iPhone or Blackberry Bold 9900?

[JPS]

Ok, which one please & why?

[usbzoso]

neither one ... android for the win!

[z32turbo]

I haven't found a blackberry that can beat an iPhone. Hands down.

[CashGap]

File this under "Polls From The Past"? Keep in mind RIM is launching products with BB7 OS while stating that they are dumping the OS of those products for new QNX based products.

When? Exactly at the same time that every Android manufacturer states they'll have a successful tablet without lag. "Soon".

Here are some great quotes from RIM's two co-CEOs. You couldn't write this stuff as fiction.

Great Delusion RIM Quotes

My fav... "There's tremendous turbulence in the ecosystem, of course, in mobility. And that's sort of an obvious thing, but also there's tremendous architectural contention at play. And so I'm going to really frame our mobile architectural distinction. We've taken two fundamentally different approaches in their causalness. It's a causal difference, not just nuance. It's not just a causal direction that I'm going to really articulate here—and feel free to go as deep as you want—it's really as fundamental as causalness."

If you can spend even $10 with a company that lets someone speak like that in public, you are braver than I.

There will be holdouts who, for example, refuse to use a non-physical keyboard, and RIM already has most of them as customers. These are the folks who refused to transition to GUIs, who refused to believe a notebook computer could ever be powerful enough for them (they "needed" a tower for their web browsing and word processing), refused to print to the network printer, refused to use wireless, etc. You can make a market out of the folks who refuse to believe that the cheese has moved, but it's a small market and not especially profitable since curmudgeons are seldom free spenders. RIM also has the hearts of the IT directors who like imposing a product on users, but the consumerization of IT thins their herd daily.

[hdrazor251]

Well said Sam.

[BarkMaster]

Even as a long time Blackberry fan/user, I'll have to agree with the fanboi on this one.

The great, new BB 9900 4G model offered by T-Mobile doesn't support UMA and sucks batteries like an Android..

My 9700 runs OS6 very well, but once it breaks I will likely consider the iPhone.

[steelers]

Long time BB user. Now carry an IPhone. Thinking about changing to android .

[Mike B]

iPhone. Hands down !

[walds11]

iPhone...no contest!

[BigMac53]

Long time blackberry user, new android convert. The ability to customize android and the 4g network was enough for me to make the switch. The added bonus of the great android devoces is also a plus. I also had ZERO issues syncing work emails and calendars not to mention all of my own personal material. I love android and have not once looked back amd probably wont.

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[Ed Rooney]

Depends on what you want to do.

If you need to have your head in your email and bang out multi-paragraph replies all day while keeping the mickey mouse to a minimum, get a blackberry with a physical keyboard. Someone on one of the other iphone/BB threads made a great point. The people who bang out the work and are totally responsive tend to use Blackberries.

I you you want to have fun and games with apps, read some email and occasionally reply with a grunt or an emoticon, listen to music and watch movies, get an iphone.

I just got what will probably be my last blackberry, a Bold 9930. I don't know where I'm going to go after this phone. I'm not really a droid fan. They are just a bit glitchy, have the same keyboard issues as the iphone and are murder on batteries. I don't think I can get an iphone because I will need to do actual work.

[CashGap]

Originally Posted by Ed Rooney

I don't think I can get an iphone because I will need to do actual work.

And a real tower.

[chicfarmer1]

Originally Posted by usbzoso

neither one ... android for the win!

Yessir.

[Hleo1]

Long time BB user and fan. But the newest model 9900 greatly disappoints me in 1 aspect - No Autofocus in camera.... So if I want to take any photos close-up, guaranteed blur image. So sad.....

[Ed Rooney]

Originally Posted by CashGap

And a real tower.

and a left-handed teacup.

[Tri-Tip]

Originally Posted by Ed Rooney

Depends on what you want to do.

If you need to have your head in your email and bang out multi-paragraph replies all day while keeping the mickey mouse to a minimum, get a blackberry with a physical keyboard. Someone on one of the other iphone/BB threads made a great point. The people who bang out the work and are totally responsive tend to use Blackberries.

I you you want to have fun and games with apps, read some email and occasionally reply with a grunt or an emoticon, listen to music and watch movies, get an iphone.

I just got what will probably be my last blackberry, a Bold 9930. I don't know where I'm going to go after this phone. I'm not really a droid fan. They are just a bit glitchy, have the same keyboard issues as the iphone and are murder on batteries. I don't think I can get an iphone because I will need to do actual work.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[gwalker]

I have a Crackberry Bold for work and it stinks compared to my iPhone 4. I really like the android phones too.

[Ed Rooney]

Originally Posted by CashGap

There will be holdouts who, for example, refuse to use a non-physical keyboard, and RIM already has most of them as customers. These are the folks who refused to transition to GUIs, who refused to believe a notebook computer could ever be powerful enough for them (they "needed" a tower for their web browsing and word processing), refused to print to the network printer, refused to use wireless, etc. You can make a market out of the folks who refuse to believe that the cheese has moved, but it's a small market and not especially profitable since curmudgeons are seldom free spenders. RIM also has the hearts of the IT directors who like imposing a product on users, but the consumerization of IT thins their herd daily.

