iphone or blackberry or something else?

[jayehs]

Using both right now. BlackBerry for corporate and iphone for personal. If email is important as well as security etc, then BlackBerry hands down. If you just want a entertainment device with lot of consumer features, then iphone. Emailing on iphone is absolute garbage tho.

[dj_mocok]

Nobody likes LG Viewty here?

[Quaddy]

iphone is great fun and a great device.

but it does lack the instant email service like the blackberry, push email is very finicky and a lot of people simply cant get it to work, i realize there is imap googlemail etc, but this isnt true push like blackberry, and there are patched hacked software to simulate imapidle etc.

it doesnt bother me, as i am not a corporate user or someone who needs email on tap, through it would be nice to actually have the native feature the iphone promised with regards to true push.

but if you are majorly concerned about instant email - avoid the current incarnation of the iphone. go blackberry or dedicated device. this is coming from someone who hearts their iphone too.

[wanderman]

I don't like how the iphone can't assign ringtones from songs in the library, download stuff from the internet, act as a ums drive, or record voice notes. Until you jail break it, the phone is quite limited and superficial device that lacks alot of basic features.

I have to remind myself to run rmaa test this weekend.

[Carmantom]

Originally Posted by wanderman

I don't like how the iphone can't assign ringtones from songs in the library, download stuff from the internet, act as a ums drive, or record voice notes. Until you jail break it, the phone is quite limited and superficial device that lacks alot of basic features.

I have to remind myself to run rmaa test this weekend.

I'd say with the new roadmap Apple recently announced we are in for quite a treat for all the new applications yet to come.

[tyrion]

I'm using a Samsung Blackjack at the moment which is 3G capable. I have a law partner that uses the iphone and is able to receive outlook email through our exchange server. It's not difficult at all. The only issue at the moment is that to send an email you can't use wifi because you are using the outgoing att server. In order to update the outlook calendar you just connect the iphone to your computer.

In June there will be exchange support added, I believe through the use of active sync. Once that is available and they add 3g, I will pick one up.

[Al4x]

i have the iphone, but i wouldnt get it without the jaillbreak,

with out that its not really entertaining, and not really buisness either

[jayehs]

Originally Posted by tyrion

I'm using a Samsung Blackjack at the moment which is 3G capable. I have a law partner that uses the iphone and is able to receive outlook email through our exchange server. It's not difficult at all. The only issue at the moment is that to send an email you can't use wifi because you are using the outgoing att server. In order to update the outlook calendar you just connect the iphone to your computer.

In June there will be exchange support added, I believe through the use of active sync. Once that is available and they add 3g, I will pick one up.

Yeah but the issue is that do you really want to put all your compnay emails on iphone? It's not secure at all. What happens if you lose it? Passwords on iphone doesn't mean anything. Anyone can hack into it. Plus if you are a power email user (which i would thinks so if you use it for corporate), iphone is definitely not enough. It's too limited and has many little quirks that just makes it not user-friendly. Only thing it does is provide you with the convenience of email access on the road, but you can't do much with it. BlackBerry's can do pretty much anythign you can do on Outlook or Notes + wireless sync of calendars, contacts, tasks, etc. Just can't beat that. If you guys ever see the Blackberry enterprise server and what it can do, you'd undertstand iphone has no chance when it comes to competing in the corporate world regardless of the new exchange support.

With that said, I still love my iphone. I think it's the best consumer phone i've ever had.

[tyrion]

Originally Posted by jayehs

Yeah but the issue is that do you really want to put all your compnay emails on iphone? It's not secure at all. What happens if you lose it? Passwords on iphone doesn't mean anything. Anyone can hack into it. Plus if you are a power email user (which i would thinks so if you use it for corporate), iphone is definitely not enough. It's too limited and has many little quirks that just makes it not user-friendly. Only thing it does is provide you with the convenience of email access on the road, but you can't do much with it. BlackBerry's can do pretty much anythign you can do on Outlook or Notes + wireless sync of calendars, contacts, tasks, etc. Just can't beat that. If you guys ever see the Blackberry enterprise server and what it can do, you'd undertstand iphone has no chance when it comes to competing in the corporate world regardless of the new exchange support.

With that said, I still love my iphone. I think it's the best consumer phone i've ever had.

The iphone in June will have exchange support. I can't say whether or not it's as good as a Blackberry in every corporate environment. I can only say that at the moment it works in ours fine. Any email that comes through our exchange server is in our office computers whether it's incoming or outgoing. The only thing it dosn't do at the moment is wireless sync of the outlook calendar and contacts. In order to do that it's a matter of connecting the iphone to the computer. Again, I don't have the technical know how to compare the two. I was only pointing out that it can be used like a Blackberry and will be closer in June.

[Aptmunich]

The iPhone feels like a little computer in your pocket. The blackberry is great for typing out emails, but it also makes you feel like you're sending glorified SMS.
If you mainly need an email device, get a blackberry. If you want to do more, get the iPhone.