Blackberry Storm has Copy and Paste!!!! Why cant we???

[Fonzijr1964]

Wait.

Why are you rolling your eyes at my statement, and then making a statement that has NOTHING to do with my statement?

I said no one NEEDS MMS or a Video Camera.

You roll your eyes and come back with "But clearly others do WANT some."

I never said people don't want these things. People whine about these two things daily on this forum so I know people want them. That much is obvious. (Of course, if you want them so bad, WTF are you doing with an iPhone? But that is another subject for another day.)

But my point is, if someone truly NEEDED MMS or a Video Camera, they would either buy a video camera or a phone that has those features.

But I would love for someone, anyone, to prove to me that they NEED those two things IN THEIR PHONE.

i do need tethering. I need internet on My air (oh wait i have net share) but now i am just gona get a WiMax adapter so i guess i dont need it

 

[kis]

hmm

I massively prefer having WiFi over having cut and paste. But that's just me.

 

[tacoshell]

Phone number on web-page or email?

One of the nice features of my Blackberry Pearl was that if I was looking up a company on the web, and it listed their phone number, I could just click it and the phone would call. The same was true if there was a phone number in an email I received. Can the iPhone do this? If not, then the lack of copy and paste would be an issue. Also, when I found said company, and wanted to get directions, I could copy and paste their address into Google Maps from the browser. The iPhone may have others features that make this process obsolete, such as a link between safari and the google maps app. I do not have an iPhone yet, but will be purchasing one by the end of the month, and am trying to absorb as much info about it as possible.

 

[swy05]

One of the nice features of my Blackberry Pearl was that if I was looking up a company on the web, and it listed their phone number, I could just click it and the phone would call. The same was true if there was a phone number in an email I received. Can the iPhone do this? If not, then the lack of copy and paste would be an issue. Also, when I found said company, and wanted to get directions, I could copy and paste their address into Google Maps from the browser. The iPhone may have others features that make this process obsolete, such as a link between safari and the google maps app. I do not have an iPhone yet, but will be purchasing one by the end of the month, and am trying to absorb as much info about it as possible.

Yeah, if you hold down on the number, it will ask you if you want to dial the number.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

One of the nice features of my Blackberry Pearl was that if I was looking up a company on the web, and it listed their phone number, I could just click it and the phone would call. The same was true if there was a phone number in an email I received. Can the iPhone do this?

Absolutely. The iPhone detects phone numbers while surfing the web, in emails, and any other application. All you have to do is touch the number and it will give you the option to call it. Same with addresses. One touch and off you go to Google Maps. It's really quite nice!

 

[kdarling]

You remind me to try something on the touch.

As mentioned, Blackberries have always recognized phone numbers in texts, mail, web pages, whatever. But they (or at least, used to) go further... if the areacode doesn't exist, it does not let you click it.

I found this out quite by accident when I created a dummy page for a customer demo and threw in a fake number like 999-999-9999. Unfortunately for me, the Blackberry correctly decided that wasn't a phone number and the demo failed. Ouch.

 

[sangosimo]

even though the storm doesn't have wifi it still doesn't prevent the device from going on the internet. The iphone doesn't have copy and paste and there is nothing anyone can do until apple implements it.

 

[TedIsraelson]

Ted

The blackberry has always had copy and paste and it is one of the features that makes the blackberry a much better business user phone. I used copy and paste all the time on my blackberry, primarily with email. I have to assume that Apple will get around to it someday. Of course there are a few other features on the Blackberry that make it superior to the iPhone, but darn the iPhone is just so much fun to use that it kind of makes up for it. The bottome line is no matter what Apple says, the iPhone is really not an enterprise device. It has a good start but certainly has a ways to go.