Episode V: BB10 Strikes Back
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I drafted my mobile future nicely in March, but as it usually happens
in life, it turned out quite differently.
I indeed got a used yet good looking Palm Treo 680 and started to use
it with my personal SIM card, while my company number stayed in the
Xiaomi. I moved all my databases from Tungsten E, then I did the same
with my password storage and the device was ready to be my offline
phone. The Xperia Pro, I've got for free, was being prepared to be my
online phone with data plan and corporate number.
Then three things happened:
1. One day, after seing some security presentations, I decided
to improve significantly strength of all my passwords across my whole
computing existence. I didn't have that bad passwords, but still quite
naive, created with outdated information in mind. Now all my important
passwords are 24 characters long and randomly generated from anything
you can press on a standard English keyboard. Such passwords can't be
remembered and need to be stored in a password manager, which can sync
them across my devices (or at least the phone and work and home PC).
There's no such thing for PalmOS.
2. Mysterious weird things started to happen to the Treo. My private
SIM card was in the device exactly six weeks and during these six
weeks I received at least twenty calls from unknown foreign numbers.
Treo never went online, never sent any SMS I didn't know about, but
still the calls kept comming. It never happened before and never
happened again after I placed the card in a different phone.
3. I've got bunch of BB10 devices for free, one BB Leap and three BB
Classics. When I said in the first post to the topic that Palm OS was
the only mobile OS, I was ever satisfied with, I wasn't entirely
correct. I used BB Z10 for two years and _that_ was my best experience
with smartphone ever, period. Sadly the device had various hardware
issues and RIM/Blackberry was a company was driven by complete morons
back then, which culminated when they went to Android. I sold the Z10,
said some nasty things about the manufacturer and considered that
to be a finished episode. But the OS is just so good! And Classic is
such a good device!
So right now my primary phone is the BB Classic, with my corporate
number and my corporate data plan. Treo is turned off and will soon be
send to the original owner to examine that weird mysterious behavior.
And my personal number... well, that's to be concluded next time.
