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My podgy thumbs will never be iPhone-compatible

Which is why I’ve been hoarding BlackBerrys (I reckon 25 will see me to the grave)

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

You can’t always get what you want. And you can never get what you want if you want a phone with buttons. I’ve been nursing along an old BlackBerry. Well, I’ve been nursing a drawer full of old BlackBerrys. I began stockpiling them when the company started to nosedive and I realised I would soon be at the mercy of a touchscreen, trying to make my thumbs iPhone compatible.

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