The Blackberry is Better than the iPhone

Well, after much usage and frustration, I have actually gone BACK to the Blackberry.   Yup – I found it to be a superior tool for my needs.  The iPhone was fun and cool, but it was lame in key areas.

Back in January, I was all jacked up about the iPhone... grew more and more disappointed with it each passing day.  I’m inspired to write about this experience because as an early adopter of all kinds of technology, I’m CERTAIN there are other people who’ve either experienced the same thing  or would like to AVOID making the mistake that I did.

The Bottom line for me is that the Blackberry is a better business tool than the iPhone.

Period.

I think that Blackberries are better business tools .. awesome phones with good business features and excellent usability…

while the iPhone is really a multimedia iPod with mediocre phone features and lack of business tools, weak texting issues that include privacy concerns for many, no SMS support,  it is too big and heavy in my opinion, had a poor speaker phone, no auto voice dial from a button (LOVE that feature when I’m driving),  and of course is hard to use the touch screen.

I like the tactile feeling of buttons.  Battery life doesn’t compare for me either – because the iPhone is running the Mac OS, it’s basically like having a small PC on all the time sucking up power, which is compounded by fueling the large capacitive touch screen with power.

Sure – there’s lots of cool apps out there to impress your friends with at a party, but the truth is, they wasted more of my precious time than I care to admit.

Add to that the Blackberry’s support for MicroSD, bluetooth sync, a swappable battery.. versus iPhone’s lack of those all together and iTunes dependency (which I hate on a PC)…

… and you can see why the Blackberries come out ahead in my book, which is really what I need.

Sorry iPhone lovers…  the iPhone is a glorified ipod and the product of a wildly successful marketing campaing that failed to deliver what the corporate world needs.

I have gone back to the phone I loved – the Blackberry Pearl.  In red. Bam!

(Just don’t tell anyone how much I love playing Bejeweled...in fact I may buy a used iPod touch just so I can play that game!!!)

Have you subscribed to my RSS feed yet? You can also subscribe by email.