Bye Bye iPhone...Hello BlackBerry Bold 9700

millertime021 said:
Currently, I work in BlackBerry support for my company and I have to say, the 9700 is the nicest BB I've ever used (and I've used 10+ in the last 9 months).

However, I love my iPhone more than any of them. I feel the BB App World isn't as good as the App Store. Also, I feel like my iPhone is faster. Have you ever used the BlackBerry "browser"? It blows.

The 9700 is a great BB and it should suit you well in terms of functionality and style, but I still feel like my iPhone is superior to the 9700.



But what do I know. :rolleyes:
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My sentiments exactly. The apps alone are what keeps me on the iPhone. My emails work fine on my iPhone as well. I love the :apple: iPhone and looking forward to the new one :D
 
djransom said:
My sentiments exactly. The apps alone are what keeps me on the iPhone. My emails work fine on my iPhone as well. I love the :apple: iPhone and looking forward to the new one :D
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Same here. I have a BB Bold 9700 given to be by work, and I have my iPhone 3GS for my personal line. I hate the blackberry and use it only when necessary. Call quality is better on my iphone, the apps are better, the screen is better. the only thing that is not better is battery life. But it suffices for me. I just have to charge nightly.

Having said that, my 9700 is a huge upgrade from the Curve 8310 I had before it.
 
These are my favorite posts..."Thats it I am done with AT&T or the iPhone, I am getting [insert phone name or carrier] and I felt the need to come to an iPhone forum to announce it"
 
slippery-pete said:
These are my favorite posts..."Thats it I am done with AT&T or the iPhone, I am getting [insert phone name or carrier] and I felt the need to come to an iPhone forum to announce it"
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Well yeah, it's an iPhone forum. Forum's tend to be places where people discuss the item of interest, that means both positive and NEGATIVE aspects. :rolleyes:
 
Fabienne said:
It's called "flouncing". The long farewell.

I am turning in my Blackberry when the new iPhone comes out. Why? Well, you will see.

Slow loading of everything. Just wait till you try to get on the internet. Just. Wait. And Wait.

You might get all of your e-mails. And text messages. Maybe.

Like apps? Hope you don't. Blackberry apps are expensive and the UI is awful. You can save a lot of money because you won't want to buy any apps at all. Back to work.

Like to play music? That's just a time waster. With Blackberry's disagreeable software for music, you will be back to work and silent as you should be.

Oh, and that Slacker radio? It starts and you start listening to your music and then it stops. Made me turn it off and get back to work.

Like to see video on your device? Well, forget Blackberry. It runs some and others have to be put through a decoder before you can see them. They may have fixed that by now, but I don't care. Just think of the work you can do instead of watching videos.

It is a good phone. Very good phone.
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Sounds amazing.
 
gangst said:
Well yeah, it's an iPhone forum. Forum's tend to be places where people discuss the item of interest, that means both positive and NEGATIVE aspects. :rolleyes:
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Has zero to do with negative aspect. I am all for a discussion, just don't see the need to announce your moving on. If the iPhone doesn't meet your needs just move on...
 
-aggie- said:
Nothing to do with being a fan boy. We’re mostly amazed that anyone bothers posting they’re leaving. Go to the website for whatever phone you’re getting and make your first post there introducing yourself and then start finding out about your new phone. Seriously. This isn’t MacBlogs.
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MacBlogs--that's good. :D
 
I still have my iPhone 2G from October of '07. I've bounced it down stairs, my brother in law (bowling game accident) bounced it off an angled ceiling and into a picture window before hitting the floor, dropped it on cement a few times... still running, looks pretty good too. Yes, it lags, but after I get the next iPhone out, my wife will be happy with it and all the games.

The point I'm slowly trying to get too is that my brother a lawyer and technology security specialist had been an avid BB user for years. "It's the phone for real business..." I tried showing him great the iPhone was, better than his BB of the month. To no avail. Suddenly he starts dating a young lady who has a 3GS and before you know it, he's sporting a white one himself - I'm talking phone here people... Now, he comments how if he lost his iPhone, he wouldn't know what to do with himself. He's talked about how many lawyers in court now are using iPhones...

So, to each their own. The grass isn't always greener on the other side, but in my brothers case it was...

Coachingguy
 
gangst said:
4.) Every teenager and chav has an iPhone now. The iPhone has lost it's class. I know Apple wants to boost sales but the iPhone has really lost it's flare. I use my iPhone for a lot of business use, but around colleagues I feel that the iPhone doesn't give off a sharp business image, but looks somewhat childish and amateur. Apple needs to capture the business world, adding Exchange Server is not enough, native editing support for industry documents .doc, .xls, .ppt,. pdf, native sharing of files via bluetooth too is much missed, Apple wants the business market it needs to fix this.

5.) They break too easily...I have broken 4 in two years from general wear and tear, things like the microphone packing up is just a nuisance.

6.) Over commercialised, in so many sense of the word. From apps in the app store which are essentially adverts for the respective companies, to the advertising inside free apps and most disappointingly the announced iAd. Ad's on a paid for device is disrespectful to the user.
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Boohoo, you don't like the iPhone because it's popular. What is this, highschool?
 
