Comments on: Why does everybody have a QWERTY keyboard phone now?

By: Everybody’s looking down | Bloggeretterized

Everybody’s looking down | Bloggeretterized — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:40:36 +0000

[...] Why does everybody have a QWERTY keyboard phone now? [...]

By: Bloggeretterized

Bloggeretterized — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:54:12 +0000

You are not old fashioned. I share your POV on this.
People have lost the horizon are plain victims of consumerism.

By: RIM’s BlackBerry Is Doing “It” Right

RIM’s BlackBerry Is Doing “It” Right — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:13:43 +0000

[...] been seeing kids, yes 12 year olds with BlackBerries. I’ve also been seeing many many more 20 somethings with BB’s. I was at a night club last week in Santa Monica, California (first time in a [...]

By: Adonis

Adonis — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:02:25 +0000

I think BB has to take some credit for finding ways to cater for the youth and attract them to BB devices – it’s just “cool” now to have a BB device. The free messaging also helps.

By: Kevin Neely

Kevin Neely — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:33:42 +0000

As an interesting aside, our company took away the blackberries for all but the most senior and extremely on-call personnel.

And, in reality, “being proficient” in BB just means you don’t pay attention in meetings.

By: ARJWright

ARJWright — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:39:50 +0000

While QWERTY used to mean “professional and email” it just *means* messaging now, and for many still has that status attached to it.

SMS drives purchases, anything that appears to make that easier is good for folks to grab a hold of.