The Blackberry 8330, nicknamed Niagra, was originally scheduled to be released tomorrow, May 9th. So Verizon customers can rejoice as it has been made available a day or 2 before :]

Here are some specs:
- 2 megapixel camera with video capture
- microSD card slot
- Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP stereo
- MP3 player
- Ability to watch VCAST TV.

The current price is set to $269.99. This is after signing a 2-year contract w/ Verizon and a mail-in rebate.

I bought my Blackberry Pearl about 2 years ago, right after my old Tmobile Samsung ‘died’ on me. Funny thing is, 2 days after I bought the pearl, it turns out the contacts for the battery were dirty so the phone wouldn’t start up. I cleaned it up and… what do you know! It worked!

But like many of us Crackberry Addicts, it took just 2 days to get me hooked. There was no way I could go from instant email access (and Gmail access!), checking the weather, looking up the current price of oil and gold, and the beloved roller ball, back to my Samsung which looked like it used to be cool… in the late 90’s.

I have come to the realization that I love my Blackberry and will probably never own any other type of phone ever again (especially if RIM decides to produce some touch screen units…)

So what say you? Do you LOVE or HATE your Blackberry?