Crackberry

Phone and handheld computer US$449 www.blackberry.com The corporate gold standard, once called "crackberries" in Silicon Valley because executives seemed addicted to them.

2005 March 1, Ron Seigneur (interviewee), Rick Telberg (author), Journal of Accountancy, American Institute of CPA's I just moved to a Treo 600 to replace my old cell phone and my Palm Pilot. Not quite a "Crackberry," but I just cannot stand those who have to check e-mail every five minutes.

2005 October 1, Waxer, Cindy, Chief Executive (U.S.), Chief Executive Publishing Today, over 50,000 organizations and 3 million subscribers count on BlackBerry, dubbed 'crackberry' for its addictiveness, to receive and deliver email messages on the spot.

[…]many people call theirs a CrackBerry. This thing is absolutely addictive! This unit can websurf, send/receive email,[…]

The Blackberry^([sic]) mobile office typifies this workstyle with[…]levels of stress generated in the individual such that productivity may be quantitative but not necessarily qualitative (the “Crackberry” syndrome).

[…]Roberts seemed driven to distraction by whatever was on the screen of his "CrackBerry"—which is what the infernal devices were nicknamed by their hopelessly addicted users.

It is a goal that[…]I have been obsessing over, and emailing myself on my crackberry so I don’t forget ideas, and one that I bother my friends with constantly.

My co-workers and especially my wife were repulsed by the “CrackBerry,” and my compulsive grasping at it, like Gollum with his ring.