I want a BlackBerry!

A lot of people said I don’t need one, since it is intended for business purposes and since I’m not a taukeh.

Who says only taukehs can have a Blackberry?

I know BB doesn’t really belong to the category of “fashionable mobile phones” like iPhone, Samsung Instinct and what-not. But I don’t crave for such “fashionable” devices.

To me functionality is above anything else. I want something that allows me to check my emails, go on MSN, log onto FB, and sometimes capture photos whenever I see anything like this:

Among other functions, it also comes with one that you can find in any other GPS devices — built-in positioning system for geotagging, maps and other location-based applications!

My friend, who is a journalist, bought a Garmin GPS Navigator for over RM400 and, albeit much, much cheaper than a BB, has only a single function.

I know they are of different categories, but pay a little more and a BB can do so much more for you! Since I haven’t been back to my homeland for so long and have probably forgotten how to get to certain (new) places, BB can certainly show me the way loh.

But a BB is a tad too expensive. Need to save some money and maybe get myself one in a few months. DiGi has announced promotional packages for the BlackBerry phones but BlackBerry data plan, which comes with unlimited Internet access costs like freaking RM63 monthly!

Heard from my friend that we can choose not to subscribe to any data plan but have to pay a certain amount to unlock phone or something? Sorry I’m a HP-noob!

p/s: Came across some website offering bluetooth headsets, which disturbs me a little. I know a headset can bring about so much convenience to a person especially when he’s driving, but it just annoys the hell out of me that it will more likely cause fuzzy noise on the receiver’s side!

Not digging it unless I can find a good-quality one…

It seems that Google God is aggressively strengthening its media empire by grabbing the lead in the real-time search space. This is following Microsoft’s introduction of real-time search for its Bing search engine at the Web 2.0 Summit in October.

Live updates for Google are not only limited to tweets, which are embedded on results pages, as contrary to Bing that has its own dedicated real-time page.

Google recently inked partnerships with renowned social networking sites Facebook and MySpace to pull in data in real-time.

Other partners include FriendFeed, Jaiku, and Indenti.ca, and search will work on devices such as iPhones and Android.

Google also says that personalisation and localisation will be introduced to real-time search in the near future. Amazing!