Comments on: Little bit o’ iPhone news http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/16/apple-iphone-edge/ escape colon w q Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: felix http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/16/apple-iphone-edge/#comment-6249 felix Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:00:43 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/16/apple-iphone-edge/#comment-6249 Yeah, it's a shame that they don't have, basically, contact groups. I'd like that even just for contact organization. They definitely have some learning to do in the phone front, but I'm constantly amazed at how much I like the phone despite what it can't do. Blackberry's definitely the best of non-iphones. It just does what it does very well - honed by zillions of corporate users. Honestly, I don't know why winmob continues to suck - it's been out for so long. Sigh. My thinking, though, in this smartphone war is that the iPhone has easily the best base to build on. It's easy for them to add in new functionality in a clean and easy way. It's got an easy path up. Blackberry's (and everyone else, too) are kind of at the top of their games, they'll need a brand new major release to get a new base to build on and as far as I've heard, basically Palm is the only one even thinking about that. We'll see, interesting times! Yeah, it’s a shame that they don’t have, basically, contact groups. I’d like that even just for contact organization. They definitely have some learning to do in the phone front, but I’m constantly amazed at how much I like the phone despite what it can’t do.
Blackberry’s definitely the best of non-iphones. It just does what it does very well - honed by zillions of corporate users. Honestly, I don’t know why winmob continues to suck - it’s been out for so long. Sigh.
My thinking, though, in this smartphone war is that the iPhone has easily the best base to build on. It’s easy for them to add in new functionality in a clean and easy way. It’s got an easy path up. Blackberry’s (and everyone else, too) are kind of at the top of their games, they’ll need a brand new major release to get a new base to build on and as far as I’ve heard, basically Palm is the only one even thinking about that. We’ll see, interesting times!

]]> By: Sean http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/16/apple-iphone-edge/#comment-6248 Sean Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:38:14 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/16/apple-iphone-edge/#comment-6248 Interesting stuff, considering I *was* an sidekick owner, and was heavily weighing towards the iphone. Of course for me the real showstopper was the sms texting was crippled. Only a single recipient is supported, and no copy/paste/fowarding of previously sent texts! Yes, it does seem this was probably AT&T and not Apple, but whatever the reason it was a no-go for me. Since then I've heard friends having problems with the screens, and sound, the keyboard doesn't rotate in certain apps, etc. I guess that's what you get with v1.0. All I can say is I'm glad I went with the Blackberry 8820. Not quite as slick a UI as the sidekick, but blows it away in terms of features. Smaller, higher res screen, quick reconnect when coming out of the subway, better battery life, syncs with my mac, supports up to 32g microsd memory, GPS (which is super cool with Google maps), Gtalk gives you IM and with a little hack that can talk through the Jabber gateways to AOL, Yahoo, and MSN. What's more it has the glorious WIFI. No I haven't tried iskoot yet, but soon. And of course since blackberry has been making phones for a while, the phone quality just plain WORKS!! YMMV Interesting stuff, considering I *was* an sidekick owner, and was heavily weighing towards the iphone. Of course for me the real showstopper was the sms texting was crippled. Only a single recipient is supported, and no copy/paste/fowarding of previously sent texts! Yes, it does seem this was probably AT&T and not Apple, but whatever the reason it was a no-go for me. Since then I’ve heard friends having problems with the screens, and sound, the keyboard doesn’t rotate in certain apps, etc. I guess that’s what you get with v1.0.

All I can say is I’m glad I went with the Blackberry 8820. Not quite as slick a UI as the sidekick, but blows it away in terms of features. Smaller, higher res screen, quick reconnect when coming out of the subway, better battery life, syncs with my mac, supports up to 32g microsd memory, GPS (which is super cool with Google maps), Gtalk gives you IM and with a little hack that can talk through the Jabber gateways to AOL, Yahoo, and MSN. What’s more it has the glorious WIFI. No I haven’t tried iskoot yet, but soon. And of course since blackberry has been making phones for a while, the phone quality just plain WORKS!!

YMMV

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