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Crackberry Nation goes on the blink
There’s outrage in the blogosphere today after the collective CrackBerry Nation of 12 million users freaked out when their devices went on the fritz Monday afternoon.
Research in Motion, the company that makes BlackBerries, said the outage lasted only three hours from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. But people addicted to the BlackBerry’s connectivity are ready to blow a gasket when their service is zapped.
The last time a large-scale network failure happened was last April. Each time, people threaten to dump their handhelds. But more many it would be like giving up cigarettes. Here’s David Spade in total denial about his BlackBerry habit:
I liked the reaction on Redeyechicago.com which said: Hey my iPhone on the Edge Network was running just fine, a nice dig at the BlackBerry and a boost for the iPhone’s often disparaged data network.
There’s another answer out there. Can you say Treo?
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