love how anything people say the BB is better for than the iphone, the iphone fanboys say "well the iphone5 will have something like it anyway"

its not fair to compare the current BBs to the future iphones anyway. guess what, BB Bold Touch 9900. that will even the playing field. theres no doubt the current BBs are 2 years behind. but the 9900 should bring them up to the same level of functionality of the competitors.

there are certain things BBs do that iphones dont, and they are usually some kind of integration. iphones may have a better camera, and better apps, but BBs bring the two together so much easier. like being able to send a picture from the camera app to your BBM or upload to facebook or email in one step, not have to close your current app and open the new one to send. the integration and shortcuts are what makes BBs work so well.

my buddy who is a huge iphone fanboy was playing with my 9700 on os6 yesterday and once he started figuring out the shortcuts he was really amazed.

and beyond that, i dont care if the iphone or android are a little better in a couple ways. BBs work fantastic for me, and i like them. we all dont buy the best car we can afford, we buy the one we like.

I honestly dont give a rats ass about music or youtube or games, so why should I buy a phone thats good at that, but inferior in the areas I use my phone (email, txt, , scheduling, msging, PHONE CALLS)?

Say WHAT? Are you saying that the native iphone camera app can't push-to-share with multiple services? I don't quite believe what you're saying... Cause my android was able to do that with 2.1 which is 2 OS versions behind, and it seems to keep track of all the apps install as well.

My 2 year old HTC Hero had all these simple features way before the latest HTC Sense/Android updates. I can easily take a picture and push-to-share it to a number of apps (Bluetooth, Facebook, FlickR, Gmail, Picasa, Twitter, text messages and a variety of other email clients) instantly.

However, it's pretty sad how Apple, a proclaimed industry leader, is just phasing out their very own version of the LED/Notification Center feature that Android has had as a standard on their handsets.

Five iOS 5 Features Apple Copied From Android - International Business Times

I'm a Blackberry user for 4 main reasons, their keyboard/hardware, great for emails/work, bbm and durability. Personally, I could really care less about what apps that the Iphone or Android phones have better over Blackberry, I don't use my cell for games/entertainment. The few apps I have on my Berry, like stock trackers, sports updates, travel info work great on my Blackberry.

The native Blackberry contact book, calendar/scheduler is great for my needs. With the keyboard, I can deal with emails/text/bbm very quickly, personally I just hate typing on a touch screen keyboard and it slows me down. I also have a bad habit of dropping my cell phones, so far I've dropped my Torch close to 15 times, once from 3 stories and the phone still works perfectly fine. I've had friends knock their Iphones off the counter and the phone is dead.

It's true, iOS only has "Email Photo", "Assign to Contact", "Use as Wallpaper" and "Print" (???). Don't even get me started on trying to email multiple photos with iOS.

That was a good read.

Before they start worrying about developing better apps and all that other stuff, they need to focus on quality control if the management decides to seriously consider the points presented.

The absolute worst thing for me is having to use a phone that feels like it was put together by a 14 yr old in a back room of toys r us.

Creaky and clicking keyboards, metal trims, battery covers etc imo are NOT acceptable for a $500 phone.

That letter hit alot of good points, spend more time perfecting their product/software instead of shipping it out half-assed, listen to the consumers etc

How many of you have had a blackberry and had it freeze on you while you're working on something important? Its frustrating, whats even worse is having to wait 10 minutes for your phone to be usable again.

On my droid, I can turn my phone off and back on and be at full speed again in less than a minute

You forgot to add MMS to that.

To e-mail multiple photos go to Camera Roll (album) click the share icon top right. Then click on as many pictures as you want and a little check mark appears on each thumbnail. At the bottom click "Share" and a popup lets you pick "Email" or "MMS".

iOS 5 will bring several changes since things like Twitter are now integrated right into the OS (instead of a separate App).

well, i think the best part about bb is that is uses half data ,

But the thing is you can only share 5 pictures max which is annoying.

I read somewhere that Facebook will also be integrated. It better be true. How can u integrate twitter and not the post popular social site ever? Lots of ppl post pics from their phones to fb more than twitter so it only makes sense.
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^ Yeah, 5 photo limit but that's never bothered me as I rarely send more than a couple pics at once. My phone is a casual picture taking device when I'm stuck without a real camera. I usually wait until I have a bunch of pictures and simply transfer them to my PC every now and then.

As to Facebook there are rumors of bit of a fight (disagreement) between Apple and Facebook (specifcally Jobs and Facebook). Hard to say if it's true or not. WP7 did integrate Facebook and so did Google with Android. Then again, Google just stuck a knife in the back of Facebook with Google+ so who knows how they'll be working together in the future.

Ah, all these whiny little billionaires who can't get along. :)

^ All they need is an "attach photo" button to the e-mail app.

Many times I find myself typing up an email and then deciding to attach a photo to it.

Hahahahaha so true.

Every smartphone thread eventually gets derailed :fullofwin:
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Easier to put things into perspective with a rival product

Is there already an iPhone Vs. Blackberry Vs. Android thread? If not we should make one.

I love my berry..

Blackberry for communicating.
iPhone for procrastinating.

that comic is true for anything not just phones.
ps3 vs xbox
stupid engine arguments such as 1.8t vs vr6
mac vs pc

you're probably not qualified to argue any of these unless you've owned and used both extensively. otherwise you're just defending your purchase.

iphone with slide out keyboard = death for all other phone makers

we can talk about "what-ifs" all day - but you know and i know that iphone with keyboard would never happen. And honestly, the physical keyboard isn't the only thing that is missing from an iPhone. iOS is still missing many features from other OS's.

the physical keyboard isnt missing from an iphone.
physical keyboards are backwards technology.
touch screen is here to stay.

Nope. I asked around and more of my coworkers are on Android than iPhones. Cheaper, faster, more configurable with different HW options.

The latest stats confirm it too, Android has leap frogged everyone to ~40% market share while BB has dipped slightly below iOS at ~25% each.

^ Funny how people have those stories. At work out of 22 people there are 2 iPhone 3GS's, 3 BB's, 1 Galaxy, 8 iPhone 4's and the rest are plain ordinary phones. 2 of the BB users are planning on getting the iPhone 5, the 3GS users are also getting 5's and several 4's are planning on 5's.

Android does have the market share, but a lot of those aren't even full-on smartphones. I got my mom an Android phone and it's not even as good as an iPhone 3G.

Every Android phone is not a Galaxy II S or similar.
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Blackberry is dropping it market share due to.........................slow ass processors in their devices, shitty os, app market non exsistent, the whole phone line is made up of cheap materials which fall apart...out of the box mm bb 9780 bezel was completely falling apart at the sides on my second bb 9780 and its doing the same thing, not to mention the bezel is made up of cheap plastic.

Another reason for the drop would be their release dates are atrocious and try to compete with well known companies such as Apple. They first debuted their piece of shit playbook in Sept '10 and promoting it as essentially an ipad killer...then finally officially released the playbook to the consumer base in May '11 how the fuck due wait that long to release a product and then when consumers actually want to buy it they moved on to a different product. The playbook has bugs and lag up the ass and is just garbage.

Blackberry was the "cool" phone back then so those fanboyz and girlz get them. But seriously, how many of them really need a blackberry? Yes, the blackberry is great for business, but how many of the current blackberry users really use it for business purposes. Right now the iPhone is the new "cool" phone and thats why I think people who never really needed a blackberry in the first place are switching, resulting in a declining market share. I'm sure those who actually use a blackberry for its functions will continue using it. Those who just wanna be like everyone else will get the iPhone or Android or whatever the next "cool" thing is.