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By: All About Smart Phone » Blog Archive » Users Switch and Compare Apple iPhones and RIM BlackBerries …

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:01:42 +0000

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By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:10:04 +0000

I’m surprised I never see written about what I see as the main problem with the blackberry. That is, that you can only load programs in the small amount of fixed memory installed in the device (96MB I believe in the case of my BB Curve, 104MB on my wife’s BB Tour). I added an 8GB micro SD card only to find that it can only be used for ‘some’ types of data–like music and pictures. It’s really nice that they give you flash expansion capability as opposed to Apple, but when you’re still restricted to about 100MB to install applications, it’s extremely limiting. I have about a dozen applications installed on mine and am constantly having to uninstall apps in order to install something new because my memory is full. I’ve adjusted my settings so that I only keep calendar and emails for the minimum of 15 days and searched out all the tips on freeing up memory, but there’s only so much you can do with 100MB. I have friends with iphones that install hundreds of applications.

I always describe to others that the iphone as primarily a computer that also is a phone. The blackberry is primarily (still, after all these years) an email device that also has a phone and can install about a dozen applications.

I’m shocked to hear in this article that Rim is proud about the blackberry’s multi-tasking capabilities. My experience is that the blackberry can’t even run one program at a time very well. It continually displays the spinning hourglass while I have to wait and wait for it to “do its thing”–whatever that is. And that is while just running one program–nothing running in the background, that I know of. And if you do switch to another app while one is doing any processing at all, the waiting is extremely aggravating.

I wonder if the blackberry is extremely limited by its legacy OS (as Palm and others were) or if they are just too cheap to put more memory in the device.

By: Lance View

Lance View — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:25:10 +0000

Hi,

Good column. I wrote a similar review on my blog. I used both the iPhone 3GS as well as the Blackberry Bold. As far as I’m concerned the Blackberry is a better device overall. You can find my review here:

http://Lancesview.com

The article is titled:
“Blackberry Versus the iPhone 3GS”

Thanks

Lance

By: Holger Mueller

Holger Mueller — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:02:23 +0000

Nice article – but to be ‘fair & balanced’ – how about users that switched from an iPhone to a Blackberry – any out there?

I am surprised how many young people use Blackberries – simply because they can text faster… and if you seen a teenager on a T9 input phone – they will work around and learn quickly any quirks of an input system.

Kudos for mentioning the lack of multitasking of the iPhone. That has been so hidden for months behind the ‘all so great AppStore and 1000s of Apps to download’ that it wasn’t mentioned / noticed at all. Casually reading your article it’s the same. One mention of the limitation – two mentions of the many Apps…

In my case Latitude always runs, Pandora is on and I don’t think I could use an iPhone due to the shortage of multitasking…

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Usuarios cambian y compraran el iPhone y el BlackBerry « Informática — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:17:40 +0000

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By: Rick Schmidtz

Rick Schmidtz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:41:59 +0000

I’m really surprised none of your group mentioned AT&T

From the Bay Area to New York people I know that switched from Verizion BB to iPhone have complained about dropped calls

AT&T is the ‘worst’ part about being on an iPhone for me (and I say that as my grandma still gets a pension from ATT!)

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