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[empirestatebuddy]

And, yet, Blackberry is actually increasing its US market share lead over the iPhone... significantly. Sounds like another article by another iFanBoy journalist. (sigh)

[dk3d]

The one advantage a non-physical keyboard allows is that it will never break or get crumbs stuck in it.
My one worry with the iphone, from a "when will this break" point of view, was that bottom center, "home" click button. When I first got my phone I saw that as it's only major weakness.
2 years later it's working fine however and my fears were not born out.
I own the 3GS now and use the old 2G/Edge iphone as a WiFi only device. Nice thing is that I can buy an app on one device, and use it on both since. I carry the old one around if I'm going to say Starbucks and want to listen to AOL radio and my old stations from New York. I keep the new one handy for the speedier 3G/Phone/Video/GPS.

[robotaholic]

you exaggerated so many things, and I didn't know Java was so outdated- which is what blackberries are programmed in -

let's go over some things
1. the iphone has a 600 megahertz processor, the blackberry bold has a 697 megahertz processor
BLACKBERRY WINS
2. the screen dpi on the bold is 217, the iphone 160
BLACKBERRY WINS
3. blackberry email servers are so advanced I literally registered for this site and in less than 2 seconds after hitting confirm I got my email on my blackberry- for a lot of people pop email is important
BLACKBERRY WINS
4. blackberries are completely compatible with windows computers- and 90 percent of all computers are windows NOT macs so iphone simply isn't very compatible with the majority of computers in existence-
BLACKBERRY WINS
5. picturemail - hmm, you completely omitted that iphones can't send picturemail- wow a lot of people use picturemail daily
BLACKBERRY WINS
6. it may be illegal in many states, but texting while driving is necessary for many of us, especially responding to email, text messages, messenger programs, etc..a physical keybaord with hotkeys is indespensible and superior to the iphone is so many ways- it really is the ultimate messaging device-
BLACKBERRY WINS
7. multitasking- wow, I CAN HAZ IT- on blackberry can't do it on iphone-basically
BLACKBERRY WINS
8. im not an iphone maczombie like you and many other iFanatics
BLACKBERRY WINS- AND YOU LOSE-
if I were managing pcworld, I'd fire you for writing such a biased piece of crap as this article-
fact is they both have stregnths and weaknesses and you're about as biased as possible- noone will take this 'piece' seriously

[donuts]

Oh please. Articles like this annoy me to no end. I had an iPhone 3G and now have a BB Curve 8900. While the 3G is very flashy, it is deeply, deeply frustrating to use compared to the blackberry. I am constantly touching the wrong item by default, generally performing an action such as sending an email is much more tedious (to send on the blackberry, I double click...to send on the iphone, I go hunting for the send button). Might I also throw in that I have been using my Curve a decent amount for 3 days now, and it has 30% of its battery left. The iPhone was lucky if it could last till I got home from work.
This whole article is pretty badly spun to make the iPhone look like the be all and end all of devices. I can tell you from experience it really isn't. Once you get over yourself for owning an iPhone like everyone else, it gets damn annoying to use.
Looks to me like someone owns some Apple stock. Either that, or has serious unresolved Steve Jobs fantasies.

[backpack]

One question would it not have been better to compare the Blackberry Storm to the iphone; since both are touchscreens?

[ThomasAndrewKing]

Great article. I really hope RIM and Apple address the issues you raise - this can only lead to a better end user experience.
Thomas King

[jagrmeister721]

The Apple touch keyboard alone makes at inferior device for people with serious work to do, or who to have to manage a team of people - coordinate meetings, approve decisions when away from the office. The routine of a journalist may not square with the responsibilities of real workers and managers to whom efficiency is essential.

[ToyotaTundra]

Guys you have to remember that anything said on this website about Apple or any of their iphony products, has to be taken with a grain of salt.

These people are so far up Steve's and Crapple's but, they can't write an unbiased article on them, no matter how untrue most of the crap they write is.

