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While I wouldn't downgrade to a dumbphone just yet, people keep poking fun at my old Blackberry. I do hate it a lot of the times when it crashes, when the GPS signal fails, when my thumb has to cover 500m distance on the annoying little square to read one webpage. However, it does (barely) what I would like my gadget to do: calls, emails, occasional map check and sending of a dropbox link.

The experience is painful enough, that I don't treat it like a toy and hence feel no compulsion to baby it in my hand all of the time.

Sometimes I feel like I miss out on all the apps and general development in the area, but that hasn't gotten acute enough yet for me to get a smartphone.




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