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You will loose A constant supply of useless time consuming apps. Get the berry and live life of reliabile emails a life of not starring your life away at nothing of true value.The 9810 screen a hair smaller but very good , web browser is great, camera great and everything else is there
I have never had a problem with email on my iPhone. Also in my experience I have never had a better browsing experience than with my iPhone. And in my opinion the iPhone has the best camera...wait I just answered my own question.
I'm a decade-long BlackBerry user that recently switched to an iPhone. My primary reason was syncing at home with my iMac and MacBook Air. I wanted wireless sync and it's been flawless with my iPhone. Of course that's to be expected if you keep to the ecosystem. I'm all Mac at home so the iPhone is a natural fit.
Another thing I enjoy with the iPhone that was missing on my BlackBerry is sub-folders in email. This is a BlackBerry feature reserved for BES users. BIS users like me get shut out. If I want to look up an old email I have filed in a sub-folder I can do it on my iPhone but not on my BlackBerry. How did RIM fall behind in the email game?? That was always BlackBerry's trump card.
Maps. The iPhone screen rocks for using maps and GPS. BlackBerry screens are just too small to be truly useful with a map. I'm loving my iPhone for navigation.
I never thought I'd adjust to an on-screen keyboard after using BlackBerrys for 10 years. While the BlackBerry keyboard on my 9930 is the best i've ever used, the iPhone keypad is actually pretty decent. Not as good as the physical keyboard from RIM, but I really haven't had trouble adjusting.
Well, since you answered your own question... I'll throw my 2 cents in. It depends on what you use your phone for. If it is apps then iPhone is the way to go. If you want media it is probably iPhone but BB is very good also now. If it is email, texting, and documents the winner is BB. I had an iPhone 4 and went to the 9800. It was what sold me on BB now I have the 9810 and love it. So it is simple, it is what fits you best. For me, I did not use many apps and wanted better email texting and documents so it was BB.
The 9810 is the best hardware RIM has to offer, do if your going to go BB then that is the way to go.
Honestly I think other platforms have caught up with RIM in the email department. All they boast now is security and having a smaller data foot print then activesync. On the other hand you have a single point of failure. That being their data centers going down. As they have half a dozen times in 3 years?
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Well I've had the iphone4 since JUne-July 2011 . Countless times my emails have been late or never came, then there are only a little number stored on the phone so they keep disappearing down the list and to get them back you have to download and download and download.And if you catch yourself out of service and need to find that important email your screwed. BB not a problem they are there instantly and stay there. As far a s web browsing there is nothing lacking with OS 7 on BB . I resized my text to 21 on the 9900 and its easier to look at than the iphone. On the 9810 or 9860 one screen that's slightly smaller and one that's a 1/4 bigger than the iphone. The 9900 is smoother operating under pressure that the iphone4 and the shortcuts if used makes you fly. I prefer the keyboard and the design of the 9900 over the screen size of the 9810 or 9860 but that's just me. The apps on BB have been everything I need , they are ones I actually use more than a week. Most of people download a bunch of apps on there androids and iphone when they first get them , use them a couple of times and forget about them. Every thing I need to do one a phone its there on BB. Then OS10 will bring the android apps , so arguing apps then will be pointless. Try updating a complex spreadsheet on a iphone. Security on BB is so far beyond Iphone there isn't even a reason to have a discussion on it. 9810 or 9860 both have good cameras. The 9900 doesn't have autofocus so text pictures are tricky but instead of getting superclose you back up and zoom in and it does fine. Indoor and outdoor shots on the 9900 are absolutely wonderful. I constantly make my wife mad because my pictures always turn out better than the ones on her iphone . With mine too they constantly turn out better. The video on the 9900 is crisp and clear as can be.Battery is better on the BB. Calls are better. Although I will say iphone has the best charging port ever invented and really would like to see something like that come to BB
I had an iPhone 3gs for a year when it came out. Came back to the BB because the email and calendar features worked better for me on the BB than iPhone. I also use a MacBook and also a Windows PC. Never had a problem with the BB on those devices.
The biggest peeve I have with the iPhone is the amount of space the keyboard takes on the screen. For emails, I like to see what I have typed. Or when I replied text. I like to see as much as possible.
Personally, I like the way I can get emails out and fast especially if you have attachments. Also, I like the autocorrect on the Berry, the iPhone autocorrect is a disaster. Lastly, I like the app integration with Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.
I've got iPhone 4s and Blackberry Torch 9810 and I could say that:
- if you want to have lots of entertainment Iphone is your phone! There are lots of games, lots of useful and useless apps, lots of graphic apps (like my fave Instagram)
- if you don't need games, don't need professional graphic apps, but you want to stay in touch with other people by mail, text or with other BB users via BBM and you want to have best mail client ever choose Blackberry Torch 9810
Well... As I wrote at the beginnig I've got both phones And I think they both are the best phones I've ever had!
I find it surprising that on my BlackBerry over BIS I still have no access to sub-folders in email. I'm compulsive about a neat inbox and filing messages in proper sub-folders. BIS/BlackBerry still offers no access to these folders or stored messages. On my iPhone I thought I'd be sacrificing email handling compared to my BlackBerry but the iPhone actually handles email better! I have full access to all my sub-folders and all the emails stored there. This drives home how badly RIM has slipped and watched as everyone else has caught up or zoomed by.
Just take the iphone
I was long time BB user with the unlimited International data with AT&T
once I moved to the iphone I am not an Apple fan but the iphone is working good for me,
the best thing I like about it that the careirs can't change any thing Apple make the rulles
I bought the factory unlocked from the Apple store
Good judgment comes from experience,Experience comes from bad judgment
I've got iPhone 4s and Blackberry Torch 9810 and I could say that:
- if you want to have lots of entertainment Iphone is your phone! There are lots of games, lots of useful and useless apps, lots of graphic apps (like my fave Instagram)
- if you don't need games, don't need professional graphic apps, but you want to stay in touch with other people by mail, text or with other BB users via BBM and you want to have best mail client ever choose Blackberry Torch 9810
Well... As I wrote at the beginnig I've got both phones And I think they both are the best phones I've ever had!
I agree with most of you feedback but iphone can do all what you said about the bb
I have the family unlimited SMS and I am not limited to text only my bb freands
I came from a Bold 9700 and was getting bored and frustrated with the browser shutting down when I view webpages. I really was torn between the new 9900 & iPhone. As much as I love the iPhone, there were two main apps that kept me a RIM user: BBM & Blackberry Traffic. One day I decided to check out prices on Kijiji for a used 9900 and the prices were too high. There was an ad that listed a 9860 and for a much more reasonable price. After countless pages of reading up about the 9860 and finally viewing some YouTube hands on reviews, I took the plunge. It was like a miracle. I had the best of both worlds. Full touch screen BB with BBM & Blackberry Traffic! I think with all the hype surrounding the 9900 & 9810, the 9860 kinda got left behind.
There is a slight learning curve with the virtual keyboard, but I've been getting more and more use to it and I can type quite efficiently. The autocorrect & word suggestions work well and the screen real estate is a big win for me. I don't miss the physical keyboard at all. Browsing the internet has been a dream and I haven't been giving much love for my iPad.
For me personally, it fits my exact needs of what I wanted in a phone: larger screen size and being able to retain BBM & Blackberry Traffic.
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