[feeya7]

HAHA! Oh man,robotaholic's comment might be the most ridiculous list of jibba jabba I've ever read. First, who cares about dots per inch if the screen is half the size. What a useless comment. Second, iPhones are completely compatible with PCs too, so that comment is useless. Third, its AT&T's fault that iPhones can't SMS, and this is soon to be a non-factor (iPhones have the capability), so, again, inaccurate comment. Fourth, thanks for the comment about the blackberry's superior ability to cause fatal motor vehicle accidents and its ability to aide in illegal moving violations, thats a real plus. Fifth, iPhone have multitasking now. Lastly, please provide real reasons why its "email is superior." Just as a note, I don't even like the iPhone and would never get one, but honestly, your comment was horribly inaccurate.

[donuts]

A biased article is one thing, but I really wish there weren't outright lies.
"the lack of autolock for the keyboard meant that I often had my address book or other function active when I took it out of my pocket"
BB has an auto-lock feature, it's called standby mode.
"[iphone copy and paste can handle] regions of Web pages"
So can blackberry. And it could long before the iphone could.
"I tried five times to download Gokivo Navigator -- BlackBerry App World's top-rated navigation app -- at half an hour a pop. It worked the sixth time, and 90 minutes later was installed and running"
I find that hard to believe. I just did the same thing and it took less than 2 minutes. Yes, 90 minutes later, it was still installed and running, but it was first installed and running 2 minutes later.

Bias is one thing, outright lies is another.

[Gedit]

Give me a break. The iPhone is a toy, plain and simple. Like every other fancy PDA it doesn't allocate memory to its primary purposes (phone and email) and leaves the user stuck in apps and navigation screens when the phone is ringing. I returned my iPhone. I need something that remembers why I bought it.

[attblows]

I will never switch from VzW's network to AT&T's crappy network. I think the iPhone is amazing but what's the point if you're coverage sucks?

[dunks]

You make ur self sound like a fool. "iPhone beats the pants off the Blackberry", I've used both devices extensively and frankly the iPhone is boring.

The only portion I would prefer the iPhone over the blackberry is the iPod functions - but I'm not listening to it all day so I'd prefer a iTouch for that.

Ur whole drama on the e-mail gets me thinking. You shld have your IT dept setup ur device. I didn't read further then that.

I've been using my Blackberry for years and still do. I'm giving up my iPhone which I've had for about 3 months - It's annoying to use in contrast to a Blackberry.
Message was edited by: smax013 - no personal attacks please

[niboned]

What is ridicuous is how BB charges an indecent amount for BES and user license fees just to get an email experience that is vastly inferior to the basically free Exchange integraton that the iPhone provides. That fact alone is enough to keep my company from using it and me from ever recommending it.

BTW: I've used and administrated both systems, so you can try to argue but you will lose.

[niboned]

@empirestatebuddy: Non-argument. The Wii also has the greatest console market share, does that mean it's better than the PS3 or XBOX?

[dunks]

Very funny, I've administrated both systems too. You do not need the BES in order to make your e-mails available on the Blackberry. Also, if ur using exchange that sucks for u man. Quite the winblows stuff and go with an opensource solution. I guess I don't have ur problem as I stopped using exchange, waste of money waste of time. But that's another suject.

This dude's comparison is on the devices and his review is completelly uneducated.

[cnm126]

Yes and the earth is flat. Lose your bias and read the article point by point as you would any other issue.


I am a not an owner/user of either device but I have a brain.
Message was edited by: smax013 - no personal attacks please

[cnm126]

Both have 480-by-320-pixel resolution and the iphone simply looks better. Pixels have fooled you like they have fooled camera ad LCD buyers.


Bold has a 2.6"landscape display, Apple 3.5.



Frankly, comparing screens is foolish, the Apple screen being one of it's undisputed higghpoints. BOLD loses

[slappy]

Great article. Yes the iPhone 3.0 and 3GS easily beats the BB. Just using them side by side shows how archaic the BB is. The only good thing BB has going for them is their entrenched strangle hold on IT departments on the corporate world. Which happily is slowly eroding as the iPhone gains, for better or worse, IT policies that typically stifles the product itself. RIM needs to hold those IT folks tight, its their only cash cow.