Comments on: 87% of smartphone users sleep with their BlackBerry

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:57:28 +0000

I’m an elected public official and many of the crackberry addictions mentioned above were mine. After reading all of this, though, I’ve started to set my blackberry to “phone only” at night and may think of turning it off to automatically turn on in the morning (but I like to know that I can receive an emergency phone call). I’ve definitely stopped checking (OK, most of the time) if I get up at night.

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:42:53 +0000

Listen folks I’ve reached to the ponit that I don’t even leave my BB on the night stand anymore it’s in the bed with me,I don’t leave the room without it I travel about four to five times a year on business and my BB is the only companion I have it wakes me up and it plays music for me to fall asleep, it keeps me on time and does not argue when I’m not.so I am one of you and yes I am addicted to my BB.

By: Changos

Changos — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:42:53 +0000

I fall into this category, I wake up to my blackberry, check mail, read news; then go take a shower. I have my BB with me all the time, I use it for facebook, rss, web, work email, gmail for personal stuff, take pictures, show pictures, music. If it had more features I would probably use those as well, I am completely hooked on this. Right before I go to bed, I check it, set my wakeup alarm, hook it up to the charger, and off to sleep.

By: Vinod

Vinod — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:29:33 +0000

I couldn’t agree more ! I check my BB everytime I wake up at night. Infact I can’t decide whether I check my BB because of the fact that I wake up at night, or the other way round !!!
This becomes even more relevant since I am based in India and most of our partners are in the US.
I am happy (in a twisted way) to note that there are more people like me “sleeping” with their Blackberry !

By: Rubens

Rubens — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:41:56 +0000

Yeppers, I most definitely fall into this demographic. Describes my exact routine.

By: cnb

cnb — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:45:04 +0000

TinTin said it best, guess that’s why they call it a “crackberry”!

By: TinTin

TinTin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:36:07 +0000

This is soooooo me. I literally have my BB with me WHEREVER i go! I’m not kidding.

You name it – while eating breakfast, lunch, or dinner that I’m not occupied by something else, I go on my BB; while in the bathroom doing business or in the shower (of course, it can’t go in the shower stall); even while at home either going upstairs/downstairs/going to another room; and even to bed. In fact, I sleep with it on my bed. It doesn’t lay on the nightstand next to me, it lays on my bed next to my head.

I am on my BB every minute that I’m not doing anything else important. I check mail and go on the internet throughout the day. And if I’m having a hard time falling asleep, I go on my BB. None of that reading a book, or watching tv to help fall asleep. And when I wake up and don’t have to rush getting up, I go on my BB to do the same thing all over again.

We are inseparable! =)

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:00:21 +0000

I checked my blackberry at night, then I have weird dreams of events that may have happened in the next day. Very comfusing

By: Stewart

Stewart — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:53:01 +0000

Yep. I do FB last thing, and use the BB alarm to get me up.

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By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:48:52 +0000

Well, I don’t really have a choice, considering my BB is my alarm clock. I do switch it to “Phone Only” at night though. I learned my lesson after getting woken up at all times of night because of useless Facebook/MSN/Twitter/Flickr alerts.

By: terrill

terrill — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:48:04 +0000

Hey Blackberry World I am a barber in the East Bay Area of Northern California and a habitual RSS feed reader on my Blackberry. I sleep with, eat with, and just about anything else with my Blackberry Curve never to far from reach. Whenever I’m not with a client I find myself with head hunched over, fully englufed in my crackberry addiction.

By: addictedtoBB

addictedtoBB — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:26:59 +0000

This is me all the way! I think my boyfriend may leave me over it. But, I must have my BB with me at all times.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:12:57 +0000

I have it turn off around midnight, every night and it sits next to me on a table while I sleep, but my other phones sat there as well. And it turns on at six, and when I wake I check my emails. I also use it at the gym, at work, out and about, all over the place.

And I work as a sales assoc at The UPS Store, so I don’t have those jobs. Heck, I hid it in my bra at my bff’s wedding. When at home, it sometimes sit up on my chest, so I know its close.

By: Nan Palmero

Nan Palmero — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:46:22 +0000

I certainly fall into this demographic. In fact, I take my BlackBerry to church to use Twitterberry. We do twitter in church and it is projected on screen.