Wang 300 Calc

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 12:35:34 CDT 2007


Liam Proven wrote:
> For the plague of disastrously bad keyboards, I blame those appalling
> Blackberry devices. Pagers on steroids, they only exist because the
> USA's mobile phone network is so ludicrously backwards that pagers -
> dead in most of the world by 1995 or so - persisted into the 21st
> century. I've had a phone in my pocket that could send and receive
> written messages of a few hundred characters for 11 years now, and I
> was a /very/ late adopter.
> 
> Anyone who could design a Blackberry and think it was a decent usable
> interface on a pocket-sized device for entering text has, I submit,
> never held a Psion 5 or 5mx. Or, if one insists on a tiny ladies'
> jeans pocket sized object, a Psion Revo.

You are aware that Blackberry came out for GSM before it came out for 
PCS, right?

US GSM networks aren't all that different from European ones.

Peace...  Sridhar


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