I have an iPhone 4 and a blackberry bold. The iPhone is a work phone and the blackberry is mine. The truth for me is that both have their advantages. The iPhone is better for web browsing and keeping you from boredom on occasions where you have time passing with nothing else to do. The blackberry is (and this is important) the better communication device. Typing on it is vastly superior, the call quality and signal strength and reliability (they are both 3G and on the same network) is much better than the iPhone.
I use the iPhone for work calls and emails. But it has annoying issues like when on a train moving at more than about 30mph it always struggles to keep a signal for data. The blackberry just works. I cannot stress how common this problem is. When I get on a train, invariably the iPhone ends up as a glorified iPod and I've ended up using my own blackberry for work calls because as a phone it is more reliable. The iPhone also has issues that infuriate me such as when some apps update the progress bar remains full but the update is finished. You can't open the app with it there so you have ro reboot it to discover it will now work but the app has jumped out of the folder I had it in and relocated itself to the next available space on he homepage. The latest software update also screwed up my camera roll menu. They're not as polished as apple fanboys will have you believe.
So if style and fashion is your thing and you browse the web a lot while travelling (assuming you can get a decent signal) the apple device is your thing. If you want an all round versatile and reliable communicating device I'd recommend the blackberry.
But my parting shot may help you further: my contract is up next month and I will be buying neither. It will be time to try Android for me.
I use the iPhone for work calls and emails. But it has annoying issues like when on a train moving at more than about 30mph it always struggles to keep a signal for data. The blackberry just works. I cannot stress how common this problem is. When I get on a train, invariably the iPhone ends up as a glorified iPod and I've ended up using my own blackberry for work calls because as a phone it is more reliable. The iPhone also has issues that infuriate me such as when some apps update the progress bar remains full but the update is finished. You can't open the app with it there so you have ro reboot it to discover it will now work but the app has jumped out of the folder I had it in and relocated itself to the next available space on he homepage. The latest software update also screwed up my camera roll menu. They're not as polished as apple fanboys will have you believe.
So if style and fashion is your thing and you browse the web a lot while travelling (assuming you can get a decent signal) the apple device is your thing. If you want an all round versatile and reliable communicating device I'd recommend the blackberry.
But my parting shot may help you further: my contract is up next month and I will be buying neither. It will be time to try Android for me.
