At a meeting I attended recently, I discovered that I was a complete outcast the other 18 people around the table. I was the only one with a BlackBerry, and all others had an iPhone. Every owner of an iPhone I have ever spoken to raves, but I've never been someone hit 'Convert' from a BlackBerry.
I have blackberries are used in various forms for several years. My last two have been BlackBerry Pearls. These are similar in size to a normal phone with a small qwerty keyboard that allows you one or two lines of response to urgent e-mail messages while keeping up to date with all incoming correspondence, and without something of the size of a carry small country in the bag.
I loved the BlackBerry, but with all telling me to get an iPhone, I have finally succumbed this month and made the switch. After surfing the Internet I found several comparisons of the two devices, but none that describes the pain of moving from one phone to another, and not one that describes the advantages and disadvantages of each.
If you have a BlackBerry and have to think about the cross-over, then read on! Please note that I am not very technically minded. I'm just a user. If I have a problem I see a bit of research on the internet if my problem can be solved.
A bit about me and how I my BlackBerry. I run an online wine merchants, where you can buy wine online. I also work as a consultant Finance Director for a number of companies. As such, I have about 10 e-mail accounts, I like to simultaneously read out and about. Some require immediate answers, but in general I can not write lengthy answers, until I'm back in front of a PC. I travel a lot and so roaming charges are important and I also have a separate iPod video that I made to use / music.
Since starting my new iPhone, I think I've spent two whole days while the transition from the blackberry. The first thing was to transfer all my contacts on the new phone. Note! Be very aware. I have my contacts from my previous phone to the SIM card, but no new contacts are entered on my BlackBerry on the phone and not saved the SIM card. There are not copy 'mass' function on the BlackBerry. You have any contacts you want with you a copy after another. The technical people say that this is because in the old style SIM contacts and phone numbers an outdated technology and that each of your contacts, a complete biography is said to have written about them. Well, I'm an old school user and I like it saved one person with one or two phone numbers, and so I have all of these had a copy of one, although I to end simply entering again on the iPhone. This was because in the blackberry, my contacts are Bob as' Mobile ',' Bob Home "or" Jim mobile. "Unfortunately, in the iPhone, this means that I am now more than 100 people with the family name mobile. Worse still, if you enter 'bob' in the phone book, looking for the program on family names. In the blackberry, entering 'Bob' would mean a short list of people with "bob" at some point in their behalf. why am I with to re-edit all the names (an additional working day).
Perhaps the biggest shock has been the management of e-mails. As mentioned earlier, I have 10 e-mail accounts. In the BlackBerry all these managed under one Inbox, and as new e-mails, they are simply in line, ready to read. If you answer, if you want to reply from another mail account, this is very easy to do. The iPhone has, however, all e-mail accounts separately. Although you have a summary screen that you have new mail accounts, each account in which you have read the news Go told again and again to the Summary screen, and go into the other account. There are altogether no way for the management of all e-mails.
Worse than this is that if you connect to a Microsoft Exchange server when you enable "SSL" (which you need to do to get the thing up and running), you must have to type a minimum of four-letter password every time you want on your phone. This means that when you when you pick up your phone to check the time to have to make a call to check if you have no e-mail, enter the passcode. Incredibly frustrating! There are many blogs on the Internet, tells you how to disable it when it happened on the switch by mistake, but this means in particular that the e-mail address no longer works. The only way around this is to forward all e-mails to a Gmail account. So if an e-mail account as ab@c.com, have set up a Gmail account on the model of abc@gmail.com. However, this means that they are all sent from this account, responses from Gmail, and not from c.com.
The iPhone works with which a home key, you need to create a Home screen, where you start, in contacts, calendars, dip, emails, etc. The main problem here is that there is no "back" button we are all used to. So if you want in a function (ie e-mails) and go and look calendar, are proceeding must be brought in and out of the home screen to something.
Battery life is a problem. Remember when cell phones first came out and they had to charge every day or even every 12 hours. Today we are in today's world, where battery life on mobile phones to a week of limited use or a few days with extended use can be extended. If you have an iPhone, where it returns to the ice ages. Charging a phone everyday means another wire, adapters, connectors etc with me wherever I go.
So far this is all negative. The main positive side to the iPhone is that it is an entertainment device, but as a phone. Now I have an iPod that use the phone instead of mine. I can weather reports, stock quotes, sports news or anything else to check quickly and easily (with a touch of a button), than I ever could with the BlackBerry. Surfing the Internet and even us to buy wine gifts easier with the iPhone. I can not download movies (but with my own DVDs yet more trouble than it's worth to do). There is, about 100,000 "Apps" that are downloaded, and some of them are quite fun. The best so far the ability, my Sky box at home from anywhere in the world program!
Oh, and if you travel abroad, the data charges enormous. I'm not sure how or why, but with the BlackBerry, you can specify "only 10kb download data from any e-mail as a standard. If you need more, then simply download the rest of the e-mail. With the iPhone She seems to have similar attitudes to load limits and pictures, but to ignore it and download everything. In the first three days I ran up to 80 pounds of data charges, while in the United Kingdom. I switched to an unlimited deal, but this applies only in the United Kingdom. Overseas data still costs a fortune, and I can not stop this (unless I turn off the roaming data completely and lose all the e-mail contact). I think that is do something with the way the iPhone downloads e-mails each time. I do not know really interested in why it happens, do I know they cost a fortune to use (without the effort to connect over WiFi networks).
So in summary, BlackBerry or iPhone? The BlackBerry is a business tool that is great at managing e-mail and old-style contact lists and calendars. It is easy to use, with a long battery life and is cheap when roaming. The iPhone is an entertainment tool that also manages e-mails, contacts, new style, new style calendar, connections, etc. There are two separate devices with different purposes. If you are a business person has used blackberry for a while, I would recommend you to stay with the BlackBerry. Because I have spent all this time, the conversion to the iPhone, I will now always, but still ripe for the simple use of the BlackBerry.
A new sales staff has started for me this week and I insisted that they use a BlackBerry. That alone speaks volumes.
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