11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
10:35 a.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
For the plague of disastrously bad keyboards, I blame
those appalling
Blackberry devices. Pagers on steroids, they only exist because the
USA's mobile phone network is so ludicrously backwards that pagers -
dead in most of the world by 1995 or so - persisted into the 21st
century. I've had a phone in my pocket that could send and receive
written messages of a few hundred characters for 11 years now, and I
was a /very/ late adopter.
Anyone who could design a Blackberry and think it was a decent usable
interface on a pocket-sized device for entering text has, I submit,
never held a Psion 5 or 5mx. Or, if one insists on a tiny ladies'
jeans pocket sized object, a Psion Revo.
You are aware that Blackberry came out for GSM before it came out for
PCS, right?
US GSM networks aren't all that different from European ones.
Peace... Sridhar