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Quick Poll: Trackball or trackwheel?
BlackBerrys used to have trackwheels.Yet the newer models- such as the BlackBerry 8830 in this pic- have trackballs.
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BlackBerrys used to have trackwheels.
Yet the newer models- such as the BlackBerry 8830 in this pic- have trackballs.
I remember the fuss when the conversion to trackballs took place. That goes back to last September, when the trackball-enabled BlackBerry Pearl was released.
User reactions ranged from enthusiasm to puzzlement, to negative invective.
More than seven months have passed, and my BlackBerry blogarithms have found a new neighborhood.
Hence this reader poll:
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