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I went to an iPhone4 after using BB for years, and trying the Anroid line for AT&T. If you've become used to the freedom, and level of customization that a BB gives you...you may hate the iPhone the way I do.
Keep in mind, I don't play any games but card games on my phone, so their app store has no real advantage over anybody else's to me. Everything I use is available on BB and Android market.
They tout the iPhone as a media phone, but it's almost a total fail as one. You had better get used to being bothered EVERY TIME YOU GET A MESSAGE. I know, I text a lot. I use over a thousand a week. Watching a video on Youtube? It gets paused for every message. Watching a video on your iPod? Listening to streaming radio? Playing a game? Trying to take a picture? Dialing a number on your phone? Every text that comes in stops what you're doing. If you're on the phone and you get 10 texts...you have to close each one to hang the phone up, or switch to a waiting call. So annoying. Not to mention when you are showing someone things on your phone, they see your buisiness. Apple told me I should turn the phone on airplane mode, so I miss an important call while playing around. One of the dumbest things to come out a lying company like them I've ever heard (they say a lot of dumb things lately)
The inability to set text message tones to each contact, the lack of a missed call light, the lack of options in picking an app that does the functions of their native apps but better, the signal is NOT better than previous versions either (we spent a week in Ohio, and my friend's 3G had 5 bars while my 4 searched for signal all week).
iTunes is also a slow running program that makes me convert files that I used to be able to drag and drop and be done with, faster than iTunes can load. It's slowed my PC's performance down. Having to make playlists, or transferring a whole artist's catalog instead of being able to just transfer single songs is annoying as well. The user file has also been repeatedly corrupted, and in over a month I've used 4 of my 5 licenses that I'm allowed. I'm not techically impaired either...I build PC's, I've rooted Droids, and done a lot of OS upgrades on BBs including adding COD files to builds of BBOS5.
People will call me a hater, and it's true. In the month I've had this phone, I've grown to hate it. This phone and it's proprietary software have fought my attempts to use it my way at every turn. It's frustrating and annoying. I have just as many app crashes (Apple doesn't tell you they crash, just return you to the home screen) as BB and Android. I'd love a Droid X, but I have too many lines to cancel to switch. The AT&T Android choices are limited compared to VZW's. I wanted to return my iPhone, but I already had one return and they said NO!
To each their own though. It is a pretty polished interface, the best out there even (not by much though). Everything behind the scenes ruins it for me though.
Heil Apple! I used to be free
07-29-10 12:51 PM
Good Luck!!