blackberry or iphone?

jmkelly said:
If you want to access email (other than webmail) easily, go Blackberry.
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I have 5 IMAP mail accounts set up on my iPhone besides the usual Gmail etc...

I don’t know what your issue is but it’s extremely easy to set up.
 
I have used both (iPhone, Blackberry Bold 9700 and back to iPhone) and am a current iPhone user.

I liked how well the BB handled messages of all types, placing them in one program in the order received.

Typing speed was about equal for me. Both get much faster with use.

The big advantage of the iPhone is its intuitiveness. My friend used my iPhone and said accurately, "The amazing thing is that I just used this phone and never had to ask how." That is why I am using it now (but sans data-plan).
 
iPhone.
An average phone, but the internet browsing, apps, interface and fun factor make it the best smart phone on the market. It is soooo easy and intuitive to use, especially for someone that already owns a mac.
I would try to wait for the new version, get that or wait for the 3gs price to drop... however I would not be one to wait.
 
i can get a basic 3gs phone, 'refreshed' for 29 bucks online from my current phone company - telus.
and then there is the 16 gig and 32 gig phones for 249 and 349 (iirc).
 
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Keith said:
From someone who threw his mobile phone away many years ago and now refuses to have one at all ... this a tricky question! :p

It stiil fascinates me when I'm giving some doctor's receptionist or similar my details and they ask for my mobile number ... their look of disbelief when I tell them I don't have one is priceless.

I think they're the work of the devil ... along with digital imaging! :D
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A luxury answer these days, seriously speaking!

Writer Umberto Eco once said only two different citizens really needed a cell phone: cardiovascular surgeons and cheating husbands/wives...

I have never tried any of them (blackberry or iphone), but I have a cell phone... I use it for calls only, so what guides me is the size: I use the smallest cell phone available every time I get one.

Cheers,

Juan
 
Keith said:
From someone who threw his mobile phone away many years ago and now refuses to have one at all ... this a tricky question! :p

It stiil fascinates me when I'm giving some doctor's receptionist or similar my details and they ask for my mobile number ... their look of disbelief when I tell them I don't have one is priceless.
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I'm with you, Keith. I don't need to carry a phone around with me, so I don't. Sometimes I sit at an intersection and count how many other drivers have a phone glued to their ears. Besides the risk involved, I wonder what it is that they're talking about. Does the need to chatter rise in proportion to the availability of a thing to chatter into?

I don't mean to paint my self as a fuddy-duddy, 'cause I'm not. I just go days without using a phone, and really don't like carrying stuff around with me.
 
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wgerrard said:
I'm with you, Keith. I don't need to carry a phone around with me, so I don't. Sometimes I sit at an intersection and count how many other drivers have a phone glued to their ears. Besides the risk involved, I wonder what it is that they're talking about. Does the need to chatter rise in proportion to the availability of a thing to chatter into?

I don't mean to paint my self as a fuddy-duddy, 'cause I'm not. I just go days without using a phone, and really don't like carrying stuff around with me.
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I feel exactly the same way! How important are those on the run/drive conversations anyway?
I have the "free" phone that comes with a 2 year contract and the cheapest plan available. I can't stomach the idea of spending hundreds a year on contracts for a family's worth of "smart" phones.
 
aside from work, i can go weeks without using my phone (as a phone), but i do love getting emails on it.
i don't even have a land line.
 
iPhone is great for web, but not so good for email.
Blackberry is great for email, but pretty weak on the web.

If you can type on a touchscreen, then iPhone might be for you, if you can't then it's a Blackberry all the way.

