iPhone iUpdate
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Down sides: The typing is still annoying, but I'm getting better at it. Typing while driving - seemingly impossible. Typing even while riding in a moving car is still quite a feat. Battery life is atrocious if I use the GPS features at all. The 3G radio/service works for sh*t, so I've disabled it - that seems to have helped battery life too. Seemingly no way to differentiate important e-mail from normal e-mail, so no special notification of important stuff. I can't add recipients to an SMS conversation when replying to an incoming message; this seriously hampers the intended business use of the device, which is OOB communication when "the network" is down. Putting email service in "push" mode destroys my mail server by polling several times a second (this one is apparently a bug in the server software, but it's only happening with iPhones). Email service, thus, is slowed to 15-minute checks - way slower than I'm used to. No flash or video shooting with the camera.
Up sides (compared to past and future Blackberries): Way WAY more applications for the iPhone than for the Blackberry - even some good ones. Streaming music from my home collection to the phone over the cell network (awesome). The Safari web browser is way more capable than the browser I've been using on the Blackberry (7290). GPS is included with no additional charges, and is available to applications, which makes for some very cool apps. Making and uploading arbitrary ringtones is dead easy.
Overall, if the iPhone wins, it will be on GPS and an abundance of applications. Technically, I still think the Blackberry is (or will be, speaking of the Bold) a superior device - if only people would write applications for it.
Down sides: The typing is still annoying, but I'm getting better at it. Typing while driving - seemingly impossible. Typing even while riding in a moving car is still quite a feat. Battery life is atrocious if I use the GPS features at all. The 3G radio/service works for sh*t, so I've disabled it - that seems to have helped battery life too. Seemingly no way to differentiate important e-mail from normal e-mail, so no special notification of important stuff. I can't add recipients to an SMS conversation when replying to an incoming message; this seriously hampers the intended business use of the device, which is OOB communication when "the network" is down. Putting email service in "push" mode destroys my mail server by polling several times a second (this one is apparently a bug in the server software, but it's only happening with iPhones). Email service, thus, is slowed to 15-minute checks - way slower than I'm used to. No flash or video shooting with the camera.
Up sides (compared to past and future Blackberries): Way WAY more applications for the iPhone than for the Blackberry - even some good ones. Streaming music from my home collection to the phone over the cell network (awesome). The Safari web browser is way more capable than the browser I've been using on the Blackberry (7290). GPS is included with no additional charges, and is available to applications, which makes for some very cool apps. Making and uploading arbitrary ringtones is dead easy.
Overall, if the iPhone wins, it will be on GPS and an abundance of applications. Technically, I still think the Blackberry is (or will be, speaking of the Bold) a superior device - if only people would write applications for it.