Iphone vs Blackberry

I'm looking to buy one in the upcoming week, and I'm looking to hear some testimonials from members on the forum to how each phone has treated them, if they have had them; which I am positive many have.

I can pay for either phone without any issue at all, but I want a phone that will: A) Be good for all my information and dates, as I am working with a political official for the next year, B) Keep me entertained when I'm off work, and C) Be reliable, efficient, and not break on me the second day.

Also, opinions on the providers service you had, or have heard of would be appreciated.

So, here is the almighty phone smart-phone debate - Iphone vs Blackberry.

vincent

god, I feel mad old even asking this, but...

do either of them have PDF readers? is this a basic function that I'm going to look stupid for asking about?

Depends on if you want a be a tool that only follows what's "hip" or a tool that worships Obama.

Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
[b]Also, opinions on the providers service you had, or have heard of would be appreciated [/B]

Pretty sure you can only have AT&T with the Iphone.

G2 phone FTW

blackberry is for business, iphone is for games and music and looking gay.

Originally posted by Darth Macabre
Pretty sure you can only have AT&T with the Iphone.

Get a Nokia N97. Far superior in every way to the iphone and has most of the functionality of a blackberry.

Iphone is nothing without baby shaker app. Get blackbaeery.

Get any Android phone. The G2 does look pretty sweet, I'd probably get the Samsung I7500 or wait for the HTC Tagtoo if I got a phone right now.

If you have to get one or the other though, get a Blackberry, iPhones are dreadful, dreadful phones in many ways, and Apple factually hates its customers (most of them are dolts so it is fair enough, I suppose)

Otherwise I also heard a lot of good things about the N97 Jaden favours, it does sound like a good phone.

iPhone pretty much rules it all.

inimalist, Blackberry's can read .pdfs if you add software that can do it. My users have the software called "beamberry."

IPhone can come in almost anything other than AT&T depending where you purchase it from, and it can also be unlocked.

I would suggest the Blackberry if you're completely set on having one of those two.

If not, I suggest any other smart phone, with HTC being the absolute best.

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc-phones-45.php

Anything you see on that link is as good or better than either IPhone, or Blackberry.

They also look kickass but in a casual, diplomatic sort of way. 👆

http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-many-times-do-i-have-to-say-it-i.html coot

But ja Nokia N97

Originally posted by dadudemon
inimalist, Blackberry's can read .pdfs if you add software that can do it. My users have the software called "beamberry."

huh, that would be the deciding factor for me...

still like tablet PCs though...

Originally posted by inimalist
huh, that would be the deciding factor for me...

still like tablet PCs though...

Blackberrys can just as well, so can Android phones and N97.

Most need you to download apps for it though.

sick 🙂

EDIT: I was reading about the new Androids, and how it is pretty much Motorola's (that the manufacturer, yes?) last kick at the can. Weird how Apple and Blackberry were able to dominate a market so quickly, even though it was already jam packed with products.

Originally posted by inimalist
sick 🙂

EDIT: I was reading about the new Androids, and how it is pretty much Motorola's (that the manufacturer, yes?) last kick at the can. Weird how Apple and Blackberry were able to dominate a market so quickly, even though it was already jam packed with products.

Nothing weird about it. Blackberry quickly became the best known "smart phone" because it has a catchy name and was featured in several TV shows when it came out, and the IPhone was backed up by Apple who have enough funds for advertising to buy their own third world country. It was shoved down consumer's throats until it became an icon.

It's just good advertising on their parts. Even so, Blackberry's got NOTHING on the HTCs.

lol, I didn't say I didn't understand it, just funny how things work like that.

Major phone companies got into a trend of smaller, more features, do the same things only better, whereas blackberry and apple filled the next "evolutionary" niche in the cell phone market.

I still probably wont buy anything until there are literal palm PCs, or at the very least, something with the gaming capability of a psp with a phone taped to it or something. PDFs were the big one, for work and such, but phones are still mainly for texting in my world... I should just get a 2 way...

Originally posted by inimalist
sick 🙂

EDIT: I was reading about the new Androids, and how it is pretty much Motorola's (that the manufacturer, yes?) last kick at the can. Weird how Apple and Blackberry were able to dominate a market so quickly, even though it was already jam packed with products.

It's quite amazing what Apple did, but that's really what they do best, marketing.

Decent link to the top iPhone competition.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://applefinder.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/samsung-i7500.jpg&imgrefurl=http://applefinder.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/10-iphone-challengers/&usg=__ywgl7j_mWF7tWDshNR7T4xjOfJE=&h=795&w=500&sz=88&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=KDkjjrQ4fC3CoM:&tbnh=143&tbnw=90&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSamsung%2BI7500%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1