Why I'm excited for the BlackBerry 9900

By on Aug 5, 2011 at 11:11 AM
Featured August 5, 2011

Hello, my name is Jonathan, and I was a BlackBerry addict. Forget having every BlackBerry the company released, including different variants of models that didn’t ever appear in the U.S., like the BlackBerry 8707g. Forget being one of the first people to discover BlackBerry Messenger and convert family and friends to the service, even though it was probably the slowest thing ever to run on a BlackBerry 7290. Forget getting a bunch of celebrities to attend the BlackBerry 8700 launch party in New York City just so I would be one of the first people outside of RIM to have an 8700. I even once paid to have a BlackBerry 8700 forged out of solid white gold, which barely functioned since gold doesn’t play nice with antenna (an early lesson on wireless communications — maybe the first real antennagate?). I had a dedicated BlackBerry Enterprise Server for over four years — I was so in. Read on for more.

So then, I started using another smartphone, but it wasn’t as advanced in some areas that I really relied on all the time. I began carrying two smartphones instead of just one, and eventually my BlackBerry was used simply for email and BlackBerry Messenger because other operations became terribly inferior. There came a point, however, when carrying two smartphones, even though I was used to it since years earlier when I had a StarTAC and Timeport P935, became tiresome. It’s a little over the top, even for someone like me, and my BlackBerry was practically useless for me once all of my contacts began switching.

We all know what happened and is happening with Research In Motion, though one thing that’s said I don’t believe is accurate. RIM didn’t stop innovating. The accurate statement would be: RIM stopped innovating where it needed to. The great thing about the BlackBerry 9900 is that it’s sure to be the best BlackBerry yet, and there is not one single person who gave up a BlackBerry for another smartphone who isn’t interested in the BlackBerry 9900, if even just a little bit. There’s something about that keyboard, there’s something about emailing on a BlackBerry, there’s something about phone calling on a BlackBerry, and I can’t wait to get my hands on a BlackBerry 9900 to review. It’s entirely possibly someone from Waterloo put something in my water, I’ll fully admit, but I checked, and the bottle was sealed.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/ewagoner1 Eric Wagoner

    I can’t wait to buy this from T-Mobile. Hopefully that $300 rumor is untrue. RIM really needs to work on applications though. That’s what people are mostly into these days IMO. 

  • Oce

    RIM->RIP

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6TQKSPPWGS4QXPZ2CPFBFU5JTQ Lawrence Barton

    I paid $22.85 for an iPhone 4-32GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $674 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHub.com

  • Dude

    Not sure if Jonathan

    Or hacker

  • Anonymous

    i couldn’t agree more with those post…. BB love forever (although i use my droid and iPhone)

  • HelterSkelter

    is it just me or did bgr attempt to write an appology piece for all the nonsense he’s been posting about rim for the last ummm..say 2 years?

  • http://twitter.com/King_Of_Caps Jason

    The problem is for one it took this thing so long to drop & secondly the new BB operation system drops next year hopefully and this phone can’t run it.

  • Michael

    In my opinion rimm stock dropped for a good reason. Management was happy with the status quo of making phones with the same internals of the device before and underpowering their devices. I went away from blackberries for this reason and switched to iphone. However, the 9900 is bringing me back to rim and i look forward to the qnx devices as well. I love my playbook.

  • Attila S

    Same thing we me so i carrying two phones
    let see if the 9900 will do it but reLy i thi.k now actdf useing tbe samsung gLXy s 2 a.x i like thd big s redn that bb guzt used tbefe soctware on the samsj.g phond

  • Dan

    This is one of the dumbest “excited about a BB” piece I’ve seen. “There’s something about that keyboard, there’s something about emailing
    on a BlackBerry, there’s something about phone calling on a BlackBerry”? Really? That’s what’s “interesting” about the 9900? I enjoy the keyboard as much as the next Blackberry user, but this is just pitiful.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZNTX36YNR3CIMONXSH7POM2R4 Deana Pennington

      I just paid $24,97 for an iPad2 and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $37,74 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $675 which only cost me $71,32 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, MetaCent.com

  • guest

    I read the article twice looking for information related to the title of the article.  All I got was “There’s something about that keyboard, there’s something about emailing
    on a BlackBerry, there’s something about phone calling on a BlackBerry..”

    3 statements that begin with “there’s something about…” don’t tell me anything about why this phone might be good.  These same comments could have been made about any Blackberry by any reviewer.  Of course they would then go on to how the rest of the experience was utter crap.  What makes this phone different?

  • Anonymous

    Am I missing something about emailing?  What on earth makes a blackberry’s emailing better than any other smartphone?  I’ve owned windows mobile, android, iphone and blackberry phones and haven’t seen anything different with any of them.  I have used both exchange servers and gmail.  Email is email. A message comes in, you read it, and maybe reply or forward it.  It all works the same on every emailing device I’ve ever used.

    What the crap is so special about blackberry email????????

  • Anonymous

    Sorry. You fail to explain anything to do with the title of your “article”. 

  • Anonymous

    I played with a 9900 yesterday – A1 web browser and huge performance improvements.

    Loved it.

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