Disgusted with "Smartphones"

[burninmylight]

OdinHades said:

Get yourself an old blackberry. I have a Blackberry Classic since 6 months or so and I'm loving it. It bugs you with some stupid amazon updates at the start, but after that you won't hear from it again. There simply are no more updates besides the initial stuff. Nobody cares about Blackberry OS anymore and that's a good thing. You also don't have to worry about hacks too much, because hackers also don't care about BB OS!

Other than that, the device does everything I need. Sure, it's a little slow and it doesn't have flashy animations. But it gets jobs like SMS, phone calls, some internet browsing and all that shit perfectly done. Most apps you know from android are missing, but in most cases you will get the same funcitonality with the browser. I'm doing online banking with the browser and I check the times for the train with the browser. Works perfectly ok.

The device is also built rock-solid and the battery lasts me 2-3 days without a recharge. Plus, because nobody wants it, it's cheap as fuck. I got mine brand-new for 50 €. If you are disgusted with the modern day android and iOS stuff, I would very much recommend you trying it out.

As a fellow BlackBerry Classic user, I can say that this man speaks the truth. And the Classic has access to the Amazon app store, so it's not like it's completely been abandoned and left to die. Those Amazon apps weren't originally built for it, so some of them can run a little funky and are touchscreen only, but ah well. The native BlackBerry Appworld is much smaller, but a few days ago, RIM changed the terms-of-service to require all apps in it to be free, so a lot of the high-rated apps that you would have once had to pay for are now completely free! I downloaded a few a couple of days ago.

People look at me like I just pulled out a stone tablet when they see my BlackBerry, but I am sticking to this thing until it breaths its last. I freaking hate touchscreen only phones.