Man do I hate buying things. So I’m sitting here in my dad’s office at the new house, and we’re trying to decide if it’s time I join the digital world with one of these smartphones. 
I’m really interested in the Blackberry Pearl. This little fella appears to be all the I could ask for. Just check him out over there on the right. Mmm mm good.
It looks like I will have no trouble setting up email as I want it, receiving only those messages that I want to get, and synchronizing my email across at least my laptop and the phone, and probably across a work computer to. As far as I can tell, my contacts, tasks and calendar will all be easy to migrate and manage. So what’s the big deal, huh?
Right now I’m trying to make sure that T-Mobile, currently the only service provider for the pearl, has the reliability that I’m looking for. I, being of the interweb generation, decided to go online and found hundreds of trillions (approximately) of sites that purport to tell me exactly that. Nearly all were covered in ads, and I had heard of exactly none, leaving me wondering who I could trust. I eventually decided I could trust none of them. My dad and I tried to get his old subscription to Consumer Reports working, but he couldn’t remember his password and the email he had used to sign up had long been deactivated.
So we’re left without any help, the internet having failed us. I plan to ask around to all my techie friends, but I’m not sure that anyone will know. Very few of my friends have anything like a smartphone, and almost all have either Verizon or Cingular service. I have two options now: guess or give up. I’ve guessed before, and I’ve given up before, and whichever I choose to do here, I’m not satisfied. I think the selling point of the internet is its freedom of ease of use, yet there must be a way to distinguish the legitimate companies from the fakers.
So for now I have no answers, nor have I given up the hunt. But right now my grandparents have arrived, and we both know that its time for my father and grandfather to join me in a little in-front-of-the-tv-thanksgiving nap. Happy Turkey
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