On the good side, again, as a technophile, I love the iPhone! Integrating my Exchange email, GPS mapping, camera, YouTube/streaming video, Internet, having the App store and some other cool features make this a great business tool! I also have my iTune library with videos on my iPhone. The platfom is just the beginning as more uses are thought of and applications released.

Blackberry will have a hard time competing with the functionality of the iPhone in future releases since Google Android will be coming online soon and the open source platform will allow for more innovation and uses that are left to the imagination.

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Bottom line seems to be as an internet device, the iPhone is second to none. As a straight up business tool, nothing tops RIM's palm candy.

Watch the bars go from 1 to 5! Don't know the reason, it just works. Maybe a real techie can explain this.

You are right about this one. I can't believe I didn't include it on my list. I love being able to play back messages out of order. Why did it take so long to come up with this powerful way to display voicemails?

Thanks Ted.

Email is definately far betther than my TREO. I wish I had Video.

I like the matrix you provided because I hope it will help people take a closer look on what their needs are and which product can help them with it.

-Brendan

Nice job. How did you know I was contemplating changing. I've been a smartphone user from the beginning. I've had them all. I currently have a Verizon BB 8830 which I love, expect for the lame internet browsing (small screen). Being a former Palm Smartphone user, I miss the thousands of app available. BB seems to have limited apps. The iPhone seems to have many apps and many more are being added everyday. That says a lot for the popularity of the phone. My biggest concern is leaving the awesome customer service and coverage of Verizon. My other concern is the stability of BB. It seems the iPhone has had some problems, however I would guess these will be worked out eventually. One that has been bothering me about Verizon is the way they strip most phones capabilities to promote their own services. That really makes me made. It's a hard decision. The other thing for people to consider is that BB is coming out with a new phone called Thunder which will be a touchscreen and will have WiFi. Google it and check it out. It too is suppose to come out sometime 3rd quarter. I will probably wait till the end of this year although it will be hard. I love new phones. Thanks for the comparison.

George

First, while your chart says that iPhone has much longer talk time, that is not what I'm hearing anecdotally about the new version of the iPhone. I hard that it dies within a couple of hours and that it is SIGNIFICANTLY worse than the old version of the iPhone. I have heard many people share similar stories to yours. They have returned their new iPhone three times in the last three weeks and are still having trouble with them. It seems like Apple released this new version too quickly feeling the pressure of the upcoming release of the BlackBerry Bold and other exciting new phones.

Email Usability – while both phones allow you to send email, the usability on the iPhone is terrible versus the BlackBerry. I have very small fingers and for the life of me I cannot send an email or even a text message, for that matter easily from the iPhone. If you use email on your phone regularly, The buttons on either the Curve or the 8800 World phone series are both great. I have had both. I would highly recommend a BlackBerry vs. an iPhone. We have both types of phones in our family so I use both of then often.

Push Email – you didn't mention that BlackBerry also has push email. In fact, they invented the concept. They have the most secure and efficient method for pushing email on the market today.

Now that the iPhone offers Microsoft Exchange support my only real reservation in switching from Blackberry is the loss of the keyboard. How is that working out for you? Perhaps it would actually be beneficial as I'd have to pull over to respond to email.

I have been toying with the idea of going iphone. My current device is the Moto q9h with ATT. I started with the treo 750 3g in early 2007. Picked this device because it was one of the first 3g smartphones on ATT and it would soon become Supra ekey compatible and this would allow me to carry one less device. I had reception issues from day one and more dropped calls than one could imagine. I swapped the phone 3 times with ATT and the issue never went away but I stuck with it for 6 months before selling it on ebay after realizing I was missing business b/c of this crappy phone.

I had made the determination that I needed a phone with more solid reception and reliability even though I would have to go back to an extra lockbox device. The Moto Q9h is perfect! Great reception, LONG battery life, 3g and so on. The only drawback is the small screen and no touch screen. Great for outlook exchange and so on.

My reason for thinking about going iphone is that the ease of use of the internet and large touch screen. The issue is that our MLS in Atlanta is only IE compatible. I called to complain and as of yesterday I am beta testing an iphone/smartphone designed web site for our MLS. My only concern is I am worried about battery life, reception and overall reliability of the phone. Also, will I have to pay more to use exchange server?

-Matt