I don’t use a Blackberry. In spite of the cult of Blackberry, I’ve always found the device difficult to navigate. Even the new Pearl, with the cute scroll wheel, is marred by the funky keyboard layout. I just can’t get used to typing on keys that have more than one character each.
Of course, as a new iPhone user, the Blackberry has drifted even further from my sphere of potential use. Today, I got an email from a good friend who happens to work at T-Mobile. It was an invitation to join his Blackberry Messenger contacts list (Messenger is the software application that provides chat between Blackberry users).
First, I can’t use the software because I don’t have the device. To my knowledge, I can’t use the software on my desktop machine either. Of course, I wouldn’t know the answer to that, thanks to my second problem.