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iPhone 3GS vs Blackberry Bold 9700

Blackberry Messages Rule. iPhone cannot come close it.

rogelio1017 said:
umm your wrong. 9700 is a GSM phone but im hoping you're smart enough to know att isn't the only gsm phone available. lets take it a step further. A blackberry is a world phone is the apple? Can you go to europe, canada, mexico on your iphone??? yea didn't think so

yea it's supported if that's where you bought it and that's where you live. If you are taking your USA iphone overseas good luck making a call. Blackberry would have no problems


you must be the stupid one since numerous iphone users complain about the horrible push email on the Iphone. Blackberry will push any email account to your phone and it will do it instantly! Don't make yourself look so stupid in your biased opinion filled opinions.


and by the way the threaded text on the bold 9700 is leaps ahead of the Iphones crappy looking threaded texts. And lets not even get into blackberry messaging. If you are trying to sit here and say the Iphone is a better messaging device than a blackberry then you need to seriously wake up.



To the OP each phone has it's advantages over the other. The Iphone's main advantages over the Bold9700 is well a big screen with a better browser. if that's important to you on a cell phone then you might want to consider what you are shopping for. Seriously who buys a phone to surf the damn net? you're going to pay 200 plus 100 a month to surf the net from you phone? you can buy a netbook for 200 and kick the iphones ass in webrowsing and multitasking along with working on emails and documents. Buy a phone that does what YOU NEED IT TO DO. Like i said each phone has it's advantages over the other. I'm switching from blackberry to Iphone in a couple weeks simply for a change. if i don't like it i am going back to RIM.
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Have had a blackberry for over 8 years. Switched to iphone 3gs 32g three weeks ago for less than 12 hours and switched right back.. The way I receive messages on the blackberry, iphone can never do. Sticking to blackberry....

Blackberry Bold 9700 Owner
 
ProDJ said:
Have had a blackberry for over 8 years. Switched to iphone 3gs 32g three weeks ago for less than 12 hours and switched right back.. The way I receive messages on the blackberry, iphone can never do. Sticking to blackberry....

Blackberry Bold 9700 Owner
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+100

Blackberry Storm 2 proud owner. :)
 
b96t said:
well FYI, I just got back from Australia and my iPhone worked just fine there, and a friend called me from UK using an iPhone that he bought from Japan. Did you actually think that iPhones are only sold for US market? It's a global thing, and it's not a rocket science.



wrong. if you're talking bout making a call with your USA iPhone outside USA, try to visit: http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/roaming/affordable-world-packages.jsp
It's all depend on the carrier, not the iPhone. Some countries sell iPhone outright from the Apple Store (www.apple.com.hk , www.apple.com.au)



I'm using both, BB 9000 and iPhone 3Gs, so dont get me wrong here. Just today, I experienced that my BB push email didnt work. I was waiting for an email all day long from a very important client, when finally I opened Gmail from the browser, and there it was..sent at 10.21 AM. Whats wrong? was there something wrong with my BB? or do you ever think that it's simply provider's network fault?




AGREE. Blackberry is the best messaging device ever exist, and that's why i use it.




couldnt agree more. what you want isnt always what you need.
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Anyone think if iPhone will ever have the all in one messaging on their phone like the 9700?
 
I the normal sheep here. I have had numerous BB including the BOLD. I love how long the battery lasts, and the typing is the best. But, I find I am able to do more stuff on the Iphone. Sorry I drank the koolaid. Iphone for me.
 
All my friends who have blackberry's always ask me to google something for them. The blackberry web browsing experience is awful, which is the only thing keeping me away from them.
 
QCassidy352 said:
That's true. RIM really hasn't innovated to keep pace with competitors though. All their new models (except the storm) are really just incrementally enhanced variations on the same theme they've been selling for 10 years. If they didn't have their installed user base, I doubt they'd be a factor in the (consumer) smartphone market at all. In my opinion, they will be in trouble sooner or later if they don't make a more significant effort to innovate in the face of rapidly increasing and improving competition. Their superior security and central management capabilities will keep them afloat in the business sector for some time, but they gotta step it up.
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I agree. I have a BB Bold 9700, for work, which replaced an old Palm Treo 750 which had WinMob6 on it, which was around 3 years old - so well over due for an upgrade! And my personal phone is an iPhone 3 GS 16GB.

I suspect I will make a few enemies when I say this, but there is nothing on my 9700 that makes me think, wow, this is really better than my old Treo (and not 3 years progress!). In fact I prefered the combination of touch screen and qwerty keyboard of the Treo. The Treo did email, picture messages, txt, and found I could also do msn and skype in the office too :). Compared to the iPhone, and Android that I saw on a friends phone, my 9700's OS feels a bit dated, time for a big update I feel, and a touch screen.

