People are literally allergic to backberry phones.

[meppers]

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[QUOTE]BlackBerry has been having a rough go of it lately, slowly sliding into irrelevance as Android and iPhone corner the market. Now add one more nail to that coffin: a study says that people are allergic to BlackBerry phones. As in, an actual itch-inducing allergy. As in, to a phone.

The (strange, silly-sounding) study is being presented at the annual meeting of the [URL="http://www.acaai.org/Pages/default.aspx"]American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology[/URL]. Researchers looked at phones for two allergens, cobalt and nickel; about a third of BlackBerries had nickel, they found. The flip-phone models were worse: about 91 percent of those had nickel and 52 percent had cobalt. iPhones and Android phones, by comparison, didn't seem to have either allergen.

Researchers point out that this is a common allergy; about 17 percent of women and 3 percent of men get itching and swelling in their jaw line, ears, and cheeks when they come into contact with cobalt and nickel. But, come on, there's a lot of nickel out there, and it's not just in phones. These phones (especially the flip phones) have also been around for [I]a while[/I] now without causing a dry skin pandemic. There are so many other good reasons for people to switch to iPhone or Android![/QUOTE]

[URL]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/people-are-literally-allergic-blackberry-phones[/URL]

RIP blackberry

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[trotskygrad]

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[Ern]

Backberry

[Daniel Smith]

Apple must have put black berries in the Blackberry factories.

[ayejayjay]

Those people are lucky

[.Lain]

I love my little blackberry, tough little phone that gets the job done.
I have a tablet for when I want to use android or whatever.

[Naaz]

I'm allergic to nickel. I just love it when people ask "What are you allergic to?" and I get to answer "I'm allergic to nickels." Their facial expressions are priceless.

[Riller]

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This is the whitest thing I've ever seen.

[HumanAbyss]

I don't mind Blackberrys and I feel bad that they're doing bad in business but they're just not keeping up with the times with what their phones do and could do.

[Insistent]

Blackberry is old school

[Protocol7]

they're gonna be too late with their new phone and RIM's gonna have a hard time, especially with how turned off people are after the failure that is the BB Playbook