Yes I'm married to iOS: But only for my Tablet

Me and the Blackberry have had a long term on-again off-again sort of thing.  My first Blackberry was one that looked like an old-school pager (model 900?).  For its time it was a magical device.  Then, I had one with black LCD screen in a format that looked more like the Curve.  My current Blackberry is the Bold 9000.

I'm currently using my iPhone 4 SIM in it (with a plastic adapter I bought on the i-net from Germany).  One thing I've decided about tablets is that if you have one, the app experience (whether iOS or Android) is so much better than what it is on the smaller phone screen. As a consequence, do I really want my phone to be a smaller mini-me version of my tablet?  I don't think so!

Rather, I think my phone should specialize in different tasks than my tablet, like texting, email, quick posts on Facebook or Twitter, and God forbid, an actual phone call!

To that end, my favorite specialized phone-calling, data entering device is.... the Blackberry.  With all respect to Steve Jobs,  a real keyboard is loads better than a touch screen facsimile of same. And, the Blackberry keyboard is the best! Full QWERTY, lots of keyboard shortcuts.  It's just the best.

The Blackberry Bold 9000, though a bit long in the tooth in so many other ways, has the best of the best of the Blackberry keyboards.

I know, the iPhone and Android have left RIM in the dark ages when it comes to things that phones can do, but if this Tablet thing catches on, my prediction is that people might (and I say might) rediscover the joy of the real freakin' keyboard on their phone and return to the Blackberry as a companion to their Android or iOS tablet.  I love gadgets of all stripes and I'm not faithful to any one phone platform (as my SIM switching ways will clearly show) but consider that we are leaving the world of convergence. We aren't trying to cram every last function into our smartphones because we have a tablet for that and because we are getting older and can't see all that tiny stuff on our tiny screens!

I'd welcome your thoughts on this subject.  That's my 2 cents.