Anniversary Gift: thePURPLEberry

I had my fourth wedding anniversary a few days ago. Is there a word for it? You know some-jubilee? So anyway since there's an extra person in our family now we decided to stay in. Also, that day the baby had to get his second round of shots and he's been known to be a cranky monkey the day he gets em. So we took him for his shots- two injections, one on each thigh. Poor baby! He took em like a brave soldier. Ok he did howl but went to sleep soon afterwards. Alright maybe not a soldier, but brave nonetheless. :)

poor baby

This has been the first wine-less anniversary. But being the responsible and mature person I am, I settled for an evening at home with friends. Oh and a nice gift of course. All men should know the importance of romance and also that gifts are an important part of romance. I'd been dropping hints about a phone to the husband and sure enough he surprised me with a limited edition purple BB curve. Well, I've been wanting to change my phone but since the samsung captivate glide hasn't been launched yet, this'll do. In fact I've now been using it for about a week now and this is definitely more than a stop-gap. I'm loving the battery and the features. It's a simple but effective phone. Plus it's purple you guys! The husband really earned brownie points with this one. This purple one has been out of stock everywhere. I think he managed to snag one last piece at Electro.com. Purple coz I'm thePURPLEspirit! Yay! Looks snazzy no? And I also installed this very cool fashionista theme. Loving the phone now. My very own PURPLEberry. :)

BB Curve 8520 Purple

My Purple BB with Fashionista theme

Ok I know this phone has been around since the inception of time but here is my take on it.. Yay for:

• The colour purple, of course
• BBM
• It's a blackberry so push mail etc etc
• Twitter app and FB apps are quite cool
• Battery lasts me about 36 hours with data on all the time(2g) with twitter updating every 3 mins and push mail of course
• Good choice of themes available on app world.
• Have installed 2 free apps: battery saver and advanced ram optimizer that prolong battery life and speed up the phone.
• Display is very nice.
• The memo and reminder apps are very handy
• Other apps I've installed: whatsapp, advanced calls LED colour customization, gtalk, yahoo chat. Also wanna install a blogging app.

Boo for:

• Camera only 2mp, no flash
• Browser sucks

My rating:****

To BB or not to BB

I'm quite a geek at heart and I love my gadgets as much as my lip glosses. And no, I don't mean vibrators! Right now the gadgets that occupy pride of place in my life are my Creative Portable media player, my iPad, my 8" touchscreen swivel screen laptop, my blackberry and err my epilator.

I've been quite a blackberry loyalist up until now but with so many tempting Androids flooding the market I'm seriously thinking of moving. So what would my ideal phone have?
Android gingerbread OS
Atleast a 1 gHz processor
8mp camera, HD video recording
Min 3.5" touchscreen
Slide out qwerty keypad
Min 1800mAh battery
Oh and it helps if the phone comes in pretty colours like White or pink.

Samsung Captivate Glide

Samsung Galaxy Note

Buuuut such a phone hasn't been made yet. Pity. Oh this awesome Samsung Captivate Glide seems perfect but hasnt been launched yet and I hope I don't have to sell my kidney to buy it when it hits the markets. Droid3 and the Xperia pro come close but the battery worries me. Samsung galaxy sII ticks all the boxes but lacks a physical qwerty. Le sigh. Samsung galaxy Note looks interesting, it's like a love child of the phone and a tablet but again lacks a physical keypad and seems too big to fit into my pockets or purses. And no other brand seems to even come close. Samsung is at the top of the game when it comes to Android phones.

Why do I need a physical keypad? Umm.. Coz I blog, tweet, text, email, makes notes and lists on my phone. So basically I type a lot and cannot make do with an onscreen keypad alone.

So my only other option is to continue with Blackberry. The only factor that makes me even consider BB despite the lousy battery is BBM. And I'm wondering whether to pick up a cheapie BB like the curve (in white of course) and use it till THE Samsung phone becomes a reality or if I should just stick to BB for a while longer and go for a fancier phone like the Torch or the Bold touch and type (is white available? What? Black looks so serious and un-fun)

BB Torch

BB Curve

BB Bold Touch

My current BB is the pearl flip, an ancient model which is a moody bitch and I need to wrestle with it to get it to switch on even. So I need to seriously ditch it and get a new one ASAP. Whattodo...whattodo... Gah!