I consolidated. 100% Blackberry. Amazing.

I care how I look and I care how things I use and own look. I even have a particular aesthetic. And I’ve always thought of myself as stylish. But I’ve given up the iPhone.

I was an early adopter. I loved having one and I certainly thought having one made a touch cooler. It certainly screamed ‘technology sophisticate’. But I’ve given it up and I couldn’t be happier.

Sure I miss Genius and I miss zipping through thousands of pictures. I even miss some of the cooler apps. But I’m a super heavy emailer and a super heavy texter and I hated both of those functions on the iPhone.

I always hated the touch screen keyboard. Typing never became easy, even though EVERTYONE said I was going to get use to it. I started feeling bad about myself because I never got the hang of the keyboard. But I’m done with it. I’ve given it up and I never felt freer. Technology is supposed to liberate and I never felt liberated by the iPhone. I felt trapped.

I used a Blackberry for work email and I used my iPhone as a phone and to get my personal email. On the weekends, when I didn’t have the pockets for two devices, I also used the iPhone for work email. Another complaint I had was the iPhone couldn’t accommodate my contacts, which number 3,500+, so I was always copying the most frequently used numbers by hand. Technology was becoming very complicated and cumbersome.

Finally I decided I needed one device. I wanted one device to email, text and make calls. I cared far less about music and photos. I bought a Blackberry Bold 9700 and I couldn’t be happier. I was even surprised (and delighted) when I figured out I could drag pictures and songs from iTunes directly into the Bold’s media player. I’m even satisfied with Blackberry’s apps. While the iPhone’s versions are sexier, I’m perfectly content with Blackberry’s Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, New York Times, and Weather Channel, which are the ones I use most often.

Technology is supposed to be easy. The iPhone wasn’t for me. I bought into the Apple aesthetic and cool quotient. But at the end of the day form wins over style. Lesson learned.