Bold 9000 and 9700
I could think of a few reasons why I would choose BlackBerry over iPhone for now:
- The screen is gorgeous, second only to the iPhone 3G S.
- It runs on BlackBerry OS. Any phone, regardless of how smart you label it, is not smart enough if it runs on Windows Mobile. Maybe not as fluid as Mac OS X on iPhone and the many apps, but enough for normal use.
- The iPhone in Malaysia is ridiculously priced. Shame on Maxis to take that advantage as a sole distributor.
- It’s only better than the iPhones in terms of battery life, business apps (like Word/Excel PDF), and sync to IBM Lotus Notes. But iPhone is already linking up to Microsoft Exchange now.
- It now has BlackBerry Desktop Manager software to talk to Macs. More details here.
Even Volker Weber gave BlackBerry Bold a green light, except for the fact that the Mac support was terrible. But not anymore, with the BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac sync above.
Picture source: crackberry.com
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I was in the office for a while. Returned home after Friday prayer. Tough days ahead.
Despite the losses incurred by Nokia. Nokia N900 that runs on Linux Maemo looks promising (despite trying too hard to be iPhone and Crackberry). At the moment, if I’m buying one, it would be either Blackberry Storm 2 or iPhone 3G S.
Hafez,
They’re sinking quite a bit. Hopefully the N900 puts them back in the game. I heard Storm 1 sucks. I have not reviewed and researched enough to say anything about Storm 2. Again, as long as they learned the lessons, there should not be any repetition of Storm 1 failure.
I … must … resisit … running … down … the … BlackBerry … even … if … it … sucks.
Must … resist …
BigMacky – (insert actual name here)
I thought you must resist, even if it works very well. If it sucks, it’s supposed to be very easy to ignore it. Haha…
yes, the iPhone a bit pricey, that’s why i am still resisting to buy. bold is good, but to access company’s email, i have to get gm’s approval, so no go too…. nokia E71 is mine now, my best phone yet… 🙂 but of course later pakai iphone lah… 🙂
awang
iphone is indeed. use bold with discretion, i wouldn’t want to view company’s e-mail on it, lol. is E71 running on linux? i would want to move to iphone too… but later.
As a bb bold user, I find syncing the bb with my mbpro is a royal pain in the rear. I have moved from bb desktop manager for mac which gave me 3 of each contacts and no ability to add or change contacts to google sync which gets glitchy occasionally. For pure syncing reasons, I think I will make the move to the iPhone 3gS.
Juarez,
For obvious reason, iPhone 3Gs would definitely sync better with mbpro. If syncing is very much a problem, I too would revert back to iPhone 3Gs.
Im quite suprised bb desktop manager for mac is not properly designed to work with macs. I’d like to have a first-hand experience of that to outline where it stands on usability.