Funny analogy. I'd be more inclined to believe it if apple had pioneered the gui, the laptop computer, the network, the network printer or the wireless network. But they didn't, so it's just more vacuous marketing that plays on the insecurity of rubes. Speaking of marketing, those are the types of rubes who insist on having a mac with photoshop so they can resize jpegs for the corporate facebook page.

Walk around and talk to more than just the people who run Word or a browser. You will find plenty of people who actually do need towers for writing and testing database-backed web applications, or rendering graphics and video. You'll also find people with man-sized fingers who can't use your little keyboard.

I prefer to weight each piece of technology on it's own merits, which is why I owned a mac in 1984, a laptop in 1986, a home lan in 1988 and a corporate wireless network in 2000.

[Matchbox]

Originally Posted by Ed Rooney

Depends on what you want to do.

If you need to have your head in your email and bang out multi-paragraph replies all day while keeping the mickey mouse to a minimum, get a blackberry with a physical keyboard. Someone on one of the other iphone/BB threads made a great point. The people who bang out the work and are totally responsive tend to use Blackberries.

I you you want to have fun and games with apps, read some email and occasionally reply with a grunt or an emoticon, listen to music and watch movies, get an iphone.

I just got what will probably be my last blackberry, a Bold 9930. I don't know where I'm going to go after this phone. I'm not really a droid fan. They are just a bit glitchy, have the same keyboard issues as the iphone and are murder on batteries. I don't think I can get an iphone because I will need to do actual work.

To each, his own ... to me, iPhones are like the swankiest SPORTS car, with the biggest engine, fanciest wheels, smoothest shifter, most hi-tech stereo, plushest interior ... the best of the best ... with only one drawback ... top speed of 13 mph!!!!

iPhone sure does have all the bells & whistles - too bad it handles e-mail so slowly.

iPhone is one dandy toy, but I returned it to VZW & picked up my latest BB (9930 Bold) - I've yet to find a device which delivers email better!

[CashGap]

Originally Posted by Ed Rooney

Funny analogy. I'd be more inclined to believe it if apple had pioneered the gui, the laptop computer, the network, the network printer or the wireless network. But they didn't, so it's just more vacuous marketing that plays on the insecurity of rubes. Speaking of marketing, those are the types of rubes who insist on having a mac with photoshop so they can resize jpegs for the corporate facebook page.

Walk around and talk to more than just the people who run Word or a browser. You will find plenty of people who actually do need towers for writing and testing database-backed web applications, or rendering graphics and video. You'll also find people with man-sized fingers who can't use your little keyboard.

I prefer to weight each piece of technology on it's own merits, which is why I owned a mac in 1984, a laptop in 1986, a home lan in 1988 and a corporate wireless network in 2000.

LOL at plenty of people needing a tower. Believe me, I remember the 90's well.

I bow to your REAL computing needs, REAL man fingers, and your pioneering home LAN. Actually doubling over in laughter at your "offensively defensive" condescension, but let's call it a bow!!!

Anyway, the market it speaking. RIM will provide dinosauric machines to it's user base until absorbed into another company for the patent portfolio.

[JPS]

A slam dunk, home run, thrashing, beating, pummeling in favour of the iPhone then!

[rkot07]

I have been given the bb storm 2 by my company and I hate it. iPhone is the best phone I have ever owned. But I will say one thing and that is iPhone can get very expensive very fast due to all the apps.

[kcmo]

I've been a BB user for years and am waiting for iphone5 to switch! Can't wait!

[BarkMaster]

Originally Posted by kcmo

I've been a BB user for years and am waiting for iphone5 to switch! Can't wait!

I hear ya, sister!

[GradyPhilpott]

This is beginning to resemble the Ford/Chevy wars.

All we need now is the pseudo-Calvin drawings.

[texex91]

I had the 9900 for about 1 week and hated it. This after 15 years of Blackberry use. BB does not understand touch screen. All I had was problems with it when pulling out of holster because of the touch screen. Also, the numbers when you dial are tiny (no way to make larger). Really the end of the road for those guys. With heavy heart, I turned it back to Verizon and got the iPhone, which I love.

My opinions are form someone who was a LONG time BB user, including owning and using the 9900.

[BarkMaster]

[Tudor66]

(i) I work in the software industry, we regularly bring software engineer's from India to work for us on contract. Within two weeks, each new engineer follows the same pattern, they get an apartment, Toyota, Honda or Nissan sedan that they share, and they each pickup a new iPhone.

(ii) My company provides management with blackberry's, some time a while back we all started buying our own iPhones and forwarding the company lines to our new phones. No one wants a berry anymore.

(iii) The display and camera are really good, nothing I've seen matches those features...

(iv) My 72 year old dad has more downloaded apps than I do, and this is from a guy who had secretary do most of his tasks/clerical work for him back at the bank many years ago...

[GradyPhilpott]

I'm just glad that we still have choices.

[sea-dweller]

My current company issues us a BB for corporate e-mail/cell phone calls while in the field. I carry my iPhone for personal e-mails and calls since our company does not allow the BB to be used for personal use.