Android has pretty much the same web system as iPhone, so apart from multitouch, the web experience is very similar. You can get Android phones with keyboards if that's important to you, but I'm not familiar with it's email system.
 
thegman said:
iPhone is great for web, but not so good for email.
Blackberry is great for email, but pretty weak on the web.
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If you mean iPhones don't do coproate IT things like work well with Exchange and offer remote wipe, well yes, that was true, but no longer. Besides, I don't think back alley is asking about using his phone in a corporate groupware/Exchange environment anyhow. He's probably using gmail or something similar.

thegman said:
Android has pretty much the same web system as iPhone, so apart from multitouch, the web experience is very similar. You can get Android phones with keyboards if that's important to you, but I'm not familiar with it's email system.
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Everything I've read about Android devices seems to indicate that they lack the polish and finish compared to Blackberry and iPhone counterparts. (And I say this as a guy who ran Linux on the desktop before this Ubuntu craze.)

back alley said:
how is the iphone not so good for emails?
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I don't know. I prefer my iPhone to the physical keyboards of the blackberries that the attorneys have here at work. Many attorneys have asked when their contract is up to be upgraded to the new Blackberry with the on screen keyboard. One even said "hey, when I'm due for a new one, can I get the new Blackberry that's more like the iPhone?"
 
I remember the days when Apple and Blackberry were pie ingredients.

You are all missing one key point. All your shiny toys are paperweights when they have run out of power. I use a Nokia E71 for exactly that reason. I am a heavy business user - email, web and voice, plus GPS, calendar sync, etc and the Nokia can't be beaten. I charge it every couple of days, not every couple of hours...

Regards,

Bill
 
BillP said:
I remember the days when Apple and Blackberry were pie ingredients.

You are all missing one key point. All your shiny toys are paperweights when they have run out of power. I use a Nokia E71 for exactly that reason. I am a heavy business user - email, web and voice, plus GPS, calendar sync, etc and the Nokia can't be beaten. I charge it every couple of days, not every couple of hours...

Regards,

Bill
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I agree, it would be nice if I didn't have to charge my iPhone twice a day. It forced me to purchase a dock/speaker for my desk at work, which is nice because now I've got some tunes, but on weekends it gets rough some times. I don't want to bother with a car charger since I'm usually in my car for 10 minutes at a time.
 
rxmd said:
The app store is nice, well if you want 250 different fart button apps. Overall I have the impression that app quality has been on the decline.
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This kills me. And I know Apple leeps strict control over the approval process, but I cannot stand the amount of useless garbage in there because the iPhone is the next big thing. I've got a few applications that I love:

1) Credit Card Application (I can charge clients using my Authorize.net merchant account right on my iPhone, they can even sign it, great!)
2) iBank Application (this is like Quicken for Mac, and they have an iPhone app that syncs, letting me know what's going on with my money at a glance)
3) Billings (time management and invoicing, great for freelances who may be doing work, but not necessarily at the computer, this syncs back to my desktop, too)
4) 1Password (I manage 400 something passwords, all unique, this makes sure I've got them all on my person in case I'm using a computer that isn't mine)

And then there's the neat games that cost $1 or $2, I think I've spent maybe $20 on games since I got the original iPhone shortly after launch. And the weather. And some other neat utilities.

Next I want to develop an application that people can use to record shutter speed, aperture, date/time and GPS coords when shooting film. I'd like for it to sync back to the computer and write itself to the EXIF of scanned images.
 
back alley said:
how is the iphone not so good for emails?
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I have no idea. I use mine for corporate (works great with MS Outlook) and I have my Yahoo account on it as well. Both work flawlessly and I have been some much more on top of my emails since getting one.
It is one of the stonger features in my opinion.
 
sometimes I think it's me that isn’t hearing stuff properly, but no I really do believe there is a new proto-language in the making out there … and I simply can’t conceive of the circumstances where I would wish to e-authorise my android to wipe my corporate environment, quickly or otherwise …

however Bill is correct in one respect, it is shinny :)
 
back alley said:
how is the iphone not so good for emails?
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I guess he doesn't like typing on a touchscreen.

(Nor do I, in fact. If the iPhone's Bluetooth wasn't gelded the way it is I'd get myself a small thumb keyboard.)

It's a matter of taste I guess.
 
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