December 31st Blackberry 9000 leaked photograph:
Hmmmmm... I don't think Apple has much to worry about.
Posted on 03/07/2008 8:56:09 PM PST by Swordmaker
I’d like to get into this argument but, since the only mobile phone service that I can get a signal at either my home (in Maryland) or my cabin (in north central PA) is Verizon Wireless, having an iPhone would be a useless proposition for me.
It’s always boggled my mind that in the Baltimore area Cingular/ATT has swiss cheese for coverage while Verizon Wireless coverage is pretty much flawless in the area.
I still believe Apple went with the wrong service provider.
Apple didn't have much choice. Apple went first to Verizon with the offer of the iPhone. Verizon, which is notorious for crippling their phones' capabilities, refused. They were not interested.
"The iPhone user manual is 123 pages... the Blackberry 7100 is 146."
A better piece of information is that in those 146 pages of manual for the BB 7100, there is NOT ONE GRAPHIC, not even a picture of the phone or a map of the keyboard and function keys! The iPhone's manual has full color graphicsk, some times up to 4 per page, on 64 of it's 123 pages.
The Blackberry's is almost all dense prose... two columns per page... and lists 5 to 15 steps long to accomplish most of the Blackberry's functions. The iPhone's has only one column per page a good use of white space to make it easier reading.
The other piece of information useful to someone asking the benefits is that most people don't need the iPhone's 123 page manual... and everything is accessible with several taps on the touch screen.
A manual comes with these things?
An iPod Touch has 90% of the iPhone's software. I seem to remember some paper coming with it, but I haven't read it. All the software was perfectly easy to learn by touching around.
From first glance, we know where RIM got its ideas for the Blackberry 9000 in the first place.
December 31st Blackberry 9000 leaked photograph:
Hmmmmm... I don't think Apple has much to worry about.
I agree, both the iphone (ATT) and Voyager (VZW) are both very successful designs. BB will no doubt add one to their quiver. It will be intersting to see how much it changes from the leak to the actual roll out device.
You misunderstood. I mean my email address wont say, say joebob@yahoo.com, it would mimic my work email address that isnt setup on the phone so when i reply to an email, it will look like it came from my work email. Pretty common in email clients.
Ah'Shucks, tell us how you really feel. The iPhone will blow Blackberry out the door eventually, just not today.
It's possible we have bad hardware. That notwithstanding, Apple's pathetic support of the enterprise across product lines will be the reason the answer to the title question is still "no f'n way." Lots of (admittedly stupid) companies still use Domino/Notes. Until you come up with a BES server equivalent, you are still a toy.
sorry, meant to ping you to this.
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