Comments on: What You Should Know Before you Switch from BlackBerry to iPhone

By: momd

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By: Barbara Saunders

Barbara Saunders — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:54:24 +0000

99% of my iPod use is in the gym. I’m wary of carrying my phone there, both because it might get damaged and because I don’t really want to be interrupted.

By: Zorana

Zorana — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:33:49 +0000

thank you so much for this article!! i too am one of many BB lovers that got the iphone in july! i have to say the iphone is a truly kick ass phone. awesome web browser.. the apps are fun! its all fun.. but all the points you make helped reinforce my decision.. im selling the iphone.. ANYONE WANT A WELLKPET IPHONE 3G?? i am looking now to buy a used blackberry for AT&T since i sold my old one to my roommate.. another reason not having the BB tortures me.. i watch my roommate loving the phone and now my boyfriend just got the curve so i’m more than jealous that we cant BB message eachother.. DAHH!! I MISS YOU BLACKBERRY CURVE!!!!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:37:00 +0000

going from blackberry from iphone would feel like going from iPods to the radio.

By: Harley

Harley — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:19:11 +0000

Everyone is missing the biggest point! It’s the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server). If your orgnization has one, then nothing will beat the Blackberry’s capabilities. It’s what allows the Blackberry to integrate into the corporate infrastructure securely. It’s more than just email, eventhough it does everything from allowing you to read, reply, delete, file, etc… mail messages and create, accept, deny meeting invitations – I’ve used it in an Exchange and Lotus Notes environment and I believe it exists for Groupwise as well. If you want to develop custom applications, you can develop client/server apps or web based apps which work securely with back-end servers because the BES provides MDS (Mobile Data Service) which makes the Blackberry part of the corporate infrastructure (behind the firewall) from anywhere. It’s orange book FIPS certified and it provides the transport that makes the device part of the enterprise. The exchange push garbage can’t hold a candle and it turns out that in my environment, we need to purchase a new server to enable it for the two users that had to have a new toy – I guess they’ll be out of luck.

By: stacy

stacy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:55:26 +0000

It has been interesting for me, as I went from a Pearl, to the first generation iPhone, and then when I left my iPhone out in the rain one day, I decided to go with the BB Curve instead of the 3G iPhone. I love the Curve…. it just WORKS. I do miss a couple things on the iPhone (namely, Google Reader) but I’m glad to have something that does email well and is reliable. At first I was just trialing the Curve for 30 days or so until the iPhone’s are more available, but I think I might keep it!!!

By: Reilly

Reilly — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:29:49 +0000

Erik IS right, rim’s stock isn’t doing too well..
But for me, I’ll stick with a sprint phone with better service than AT&T, and keep my ipod touch for everything other than a phone that the iphone has to offer.

By: djchuang

djchuang — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:51:55 +0000

@Melissa, according to Gizmodo and iPhone Atlas, iPhone 3G does not have tethering, cf. http://gizmodo.com/5016464/no-tethering-for-iphone-3g

I use tethering with my Blackberry Curve now, love having that feature available when I need it.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:44:22 +0000

Most of the pluses of the iphone in comparison to a BB should be solved with the new OS and the Thunder (and in some ways the Bold). You might kick yourself for not waiting. I am an avid Apple fan and the iPhone looks tempting, but being stuck with ATT service and not as good email service doesn’t seem worth it just yet. I’ll stick with my BB for now.

By: Jason Rettol

Jason Rettol — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:23:36 +0000

Had an iphone, threw it away. Its totally unusable for serious business use.

As always, another device for kids with brain damage and trend slaves. So I’m back to my old faithful BB Pearl.

By: Dwayne Melancon

Dwayne Melancon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:27:44 +0000

I agree – I miss the one-key speed dials. However, for iPhone speed dialing there is an easier way – create a favorite for each of your important numbers. Then, when you want to call, double-click the home button on the iPhone and it will bring up your favorites. Then you have one “click” to dial one of the favorites.

That’s the default setting for double-clicking the Home button – you can reconfigure it for other stuff in Settings.

