Blackberry Vs iPhone

[kwarrior]

The other day, a colleague showed off his new iPhone ...while I was telling him about my new Blackberry...

Now I (and my colleague) are in Australia, where the iPhone has not officially been launched....there have been a few handsets brought into this country from the US....and some clever blokes have unlocked it....

Now I was quite impressed by the iPhone.....but my Blackberry is not bad either....

Any opinions ...thoughts...

I know I will get a few BB biased responses in this forum....but, hey, why not!!!

[deggyfresh]

i said it once and ill say it again....

iphone = overrated

id rather have my BB

[BerryWhite]

My 2 main problems with the iphone are 1.) no push email 2.) touchscreen. The latter i am afraid we will all have to get used to as I can see all phones being touch in the not so distant future. Apple recently announced they will be allowing 3rd party apps and I really like their internet browser... but for me... BB hands down.

[avanden]

My BF offered to get me an iPhone as an early Xmas present as my current phone is giving me grief. I told him I want a Blackberry instead as the iPhone doesn't do everything I want it to do. Now that the 8310 is finally out, I'm just waiting until he says we can go phone shopping.... and hoping my current phone holds out until then.

[joshtpa]

Check out my rant about using my IPhone for the 1st 3 months they were released. I came right back to the berry.

[ualman]

Both are very cool and both have their pros and cons.
I love my gadgets so I want to have both,lol!
Typing on the bb is definitely easier for me.
And the iphone doesn't have the coolest site with the coolest people as the bb with Crackberry and its members;-)

[joshtpa]

Like I said before. I had the Iphone, and other than the IPOD DEVICE itself, it was lacking in every other category. But the media player (ipod) was outstanding.

Originally Posted by joshtpa

Check out my rant about using my IPhone for the 1st 3 months they were released. I came right back to the berry.

Would be very interested in reading your comments. Can you post a link to your "rant?" Lol, thanks.

[SoCalBBr]

I deal with and work with people who use the iPhone everyday. Everyone seems so pretentious(sp). I'm an Apple fanboy and was so excited about the new creation but within days I was....meh..
I recently switched to BB from the Treo and feel like I got the better device over both the Apple and the Treo.

[joshtpa]

Here is my rant on the Iphone
http://forums.crackberry.com/f2/help...y-iphone-5383/

[EtherealLover]

Yeah the iPhone is way overrated! My mother has one and lemme tell ya I like my buttons for quick text input. If you have a heavy hand or fat fingers, the iPhone will make you want to throw it!
I prefer my iPod and my phone separate.
My mother likes the feature of being able to quickly maximize her display. That is about the only cool feature but BB has it too just not in the touch form.
Anyways the BB capabilities are far better to me. I love gadgets and the iPhone soon lost its wow after I had it in my hands for about 20 minutes.

I did however put some music on there for her as well as her audiobooks for her job. It works for her and the GPS was also a need for her. I am tryin to get her on the BB circuit though. Next year maybe since the BB Curve 8310 has GPS (she drives around a lot!) she'll consider it.

[joshtpa]

It has some very good features. The Voice Mail system is amazing.

[stemkroywen]

So I test drove my buddy's iPhone, side by side w my Curve. WOW, it's a slow pain to do simple tasks. And on top of that, I'm using my MP3 player more and more and becoming very satisfied w the quality. And just yesterday, another friend is dumping his Treo for a BB. I definitely agree w everybody's post about the BB emailing, non-screen typing, web browsing, etc. It's head and shoulders better than Apple.

BB, keep up the great job and I'll work on converting my friends to "BB Team".

[joshtpa]

What did you find slow about the IPhone? I find it as fast as anything else out there. In my rant, I definately said that it lacks many things such as a good email system. But it is not slow at all.

[stemkroywen]

Let me clarify. From each phone's home screen to create email to select person to typing to sending, I sent 1 email and 1 SMS 40 seconds faster than my buddy did on his iPhone. I just mean navigation was slow. And I even played w his junk for 20 mins, getting used to it.