I found the following email in my inbox this morning and though that I would share…
I tried my best to love the iPhone. I stood in line for it for three hours to back in June of last year to get one on the first day. Although 8 gigs wasn’t nearly enough to hold all of my movies the display made having to sync every day worth it. To this day I say that the iPhone is the best music playing, movie watching, web browsing mobile phone ever invented.
The problem for me was that even though my company now supports the iPhone and I can get my work email on it, it is simply painful to type anything more than the shortest of responses. I found that I was pulling my laptop out more than I ever did with my BlackBerry.
I actually started carrying my BlackBerry 8700 again and using it just to send and receive email and what I noticed was that I soon started telling everyone to send text messages to my old number. Giving people one number to call you on and another to text you on is just confusing so I started just giving out my old number.
My iPhone hasn’t rung in almost 2 weeks. I’ve decided to give my iPhone to son and get an iPod Touch and the BlackBerry Bold when it comes out.
I think that I am the same boat as a lot of iPhone owners that used to be BlackBerry owners. The iPhone is the coolest device ever, but, the BlackBerry is the perfect device for sending emails and texting. The iPhone simply doesn’t compete with the BlackBerry on this front.
If I didn’t need to send large amounts of email from my device, I would probably be sticking with the iPhone because it is such a cool device, however, when it comes to work, the iPhone simply doesn’t compare to the BlackBerry.
This comes from an admitted Apple Fanboy that will argue with you to the death about why the Mac as far superior to the PC. I would love to say the same thing about the iPhone, but, at the end of the day the iPhone is just a cool phone and the BlackBerry is… The BlackBerry is the BlackBerry.
I say it daily – the iPhone is for people who don’t need to do any work on their mobile device – except talk.
Typing is speed is 20% of the Blackberry at best.
Just wondering, were you ever able to find a reliable syncing solution for the Mac? ‘Cause I sure wasn’t…
I just put my iphone on ebay cause I accidentally left my bb at home and had to rely on the iphone for a day. I will do my damnest not to make that mistake again. checking messages every 15 minutes is a joke on the iphone.
Sounds like newbs who don’t understand the power of the iPhone.
I didn’t write this post but I could have. I am in almost the exact same situation.
I loved my iPhone as a phone and iPod but it just wasn’t practical to send a ton of email on.
If only Apple enabled landscape typing mode in applications other than safari…
I’d crap my pants if that was from hellno, but I know it wasn’t because this person has a child and is grammatically better.
I actually got another phone for personal use…a regular phone. Thought about the iPhone, but just can’t do the GSM technology here after all the crap I’ve gone through with AT&T’s dropped calls and TMO’s lack of coverage. Gave Sprint a shot since they do cover some areas VZW doesn’t (Sprint actually tied VZW in a survey for the Southwest for first place) and actually isn’t too bad. The customer service has actually picked up a bit. They tossed me a free battery since my phone is a battery hog. Reception is solid, even clearer than my VZW…but I’ll chalk that up to the phone more so than the actual network.
The BB is the ultimate tool for messaging and communication. Almost too good to the point of bad. My VZW BB rests on the weekends now. And so do I.
I totally agree. I love my iphone, and I type pretty fast on it (maybe a little bit slower than on the blackberry). However, iphone just drives me crazy sometimes during emergency times, i.e, if I had to send a text message or email really fast. I still own an iphone and a blackberry, but I hardly use the iphone now because blackberry just works better for me. After all, it is a blackberry. lol
The conference call held by RIM followed a mixed but ultimately disappointing summer quarter report from the company, which saw earnings spike but phone shipments fall slightly short of targets set out by investment research groups. The quarter was the first in which RIM had to compete against the iPhone 3G but only saw limited competition as the Apple handset shipped midway through the three-month period.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/09/26/needham.on.rim.vs.apple/
CBlackberryNY, you are such a creeper and I hate almost every single thing you post. Why are you here?
I would be willing to bet that RIM’s slight fall in summer shipments had more to do with the delay of the BlackBerry Bold than with the release of the iPhone 3G.
Not to mention all the releases in Q4. Why buy in Q3 when the Bold, Kickstart, Javelin and Storm were all coming out in months. It only makes sense that the numbers were down regarding actual shipments. For corporations, the added memory and added Wifi make more sense for internal and customized applications.
Of course the BB strength is its email system and keyboard. That’s not a bad niche to own.
Going forward, RIM will have to cope with the slowing economy. Businesses will put off on upgrading devices and consumers will be more reluctant to purchase.
i about to get a new black berry.