BlackBerry Timeline - A look at the CrackBerry writers device history

I remember my good ol 7730 - My history 8700c, 8830, 8310, 9000, 9700, 9800

Curve 8310 > Bold 9700 > Torch 9800 > Bold 9900!

Can't wait for the N Series to come out so I can grab that one next!

It could take a serious beating!

Bold 9000 > Bold 9780 > Bold 9790 .... > BB10 QWERTY!!!

My first was an 8830WE. I would still use it if it had Wi-Fi and more onboard memory !!!!!!

8830WE
9800 Torch
9860 Torch
32G Playbook
2nd 32G Playbook

and some day soon.. A new shiny L series BB10.

#BB10Believe!

Storm -> 9650 ->9930 & 64GB PlayBook

Curve 8330 -> Bold 9650 -> Bold 9930 & 64GB PlayBook

My list looks something like this:

7290
8110 Pearl
9000 Bold
9700 Bold
9800 Torch
9900 Bold

Those have been my main phones, these were my backups in case anything happened:

8300 Curve (red)
8520 Curve
9300 Curve 3G
9360 Curve (white)
9360 Curve (black)
9810 Torch (white)
9860 Torch

Can't wait to add the BB10 touchscreen device in Q1 '13 :)

Curve 8330 Torch 9800 Torch 9860

BlackBerry by choice BB 10 FTW!!

BlackBerry Torch 9860 and PlayBook

This made me tear up. Together we are #CrackberryNation

8130, 9700, 9900

lol, bla1ze and i both started off with the pearl 8100, though i haven't matched his phones since then, i went from the pearl to the storm and currently the storm 2 9550. I'm hoping the bb10 l series can be my next device jumping past os 6 and 7 straight to 10

My first blackberry was a pearl 8100 like bla1ze. Shoutout to those who had bbm before display pictures.

So, it goes like this -
Bold 9000
Bold 9780
Torch 9860
Bold 9790
Torch 9810
Curve 9300
Bold 9900
Still miss that 9000 (sniff, sigh).

I feel left out, my first was the 8530, 9900+PB 64 gig

My history, as far as my primary everyday device:
7105t
8820
Bold 9000
Bold 9700
Bold 9900

(And as a dev, I also now have a collection of test devices which includes some of the older phones from the above list.)

Prior to BB, I had some now-ancient Nokia phone running Symbian.

Only the 8900. Just waiting 4 BB10

My history:
7100t
8110
9530
9000
9800

gf's history:
8800
8900
9300

Love Kevin's timeline, "then every BB after that". Doesn't get more definitive than that.

Device History:

•7290
•8700
•Curve 8900
•Bold 9000
•Torch 9800
•Torch 9810
•Bold 9790
•BB10 "L" series
•BB10 "N" series

Piece

* BlackBerry by choice *
My history goes Nextel Curve 8350i, Curve 8530, Curve 9330, BlackBerry PlayBook 32gb, Style 9670, and the Bold 9930.
I've not been around as long as some but I still am the supreme BlackBerry guru of my area as far as I know. And STILL learn things on CrackBerry almost every day.

Cheers to BB10!

I keep mine for a long time:
7520
8130
9650; PlayBook
BB 10 (2013)

Tmo- Pearl 8100 in Oct 2006. Started on 4.2 Found CB and updated to 4.5

Tmo- Curve 8900 (Javelin). Had word from a CB member to hold out for this bad boy and he was spot on!

Tmo- Bold 9780. Bought off contract. A great update to the 8900.

Tmo- Bold 9900. Bought off contract. Best keyboard.

Next- Sprint- L-series BB10.

I started with 8300, 8900, and then 9900. Then something happened I'm now back to my 8900 with OS5. I can't wait for BB10 device.
TMO_[9900]_32GB_PB

First BlackBerry: Pearl 8110

Device History:
Storm 9500
Curve 8900
Curve 8520
Bold 9700
Bold 9780
Bold 9790
Bold 9900
Awaiting BB10...

Device history:
7100i
Pearl 8100
Curve 8300
Curve 8520
Bold 9700
Bold 9000 (backwards, I know lol)
Torch 9800
Torch 9850

-8830
-Curve 8520
-Curve 9300
-Bold 9900

850, 7250, 7130E, 8830WE, 9800 & PB

9800 > 9900 > 9900 > *BB10 qwerty

8330
8350i
8900
9000
9100
9500
9800
9810
9900
9790
9630
PlayBook!!!
.... whoa!

My brother bought be a silver Verizon BlackBerry Curve 8330 and said these words, "Once you go Black, you don't go back."

First Device: Curve 8330
- Storm 9530
- Storm2 9550
- Bold 9700
- 8830WE (Not a typo. This was my order)
- Tour 9630
- "Bold" (read Tour) 9650
- Bold 9930
- Torch 9860 (lasted one day then switched back to the Bold 9930. Couldn't give up my keyboard!)

