#8I wished I had a Blackberry when I was a much younger, but personally I miss Windows Phones a lot more.
Windows Phones were awful in general but provided something that no full featured smart phone can: simplicity. Notifications? Hardly. Browser? Barely works. Apps? Pshh. Instant messaging? I hope you like SMS! Games? There’s a couple good ones you never heard of that won’t be maintained. But heck, if you want peace and quiet and while still offering the basics in good form, the Windows Phone couldn’t be beat.
The audio design of the Windows Phone was exquisite. The physical design of the Nokias was also excellent. It always felt to me like it was the phone that was most thoughtfully designed, and it just arrived too late to be able to compete realistically...who wanted to write apps for Windows phone when you could write for ecosystems that already had wide adoption?
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#9Yeees. Make a phone with a keyboard as easy to type on as that one and I'm customer number one!
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#10I really enjoyed my 8330, I really used it "like a computer', I was writing blogs out of it. Only thing is the rolling ball mouse don't miss that (dirt).