Bye Bye iPhone...Hello BlackBerry Bold 9700

[anotherarunan]

I'm selling my Bold 9700 to get the new iPhone in a few weeks. Yes, the BB has some amazing plus points (battery life is EXCELLENT, email is good, will miss the keyboard, and BBM is useful at times)

BUT

it just isn't very consumer based - the apps are non-existent and the few that do are either expensive or rubbish (or both).

The browser is TERRIBLE and slow. And the OS hangs at times.

The new Blackberry 6 OS recently announced should solve some of these problems but the way RIM distribute their OS releases could mean i'm waiting till 2011 to get it (if at all).

My main gripe about the iPhone was lack of multitasking and poor battery life which stopped me from getting one. Assuming the new iPhone solves improves battery life - I'll be getting mine on release day!

 

[Fabienne]

Yea, how about that RIM OS and all the interface stuff? Huh? Far from intuitive and sometimes it actually works! Getting iTune songs into the Blackberry is a totally hit or miss operation. Do I have the latest OS which will run with my carrier? Damned if I know, if I look it up on one place it says one thing (on the RIM website), look up another and it says something else (on my carrier's website). The Blackberry desk manager is intrusive, obtuse, and ugly. I can make it work but much of that was trial and error trying things. Oh, and it's persistent, too. I figured out how to make it go away unless summoned but still, save me from that interface in general. The browser is a trial, Safari is far far better. Opera for Blackberry is another mystery, maybe it's better than RIM's but how do you work it? How do you have bookmarks and stuff in there? I sure isn't self evident.

Apple works better. It's intuitive, reliable, and even looks good as it's fast. Can't say that for Blackberry's soft/firm ware.