Welcome to my life, Crackberry.

Yes, I bought a blackberry.

The news that I couldn’t have an iPhone due to lack of service on the NYS-31 between my apartment and work (for about a mile, in a heavily wooded and deer-laden area) forced me to return my iPhone.  Luckily; however, they was no restocking fee because I returned the device in 3 days (even to a different Apple Store!)  I gave myself two weeks before deciding on a Verizon phone.  Here was how I made my decision:

1. Check phonearena.com and phonescoop.com for reviews of all Verizon phones.
2. Walk into Verizon store, look at all the phones
3. Contemplate the LG Dare
4. Pick up the Dare, start typing in landscape mode.
5. Put Dare down and decide it’s a useless effort.
6. Wander around store more, look at the LG Chocolate 3
7. Play with the phone, realize it’s a good phone.
8. Walk around store once more to make sure I didn’t miss something.
9. Look at the Blackberries
10. Pick up the Curve, try typing, put it down
11. Pick up the Pearl, try typing, try applications, try Internet Browser, decide I like it.
12. Ask sales rep about the data package.
13. Learn I get a 20% discount on the $29.99 data package.
14. Bell goes off that that’s the price of the iPhone data package.
15. Play with blackberry some more, decide to try it. Check out.

I’m still learning a lot about the Blackberry, but I do like it.  It has many of the 3rd party apps that the iPhone is getting mainly because it’s one of the most popular PDAs out there.