Comments on: 8 Reasons to Consider an iPhone Over A BlackBerry

By: Apple, Google, and The New Decade (Bloopers Video) | Tech N' Marketing

Apple, Google, and The New Decade (Bloopers Video) | Tech N' Marketing — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:48:43 +0000

[...] let me clear the air. I have a Macbook, yet, I am writing this post on my home PC. I have an iPod Touch, but I use a BlackBerry Bold as my primary mobile device. I think Apple makes superb products, [...]

By: jethro

jethro — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:57:16 +0000

Above all else, it is supposed to be a PHONE. The sound quality is TERRIBLE!

By: Mr Uku

Mr Uku — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:50:38 +0000

A brilliant and useful article.
I’d been struggling to choose between the iPhone and Bold for a while and you have cleared the whole thing up . I now realise that the Bold would be a bad choice for me (as I secretly suspected) and will put some money to one side for the iPhone.
Many thanks

By: hilzfuld

hilzfuld — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:27:19 +0000

Katy, wow, you know your stuff. I find it so funny that “big powerful and western” America still mainly uses CDMA, that is so 1998 Anyway, thanks so much for reading and commenting, really appreciate your insights. Let me know if you want to write a hands on review of the Jawbone Prime, email me at hilzfuld at gmail or tweet me at http://twitter.com/hilzfuld

By: katy

katy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:21:52 +0000

I love my iPhone 3G and I won’t trade up until the 4G (LTE) comes out. LTE is in testing in the US, now.

I’ve been using my iPhone for over a year and I really have enjoyed it, when I’m in my home area. It’s a medium sized city which is 3G enabled.

I’m not a corporate user. I’m a full-time volunteer and stay-at-home mom who hopes to never again re-enter the corporate life. I understand that Apple owns all communications that goes thru the iPhone, so I can see why companies would not use the iPhone. Apple just needs to get over that one. Wonder why they don’t?

I love almost everything about my iPhone and use it constantly. The apps on the iPhone are way beyond the apps on other handheld “smartphones”.

The only problem: In the US, AT&T is a terrible provider. It’s often hard to hear the other party on the phone, unless you are on bluetooth. I use a Jawbone Prime and that works extremely well but I hate I even need it.

AT&T really sucks! I can’t get 3G in most of the places I go, so to make sure I even have cell service, I have to carry a plain-jane second phone from another company (Verizon). The US just isn’t very built up in GSM service and is mainly CDMA (I used to work in the telecom industry.) Both will be going away very shortly (within 8 years) in the US with the upcoming LTE standard.

AT&T will have the iPhone contract until ’11 so I guess I am stuck. I love Verizon and wish they could get a 4G full version of the iPhone, but they say they won’t for another two years.

Yes, I’m told that the 4G iphone will have multitasking. You can jailbreak it now and do it, but I don’t want to get into all of that.

By the way, the iPhone does work well with VPN. Please, please, I’d love to see a real keyboard. I miss the one I had with my Palm 7.5.

By: hilzfuld

hilzfuld — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:01:33 +0000

I wish it was that easy… Not the same Orange…

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:07:55 +0000

Not sure why Orange would make it so difficult to find their BlackBerry BIS Interface, but simply Googling Orange BIS yielded the address: http://www.blackberry.orange.co.uk/

By: Burhan Dar

Burhan Dar — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:06:34 +0000

it was very informative, but Im using iPhone 3GS and Im very happy with the performance
and iPhone with a keyboard.. NEVER !! its never gonna happen mate thats the iPhone beauty.
Yes there is one thing iPhone lacks in, and thats the multi-tasking, but Im pretty sure that Apple will be working something on it too. May be in the next OS version.
cheers.

By: Fahmi

Fahmi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:05:38 +0000

Hi,
After I read carefully again and again, the answer of why you choose blackberry is there in your story, Hidzful. Yes, if we think about consumer content, then we prefer i-phone or others but blackberry. But, if we think about business, then Blackberry is the right answer. The difference between BlackBerry and other devices is own server that we called BES. This is not only for push email that currently iphone and others also applied I believe. But, most of all, BlackBerry offer accessing your intranet application which is without worry about security, time and place. They can control user as a client/server. And I use it now and love it like (may be) no changes to others at the moment. Believe me, once you enchance your device, then you will know what is different taste…:)

By: Fred de ConseilsMarketing.fr

Fred de ConseilsMarketing.fr — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:03:11 +0000

I used to have a Samsung i600, and when one passes from a Smartphone with an iPhone on delighted by the simplicity of use, design … Nevertheless, here the following weaknesses:

– Price: 149 € for renewal subscription or as a first customer, the price of Rolls Royce in phone while iPhone 3GS is almost the same since its release.

– Duty to register on the Internet during the 1st use … How can those who have no PC at home?

- The documentation is really badly done: little evidence, writing very little, few pictures … For instance no information to explain at the outset how to introduce their chips, how to use the Pedestrian Kit (initially I thought it was a simple helmet !)…

– The installation of iTunes that squatte your PC, slow performance and you “force” to go through them.

– On-screen keyboard that takes much more time to write messages that the QWERTY keyboard smartphones classical (ex: Samsung i600).

- To dial a phone number you can not type on the keyboard directly (normal, there is not), you must click on the “phone”, then keyboard, and dial phone number. ..

Not the “T9″ to aid the capture of messages, you need to type the words in full …

- To transfer music is through iTunes instead of doing so via micro SD card or via cable from the PC.

- Do not have a keyboard shortcut to delete an email on hotmail … We must get the whole message … with a keyboard then simply press a button!

- The shortcut keys (eg long press the 1 key to the answering machine) are missing