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Why I switched to a BlackBerry, and I'm not coming back
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...and 100% required by many businesses.
I don't want my emails to my friends and family to go out with my full name, work contact information, and legal disclaimer, but since work will make me put a signature on my work account, it will show up on my personal account emails too (all of this being hypothetical in my case, since my firm will not yet support anything but bb). If apple wants to market the iphone as an enterprise device they have think about what businesses require.
Who knows. Programming wise, it would be cake to implement. So the reasoning to not implement it must be for lack of complication. Thats all I can come up with.
to be clear, when I say I want "multiple signatures" I mean one signature (work account) and one non-signature (personal account). That is not currently possible on the iphone - all accounts must share the same signature or lack of signature.
No doubt, the BBerry is probably a better 'tool,' and the IPhone is a better 'toy,' though it has enough grown up features to appease many users.
I've got my Exchange e-mail and calender, and I'm set with that. The IPhone's 3rd party functionality is what sealed the deal for me, as it's still lightyears ahead of anything else.
I've got my Exchange e-mail and calender, and I'm set with that. The IPhone's 3rd party functionality is what sealed the deal for me, as it's still lightyears ahead of anything else.
Different Strokes
The OP likes his BB, that's great. There are different phones because we value different features. Personally, the concept of having an integrated iPod and the best mobile browser makes the iPhone perfect for me. For business applications, sure, get a BB. There is plenty of growth in the smartphone segment for both Apple and RIM to make serious money. We'll see about Palm...
The OP likes his BB, that's great. There are different phones because we value different features. Personally, the concept of having an integrated iPod and the best mobile browser makes the iPhone perfect for me. For business applications, sure, get a BB. There is plenty of growth in the smartphone segment for both Apple and RIM to make serious money. We'll see about Palm...
Wrong!!! You do not get push email on every account, only the ones that RIM has an agreement with. The ones that don't have push takes 10-15 minutes to come in. In addition, there is no way to check email manually. Sorry.
Furthermore, BB's do not support fully support IMAP. You cannot view your folders, email only syncs 1 way instead of 2. One-way email, how lame is that?
If you want to connect to MS Exchange, there's another $10 -$15 dollars you have to cough up. How much is it on the iPhone? Nothing. It comes with your data plan.
You mean like gmail, yahoo, my university's email, and hundreds of others? Then yes.
There are no hundreds of others. Furthermore, once you set up your gmail, you can't even see any emails prior to the day you set it up. You can't sync 2 ways. You can't see your custom folders, you can't search directly from your IMAP folders in gmail.
The list goes on and on. Basically, RIM's servers act as a re-director for your email. Nothing more.
If my college email is pushed, I'm sure there are hundreds of others.
That's true, and it's awful. It's part of the reason I have an iPhone.
The first backberry I owned was a blackberry storm. I got rid of that piece of junk after about 7 months. Now I have a curve which I love. but anyway I cant stand the "feature" of email not getting the images automatically, as a security feature, no matter what the setting is. so you check your email and its a bunch of broken links. you have to physically go in and put fetch all images every single email. its so annoying and makes email look like complete crap. Iphone mail looks like it should when you check it.
also web browsing. web browsing kinda sucks and is a pain. I had a storm with the larger screen and it still sucked. Surfing on an iphone is way way better. the pinch and zoom is so smooth. even though it has its fault compared to the blackberry the blackberry web surfing experience just sucks.
Im with blackberry right now. but at the end of the year when my contract is up blackberry is history. its just not as great and people hype imho.
also web browsing. web browsing kinda sucks and is a pain. I had a storm with the larger screen and it still sucked. Surfing on an iphone is way way better. the pinch and zoom is so smooth. even though it has its fault compared to the blackberry the blackberry web surfing experience just sucks.
Im with blackberry right now. but at the end of the year when my contract is up blackberry is history. its just not as great and people hype imho.
Right now I have an account that does not get pushed. It takes 10-15 minutes to reach my blackberry. Most of the time I've already seen and responded to the email on my either my iPhone or desktop pc. Ten minutes later, the first email is just reaching my BB. Very annoying.
