I recently damaged my current phone, a Nokia 6220, and have been considering replacements, as it’s just out of Warranty and I didn’t like it that much anyway.
A name that’s come up a lot is Blackberry, they seem to be great phones usability wise, and their great for business purposes (which would be handy to me even if I don’t really run a business), and I actually really like how their designed. pretty
As I don’t really want a full qwerty phone right now, and my hands are a little large for small keys anyway, I was considering buying the Blackberry Pearl, I’m not sure which model yet but the feedback especially for the later models on the internet seems to be very positive, and actually I really like the design.
I’m not 100% on the “reduced qwerty keyboard” it features, but actually I think I could get used to it, I text a huge amount and I can see it being far faster than the current predictive that I use at the moment.
As I’ll get a new phone on my contract about Mid 2010, I don’t see it being worth buying a brand new one, so I was considering a second hand Pearl for use until my new contract phone, at which point I may arrange to have a more recent model if there is one, assuming I like the phone.
I think the only possible downside of buying a Blackberry would be that it’s a primarially business phone, and I use my phone mainly for personal stuff, how well it’d handle however many texts I send a day I don’t know, but I’m planning to give it a try.
