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Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-it-aint-broke dept.

Molly McHugh writes When Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, and I owned a BlackBerry Curve. To me, my BlackBerry was close to being the absolute perfect smartphone. Today, BlackBerry revealed the Classic, a phone that is designed to make me—and everyone who owned a BlackBerry before the touchscreen revolution—remember how much we loved them.

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  1. Re:Best of 2009? May be, but we live in 2014. Righ by Spy+Handler · · Score: 5, Informative

    that's the point of TFA. This thing would've been great in 2009. Now it's just serving a niche market of shrinking ex-crackberry users. Still, if it prevents RIM from disappearing from the face of the earth, that might count as a success.

  2. Re: Best of 2009? May be, but we live in 2014. Rig by gunner_von_diamond · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's much faster for longer words. But for all of the shorter words with 3 letters, it's almost impossible to get them right every time.