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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. Righ by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, it is still great if you want to use it as a tool and not a toy.

    Just keep those blinders on, son. Just keep telling yourself what other people use their iPhones and Android phones for isn't to get stuff done - it's not like they're doing WORK the way you are! Don't ask yourself how all those people who switched away from Blackberry could possibly not see how they're no longer getting anything done with those lesser phones...

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  3. Re: Best of 2009? May be, but we live in 2014. Rig by Zeromous · · Score: 5, Funny

    Typing on a touch screen is still shitty 5 years later. Case in point i just had to make 3 corrections to the previous sentenc.

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