I'm old school:

6210
7270
7100
8100 (Pearl)
8310 (Curve)
9530 (Storm)
9550 (Storm2)
9930 (Bold)

Ahhh the memories...
Keith

My first BB was the Curve 8900. I loved that phone. In fact, thats the phone my girlfriend uses, and it's still going strong. I've been using a Torch 9800 the last 2.3 years. I passed on the Blackberry 7 phones because I'm only recently eligible to upgrade to a new phone. I'm waiting patiently for BB10 for my next device! And I think instead of handing down my trusty 9800 to my Girlfriend, I may get a BB10 device for her as well!

My first BB was a Strawberry Curve 8330 (Pink Curve that my friends all made fun of me for, but that's okay), then Storm 9530, Storm2 9550, and currently a Torch 9810 backed by a Playbook w/OS 2.1.

Blackberry by choice!

Odin is my first, and I bought it exactly this month last year lol. I need to get a better income :p

9630
P'9981

Very short history, but that's because my 9630 was an iron horse!

7290
7100I Nextel
7130
Pearl 8100
Tourch 9800
Bold 9000
Bold 9700
Bold 9900

Mine aren't tremendously exciting, would have loved to be on board with those early devices:

9000;
9700:
9860;
9790;
9900;
PlayBook 32GB;
PlayBook 64GB.

9100 pearl 3g
9790 bold
playbook 32

i went a few years without a phone in protest to mainly rogers greed and my employers gave me work phones, so i didn't want/need a personal one... that is, until i got my first blackberry, the pearl 3g. LOVE this phone,... still do. So easy to type on that thing... but she needs some tlc..
not to popular around here though it seems.

7100, pearl 9810, Storm1-2, torch 9850, BB10

Started out with an 8100, then 9000. Now using a 9800 (personal) and 9900 (work). Oh, and have a Playbook of course.

http://forums.crackberry.com/general-discussion-f2/my-history-blackberry...

Fun thread...

love the bb history. I went 8330, iphone, Verizon Wireless XV6900, 8130, 8230, windows SGH-I900L OMNIA, droid 1, droid eris, 9530, palm pre plus, 9550, droid incredible, 9630, 9650, droid 3, 9810, samsung stratospher, iphone 4, razr maxx, galaxy nexus, droid pro, 9930. I currently use my 9930 with a playbook for everything i do. As you can tell, i love my phones. something else you can probably see is that i always come back to BB. There are many reasons for that ;)

Pearl 8100 > Bold 9700 > Bold 9900 + Playbook! >>>> BB10 N-Series!!!!

my timeline is as follows:

Curve 8310
Storm 9530
Storm 9550
Torch 9850
i am waiting not to patiently for BB10 since i am ready for an upgrade

Storm 2 9550
Hopefully a BB10 L-Series will fill this spot before too long :)

PlayBook 16GB if we're counting tablets too lol

My device history:

Curve 8320
Curve 8900
Bold 9700
Bold 9780
Bold 9900
Future > BB 10 Qwerty

Prior to BlackBerry was a Nokia man except for the Razr.

Hey all. My device history looks something like this:

Curve 8530
Bold 9900

Before that, I was using a variety of non-smart phones and feature phones.

My device history:

Pearl 8130
Storm2 9550
Bold 9930

Looking forward to picking up a BB London sometime after release :)

My timeline is as follows:
Motorola Razr
BlackBerry Torch 9810
BlackBerry 10, 11, 12... for as long as it lasts and I am alive.

Proudly a member of TeamBlackberry, and in it for the long haul.

My list may seem short but mind you I started in late 2010 ;)

Curve 8900
Bold 9700
Torch 9800
Bold 9930

Some of you guys really went through devices wow.. lol

My device history:
Curve 8320>Curve 8520>Curve 9300> Bold 9900

Looking to add an L-Series device to this list

8300 > 8320 > 8900 > 9000 > 9800 > 9810 (+32GB PB and 64GB PB)

9360
Playbook 16GB

L-Series London is definitely calling in 2013!

Short history but oh so sweet!

#BB4Life

When I first used a blackberry in 2008 it wasn't a personal choice but it was a recommendation from a friend so I just followed and after that I got hooked into it and sticked with blackberry until now. So here's my device history.

Bold 9000
Pearl flip phone
Storm
Storm 2
9700
9780
9800
9900
9900 (purchased another one)
Porsche Design P'9981

Playbook as my tablet

It's not much but I can see this list expands as time goes by. :)

7100T
8700
8100
8120
9700
9900
PlayBook
I Actually liked the SureType devices

Bold 9000
Another Bold 9000
Storm 2 unlocked for AT&T
Torch 9800 (bought on launch day)
Torch 9810 (bought on launch day)
Another Torch 9810
BB10 L-series (will be bought on launch day)

Bold 9700
Torch 9800
Torch 9850
Torch 9810 + Bold 9900

IN 2007 IT ALL STARTED FOR ME.
8130
8330
9630
9650
9700
9780
9900
PLAYBOOK
9360
NEXT UP BB10

8310
8520
9780
PlayBook

It's been a wild ride. Bring on BlackBerry 10!

7250 --> 8350 + Playbook and waiting impatiently for BB10

7290
8700G (T-mobile)
Storm 9530
Storm 9550
Torch 9850

It's funny to me how many of the writers tries a full touchscreen BB and never tried another. It appears they came to the same conclusion, that BB makes the best physical keyboards but the worst virtual keyboards.

