It's been over 18 months since I first joined the Blackberry (BB) tribe. I'm now on my second device after recently upgrading from a Curve 8310 to an even better 8900 - superb devices.

 When I first got my BB I used it mainly for email (as you would, this is what the BB is famous for after all) but soon I discovered other great data apps; including Google Talk and many others.

 The major change though occurred when I started using Twitter a lot; both socially and as part of my web design/online marketing business to the point now that I primarily use my BB as my "twitter access point", my phone and (less so) as my email device.

 The other loser to me is RSS and Viigo etc - Twitter is now the easy feed for this information. Viigo need to really think about their future strategy.

 The BB after all is a data access device - as new apps and new ways of working with data come out, our usage patterns change as well.
 It would very interesting to see an analytics app for the BB to show our usage trends on mobile devices. I think this will increasingly show our interest in other data streams as we move away from email.

 It'll be interesting to see how my usage will change in the next year (eg is there a Google Wave app on the horizon?)

 Joel

 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device