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Blackberry’s 26 Advantages over iPhone

WiFi calling is not just a T Mobile advantage. It is also a Blackberry advantage. Most of the phones that T Mobile offers do NOT offer WiFi calling. Only the Blackberries do.


On Aug 10 12:23 PM qzg wrote:

> Comments by number:
>
> 1. For now... ; initially this was necessary for advanced features
> such as visual voice mail.
>
> 2. Irrelevant in terms of advantage.
>
> 3. BB keyboard is slower; touch keyboard REALLY blows. (my opinions
> and experience; YMMV )
>
> 4. The same 30-pin adapter that is used on the overwhelming majority
> of MP3 Players (read:iPod) and they are available everywhere USB
> cables are sold
>
> 5. Legitimate advantage, for now. See #1
>
> 6. This is a T-Mobile advantage; not a Blackberry advantage.
>
> 7. If you need more than 32GB of memory on your cell phone then this
> is an advantage.
>
> 8. This is basically the same as #8
>
> 9. This was by design. I think that Apple's reasoning is sound.
> This is not an "advantage" but a "difference".
>
> 10. Irrelevant
>
> 11. Cool but irrelevant in terms of user experience. MMS will help.
>
>
> 12. Advantage for now. See #1.
>
> 13. Glad the iPhone community is supporting Sling.
>
> 14. Possible advantage if you need this service.
>
> 15. So can iPhone; if you use MobileMe it happens over the air.
> It is a beautiful thing.
>
> 16. iPhone has this too; any phone that supports IMAP does too.
> POP3 will do it too if you don't delete from server.
>
> 17. Advantage
>
> 18. Advantage for now.
>
> 19. Also on iPhone; see Beejive IM. Does anyone care if a "native"
> client from the network is available.
>
> 20. iPhone is available with the BEST browser; does anyone really
> want to have some other, inferior browser?
>
> 21. Does anyone use any other media management program anymore?<br/>
>
> 22. Cool but I wouldn't say it is an advantage. TiVo to go allows
> me to pull videos off my TiVo and put them on my iPhone.
>
> 23. I don't want to have to wade through a list of 10,000 emails
> on ANY device; Search is best; "out of coverage area" days are numbered.
> Still, this is an advantage.
>
> 24. See #1.
>
> 25. See #1
>
> 26. I don't know anything about this one. That being said, the only
> device that is "un-hackable" is one that is off. Apple has a lot
> less to do to meet military-grade security than RIM has to do to
> catch up with Apple. Give them time. That being said, I don't know
> that Apple really cares to target that market segment.
>
> In summary, most of the genuine advantages of Blackberry are really
> about the carrier and that won't last forever. The fact that Blackberry
> is available on other carriers has been its saving grace. If iPhone
> had been on other carriers from launch, Blackberry wouldn't have
> had time to develop its "me too" offerings and would have lost an
> even bigger chunk of what it has.
>
> Blackberry has failed to significantly innovate in at least 5 years.
> Apple manages something innovative with every OS release. It will
> be considerably easier for Apple to add the few features which Blackberry
> has over the iPhone than it will be for Blackberry to come out with
> something new the iPhone doesn't have; RIM will be busy for quite
> a while just trying to duplicate iPhone's features.
>
> The APIs and development tools they make available for developers
> is incredibly superior to every other mobile platform (although Palm's
> WebOS looks promising). This one element may prove impossible for
> RIM to match and will probably be the most "sustainable" fuel for
> iPhone market expansion after it has saturated the "I just want an
> iPhone" market.