Tigy’s Blog

Cant believe its been a month since I last posted! OMG how time flies!

Anyways there has been a heap of stuff happening, thought I’d slowly get up to date with it all, starting with my new toy…

I managed to score myself a decent smart phone, I use my phone mainly for work and email is pretty critical for me. My old Nokia, although great in its day, wasnt cutting it. So I did a major upgrade to a Blackberry 8800.

I first saw the 8800 at CeBit and what amazed me was how sexy a BB could look, ok I mean sexy when you compare it to the traditional blackberry’s, or with other smart phones. It also had GPS built in which I felt was appropriate as here at Rakon we are pretty focussed on the development of GPS in cell phones.

OK so the new phones a bit on the wide side, but it does have a full qwerty keyboard. But its thin, about 14mm which is thiner than a closed Razor. It fits in the pocket nicely and sort of feels like a light wallet.

The email is fantastic, I no longer have to take my laptop home each night and go through the hassle of logging in. The emails arrive on my BB at exactly the same time they get to my PC, just like a text message. I can be corresponding with our guys in the UK while watching the latest episode of Lost and dont have to trudge off into the cave and fire up the PC.

The phone its self is good, all the features you’d expect and once you get used to the keyboard then its a breeze to use. I’ve got a bluetooth headset with it so you dont have to hold this wide thing up to your ear all the time, but when you do it still isnt too bad. Only problem with the headset is that you look like a dork standing there talking to yourself, I find unless I’m driving I need to get the phone out and hold it so at least it looks like I’m talking on the phone.

Anyways overall I’d rate the BB 8800 as the best smartphone I’ve owned, its more reliable than any of the windows based devices the other guys at work have, its good looking (for a smart phone), its got fantastic battery life and its got GPS.

I’ll post more soon!