
I'm an Android nerd, but it wasn't always that way. If you climb into the Wayback Machine with me, you'll find me using a cheap-feeling, work-provided BlackBerry. When I switched jobs and didn't get to carry one around, I went out and bought one.
It was a device ahead of its time, and I was hooked. When Android came out, I also bought a T-Mobile G1 and carried two phones around for a while because my BlackBerry Curve was just ... better. They weren't built better; they weren't faster or more efficient, and there were no amazing games. However, BlackBerry was the king of communicating with people because of that keyboard.