Little Things Make Me Happy

Warning - This is probably of interest only to those who appreciate good design or gadgets.

It's true. Little things make me happy and especially when it is a seemingly little thing but one that makes a big difference to me, and one for which I would love to shake the hand of the person that thought it up.

On my old Blackberry, if a call came in while I was listening to my cell phone voicemail, the device would treat it like any other call waiting call and give me the option to ignore it, place the first call on hold and answer, or drop the first call and answer.

I got a new Blackberry Curve (8300) a few months ago and the other day while listening to my voicemail, another call came in. The device did not, however, treat it as a call waiting call, but rather as a regular call with no options for the first call. Since it was a call I wanted to take, I answered, assuming that it would just disconnect my voicemail session.

When finished with the call that had come in, I noticed that my voicemail call was still there in a suspended state. I resumed the call and the message I had been listening to started again from exactly where I had left off.

What this means is that someone at RIM got together with someone at AT&T and said, "Hey, how can we make this easier and more intuitive for the user?" Bravo!