MY FAVOURITE LESSON (PART 2)

Back again after quite a while (no use writing when A. Have nothing to talk about and B. No motivation C. Busy.) Actually nothing to talk about isn’t really true, but putting it down on pen and paper so to speak.

My last post was dedicated to the iPhone 4 as I had discovered there was much more to it than when I had first bought the iPhone 3G, I did eventually buy it and loved it to pieces as I did with my very first iPhone 3G 2 years earlier. But after a few months I missed some of the basic things a BlackBerry does I missed the fast messaging services that I had been used to, of all the million apps the iPhone has I used very few and a lot were just a waste of time IMHO (although there are some very good apps – and the Blackberry can’t compete) but don’t get me wrong the iPhone is a great device it just depends on what and how you want to use it and your personal needs, as are other smartphones. Coming from a smaller BlackBerry device the 9700 to be precise I’m not quite sure when I became interested in the BlackBerry Torch (see image above)  but it suddenly started to grow on me. I was invited to the presentation of the BB Torch in Milan by RIM and went with a colleague of mine from www.blackberryitalia.it the rest is history. The Torch uses the new OS6 webkit which in my opinion is definitely a step in the right direction, there are a few bugs which need to be seen to and no doubt they will be in the near future . Why RIM didn’t add a URL shortener to their social feeds is beyond me – with that it would have been perfect. The battery (which is most important to me) gets me through the day with extra to spare  (sometimes) which is good enough for me. Another issue I personally had with the iPhone was not being able to write and hold it in one hand – I am a multi-tasker!

I had plenty of comments from the last post I wrote, more in fact than anything regarding teaching etc., oh well perhaps I should change jobs lol – that said I would love to hear from any teachers using a BB, if you’ve used an iPhone too and gone back to a BlackBerry I would be interested to know too – I have found that most real BlackBerry lovers who have gone astray and used other devices usually come back to a BlackBerry, one of those reasons I  think is that the BB is more addictive in it’s simplicity (although it is quite a complex device for some) but I am noticing more people using them as RIM has reached out to the consumer market too….

Well that’s about it, perhaps I’ll write another post soon, or… next year….maybe I’ll be on Android then.