By: Remi

Remi — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:16:53 +0000

I am using a 2G Iphone(16G). Can anybody help with this: If I press the headphone button once; music playing does not pause. If I press the headphone botton twice rapidly, next music does not get selected as it suppose to be.

By: His Shadow

His Shadow — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:42:27 +0000

>>
RV says: July 15th, 2008 6:32pm

Whatever happened to the good old days when you had to use your brains instead of a computer. No wonder we are turning into a generation of geeks.
<<<

Probably the same thing that happened to buggy whip manufacturers, Grandpa.

Seriously. What part of your brain allowed you to see listings for every movie playing in a 10 mile radius from your home? Where in the hippocampus was email from different accounts stored? Devices like the BlackBerry and the iPhone allow smart people to work smarter, and not so smart people to access information in real time.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:48:53 +0000

My husband has turned our household into Mac lovers! It stared with an ipod, then he purchased a desk top and then he turned me on to the ways of the MacBook! I had no problems switching from a PC to a Mac once I understood all the pluses for my business.
Now that the new iPhones are here, I am having a very hard time deciding if my BB is where I need to stay or if the iPhone, too, is where I need to be?!?
I’m a Realtor, so I live in my car. I can do anything on my BB with one hand, I can hook it up to my Mac to hope on line and pull properties for clients on the spot or write a contract right in the house we are at. The tethering ability is what I am afraid of loosing. My husband has read a couple different things that say the iPhone will NOT support tethering, but when I asked a rep at the app store they told me I would be fine.
Can anyone who currently has an iphone give me your thoughts on the tethering abilities or lack there of?
Thank you.

By: Gilldo

Gilldo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:20:22 +0000

Sorry Blackberry — no Super Monkey Ball. You lose!
– Loving my iPhone for over a year.

By: miltos

miltos — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:55:31 +0000

All this talk of which is “better” is really pointless. People have different likes and dislikes, and need/want different things from their phone. I know plenty of people with ancient flip phones that they are happy with. That said, just do your research and get the phone that works best for you.

I just switched from a T-Mobile BB Pearl 8100 to the 3G iPhone. Your review is great, and I just thought I would add some additional things that I’ve noticed.

I think that if you’re a hardcore BB user, frequently traveling and relying on your phone to help you get work done, you are probably going to want to stick with your BB until/unless Apple adds more “enterprise” features into the iPhone software. Here are some important missing features:

- On my pearl, whenever a phone number appeared ANYWHERE (web, email, text, etc.), I could select it and tell the phone to dial it. This does not happen on the iPhone. I’ve gotten emails and texts that said “call me at this number,” and all you can do is memorize the number or write it down and the go dial it.

- The lack of cut and paste is also a problem for the above reason. However, even if cut and paste was there, I’m not sure the phone dialer is set up to have numbers pasted into it (my BB could do this) – we’ll have to wait and see.

- The two above issues are especially annoying when it comes to having to join conference calls that require you to call a phone number and then enter some kind of PIN

- I use Outlook on the PC. There are MANY things lacking in this department:
1. The big one – no Notes or Tasks syncing (really sucks for me, but I’m hoping a 3rd party app shows up soon to address this; there are good apps that can handle notes and tasks on the phone/web, but none that sync between my phone and my Outlook)
2. Outlook contact categories do not sync to the phone; I just have one long group of contacts
3. Outlook calendar event categories do not sync to the phone
4. Free/Busy/Out of Office does not sync to the phone
5. 99% of my calendar events seem to show up as meeting requests on the phone, meaning they have the “Accept/Maybe/Decline” buttons on them, even Birthday reminders. Not a problem, but annoying.
6. You can’t create & send meeting requests from the phone.
6. I read that if you want to use color coding on your events, then you need to maintain separate calendars in outlook and sync them all into the phone, then each calendar will have a different color.

– There are no “hot keys” on the sides of the iPhone that you can assign functions to, so when I want to do things like turn Bluetooth or 3G on/off I have to do a lot of tapping.

- The zooming feature is nice, but I find it doesn’t lend itself well to reading long bits of text. In some areas you have to zoom in a lot to get the text size readable, but then you’ve got to constantly scroll around to read the text because it doesn’t wrap the text into the screen.