Uncle Miltie

The Google Phone, Unlocked (Confirmed and More Details)

Wait until pricing comes out to brand this the ultimate device. Unless Google plans to subsidize the phone out of their own pocket, it likely will cost in the $600+ range, the same range that made everyone so upset when the original iPhone came out. It definitely will have a market, but that market will vary depending on the sales price.

I do agree that if Google were to roll out it's own network, even as a MVNO, that it could make the game very interesting...

Is There Room for All Smartphone Makers?

As bullish as I am on Apple, I don't see RIM going bankrupt any time soon. They have a sizable moat in the IT departments of most major corporations. Due to the ability of RIM devices to be securely administered remotely, and all the existing infrastructure dedicated to RIM devices in the enterprise, they have the necessary moat that Apple is still trying to overcome. My iPhone is much improved over the last 2+ years, but it's still not as easy for an IT department to administer as my wife's blackberry.

Also, don't count out RIM for people who primarily use their device for e-mail and text messaging. For those people - and there are a lot of them - the BB is still much easier to type on than an iPhone.

There is in my opinion room for both companies products, and both products have significant owner loyalty and satisfaction. They don't call them Crackberries for nothing. As much as you'd have to pry my iPhone out of my cold, dead fingers, you would have to do the same to my wife's blackberry.


On Sep 28 07:14 PM JamesApple wrote:


> Rim has its root as a pager maker. The blackberrys and BES are just
> pagers and paging devices and services with eMail attached. blackberrys,
> blackberry OS and BES are dumb products with severe limitations and
> restrictions which are extremely hardwired and mechanical. It is
> impossible for anything Rim to become smart.
>
> Rim is going to go bankrupt no later than year 2012.

Motorola Looks Far Better than Other Mobile Internet Players

Also there is this...

> "It is completely and utterly foolish to whine about Nokia being clueless and then say that Motorola at least knows what they're doing when Motorola is trying to do EXACTLY the same that Nokia has been doing for years"

Try changing the name from Motorola to Palm and going back to January and stating the same thing. Motorola unveiled their new Android platform, and basically everyone who saw it agreed that Moto might have finally "gotten it", similar to the same kind of sentiment with Palm when they unveiled WebOS. That was the driving element of the article and analysis.

Motorola Looks Far Better than Other Mobile Internet Players

Kevin - the phone game is no longer just features, it's usability. Nokia still excels at making great hardware with lots of features, but their user interface is horrible, making it nearly impossible for normal people to use those great hardware features. THAT is what iPhone, WebOS, and Android have been focused on, and that has allowed those handsets to gain significant market share in the smartphone segment. Until Nokia understands and corrects their problems with their UI, they will continue to lose market share. It's that simple...

Blackberry’s 26 Advantages over iPhone

I stand corrected on other BB models. We have an 8820 and a Curve 8310 at home, and neither device has a card that can be accessed without removing the battery. The Curve supposedly can have the card removed without removing the battery, but I have yet to find a practical way to do that...


On Aug 10 02:05 PM Wireless Wiz wrote:

> To be fair, this is an untrue statement. For instance, the Bold
> has a side door slot, the Storm does not require removing the battery,
> and most , if not all, new Blackberries I have seen have this same
> feature - either a side loading slot or a slot that all you have
> to do is to remove the battery cover and you can hot-swap the memory
> card.

Blackberry’s 26 Advantages over iPhone

This article doesn't sound anything like an investing article - it sounds like a BlackBerry fanboy's defense of his toy compared to the iPhone. In our house, we have 2 BB's and 2 iPhones, and are familiar with the pluses and minuses of both devices. Several of these BB advantages are very debatable, offered a skewed presentation to benefit your argument, are more a criticism of the carrier, and are purely an advantage based on your own point of view. For example:

>1. Blackberry can be used on almost every carrier in the world (over 475 of them). In the US, the iPhone is available on AT&T (T) only.

True that iPhone is AT&T only in the US, but it's also offered in over 80 countries on over 100 carriers. Including T-Mobile in Germany. Exclusivity is a regionally determined item, and is undertaken by nearly every carrier in nearly every market - even for several of BB's devices.

>3. Most Blackberries have keyboards ..... Helps while driving, walking, carrying something in your other hand – all the time.

Good luck with that. I've yet to see anyone successfully text with one hand any faster on a BB than on an iPhone. And any texting while in motion is a DISADVANTAGE.

>4. Blackberry uses standardized (=inexpensive and available everywhere in the world) MicroUSB connector for synchronization/charging. iPhone has a much larger proprietary 30-pin connector.

Blackberries are notoriously finicky about their MicroUSB connections - they don't work with every MicroUSB cable and can be a pain to get one that they like. And the iPod / iPhone dock connectors is as close to being universal as you can get.

>5. Some carriers such as Verizon (VZ) and Sprint (S) offer unlimited international Blackberry data roaming for $40/month or less.

Go ahead and try to use your CDMA VZ or S device outside the US and see how incredibly useful that unlimited data roaming really is - not so much when there are no CDMA towers outside of the US and Japan.

