Want our Blackberries? Tell us why!
Written on 21st November 2008
32 COMMENTS 
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
This Monday we retired our Blackberries and replaced them with our brand new iPhone 3Gs.
We have used the Blackberries extensively for work, travel, play, on our way to the office, in the office, during conferences, meetings and while swimming, during cooking and in our bathtubs. We dropped it, almost drowned it, overheated it and lost it while skiing and found it back again. We photographed the stars and ourselves and wrote many thousands of email and read even more.
Now it is time to say goodbye. We thought about ceremoniously burying them somewhere in the woods to give them the respect they deserve, but why not ask you? What do you think we should do with these trusted machines? Should we give them to you? Burn them? Recycle them? Keep them? Just forget about them? Tell us!
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By Ellemijn Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Nov 21, 2008
Why? Because I’m your sister, Boris!
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By Hans on Nov 21, 2008
Why? Wanting to test it already for a while now to see if its worth switching over…heard lots of good stories about it and want to experience it myself, plus I’m fed up with Windows Mobile ^_^
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By David Wieland on Nov 21, 2008
dump em both and settle for an Appleberry iStorm!
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By Hans on Nov 21, 2008
^^^
@jcvangent on twitter that is ;-)
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By David Wieland on Nov 21, 2008
also: because i’m a poor student and i’ll settle for anything better than my LG paperweight!
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By Gagga on Nov 21, 2008
Please give it to me: I need one to add Blackberry support to http://www.pushpax.com
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By Rob on Nov 21, 2008
I need a new phone. Mine is broken and i can’t get a new one yet. T-mobile brought Orange in The netherlands and both company’s have services to replace broken phones but not anymore if you are an orange client within the T-mobile network. I’m getting more and more disappointed in T-mobile.
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By Gijs van Zon on Nov 21, 2008
Why? Because I can give it to my boss. He finally got his Blackberry and it was delivered with a german keyboard. Which means de Z and the Y are switched.
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By Youri Kamps on Nov 21, 2008
Give one to me and one to another student (or your sister) who is, like me, strugeling with paying too much rent for a room that is too small and, college books that are too expensive and really wants a new cellphone.
Or just give it to me because it’s my birthday today :)
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By Marijn on Nov 21, 2008
I need this so i can watch porn in public.
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By Przemion on Nov 21, 2008
U can give it to me, why, because I’ll make sure to make a good use of it, and It’s a cool thing to do. Of course If I’ll not like it, I’ll make sure that someone else get it as a gift…
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By Szymon Malinowski on Nov 21, 2008
Why? Because i would like to rejoin with my berry family! (my lastname is raspberry -> http://tinyurl.com/597nt2)
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By Anna on Nov 21, 2008
cause i’m a nice person and i’m gonna take care of it :)
i need it!
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By Nicki Brøchner on Nov 21, 2008
Why should you give me a Blackberry? Well I live in Denmark, and Denmark being the big Nokia/Sony Ericsson country the blackberry would reinforce my personal brand as a International Web 2.0 citizen and that would be a big help for me =) … and then it is about time I retire my almost 2 years old Sony Ericson for something a little bit more web 2.0ish – So I hope you guy would help a Poor Student *lol* reinforce his personal brand ;D
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By maksym on Nov 21, 2008
i will call or SMS you from ukraine :)
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By Rubens Bianchi on Nov 21, 2008
Kindly send to address:
Love O.D. Studios
@ Rubens Bianchi
De Noord 4a
1452 PS ILPENDAM
Holland
I’m willing to pay shipping costs.
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By Neevo on Nov 21, 2008
Well, i didn’t had a real cellphone before. I shure can crank out with those. I live in The Netherlands if you wanna give them to me :P
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By Elf on Nov 21, 2008
Give me one. Why? Because last Saturday I was stupid enough to believe the hype and bought the piece of crap known as an iPhone.
I’m desperately trying to get rid of it, and I wonder what I should get myself now. A Blackberry will do just the trick, and help me get through this horrible ordeal of having used an iPhone.
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By koffiekitten on Nov 21, 2008
I just want them because I’m gready!
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By Elena on Nov 21, 2008
‘Cause I love testing!
And I never had a blackberry before.
And well, my phone is kinda dying itself but I can’t find “that perfect one” to replace it.
And it’s so cool to have your cellphones! “Next Web” phones, everybody will be jealous!! :D
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By diederik on Nov 21, 2008
trade it for my last liquorice
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By Aljo on Nov 21, 2008
Give one to my Boss, ’cause I learned him to send text-messages with T9 today ;-)
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By Jeroen van Wissen on Nov 21, 2008
Whoa!!.. give one to me ;-)
Why?…euh..just because.. It would look nice in my “complete useless things ever invented” collection, as the first item that ‘ll start the collection :D
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By Reinier Verhard on Nov 21, 2008
Finally looking cool in public places
people will stop starring at my shoelaces
and I’ll spend too much time in virtual spaces
:)
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By verKoopwinkel on Nov 21, 2008
Hi Boris,
Give them to me, founder Marktplaats.nl Handelspost verKoopwinkel. Why , because we’ll sell them for you and give you 100% of the selling price. We sell better and fast than an online pureplay because we also have offline stores. We’ll waive our standard fee of 25%. That’s the best ROI of any of the above suggestions.
Call 06-295 47 689 and I’ll even come and pick them up. ( At the Vijzelstraat ? )
Kind regards,
Ansgar-John
Founder verKoopwinkel
Over 75 000 articles sold.
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By Sarah on Nov 22, 2008
You might consider giving it to me.
Why?
My boyfriend keeps on stealing my iPhone. I think he needs a new toy (and his birthday is soon).
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By Riz on Nov 23, 2008
I want to pay money for black berry internet and it needs a blackberry to do that
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By Arne Hulstein on Nov 24, 2008
@Boris, I’d love to have to pitch it against the other phones I have been using lately including the ones I used for my web 2.0 expo trip. And of course, I am going to pass on the gesture. If I’m done with it, I will give it away through either my blog or twitter. Pass-the-phone kind of thing.
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By Tobias Martens on Nov 25, 2008
Well, I wouldn´t mind getting one. My beloved e61 is slowly dying – I am even taking my charger out to Bars/Cafés and ask them to borrow me some juice for the battery. The display is scratched and randomly switching off….and everything now, while I found my first non-profit-ngo-alike-web2.0-startup…good reasons? cheers from cairo, tobi (p.s. i love used phones, u just don´t worry about the one or other scratch with the totally natural “rough street life” around here)
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By buxx on Nov 25, 2008
Of course i want it, because of the following reasons:
- I never had an Blackberry
- I also want so be real online by mail all the time, instead of on my K800i phone, with just an keypad
- I neeeeeed it sooooo bad
- I wear also whith suits, uch, no not realy, i never wear anything white, damn
- I cannot buy an iPhone with account
- I do not want to buy an iPhone with account
- I like the sound of the word black-berry, it sounds like some kind of superhero from an comic
- I live in Holland, so the sending fee will be low
- I like the concept of this deal, it does make the people leave an comment
- I can write al kinds of reasons starting with the letter i
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By Jake Hierson on Feb 19, 2009
I usually don
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By Tori G on Mar 5, 2009
why should you give the blackberry to me?
well, to be completely honest, i am grounded and cell phone-less. in other words i am to the point where i want to skewer my eye balls out. in order to get back my blackberry back i have currently, i need to replace the one my mom has hidden in her drawer, so when she goes to look where it is, she still thinks she has mine!
just help a girl out who is trapped in her house without her cell phone.
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