Infomercial: New phone follow up

Got my replacement Blackberry 8330 Curve today. I was excited... until I opened the box. I was hoping they'd give me the pink one again, but alas, I got a boring refurbished gray one. Well, ok, that's not too bad. It looks new enough so I went to go turn that baby on. And then it didn't do anything. Apparently, refurbs don't come with battery packs either.

Well... So I get my old battery pack and put it in the new BB. So far so good. I don't do anything to the new one because the plan is to take it to the Verizon store so they can transfer the data for me. At least it's got the new OS on it. I couldn't even upgrade my old BB to the new OS, it kept failing.

Romeo and I get to the Verizon store and the employee proceeds to transfer the data over. I get both phones back and I look at the new one - it's got the contacts so I think ok cool, everything went through ok.

Then I get home and notice my emails didn't transfer over... and then I can't find the app that allows me to add/change email addresses. Dude. It's just not looking good. I find the Email Setup in the Setup Wizard... and lo and behold, the only options are:

 

1) Connect to a Blackberry Enterprise Server email address (for businesses) or 

2) Skip this step.

WHAT. THE. HELL.  

(Actually, hell wasn't quite the word I had in mind, but I thought I'd keep it friendly).

I go back to Verizon and the guy who attempts to help me doesn't know squat about BB's but his coworker finally helps and explains it to him super fast in Spanish and sets it up so that I have my Email Setup app now. It still remembers my email addresses at the least. Not a bad sign. So I go play with the Motorola Droid for a few minutes (not too shabby actually) and then head home.

So the fun part begins, I get to start installing the apps that didn't transfer over. You know, the all important AOL Instant Messenger, Facebook, Twitter...  I start with AIM and after it downloads and is in the process of installing, my BB reboots itself. Magically. For no apparent reason. Oookay. It reboots and then I go to install AIM again and it works this time.  I get through UberTwitter just fine and think, ok that reboot was a fluke. Right?

Then I realize the BB Messenger that is preinstalled is the older version, so I go into the App World to download the newest version (you know, with those fancy Group Barcodes), and lo and behold, after it downloads and is in the process of THINKING for a good 2 minutes about installing, IT REBOOTS ITSELF AGAIN.

And here I am ... waiting for this stupid install as I blog/rant about it.

BlackBerry 8330 Curve:

Seriously, new OS or not, NOT impressed.