The slow motion event is etched in my memory forever as it arched beyond my reach and landed hard on the asphalt tarmac. For a few seconds I was frozen in horror and could not move. It landed screen down with the new leather-ette back facing me. I braced myself for the inevitable, because there was no way that phone could survive that fall. My mind was already kicking my butt for not buying the extra insurance, and would these screens be available from Hong Kong yet?
As I slowly reached down to scoop up the poor injured Blackberry in my hands, a scene from the the movie, "A Christmas Story" came to mind where Ralphie ricochets a shot from his brand new Red Ryder Rifle into his eye. He concocts a story about an icicle falling from the roof into his eye, thus drawing away attention from the truth, which is that he shot himself in the eye, a fact that every adult in the whole movie had told him. My wife and about everybody I know had already told me that I would probably "Drop that brand new high dollar phone and ruin it." My mind was already churning with ways and reasons that the phone could be ruined, none of which included my stupidity.
When I flipped it over in my hand, my heart stopped, again. For some reason I forgot that the screen extinguishes, or blacks out after so many seconds. "It's RUINED!" I screamed out loud to no one. Then I stood there staring at it in my hand, the same way you might after you take the dead hamster out of the cage, not quite sure knowing what to do next. Out of habit, I pushed the space bar. I wasn't expecting anything to happen, at all! It's just that if you put a Blackberry in my or most Crackberry addict's hands, we will automatically push the space bar to bring the handset out of sleep mode. I pushed the space bar, and the screen lit up! I gasped, and not figuratively either, I mean I gasped where you make that noise. You know the noise, like the actresses do when they get spooked by something silly in the horror movies.
A frenzy then ensued of me going through the handset's functions. It worked! Every single thing worked, including the camera. I am beyond amazed on one hand, but then again, I have grown to expect durability from my favored handset manufacturer. There is no way that an iPhone would have withstood this fall. I have friends, well, they used to be friends until they bought that stupid iPhone! Just kidding! Anyway, they have dropped their iPhones and every single person that I know that has dropped one, has reported a broken screen.
At first I was really upset that I has scratched or dented my new phone, but after rethinking it, I look at it as a war wound of sorts. I have already shown it to a couple of iPhone people and the look on thier faces alone is almost worth the experience. i would NOT however, want to relive it, or have it happen again. I have since taken precautions against this episode becoming a sequel.
In summation, Blackberry wins again in the durability department hands down. It wins in a myriad of other places, of which I will blog about later, as this blog is about the new Bold surviving a major fall.
These thumbnails are supposed to open into full size photos, but it's been awhile since I coded here, so it may not work. I have people screaming at me to do other things, so if its messed up, check back later, I will have fixed it by then hopefully.
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