I Splurged

[bjarvis]

This past Saturday, I went out to a nearby Verizon Wireless store to get this:

I'm now the owner of a Blackberry Storm.

Yes, the initial reviews were not favourable but recent software upgrades have fixed most of the original complaints. I used a demo model in-house to test the major features and decided it met my needs. And if I discovered it didn't, Verizon Wireless has a 30 day return policy.

The machine plus the car adapter and belt clip & pouch cost $202, not counting the $50 rebate yet to be submitted.

Blackberry's sync app includes a conduit for importing my old Palm data but it's not quite as good as one might hope. By design the device doesn't retain past one-off events prior to 90 days or so: my past six years of Palm data is ignored. All contacts and tasks however were ported cleanly.

I've installed the Facebook app and added LiveJournal to the browser favourites. I've also imported all of my music MP3 files but I've yet to sort them into usable playlists.

Configuring the device to suck up all my email from various accounts has been interesting: while my personal accounts have light traffic, I have to devise some rules to manage my office email better so I'm not being buzzed with announcements of new messages every 30 seconds for the rest of my life.

So far, so good!

Comments

[jss]

> Verizon Wireless has a 30 day return policy.

Yeah, satisfaction guaranteed: They guarantee they'll be perfectly satisfied with your money or you get it back.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

If I'm not mistaken, my contract with Verizon is up in Sept and if end up staying with them another contract round, I'm thinking about getting the Blackberry storm and just keep the Juke for playing music as for that it's much smaller and it's a decent music player.

[cutepacub.livejournal.com]

I will be interessted to see what you think of it. I had some issues with my Voyager yesterday, and thanks to the completely inept uh, lady in tech support erased, yes erased my phone book. All 300+ entries. It got ugly fast after that.

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

OOOOoooooooooohh!

new toys!

[ohwolfman.livejournal.com]

I will not recognize you without that UNIVAC based PDA that you kept on your hip all of these years.

Oh, the times...they are a-changing.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I could continue wearing it if you like. In some ways, that old Palm is still superior to the Storm.

[ohwolfman.livejournal.com]

I will have to find another familiar attribute of yours, I suppose.

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Ok, I just realized I was supposed to send you a PDA. I'm so sorry. I have been walking around four months trying to remember something I was supposed to do. Really. Of course, this product is nicer than what I was going to give you (the PDA I mean).

[weekilter.livejournal.com]

You could have put something more interesting on it like a naked man or something :)

Update?

[metrohomme.livejournal.com]

What are your impressions of the Storm now that you have had some real world use with it? My contract was up so I upgraded to this phone on Saturday.

Thanks,

Cleveland Jeff

Re: Update?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

So far, pretty good. I had an issue yesterday but it's resolved... I just posted about it here. (http://bjarvis.livejournal.com/614142.html)