The ideas expressed in this thread from some of you, is exactly why the iPhone has such a strong group of haters to it. Some of you guys are just so in love with the iPhone or Apple or whatever that you can not admit it does have faults. To each his own, I guess, but I read one post where the poster said the iPhone is better than the Bold 9700 in every single way. No. They both get their expressed purposes done, in their own ways. I'm not going into a "which device I like better" rant. But I have a 3GS and just picked up a Bold 9700 from AT&T (for full price) on Friday night. Obviously, I paid full price and five days later it hasn't been returned. Must not suck too much. I used to be like some of you. I would get rid of my iPhone for another phone and be back within days. Sometimes I would even make it a week. But I got over myself pretty quickly. I got to the point in my life where I knew Apple is not the best, is not the greatest, they make mistakes, they are flawed. I own a lot of Apple products, I LOVE Apple products. But that doesn't mean I'm going to say that every Apple product I own is better than everything in the world.

And I'm not going to call any of you fanboys. Because maybe you aren't. But really? Please. Maybe the iPhone is a great phone for you. And that's great. But stop forcing your belief that "Apple can do no wrong" one everyone else. It is pathetic.
 
I have a work-provided BB Bold 9700 and absolutely love it. I do at least 65% of my work email on it. That plus txt'ing and IM'ing quite a bit. I would shoot myself if I had to do that much text entry on my iPhone (3gs).

That being said, nothing beats the iPhone for mobile web browsing...and the apps are great.

For work, I need great battery life, tactile text entry, and multitasking. BB wins. For fun and leisure, I love my iPhone.
 
MaxxTraxx said:
Boohoo, you don't like the iPhone because it's popular. What is this, highschool?
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No, but every chump has one now. The phone has lost a lot of exclusivity and is starting to come across quite 'toyish'. It now says little about the user, I remember when I got my first one in Nov 2007, that's when it had the wow factor in the UK. Now I see them left right and centre. It's like going out and a load of undesirable people are wearing the same clothes as you.
 
gdjsnyder said:
The ideas expressed in this thread from some of you, is exactly why the iPhone has such a strong group of haters to it. Some of you guys are just so in love with the iPhone or Apple or whatever that you can not admit it does have faults.
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This. At least some one can see through the reality distortion, just because Apple made it, you don't have to love it. I sometimes wonder what the Apple fanbois would think of the iPhone if it was made by Dell or Microsoft...

Would it have nothing wrong with it then?! I for one would put money on the fact that the majority of you would be slagging of the lock down of development and lack of flash, in fact I reckon Microsoft would probably have an anti-competition lawsuit against them by now, and the corporation would be denounced an evil conglomerate.

Please try and keep a relative perspective, see outside of the Apple box, there is a world there and there are competitors. Try other products and be open minded.
 
dejo said:
Seems so...
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It may seem that i am coming across in such a way, but the way things are going, the iPhone's success will be it's downfall. Apple are trying to make a phone to suit every consumer and provide for every need. You can't keep everyone happy, Apple needs to realise this. Whilst increasing market share is ultimately Apple's aim, it gets to the stage where one phone CANNOT do it all. Either Apple will have to start focussing on what they do really well internet and apps on the iPhone or release new hardware which caters for different niche's e.g. iPhone Nano.

BMW don't try and make one car for everyone, same goes for almost every other consumer product. Then again it's Apple, I take it they think they can rewrite the book on consumer needs and wants via the distortion field.
 
gangst said:
Please, if you are this ignorant/ naive, you get off the forums. I note you've been a member here since early 2010, I've been here since 2004, you could argue on that basis that you get off 'our' forum. (btw, who is 'our' the fanboi's)
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The 'our' is the iPhone users. If you want to praise your BlackBerry please go to the BlackBerry forums. It only makes sense.
 
I did the same exact thing you did and after 2 weeks, I was on my knees, crawling back to iPhone.

It took me 3 months to get rid of the 9700.

Have fun.
 
gangst said:
No, but every chump has one now. The phone has lost a lot of exclusivity and is starting to come across quite 'toyish'. It now says little about the user, I remember when I got my first one in Nov 2007, that's when it had the wow factor in the UK. Now I see them left right and centre. It's like going out and a load of undesirable people are wearing the same clothes as you.
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IMO, all your credibility goes down the tubes when you're concerned enough where too many people have your same phone therefore making it part of the reason why you're switching to BB.

The wow factor is gone because it's 3 years old, affordable and um, oh yeah.. it's 3 years old. Of course everyone is going to have one by now. It's popular because it works well, not because it's cool to have one.
 
gangst said:
BMW don't try and make one car for everyone, same goes for almost every other consumer product. Then again it's Apple, I take it they think they can rewrite the book on consumer needs and wants via the distortion field.
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I think analogies of cars to computers is usually a good one. However, here is where this one fails. The iPhone can change as needed because it's primarily software based. You can't exactly modify the dashboard of a car when it gets dated. This was the whole point of the iPhone. A lot of smartphones came out before it, but whenever they needed to be upgraded they were screwed because most of the software was tied to buttons on the hardware.
 
I have an iPhone 3GS, my Daughter (16) has a touch screen HTC, my Son (14) has a Blackberry Curve..

I wish they would leave my iPhone alone, they prefer to game and browse the web on mine :mad:

A phone, is a phone, is a phone though ;)

Nuff said really...
 
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