I just got back from a 3-hour road trip with a buddy. He has an Iphone and I have a Blackberry Curve (on Verizon.) We were comparing features and speed the whole time. When it comes to “essential” apps they are very similar. Iphone has a lot more non-essential apps available.
For business use, the Blackberry is still better, but overall, the Iphone is cooler.
A few people at my job have gotten the Storm and most don’t like it. The click screen doesn’t feel natural (although it may just be a learning curve.)
For media use and fun, the Iphone is probably better.
Two points for Blackberry: replaceable battery and MicroSD card slot for expansion (currently up to 32GB I believe.)
When the guy at the Apple store handed me my new iPhone, I asked how to enter a contact. He showed me that, and I was off and running. I haven’t even opened the users manual. It’s so friggin user friendly. My boyfriend calls it the BatPhone because there isn’t much it can’t do. What was the score of that game? Checks Sports Tap How do I get from here to there? Checks Google Maps Where is there? Opens Safari to get an address When is our next hockey game? Checks Calendar Need to remember something? Opens Notes Going to workout? Opens iPod What’s the latest stock prices? Checks Stocks Is it going to rain tomorrow? Checks Weather Most of the apps I have were free, too.
It also has a camera, photo storage, email, alarm functions, a calculator, and oh yeah, a phone! I have my grocery list, my Christmas list, TV schedule, Facebook, gas price checker, period tracker, You Tube, radio stations, recipes, birthday reminders, To Do lists, and games. I can also make it sound like a lightsaber when I wave it around.
Hands down the coolest thing I have ever owned, and one of the most useful. It like when I discovered DVR that I wondered how I had lived without it. This is the same. I haven’t played with the Blackberry Storm, so I can’t give you advice on it, but I can highly recommend the iPhone.
The new Blackberry Storm has a keyless display similar to the iPhone.
It’s also available for Verizon which is the big (only) selling point for me.
Most people seem to like the iPhone. The biggest complaints about the Storm are:
-sluggish
-no trackball for cycling through menu items like a traditional Blackberry
-click screen is awkward
I never used a Blackberry, but I’ve had an iPhone since day 1. I love it.
However, it’s not perfect. If you need to be typing A LOT, it’s not the best device (although, no pocket device is). It’s not really designed for one-hand use. There are a couple of features which need to be added (like voice dialing). Still, it’s awesome.
Another thing that I love is visual voice mail. Instead of calling voice mail and having the sequentially go through all of the messages, I just look at the list and tap on the one that I want to hear. I can save an old one indefinitely without having to listen to it to get to newer ones.
If I am surfing the web and get to a company’s web site and see the phone number on the contact page, it will look like a hyperlink. I just tap on and my web browser turns into a phone and it automatically calls the number. Tap an email address and it goes to my email account.
Bah, I have to wait until monday to order it. My office has a discount through Att wireless for the service but I have to get the link from my work email (forgot to forward it home!)
I’m ready for an Iphone now damnit. Y’all made it sound too good.
If you really want to go crazy, go down to the AT&T or Apple store and play around with one of the demo models. They’ll have to pry you away from it.
I wandered in to an AT&T store the second day after the 3G iPhone came out. It was late in the afternoon and they were out of them but I was just in to look anyway. I picked up one of the demos and eventually realized that over an hour had passed. I was in line the next morning an hour before the store opened to get mine.
They’re both very nice pieces of technology that do the same things, really. I have no need for an iPod and I’ve played with an iPhone. I have a BlackBerry Curve and I adore it.
Do not get an iPhone if you require a fully functional e-mail client. There is no urgency ringer, you can’t set the urgency on outgoing messages, you can’t sort by sender or sent-to or sent date. If you have subfolders under your in box, they won’t sync up with the server until you manually open each on to see if it has new mail. Only the top level in box gets mail pushed to it. It is not acceptable in a corporate environment, e-mail wise.
Even though I still have one and like it, I have taken several hits because of missed high priority messages. So much so that I now have to pick the damn thing up every 10-15 minutes and check to see if anything I’ve received is urgent.
I’m hoping that this will be acknowledged and fixed in a future software upgrade but I’m not holing my breath. I know that Jobs doesn’t want the iPhone to be an e-mail device but this is ridiculous.
E-mail aside, everything else is great about the iPhone.
I’ve heard that blackberry can not receive e-mail while you are on a call. I don’t know if that has been addressed in newer devices.
It really depends on how many songs/movies, etc you want to carry. I have the 16gig model and this is honestly my one major wish…that it be higher capacity (yes, I would like cut and paste, mms and real turn-by-turn gps as well). It has the potential to truly be an all in one device, but for the storage capacity. I have, love and will not give up my 160 gig iPod Classic just because it is all my music, audiobooks, portable movies, and podcasts at all times. I don’t have to dick around with playlists, or figuring out what to sync/leave behind. If the iPhone were like this, i’d be in gadget geek heaven.