One thing I will give the 9700, it gets better reception than the iPhone, and both of mine are on o2, and I can type faster using its qwerty keyboard too.

This is my take:

1) iPhone wins hands down when it comes to internet usage, apps and a polished OS, plus music and has the great touch screen of course.
2) BB wins for email if you prefer a qwerty keyboard.
3) BB 9700 gets noticably better receiption and call quality than iPhone 3GS and the battery seems to last longer too.

It is company policy to now have a BB (though I was led to believe that many firms were actually moving away from BB these days, anyone know if this is true??), but if I could have chosen anything else I would have gone for an HTC Touch Pro2, I think that is probably one of the best "all round" corporate phones out there, but accept that many or maybe most will disagree with that.
 
From what I've read of the Blackberry's and my limited use of them, what they do, they do extremely well. The iPhone does every thing else.
 
grahamnp said:
From what I've read of the Blackberry's and my limited use of them, what they do, they do extremely well. The iPhone does every thing else.
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Agree.

I own and use both a blackberry bold and an iphone. I've used an iPhone since the first gen, and was given a Blackberry Curve for work, then upgraded to a Bold. The bold is the nicest blackberry I've ever seen and used, but using the iPhone is a much easier experience in every fashion. The ONLY thing the blackberry does better is customized alerting. I do wish the next iPhone had an LED indicator, and hope we can customize our notifications eventually without jailbreaking. But there's no way in hell I'd give up my iPhone in favor of this bold, so I go on carrying both. And I try not to let anyone see me using the BB.
 
I have longest iPhone/BB love-hate story I guess.
Started with iPhone 2G when it was released. Didn't upgrade to 3G, but jumped right on 3GS. Actually, was very satisfied and happy with 2G, just decided to upgrade for the sake of getting new shiny device. Was happy again. In 3 months after getting 3GS I figure out I am BORED badly with UI. Applications are mostly games, which I don't play. Something useful? Well, there are some, but not using them too much (and running ahead - you *can* get same ones on BB). So, I pulled the trigger and decided to switch to Blackberry Bold 9000. I hated it, and then loved it. But thought it's not too "techy" for me after iPhone, so switched back to 3GS. However, this 3GS didn't last more than a month. I jumped to 9700 for like two-three months, however, again, was seeing myself using boring RIM's OS, and missing iPhone.
I am using friend's iPhone 3G for now, and thinking what should be my next step. New iPhone 4G/HD? Or should I just get back my 9700?
My problem with iPhone is that it's is more likely to become a "gamer-phone". I am not playing games, I dont need portable device for games. Making calls, emailing, is much easier on Blackberry. However, browsing the Web is on the iPhone (BB sucks big time don't want to start on that).
However, we all know that Apple did some improvements to Mail client for new iPhone OS 4. And on the same page, we also know that Blackberry has browser "Bolt" which now HTML5/CSS3 compatible (on WebKit) and passes Acid test with 100. Which is okay for browsing (better than default browser, but still sucks comparing to Safari on the iPhone).

I am not sure what people who are doing business are doing on the iPhone? Any apps you are using which help you? I have my small business, but most of my needs are viewing PDFs, emails, text messages, IMs, and Web.
PDFs are "okay" on both devices. Emails and text messsages are much easier to work with on Blackberry. Web is for the iPhone. So it's tough decision for me, really.

The other thing which bothers me is how some people "see you" and "judge" by the accessories. You know, some clients don't feel confident you are tech-pro if you are not on Blackberry. May be it goes from their "corporate" background, but heck, that's the way it is.

I would really like to hear from somebody from same experience. Same needs.
I am also looking on what young people are using now. Most of them on BBs. Some using iPod's for games. I thought two years ago that they will all jump on "new technology" from Apple. Apparently, instead they choose proven technology which does messaging job better.

Right?
 
Simple.

BlackBerry has:

Great battery life
Great voice telephony
Best messaging implementation
Highly customizable/sometimes complex/archaic OS

...and sucks at everything else

iPhone has:

Best web implementation
Great apps/dev support
Best multimedia implementation
Ease of use/polished OS

...sucks at everything else

I own a Bold 9000 & a 3GS. Both have their strenghts/weaknesses but for me and my usage patterns, iPhone edges it overall.
 
The 9700, the 9000, the 8520 and the 8310 ALL suck as far as build quality goes, and the Blackberry OS is terrible. I honestly don't see how there is even a thread comparing a 9700 to any iPhone.
 
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