Thank goodness BB10 has fixed all that. Curious to know which BB10 device each writer is expecting to purchase.

8830 WE -->8330 --> 9630-->9800-->9900 It's been fun need a new phone though!

LOL at kevins; "then every bb after that.."
I'm pearl 8100> curve 8310 > bold 9000>bold 9700> torch 9800> bold 9930 and PlayBook 64gb

Tour 9630
Bold 9930

Had a Storm 2 that I tried out for a few days as well.

PlayBook 16 GB

BlackBerry Curve 8520 > BlackBerry Curve 9300 & BlackBerry PlayBook 16GB > BlackBerry 10 the L-series in my hand one day ^^

Been a Berry holder since 09, but only on my 3rd one...

Pearl 8130
Curve 8530
Torch 9850

Being an Iphone user extensively since the launch of the Iphone 3G, I never knew about Blackberry until much later on. The keyboards have piqued my interest though, and the Bold 9780 without the camera was the first Blackberry phone I started using. I chose the non-Camera version because I needed a phone I could use in the army. Since then I have started getting almost every new release of Blackberry.

The list is:
Bold 9780 non-camera
Torch 9860
Curve 9320
Torch 9810
And now my daily driver is the Bold 9900

Started with the 8800, 8310, 9000, 9810, 9900, & 64gb blackberry playbook.

6210 (T-Mobile) + personal cell (Samsung SCH-A530)
7210 (T-Mobile) + personal cell
7130 (VZW)
8130 (VZW)
9650 (VZW)
I have a 9360 (AT&T) issued as part of my job now, but I couldn't use the 9650 for a personal phone any longer and dropped it for a Droid Razr Maxx HD. I'm off contract so who knows, but RIM has to earn back my trust with BB10 before I make it my daily driver again.

My list

Pearl 8100
Curve 8320
Curve 8900
Bold 9700
Bold 9930
Playbook 16 GB
Playbook 32 GB

L-Series!

My journey on the road of BlackBerry started with my trusty Curve 8330. The constant battery pulls and never ending hourglasses were annoying, but for some reason, those quirks only grew my love for my BB. Since then I have jumped from line to line with a Tour 9630, Style 9670, an assortment of Bolds, and after my last Bold took an unfortunate exit, a Curve 9350.

BlackBerry for life

Curve 8830
Bold 9650
Bold 9930

I'm surprised nobody in CrackBerry had the 9650, it was a great phone & would still be using it today holding out for BB10 but the microphone went out on it. I love my 9930 but the touch screen acts up when on rooftops where I'm at during work hours, not sure why but it's very annoying so I really miss a non-touch screen at those times. I started out late in the game with smartphones but BB was my first one and it will be my last.

CrackBerry Is My Choice Of Drug

And that's my lovely Bold 9700. Never had any chance to replace it with the newer models, but seeing as it can do what I want it to do (and I know what it can do), I'd say it was a solid choice, though by chance at that.

Can't wait for BlackBerry 10 devices, though.

Bold 9000
Torch 9800
Bold 9900
Playbook

I haven't been in the BB game for as long as others but as long as RIM keeps making them, I will keep on upgrading year after year.

Bold 9650
Bold 9930

I just started using BB in 2010 so I haven't had as many BB as others, but I will be upgrading every 12 - 18 months.

Curve 8530
Style 9670
Bold 9930

Cranberry Curve 8330
Cranberry Torch 9800
Bland Plain Silver Torch 9810

Plus a WiFi Playbook 64GB.

WANT A CRANBERRY 10 SLIDER NEXT YEAR! :) Red for the win!

I am still using my BlackBerry 7290 (same device as Kevin's 1st BlackBerry), it works like a champ, and is almost indestructible !

Might not have the order right, but...

RIM 900 Inter@ctive Pager
Rim 857
Blackberry 7230
Blakcberry 7100
7105
7290
8700
Pearl 8100
Curve 8300
Gold Curve 8320
Pearl 8130
Pearl 8120
8800
8820
Bold 9000
Storm 9530
Tour 9630
Storm2 9550
Bold 9700
Bold 9780
Bold 9900
Playbook

BlackBerry WE8830
BB Tour 9630
BB 9930

P.S. I want to know Ashley Esqueda's BB history.

WOW

my first BB was a 6230, then 7230, 8700 (and fast as possible switched to) 8300, then the BOLD, and then the second BOLD ;)

Can't believe almost all of the crackberry crew started after "me".

On the other hand, usually I keep my BBs 2+ Years ;)

[Non blackberry]
Samsung A540 (CDMA, telus, monochrome)
Samsung A720 (CDMA, telus, 64k color)
UT Starcom 6700 (CDMA, wifi, bluetooth, 64k Color, touch screen, windows mobile 5.0, lasted for five years, again on telus)

Then...
[BlackBerry]
Pearl 8130 (CDMA, telus)
Bold 9700 (3G HSPA/HSPA+, telus)
Bold 9900 (switched to WINDmobile) and 16GB playbook (upgradable to BB10)

Next up, blackberry 10.