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yuck! have to use a BlackBerry at work

nickdalzell

Extreme Android User
Boss got tired of my Android phone crashing and such. I often listen to music or internet radio while doing long jobs with no chance at distractions, to help focus. Sadly my Android phone had to choose to random restart during playback forcing me to reconfigure it again (causing the clock to revert to the year 2007, music would not sync, desktop and lock screen defaulted to stock, etc) and that would take too much time out of work. Or, if he needed to tell me something, it would pick that moment to freeze when i hit pause and the music kept going.

Now at work I'm forced to use an ancient BlackBerry Curve which is great for music but nothing else. It won't see his router and its a sprint dead zone. No internet radio, not even a check of the weather. Worse, there is this strange limit on how long music tracks can be. Songs over three minutes long never play past three minutes and are truncated. I haven't used that Curve for four years. Forgot how awful it was. But, it does have nice notifications and I did like the notification area, with little number badges and in a way far superior to iOS and Android. But that's it lol
 
Sounds like you had a very dodgy droid! :eek:

What was it? My old Desire wasn't 100% after 3 years, but it was never as unreliable as that!
 
Its a rooted and ROM flashed over clocked Samsung galaxy precedent. It is unstable because I can't stop playing with it at home. Mostly because it has only 256mb RAM and too many apps trying to run. Most of the time it just delays things, like apps take time to load up, or such. Enough to be a huge inconvenience at work however. I would buy a nexus but I can't imagine paying that much and have it get broken at work. It's painful the way an HTC Evo ended up, after another used it at work. Busted LCD, paint chips, etc. My phone normally is reliable but it went through a PMS moment last Friday.

Have to hide the Berry, it's pretty low tech and I'm surprised it is even classified a smartphone. It runs in Java, has as much app support as a cheap J2ME feature phone.
 
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