stuff inside my little mind

OK, I spent a lot of BB time on our trip to St. Louis.  This includes camera usage, GPS usage, looking up stuff, etc.  According to I Love Blackberry, in the past week I have used my Blackberry 8900 339 times, for a total of 12 hours, 17 minutes, and 42 seconds.  Wow that sounds like a lot!

Let’s see.  I used Google Maps with the internal GPS, Facebook for Blackberry, Ubertwitter for Twittering, AIM for chatting, Mobipocket for ebook reading… Oh yeah, and somewhere in there I did use the actual phone!

Everything performed well, with the exception of the GPS.  Using the GPS with Google Maps, it wasn’t always available.  I used the method of going to the GPS application in “Settings”, and hitting “Refresh”, but that didn’t always work.  I’m going to try to find a fix for this.  I think it’s a result of AT&T wanting their own GPS used rather than a free one, but then again, it could very well be an application issue with the 8900 GPS.  Even using the cell tower location, I was able to find what I needed.  Most of the time you don’t need a location within inches!  Those without a GPS, the Google Maps will find you based on cell tower location.  Sneaky, sneaky!

I beat Josh to the punch on looking up phone numbers.  He had the phone book, I had Google search (on my internet home page of course!) and was able to find the subject of choice and call very quickly.

Camera usage was really fun!  One note, I had a 5X zoom on the 8300, this one does a 2X zoom.  My wife’s pics were “zoomier”, so to speak.  I’ll probably jack up my picture resolution, too.  I have a 2gb card which provides plenty of room.  Pics can be viewed on Facebook.  Here’s one!

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I’m also having a little trouble with the autofocus.  There’s no “instant” pics with the 8900.  It takes a few seconds to focus then snap.  Irritating, but I guess I can live with it!

That’s about it for my Blackberry 8900 review.  Unless something new comes up, you can find more info at Blackberry, or user websites like Crackberry.