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  1. I’m making a video series where I solve 2025 Advent of Code problems on different devices. Watch me reminisce and solve Day 2 using BlackBerry 10 Cascades! youtu.be/JviWMdO5lXk #blackberry #kitchener #waterloo #qt

  2. BlackBerry Bold 9000
    (2008)

    The ultimate status symbol for Wall Street executives and celebrities. This premium business smartphone raised the brand's prestige to its absolute peak. It perfectly combined top-tier corporate security with high-end luxury design.

    Specs: 624MHz CPU, 128MB RAM, 1GB storage, microSD slot, 2.6" crisp display (480x320), iconic trackball navigation, Wi-Fi, GPS, 2MP camera, and a stellar 1500 mAh battery.

    It featured a genuine leather back cover and a premium chrome frame. Its sculpted physical QWERTY keyboard is still considered one of the best ever made for typing. Combined with push email and BBM, it was an elite machine.

    #BlackBerryBold9000 #BlackBerry #QWERTY #RetroTech #VintageMobile #1EYEReview

  3. I recently drove a car whose whole control and entertainment system was a gigantic iPad-like thing mounted to the dash. It caused me to have a realisation about the #Ui and #UX of touch screens.

    There is no way to touch a touchscreen without it treating that touch as intentional. What I mean is: without taking my eyes off the road, I can grope across the dashboard, find a knob or button—by touching it—without activating any function. Touching the volume button or temperature knob doesn’t DO anything until I do it with more force and intentionality. Not so for a #touchscreen.

    My mobile #phone (an #iPhone 13) has no dead space in its face. There’s no part of the phone face I can touch without it assuming I meant to do that and I wanted to activate whatever was under my finger. Old iPhones that had physical home buttons also had dead space to either side: a safe space to hold the phone without DOING anything.

    Computer keyboard have little raised pips on the F and J keys so you can find them by touch without looking. I do this all the time. But I don’t type the letters F or J. Touch screens have no such affordances.

    I look at the #blackberry keyboard in this photo and I see a raised space bar. It’s an #affordance that lets you orient your fingers, and orient how you hold the phone, without looking.

    I miss buttons.

    mobilesyrup.com/2025/02/15/bla