I don't know whether it's O2 in the UK being a lousy network, or my iPhone being faulty, but I have to confess that I occasionally miss my blackberry for the following reasons:
1. Lag. Connecting to my emails and downloading them is onerous. I know I can set the iphone to download them regularly, but this would further decrease the already pretty poor battery life. Also - when I type an SMS - sometimes several seconds elapse before what I've typed appears on screen.
2. Connection to my email seems to fail more often than it did on the blackberry. Also - my texts also fail to send about 20% of the time.
3. Dropped calls - about 25% of my calls fail either before being made or in the middle of the call. From a business use perspective this just isn't acceptable. I often have to restart the phone before I can make a call. I sometimes wonder what would happen in an emergency...
4. voicemail being slow to update - the iphone seems to randomly decide how quickly it will tell me about voicemails on the visual voicemail (which is an admittedly vast improvement on voicemail of old)
Don't get me wrong - look and feel, design and easy of use are all vastly superior on the iPhone, but I don't get the feeling that it's as robust somehow. I've had my 3G for more than a year though now, so maybe it's feeling the pain.
I also love the media on my iPhone, and the way it renders web pages and so on balance would still probably opt for it over the BB, but it's much closer for me than this survey suggests - and certainly, I'm surprised at the positive response from business users. For me, Blackberry is a workhorse, iPhone is a thoroughbred stallion. Horses for courses I suppose.