>7. Blackberry has expandable memory. iPhone is fixed and sold at 8, 16 or 32 gig only.

BB has to be expandable, because with a stock 128MB of on-board memory, there is no storage space for anything of note. To change the card on our BB's requires removing the battery - hardly a convenient thing to do with any regularity. I have over 2000 songs, 6 full length movies, 70 apps, and 2000 photos on my 32GB iPhone, and have 15 GB free. No need for another card when you have that kind of storage space.

>11. Blackberry allows communicating peer-to-peer via PIN identifier, circumventing the email system. No such iPhone equivalent.

Peer-to-peer communicating is only useful if your company doesn't lock out that service - and many do (my wife's, for example). However, there are hundreds of IM clients available for both devices and SMS on both devices that also bypass the e-mail system.

>12. Skype (EBAY) on the Blackberry? Yes, from anywhere to anywhere. Skype on iPhone? Only if you’re on WiFi.
>
>13. Sling on the Blackberry? Yes, it’s free. Sling on iPhone? $30.
>
>14. Google (GOOG) Voice on the Blackberry? Yes, it’s free. Google Voice on iPhone? Verboten.

These are limitations of AT&T, not the iPhone itself. If you're criticizing Apple's selection of AT&T, fine. Then ask why Verizon wouldn't step up to the place when Apple originally offered the iPhone to them first.

>24. Price: Unlimited iPhone voice/data service, including unlimited SMS, is $150/month. Blackberry can be had for much less. For example, unlimited Blackberry service is offered on Sprint for $100/month, T-Mobile USA $125/month, MetroPCS $50/month, although AT&T/Verizon match the iPhone at $150/month.

Again, you're comparing carriers - not the devices. The iPhone data plan is $30 a month for unlimited data on AT&T. It's actually cheaper than most BB data plans on other carriers.


Nearly every point listed is debatable, skewed and subjective. Hardly an investing article.

Jobs' Integrity: A Reason to Buy Apple

That is exactly correct - Apple has over $32 per share in cash and 0 debt. Back out the cash from the stock price, and you have a better indication of EPS - in the 17x range. And it still does not correctly account for deferred iPhone and Apple TV earnings, which might be worth another $10 per share (my SWAG, unsure of the real number). Both of those factored in to a company continuing to beat all earnings estimates and continuing to grow even during a recession, and it's hard to go wrong with AAPL the stock.


On Apr 28 06:41 AM Roger Knights wrote:

> "23X EPS is a little rich right now"
>
> I'm fuzzy on the details, but I have the impression that the EPS
> figure doesn't include the deferred earnings from the iPhone, and
> isn't adjusted for the huge portion of the share price that is based
> on Apple's $30 billion cash hoard. With those two adjustments made,
> and in light of Apple's new products in the pipeline, a price of
> $150 wouldn't be excessive.

Revisiting the iPhone's Browsing Market Share

Dig down a little into that report (page 4), and you'll see why this is meaningless. 4 of the top 6 devices are Motorola phones which have no web browsing capability - only a severly limited version of the mobile web. The top individual handset for market share? The Motorola RAZR V3.

Based on that flawed data, the report and this blog post are also meaningless...

Consumers Will Benefit From Smartphone Battle

The problem is that out of your 200 million Symbian phones, only a small portion can actually run applications due to a lack of memory and processing power. Add in the multiple different controller interfaces (keypad and buttons), different screen resolutions and different versions of Symbian, and it's a fragmented market at best. Newer devices will surely benefit from the newfound freedom, but unless they have a more common configuration, it's still a crapshoot.

What's Better: BlackBerry or iPhone?

Hi Wayne,

Here at my house, I have an iPhone, my wife has a CrackBerry. Here is our general impression of the two devices:

1) The blackberry is better for her e-mail and texting habits. Her fingernails make it easier for her to text on the crackberry - but not by much. I can text on my iPhone nearly as fast as she can on her crackberry, and I definitely have fat fingers.

2) As of today, my iPhone won't connect to my corporate Exchange server, but her blackberry will. It's already been announced that that will change by the end of June when iPhone software 2.0 is released - and all current iPhones will get that upgrade.

3) The iPhone is superior in every other function. Period. It's not even close. Whether it's internet, music or multimedia, the iPhone makes the blackberry look like it's still in the stone age.

4) Once you have the internet at hand as easily as you do on an iPhone, you will be AMAZED at how much more useful the iPhone is. There are things you had never even considered doing before that you can now do easily. Get a map to your next appointment, complete with traffic info? done. Check the weather forecast? simple. Search for info on a client from the web? piece of cake. Read the Times? fast. It really is a game changer.

5) I have no case on my iPhone, and it's hit the pavement several times with only minor scratching of the metal band.

6) you claim to have used an iPhone for a while in the comments, yet you seem to not understand how significant the mobile web is. To me, that's shocking.

The advantages of the iPhone so outweigh the blackberries lone advantage, that my wife will be switching the minute she can get the iPhone on her enterprise system. Simple as that.

Enjoy your blackberry. Just remember that iPhone is not all about Apple PR hype. It really is a game changer...