iPhone or Blackberry? What Do YOU Own?
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I actually LOL'ed at that. But I think Obama may disagree.
Just got the G1. So far, I dig it alright. I have minor issues with it, but otherwise it's a great phone and one hell of a great OS.
I haven't yet had the time to really look for all the best apps for it, but the ones I have bothered to download (usually while sitting on the shitter) I've been pleased with. Well, apart from one that, for some reason, mysteriously decided that the phone's backlight should be never go off. Stupid app.
Before that, I had a Blackberry Curve (T-Mo) for a little over a year. While it certainly wasn't a Bold, I have to say that it was a damn good phone and I never ran into any issues that a quick call to T-Mobile's Blackberry division couldn't clear up immediately.
I just can't have an iPhone. I bought my gf one Christmas of '07 and I've tried relentlessly to grow accustomed to typing on a screen. It's just not going to happen for me. I need a physical QWERTY keyboard.
I have a Blackberry Pearl 8100. I'm considering upgrading to a Curve 8900. So far I've enjoyed it. I wanted to try the G1, but T-mobile doesn't have 3g here. Apple does. So I'm thinking of getting an iPhone. The apps sound really cool.
I own neither (I never leave the house so it doesn't matter) but was playing with a friend's iPhone this weekend for the first time and I was stoked. I do like the full qwerty keyboard on the Blackberrys though.
The facts are as follows:
*an iPhone is a more comprehensive gadget, and definitely carries more cachet in both pop-culture and mainstream life. Accordingly, an iPhone is simultaneously communal AND personal, with it's many capabilities for communication and entertainment.
*a Blackberry is a pragmatic, less-frills device that is more conducive to conducting 'real' business, such as emails and text access.
I personally use a Blackberry, probably because I am an email &text addict that doesn't have much use for or interest in onanistic applications. Thusly, I am slightly jealous of my iPhone-toting compadres;o)
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*an iPhone is a more comprehensive gadget, and definitely carries more cachet in both pop-culture and mainstream life. Accordingly, an iPhone is simultaneously communal AND personal, with it's many capabilities for communication and entertainment.
*a Blackberry is a pragmatic, less-frills device that is more conducive to conducting 'real' business, such as emails and text access.
I personally use a Blackberry, probably because I am an email &text addict that doesn't have much use for or interest in onanistic applications. Thusly, I am slightly jealous of my iPhone-toting compadres;o)
Ev
Before you go through the hassle of switching carriers, you may want to give the G1 a try in spite of the lack of 3G (are there currently plans - or possibly even a date - that they will be rolling out 3G in your area?).
The G1 is Wi-Fi compatible (though no UMA, which is retarded since it's one of T-Mo's coolest features) so unless you're planning on sending/receiving lots of data when you're out and about, it likely won't be an issue for you.
But that's coming from a guy that refuses to configure work-related email through his phone since I'm already at the computer ~16 hours a day anyway. And (as crass as it may be to repeat it) I really only play with most of the apps I've installed while on the shitter.
Since my gf is tied to AT&T due to her precious iPhone I've been able to witness the fairly significant shortcomings of AT&T's customer service when compared against T-Mobile's. While no mobile provider is anywhere close to providing exceptional customer service, T-Mobile has rarely, if ever, displayed the often alarming level of ineptitude that seems to be AT&T's representatives' modus operandi.
That's reason enough for me to stick with T-Mo for as long as they keep their shit together. Before I went with T-Mo way back in '02 I was with Sprint and the level of idiocy that their CSRs displayed was so abysmal it seemed downright criminal.
iPhone takes the cake. I have checked on campaigns in movie theaters at concerts at restaurants in club bathrooms in doc offices while car is getting worked on, and have many a time paused precipitous -roi ad spend on a dime, so this baby has paid for itself 10,000 times over.
And also you can read my iPhone Meet Toilet thread to find out that after being submerged in shit water for a half hour it will still work like new a week later. So yeah I have two now.
And also you can read my iPhone Meet Toilet thread to find out that after being submerged in shit water for a half hour it will still work like new a week later. So yeah I have two now.
Sorry 2 months ago i would of said berry but i have been converted and must insist on the iphone.
But seriously my "plan" which i think is the same plan everyone else has with the iphone won't let me send or recieve media msgs. wtf its so annoying all this great technology and cool shit it can do and it can't send a fuckin picture.
Sorry had to vent that real quick.
But seriously my "plan" which i think is the same plan everyone else has with the iphone won't let me send or recieve media msgs. wtf its so annoying all this great technology and cool shit it can do and it can't send a fuckin picture.
Sorry had to vent that real quick.
nobody can send or receive mms right now. they said this will be taken care of in a software update. Summer 09
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