I totally agree. The blackberry is the most user friendly and functional device. Their app store is launching this spring, and once that happens, all the fun stuff that iphone offers, will also head to the bb. I had an iphone, but came back to bb, since it is so much easier to email, and search. Much more functional for actual work, and communication.
Nigel Walsh
· 11 months ago
I couldnt agree more. I have tried the iPhone (it makes a very elegant paperweight) but it has the battery life of a peanut and is generally slow! Long the the BB.. It does have a few lessons to lear from Apple, but this is way more functional for business users...
Thomas Waters
· 11 months ago
I can't argue with the battery life issue. Biggest thing Apple needs to improve upon with the iPhone. Took me about a week of use maybe 2 to get into a use habit, so it doesn't go dead each day. Wasn't hard. The fact that the BB is just getting an app store shows how behind the times it is. but this is a win/win for everyone no matter their tool of choice, as each competitor will push the other to make big steps ahead. Still the same complaints were made about the iPod in the early days, and it has dominated that market. The iPhone will continue to grow in market share. At my work, ex BB users feel the iPhone does enterprise email better than the BB. LOL.
Nigel Walsh
· 11 months ago
@Thomas - not sure about the enterprise bit. Unless our guys set it up wrong! But if you have a large enterprise directory or a lot of contacts it just dies. I tried it with just over 7k contacts and the iPhone crawls to a search. The BB cuts through them like a hot knife thrugh butter. That said, there are many many cool apps for the iPhone...
Karl G. Siewert
· 11 months ago
I just wish some of the websites that have rushed to make apps for the iPhone would get on the ball
Karl G. Siewert
· 11 months ago
Let's try that again.
I just wish some of the websites that have rushed to make apps for the iPhone would get on the ball and develop for the BlackBerry. My particular dead horse is Goodreads. I'm dying to use it to track my reading, but I just can't do it from the BB. Even using Opera Mini, the mobile site is hobbled. Makes me mad.
Raya.b
· 11 months ago
I might sound like an oldie... i still have a classic cellphone. But i wanna buy something new : iphone or bb ? Everybody is talking about iphone. Which looks cool. But, i tend to believe that BB is more, as you said, fonctional. So, i don't know. I might choose a bb.
Thomas Waters
· 11 months ago
@Nigel. Nope all set up right. In my experience, users rarely if ever need access to the entire company directory- just to their own addressbook, and the iPhone does that beautifully. Our users find that to do what they need to do, the iPhone is easier to use, and actually does more for them.
@ Raya.B I don't think the BB is more functional at all! I think the one major advantage it has at the moment is ability to work on multiple cell phone companies, as opposed to ATT for iPhone (at least in the US). I think the other "advantage" is the keyboard. It can be hard for some, control-types to trust the auto-correct, and adjust to the touchpad typing. I was slow to this myself, but now I love it.
That said, I would expect the BB to remain a very useful and powerful tool! It isn't going away- will continue to get better and better.
Raya.b
· 11 months ago
Ok. True. Here in France, iPhone only works on Orange. And BB is available on all the other compagnies. I think i'll go for a BB. Thanks for your article. :)
Raya.b
· 11 months ago
@Anthony. +1 for you.
KRAPPS
· 11 months ago
Blackberry? Never heard of such a thing! ;)
Mark
· 11 months ago
BB is my lifeline, the best for emails
flit
· 11 months ago
love my blackberry ...sure was cranky when I heard iPhone has an eReader app though ....I WANT AN EREADER
Rob
· 11 months ago
Great article, one thing missed is Business Professional Ringtones. I believe it's a must have on this list.
Viigo is one app I use all the time for work. No I am not affiliated in anyway but the website offers numerous opportunities for corporate integration including pushing your data to their application. www.viigo.com
Aniq Rahman
· 11 months ago
BeeJive IM / JiveTalk is the app I use more than anything else and blows all of the other IM apps out of the water. http://www.beejive.com/
Jeff
· 11 months ago
Why Doesn't PocketDay Porfessional ever get mentioned in these BB organizing blogs??!!? It's like e-mobile Pro, but, much better - It's by far the best, cheapest, and most functional of them all www.pocketday.com (I am not affiliated with it)
nihad k
· 11 months ago
great application.... thx for this post. This is my blog about blackberry application just check this out
when trying to make minds up about which to have , perhaps a look at what you want to do would be better. The BB has a drawback, that while being an excellent mp3 player, it's not very good at reading txt and doesn't read html files which are on the SD card. I created a test txt file, loaded it find the 'find' function not too clever. Tabs aren't readable so when a space is a tab ...well, you can guess the rest. So as I say, make sure you know what you want to do with your mobile telephone.
Amol
· 6 months ago
My BB 8900 can read HTML Files and also TXT, Doc, ppt, rtf, pdf files.
I can truly carry all my useful documents with me anywhere I go.
BTW, iPhone can't do that either. Most things on iPhone are web based. If you travel to places with no internet, then you're toast. Its just lame. We need data locally which is available anytime, and which syncs online.
Mariano
· 7 months ago
You forgot Viigo as others already commented. It is a very usefull app. I also use all the Google Apps like Gmaps & Gmail.
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The blackberry is the most user friendly and functional device.
Their app store is launching this spring, and once that happens, all the
fun stuff that iphone offers, will also head to the bb.
I had an iphone, but came back to bb, since it is so much easier to email,
and search. Much more functional for actual work, and communication.
I just wish some of the websites that have rushed to make apps for the iPhone would get on the ball and develop for the BlackBerry. My particular dead horse is Goodreads. I'm dying to use it to track my reading, but I just can't do it from the BB. Even using Opera Mini, the mobile site is hobbled. Makes me mad.
But i wanna buy something new : iphone or bb ?
Everybody is talking about iphone. Which looks cool.
But, i tend to believe that BB is more, as you said, fonctional.
So, i don't know. I might choose a bb.
@ Raya.B I don't think the BB is more functional at all! I think the one major advantage it has at the moment is ability to work on multiple cell phone companies, as opposed to ATT for iPhone (at least in the US). I think the other "advantage" is the keyboard. It can be hard for some, control-types to trust the auto-correct, and adjust to the touchpad typing. I was slow to this myself, but now I love it.
That said, I would expect the BB to remain a very useful and powerful tool! It isn't going away- will continue to get better and better.
all the other compagnies. I think i'll go for a BB. Thanks for your article. :)
Check out the ExecTones line, its perfect.
http://www.exectones.com/
but the website offers numerous opportunities for corporate integration
including pushing your data to their application. www.viigo.com
organizing blogs??!!? It's like e-mobile Pro, but, much better - It's by far the best, cheapest, and most functional of them all www.pocketday.com (I am not affiliated with it)
just check this out
blackberry application
a look at what you want to do would be better. The BB has a
drawback, that while being an excellent mp3 player, it's
not very good at reading txt and doesn't read html files
which are on the SD card.
I created a test txt file, loaded it find the 'find'
function not too clever. Tabs aren't readable so when a
space is a tab ...well, you can guess the rest.
So as I say, make sure you know what you want to do with
your mobile telephone.
I can truly carry all my useful documents with me anywhere I go.
BTW, iPhone can't do that either. Most things on iPhone are web based. If you travel to places with no internet, then you're toast. Its just lame. We need data locally which is available anytime, and which syncs online.