How long have I had my current cell phone? Well, long-time readers of my blog know that I purchased the Google Pixel 6 Pro during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Verizon decided to brick my BlackBerry KeyOne cell phone just because they didn’t want to support the phone any more. That, and Verizon…
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It’s a cell phone with a physical keyboard? You mean, like a … BlackBerry?
Long-time readers of my blog will attest that I had a strong loyalty to the cell phone brand BlackBerry. Even when everybody else drifted off to iPhone and Android land, I stayed with my handheld phone with the physical keyboard for as long as I possibly could. And when new BlackBerry models came out, I…
Read MoreVerizon: “Your check is in the mail. Maybe. At some point. I guess.”
Long-time readers of this blog know that for many years, I used Verizon as my cell phone provider. It wasn’t by choice. My ex-wife signed up with Verizon when we first needed cell phones, she got the “good” cell phone, I received the one with the antenna and the wonky ringtone. I kept Verizon after…
Read MoreThat abusive relationship is now over! THANK GOD!!!
To be totally honest, it was a relationship that was doomed from the start. No matter how hard I tried to make it work, no matter how many times I was lied to, cheated on, denigrated, insulted, gaslit, marginalized and hurt, I stayed. I tried to make it work out. I really, really tried. There…
Read MoreVerizon: “That’ll be a $1 surcharge. Or you can pay here for an additional $10.”
Earlier this year, I tried to pay my Verizon cell phone bill at a store that apparently wasn’t a Verizon Corporate Store (there seems to be a big delineation regarding this). Because I planned on paying with cash, the store tried to charge me an additional $3 processing fee. Yeah, not only did I leave…
Read MoreWhat can I do with a BlackBerry KEYone in 2023?
Background. In November 2021, my long-time loyalty to the BlackBerry cell phone ended. Not by choice, mind you – my carrier, Verizon, stopped supporting the phone on their network. And a startup company that promised a new 5G BlackBerry was nothing more than vaporware. So I purchased a Google Pixel 6 Pro – at the…
Read MoreWait, there’s a BlackBerry movie coming out?? Seriously?!?
Longtime readers of this blog know that for as long as I’ve had cell phones, I’ve been a BlackBerry loyalist. Trust me, I stuck with the ‘Berry through eight different iterations, until Verizon’s network would no longer support by ‘Berry and I was forced to change to a Google Pixel 6 Pro. I say “forced…
Read MoreIt’s paid off.
In December 2021, Verizon bricked my BlackBerry KEYone cell phone when they shut off their 3G network and didn’t make their 5G network backwards-compatible. Ugh. I was forced to scrounge up a suitable replacement, which to me was a Google Pixel 6 Pro camera with as many bells and whistles as I could pack. At…
Read More“You’re paying cash? That’ll be an additional $3.00.”
Time to run some Saturday morning errands. And one of those errands is to pay my phone bill. Normally I just do an electronic payment from my back account, but I had come into a sizeable amount of cash recently, and decided to pay my Verizon phone bill with the cash in hand. You know,…
Read MoreOnwardMobility: The Definition of Vaporware
God damn it, I got fooled. All us former BlackBerry users got fooled. We were fooled by a big promise from a company that had no plans on fulfilling their promise. Shame on us. Background. About two years ago, BlackBerry announced that their license with Chinese phone company TCL would cease, meaning that the Key…
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