I wait 2½ years to upgrade phones
I got my first Blackberry, a pancake of a thing, back in January 2006. One replacement and 31 months later, I finally upgraded to a quasi outdated Blackberry Curve — I guess I’m what you call an apathetic technologist.
I’ve quickly grown fond of the 8320 and prefer it to the iPhone for the keyboard alone (though the camera, iTunes syncable media player, 2GB SD card, and Wi-Fi are more than functional).
But I digress. How often do you upgrade phones? It seems like some people swap every 6 months…
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Blake,
As the former owner of a Blackberry Curve and a current owner of the iPhone, they both have their strong and weak points.
Winnner:
Keyboard-Curve
Email-Curve
Media-iPhone
Applications-iPhone
Calender-iPhone (though I never sync with my computer for calender events and I hear Blackberry is top notch)
Menu-Curve (its all on one page and you can hide icons that you don’t use)
Camera-Tie, iPhone seems to have better quality, but no zoom and flash like the curve
Overall, I enjoyed my Blackberry experience, but Blackberry is still a corporate phone. The iPhone is more like a media player first and then a phone second. I get more use outside of just making phone calls and checking email from the iPhone.
By the way Blake, was it FREE?
Oh, and one other thing that I really miss about my Curve is the blinking red light when you have a new email.
The stupid thing about the iPhone is you have to unlock it before you know if you have an email or not. It’s really annoying because I like to know right away if I have an email or not.
Winner:
Curve for alerting you of new messages. FTW
“By the way Blake, was it FREE?”
I wish. It cost me $75 bones. T-Mobile’s “Loyalty Dept” said they couldn’t go any lower, because I got them to knock off $130 in overages earlier this year.
I have a Treo 750 on at&t and I’m ready for a new phone. I’ve been looking at the Blackberry 8830. I like all the features that the Treo has but all I really want out of my phone is something that works well as a phone, handles my calendar, and can quickly check email.
My Treo (and Windows Mobile 6) is extremely slow. Sometimes I have to wait 5-10 seconds after pushing the “green” button for the call to actually start dialing. It is annoying. I don’t need bells and whistles.
I have work to do. Give me a phone that helps me do it please.
Glad to see that Brenda is in your Fave Five.
I have had 4 different phones in the last 1.5 2 years. All BB. All four different types of phones. However, I get them free or for 1/4 the cost.
A note about smart phones.
We also configure many different flavors of smart phones for our clients such as iPhones, LG stuff, Palm, BB, other Windows mobile devices.
Configuration (for corporate integration) on a BB is hands down the easiest.
The BB is faster at email pushing.
Lack of built in media support is weak on the BB.
BB is tough. A Client of ours dropped the phone whilst cutting the grass and ran over the phone. It still works to this day.
BB Applications are fantastic, but not many people know about them or try them because of the cost associated with the apps (preying on corporate pockets).
Am I a BB fanboy? Possibly. Only ’cause I have to configure the dang things and they are the fastest. Except for consumer type configuration, then the iPhone has an edge.
Whenever work pays for it 😛
Also, have you tried an iPhone keyboard? Just curious. I have a theory that people who don’t like the iPhone keyboard haven’t tried to use it (or for more than a few seconds).