Sambal

I bought a new cell phone on Friday, and went with the new-ish BlackBerry Curve 8330 from Telus.

I like it a lot so far. (I’m typing on it right now.). But I’m unhappy with Telus.

First, as others have reported, they’ve done something to hobble the GPS. GPS works in Telus Navigator or when Navigator is running in the background, but not in Google Maps or Blackberry Maps. Navigator is an extra $10/month value added service. After my free trial of navigator runs out, I will have to call up Telus and bully them into giving it to me for free, and that’s no fun.

Second, Telus had a data outage last Saturday which seemed to affect only 3rd party apps like MidpSSH. When I phoned them three times to ask about it, nobody knew anything. It magically fixed itself Sunday morning. But since ssh is the key reason I have a full-keyboard handheld, this is almost worth returning the phone if it happens again.

I like the overall experience though.

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