"Crackberry" has earned its name for me - and I landed myself in rehab quickly!

Just 2 weeks ago, I added data to my cellular plan. For $30.00 CAD + tax extra per month, I get...


Caller ID

Voicemail

10,000 text messages (that's well over 330 text messages a day, or almost 14 per hour! Can you say "overkill"? Just make it unlimited!)

500 MB of Data (an amount which only 2 people in all of Canada have exceeded)


As it was, I had Caller ID, Voicemail, and 2,500 text messages for $20.00 extra per month. So, really, I'm only paying $10.00 extra for the data. Can live with that.


With terminology such as terrabytes and gigabytes being thrown around today as pedestrian terms, 500 MB as only half a gigabyte, may seem paltry. Believe it or not, that covers nearly 3,000 webpages viewed on the iPhone 3G, or nearly 7,000 pages on the Blackberry Bold.

So, I subsequently sold my iPhone. My beat-up old iPhone - that was a bit of a status symbol, so that I was not carrying around the iPhone 3G like everyone else was. I had the thing since June 11th - and sold it on December 21st - which was 193 days.


I had the intention to just use one of my Blackberry 8700s until the iPhone went down in price after Christmas.


I decided, for the heck of it, to set up my email on the device. What's wrong with being able to receive my email on the go?


Then, I start asking my blackberry-using friends for their PINs so I could instant message with them.


Got addicted to Blackberry Messenger.


Then, I start using the Windows Live messenger application that the iPhone will never support.


Then, I realize just how easy typing is on it.


Then, I notice that I hadn't charged the phone for 2 days - a phenomenon never experienced once with the iPhone.


I also started to notice I was spending a lot more time on my phone, communicating with people via text.



I still stand to have full intention to purchase a 3G iPhone - as a Blackberry 8700 will never replace the iPhone's functions - but I must say - it is rather tempting to keep the blackberry.


Disadvantages of it all, are, of course, the fact that you are constantly connected to those around you via Blackberry messenger and push email - so you can never escape those. The fact that I had just hooked up with a particularly clingy girl that week, who happened to also have a blackberry - and used blackberry messenger, did NOT help to keep the phone out of my hands at all.

December 30th, 2008; opportunity knocks. One of my friends, who got an iPhone 3G a week or two before Christmas racked herself up a huge bill - and needed to sell her beloved iPhone to pay it.

I immediately took the opportunity - and scored myself an excellent condition, under warranty until November, 2009 iPhone 3G - for only $420.00 CAD.

This is my form of "rehab". Rehab with high quality audio files, a 3.5 inch multitouch widescreen, and every little feature I had missed after selling my old iPhone.

My point in writing this post: when people call a Blackberry a Crackberry - they're putting it mildly in terms of likelihood to addict.