New Toy

I feel like a little kid on Christmas! I have a new toy. My cell phone's battery was pretty much burnt out and my car charger broke at the same time when I got a serendipitous offer from my wireless carrier to upgrade early to a Blackberry Pearl. At least, I took it as a sign. My roommate has a Blackberry and it just looked so cool! The little kid in me still cannot resist something so shiny with lots of buttons to push. When I ordered it over the phone, the salesman gave me the warning that it would take some getting used to. I will have to say that he was right. I have never had a phone that gave its own tutorial as soon as you turned it on for the first time. So far, I love the large screen and the roller ball for navigating around the screen. However, setting up the e-mail has not been easy. The phone will not accept my work or school address, so I had to create a Blackberry address. I really did not want another e-mail address to keep track of. I have not attempted (yet) to get my work and school accounts to forward to my Blackberry address. The other trial has been my contact list. I thought I was being proactive and I registered on my wireless carrier's website to get a back-up created of my contact list. Downloading that worked great, but my new phone does not support the software. Unless my laptop is with me, the online contact list just is not all that helpful. I can go to a store and have it transferred, but that will be taking away the convenience of having the phone mailed to my home in the first place. I suppose that ultimately the moral of the story is if you ever decide to make the leap from cell phone to smartphone, you'd be smart to go to the store in person and spend 15 minutes with a real person as apposed to a few hours with tech support and a manual at home. But it's okay. I am still excited about my new toy and it will be awesome once I get used to it! If not, I'm sure my wireless company will offer me an even more expensive upgrade in the future.