On top of that, when I read it on my desktop it doesn't reflect as being read on the BB. That's pathetic. Every day I have to go to the BB and select the date and the option 'mark previous as read'.
All along, I thought email was RIM's specialty. Boy, was I wrong.
Again, BIS is nothing but an expensive re-director service.
I do consider BIS (and BES) one advantage that BB has though, especially since its 'included' with having a BB. I thought the BIS portal was pretty slick actually.
MobileME would be an advantage except that Apple (currently) charges for it.
He's fun at parties though
Why tether with USB when you can tether a BB with mac via Bluetooth with ease.... Thats how I do it.
Seems the Blackberry world is not so perfect:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009...where-are-they-going/comment-page-2/#comments
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009...where-are-they-going/comment-page-2/#comments
Let's see:
Mobile me gives you wireless sync of addresses, calendar, email, 20GB of online storage and a website. Cost: $69 on Amazon = 5.75 per month, even less if you pick it up on ebay.
BES will cost you an extra $10 - $15 per month, you have to provide an exchange server for minimally $6.99 per month. That will sync contacts, calendar, notes and email. Cost: $16.99 per month minimally
BIS gives you nothing in terms of sync unless you use the google solution or yahoo for email (there's a few other lesser known solutions).
Wow, great thread. I'm late so can't add much that has not already been covered but I always love reading these type of threads. I'm a current iPhone user but came from the Bold before that. The Bold is a great phone and I had no problems with it other than BB does not play well with Mac's.
I kept chasing my Tail trying to keep everything sync'd. You could say it's a Joke.
One thing I never saw mentioned about BBM is that it's not secure. It's not and is the most unsecured method of communication on a BB.
As for the BBM likeness everyone has? It's an interesting topic in itself. I think it's because ppl think it's a exclusive thing like owning a Ferrari or something.
A Family or sorts that only BB's have. Nothing more because as it's already been pointed out it suffers and lack's many of the other features of other IM's.
Someone mentioned the OS has not changed in decades and while I understand what they meant, it's not changed since the first Pearl was released. The Pearl is what started a lot of things for RIM. It was their first multi media phone. I had the pearl also and it's another great BB, small but still good for those who like small phones.
I see RIM is finally updating the BBM App. Hahaha it's their first update ever.
RIM does not seem to care about the OS, they are too busy pushing out new models with the same old features. Ever asked yourself how many model of BB's there are? I lost count so long ago. The OS is the same other than updating the icon appearance and wallpaper used.
To the OP, I'm glad you were able to narrow down what things in a phone were most important to you. That is important and what makes the most sense when choosing a smart phone. I've never compared phones like many do. It does not make sense. It's all about knowing what your going to use the phone for and choosing the one that works best for you.
I kept chasing my Tail trying to keep everything sync'd. You could say it's a Joke.
One thing I never saw mentioned about BBM is that it's not secure. It's not and is the most unsecured method of communication on a BB.
As for the BBM likeness everyone has? It's an interesting topic in itself. I think it's because ppl think it's a exclusive thing like owning a Ferrari or something.
A Family or sorts that only BB's have. Nothing more because as it's already been pointed out it suffers and lack's many of the other features of other IM's.
Someone mentioned the OS has not changed in decades and while I understand what they meant, it's not changed since the first Pearl was released. The Pearl is what started a lot of things for RIM. It was their first multi media phone. I had the pearl also and it's another great BB, small but still good for those who like small phones.
I see RIM is finally updating the BBM App. Hahaha it's their first update ever.
RIM does not seem to care about the OS, they are too busy pushing out new models with the same old features. Ever asked yourself how many model of BB's there are? I lost count so long ago. The OS is the same other than updating the icon appearance and wallpaper used.
To the OP, I'm glad you were able to narrow down what things in a phone were most important to you. That is important and what makes the most sense when choosing a smart phone. I've never compared phones like many do. It does not make sense. It's all about knowing what your going to use the phone for and choosing the one that works best for you.
