When I bought my first
Blackberry back in October, 2011, I was sad, heartbroken and cheated. After all
I had been a loyal Nokia user since 2002, almost a decade.
In those 10 years I had
used around 15 different Nokia phones, right from the basic 5110 to the high
end N 95. Though, my love for Nokia was strong, it the Finnish company that had
failed me continuously over the several years.
I mean Nokia was never
perfect, we all know that and there was a level of understanding that we had
developed with its phones. Like the people in the 70’s and 80’s who bought
ambassadors and knew that the maintenance would be easy.
Nokia was the kid who
looked great but didn’t have the caliber to score above 60-65 percent in exams.
But the fact that there
were no other good mobile phone brands limited the choice.
However, with
players like Apple, Blackberry, Samsung, HTC etc. entering the market we were
spoilt for choice.
And like many other who
broke away free I too decided to finally bid adieu to Nokia after my last phone
from the company C7 which too suffered from the same genetic diseases as its
predecessors.
Few drops of rain on its
touch screen one day, and it stopped working. Surprisingly, the earphone and
the mic too went for a toss. I was fed up and bought a curve 9300.
The first 6 months were
fine. But after that it too got the Nokia syndrome. It took almost five minutes
to start, its battery would get hot while charging, the phone started hanging
etc.
It was Déjà vu.
Many of my friends
suggested that I buy an Apple. But my girlfriend hated Whatsapp and won’t let
go of BBM—our only source of interaction through day.
So, I bought a Bold 4
9900 in November 2013 which was just a shade cheaper the iPhone thinking that
BB would have sorted out all the glitches in such an expensive phone.
Sadly, I have got a rude
surprise. This is the seventh month of usage and it gets hot and cools down
whenever it feels like, it hangs, the spacebar is not working properly etc.
But there is something
about BB which I love. I just can’t put my finger on it. I love it more than an
Apple. And that is why when the news of the all new Z10 and Q10 came I jumped
with joy.
A fan of qwerty keypad I
had set my eyes on Q10 from day one and I had heard that it would be launched
around 28 to 30,000.
It was finally
launched yesterday at 45,000. Disappointed I was. The last thing BlackBerry
needed now was an expensive companion model for the Z 10.
At this price-point, I
expect the iPhone or the Galaxy or the One. There’s too much competition out
there, from iOS, Android and Windows and BB just doesn’t command the respect it
once did.
So, as BB turns into the
next Nokia, it’s time to bid adieu to Canada (BB) and get myself either an
America (Apple) or South Korea (Samsung) balm to heal my wounds.
