Lets see, I’ve used many cell phones over the years. I’ve owned Palm Treos, Androids and the still out there, “do nothing” phones (or junk phones a buddy of mine calls them).
After researching phones for my young teenager, I believe I am going to get her a BlackBerry. She has owned several “fashionable” slider phones for the past few years and not one of them has lived up to teenage abuse. There are dead phone carcasses littering her room. I’ll admit, many kids are too young to own and care for a cell phone properly. There are times however that my daughter beats me home from school, and I don’t want her entering our house “alone”.
I’ve been known to drop my phone a time or two in the past myself. I put cases on them for this reason now. I once had an old Nokia that was literally covered in Duct and electrical tape - it was like a new grunge fashion look.
The housing didn’t fair well after the many falls onto a cement floor. I use my phone for almost everything. I am the proverbial WM phone commercial - I am always using it for texting, calls, appointments and lists. Lots of lists. If it weren’t for the lists and memos I write myself, I would rarely drop my phone. I now have one of those silly looking wrist straps attached to my BlackBerry (not that the strap is always around my wrist though).
I had to laugh when my sister-in-law recently replaced her Curve with a Bold. She said after the Curve took a joy ride on the roof of her BMW SUV, it hit the pavement where it was then run over by a car. It didn’t look as pretty after its little “accident”, but it still worked. Try that with an iPhone or Droid and I can almost promise they wouldn’t fair as well. Ok, don’t go out and try to run over your phones - regardless of the manufacturer to prove this theory. Seriously.
So a BlackBerry it is for my daughter. No, not as a fashion or status symbol as my mother would quickly point out (she calls it a BlueBerry, btw), but because its one tough phone, housing-wise. If it can withstand the abuse I take mine though, it might just make it a year in my daughter’s hands.
If you have a funny accident story about your BlackBerry or another phone (before you got your BlackBerry of course), post it here! I'd love to hear about it.
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Originally Posted by joshjamie
