Hey now, Blackberry still has one of if not the best e-mail/texting functionality of any mobile operating system. It's just every other part of the Blackberry OS that sucks
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If you couldn't use iPhone anymore, what smartphone OS would you use?
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Hey now, Blackberry still has one of if not the best e-mail/texting functionality of any mobile operating system. It's just every other part of the Blackberry OS that sucks
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With the way pricing for smartphones is working out I am sure there will be dumb phones still. You will always have people that want JUST a mobile phone.
Personally there are only 3 operating systems in my opinion:
- iOS
- Android
- Windows Phone
If iOS wasn't available I would go with Android. Windows Phone doesn't have high resolution screens or the ability to hook up to a bluetooth keyboard so it'll have to wait till it does...
Not the Lumia 900? How come?
Btw I'll be sad to see you go boss.king
- iOS
- Android
- Windows Phone
If iOS wasn't available I would go with Android. Windows Phone doesn't have high resolution screens or the ability to hook up to a bluetooth keyboard so it'll have to wait till it does...
Not the Lumia 900? How come?
Btw I'll be sad to see you go boss.king
Windows Phone 7 is actually a lot more like iOS in terms of fluidity, ubiquity, and of course the lack of 'fragmentation". I think iOS users are just drawn to that over Android and that it has little to do with attempting to "stick it to" Android.
I like how Android fans cannot see past their own HW specs/OS.
Not that I am in, any way, implying anyone, including you, is an Android fan.
Quoted post, probably.
So you lumped all Android users into one category based on a statement that an assumed Android user has made?
I've owned several Samsung phones before I got my iPhone. Sure, they're made of plastic. But in my opinion they feel pretty solid, and are very durable compared to iPhones. I dropped my last Samsung touchscreen phone all the time, on concrete and everything, without a case (only a screen protector) and all it got was scratches
Still... he openly admits this was based on the statements of one person, who we don't even know is an Android fan or user... that was my point.
I would switch back to BB in a heart beat. Actually, some days I wish I never switched away from BB. The newest Bolds are awesome and if you use an iPod touch for your media (basically just podcssts for me) the BB is still the best phone for email and BBM/text.
Plus the new BB10 os is looking really good based on the playbook 2.0 OS they just debuted at CES. If the new BB10 phones are nice and RIM stay afloat I will probably switch back. I'll sell my iPhone 4s and buy both the newest BB and iPod touch.
Having to carry around 2 devices for something an iPhone (or other Android, WinPho7) could already do by itself sounds like a bad idea
Actually, Windows Phone is impressing a lot of people. I didn't think I would grow to like WP, but its really got a lot of potential.
I really haven't thought about it since the original iPhone came out. I haven't even bothered to keep up on phones other than the iPhone so I would be lost.
There exists no other phones till the day I can no longer use an iPhone.
There exists no other phones till the day I can no longer use an iPhone.
I'd probably jump over to the Nokia Lumia 800 so windows phone would be my choice,I can't stand android,Not a apple vs android thing just don't like the os at all,Looks to messy and cheap to me.
Oh the irony to see a Microsoft OS WINNING in an Apple-centric forum! Alot of us have HATED Microsoft at some point. Anything they did was unstable, bland, a copy, and like SJ once said, "had no taste."
Imagine over 10 years ago, Microsoft was much bigger than Apple. Almost 15 years, it was Microsoft assisting Apple with people booing at the 1997 MacWorld when Bill Gates appeared on that giant TV screen like he was Big Brother. Then Apple eventually became bigger than Microsoft. This reminds me of a time when Nintendo vs Sega had a bitter rivalry. Then Sega got out of the hardware business and eventually teamed up with the Big N. Weird seeing Mario and Sonic together in games.
Five years ago, Apple and Google were in such friendly terms that Google CEO Eric Schmidt was even part of the Apple board committee. You can even see the first iPhone keynote how friendly they were. Then Google pulled a "Microsoft" of the 1980's by promising to make apps for the platform and then stabbed Apple behind their backs by entering the mobile OS space of their own eventually. Now Google has become Apple's rival in the mobile OS space while Microsoft planted their own trojan to the biggest phone makers in the world, Nokia.
And another irony is Microsoft is NOT known to innovate or think on their own. They follow. Now I think they have the most intuitive and stable mobile OS out there. I would say they surpassed webOS which was a favorite of mine. Windows Phone is a great alternative to iOS without trying to look and feel like either iOS or Android.
Imagine over 10 years ago, Microsoft was much bigger than Apple. Almost 15 years, it was Microsoft assisting Apple with people booing at the 1997 MacWorld when Bill Gates appeared on that giant TV screen like he was Big Brother. Then Apple eventually became bigger than Microsoft. This reminds me of a time when Nintendo vs Sega had a bitter rivalry. Then Sega got out of the hardware business and eventually teamed up with the Big N. Weird seeing Mario and Sonic together in games.
Five years ago, Apple and Google were in such friendly terms that Google CEO Eric Schmidt was even part of the Apple board committee. You can even see the first iPhone keynote how friendly they were. Then Google pulled a "Microsoft" of the 1980's by promising to make apps for the platform and then stabbed Apple behind their backs by entering the mobile OS space of their own eventually. Now Google has become Apple's rival in the mobile OS space while Microsoft planted their own trojan to the biggest phone makers in the world, Nokia.
And another irony is Microsoft is NOT known to innovate or think on their own. They follow. Now I think they have the most intuitive and stable mobile OS out there. I would say they surpassed webOS which was a favorite of mine. Windows Phone is a great alternative to iOS without trying to look and feel like either iOS or Android.