My contract is up with verizon. Im thinking of going over to at&t to get iphone..... Can I get pros and cons ? Thanks !
Iphone vs. Blackberry tour
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the iphone is a great product the only thing is the phone can only be used to its greatest potential via 3g and verizon smashes att in 3g coverage. What even worse is that sprint's 3g coverage is larger although sprints voice call service sucks.lol hope that helps
If you buy a Blackberry over an iPhone, I will come to your house, ring your doorbell and kick you in the nuggets. Then I will splatter giraffe shit all over your master bedroom.
You have been warned.
You have been warned.
Michael, what do you use your phone for? If it's for business then the new Sprint Pre is as good as it gets and you can get far better montly plans with Sprint. Let me know if you do go with Sprint and I'll email you a way to get 15% off your monthly bill.
Best thing about Pre is that you can toggle between two apps at the same time, you don't have to close one and open another.
Best thing about Pre is that you can toggle between two apps at the same time, you don't have to close one and open another.
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Iphone does that as well. the 3gs---AWESOME! Lost my 3g(errrrr! IT WAS STOLEN) and didnt wanna go thru the BS, purchased my 3gs saturday....and its all that they say. Application for iphone far superior to all other phones out. Anything u need to do you can do. I print documents out on the road emailed to me on my iphone at home/work. Honestly you may save a few bucks with another carrier, but if u need everything with you all the time, I mean u can access your hard drive on any cpu u have access to on the road as if u have that cpu with u. I see alot of pros with the iphone and not many cons, they now have picture in txt mess as well as video when u go 3gs which being a new customer u would. Enough from me, if u have any questions I;ll b glad to answer if I can.
All thought and opinions expressed above are my own, I didnt wanna sound like a "know it all" after re reading my paragraph:mj07:
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I have not had a blackberry in many years, so I can't speak for it.
I have had an iPhone for about 4 months now, and here is my take.
The #1 feature of the iPhone is voice mail on-demand (yeah, I know - I'm strange). You know that annoying bitch that feels like she has to read the phone number and tell you what time the call was even though EVERY cell phone has call history on it? Yeah, you can kick that bitch right to the freaking curb! You can look at all of your voice mails, click play and guess what... it actually starts playing you the message. It's awesome!
I also really like the threaded text messaging conversations. Now that MMS (pictures via text) is now available, this really kicks some booty.
We use exchange for our email/contacts/calendar, and it works extremely well.
The applications available really kick ass, too. No more staring at the wall while shitting. You now have the opportunity to blow up tanks, fly airplane, or even make really loud farting noises via the apps if you want. Believe me, this is a lot more fun than it sounds. WARNING: don't forget that you are on the crapper. Unless you have those nice moist-wipes, the apps could cause lingering problems.
With all that being said, the iPhone has been pretty terrible as far as call quality and drops go. I was with Sprint for 8 years or so, and I really never had any issues. I have had more dropped calls in the last 4 months than I probably did the entire 8 years with Sprint.
Overall, the iPhone is the greatest consumer product in this category ever, but if call quality is your #1 priority it may be best to go a different direction.
if you use for work make sure that your IT depart supports the mail config with exchange. If they don't you have to VPN and use OWA and it stinks. If for personal go with the iPhone, I have had the BB storm for a year and the pluses are our IT dept supports it and the GPS (iPhone has google maps with GPS support).
Agree about the call quality, but the phone is great.
What is exchange, an MS product? I still can't sync with my ACT program, looking at going to Outlook for calendar syncing. Anybody else have ideas on that?
Franky, I am using a blackberry tour and it is a good thing. Anyhow for wireless sync I am using google calendar and a program called google sync. What I figure is most people who are not using a smart phone attached to a company mail server only use calendar on the device and never on a computer also. Reason why is because they have no way of synching the calendar wireless. That is why I use google calendar. I am pretty sure google and outlook can work together, and I know you can export your calendar from ACT to outlook.
From there I think we would have to find a way to tie a google/gmail account to that outlook calendar. A lot of work up front but works great after that.
Also I know google sync works on other phones
http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=default
