No, really. I’ve stopped and asked several people why are they taking pictures with their huge iPad’s instead of their camera phone and the answer has always been that they have a BalckBerry and they don’t have the picture apps that the iPhone and Android phones have. 

Rachel Crosby speaks about her BlackBerry phone the way someone might speak of an embarrassing relative.

“I want to take a bat to it,” Rachel Crosby, of Los Angeles, says of her creaky BlackBerry. “You can’t do anything with it.”

“I’m ashamed of it,” said Ms. Crosby, a Los Angeles sales representative who said she had stopped pulling out her BlackBerry at cocktail parties and conferences. In meetings, she says she hides her BlackBerry beneath her iPadfor fear clients will see it and judge her.