Lina Caputo, a part-time teacher from Waterloo, said her husband, who runs a networking company that is not connected to RIM, gave her a second-hand BlackBerry a year ago so they could better manage their two sons' schedules.
"It was a nightmare with the four of us," Caputo said, ticking off a list of her sons' after-school activities, including soccer, hockey and swim practices. "My sons have about 10 hours of sports. It got to be too much. It was confusing."
Caputo said she and her husband regularly sync their calendars. She uses the phone to send e-mail to her husband when she gets home safely from a snowy trip, and to keep in touch with close friends who regularly gather at a local coffee shop. When six of them went to Las Vegas for a "girls' weekend" in February, five of them brought their BlackBerrys so they could keep track of one another and their children back home.
Caputo is no longer using her husband's hand-me-downs. On Mother's Day he bought her a new BlackBerry Pearl, one of the company's best-selling phones. "I don't equate it to getting a vacuum or a blender," she said, when asked if she would have rather received flowers or chocolate. "Besides, my girlfriend got a red one for Valentine's Day."
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