iPhone, Android or Black Berry

[Drolefille]

For a simple breakdown, here's the best comparison. iPod is like buying a Mac. It's proprietary, it comes software and hardware in the same package. You can't buy a Samsung or Motorola with iOS anymore than you buy a Dell with OS X. So you're locked in. I've never been a fan of iTunes' functionality, but I never had an iPod either so I wasn't forced to use it. Which is the other part, though you CAN root your iProduct, generally you're locked in to using exactly the software that Apple wants you to.

Android is more like buying a PC. The OS is the same yet modified for each platform. So experiences will vary based on the brand of phone you buy, much as buying a PC from Dell, HP, Apex, Alienware or building it yourself will give you a variety of experiences. With Android phones more research needs to go into the phone itself. So there's more inconsistency because my Droid2 isn't going to run the same as the new Samsung even though both use Android as a platform. It means there's more variety in apps, you can download them from anywhere, but then apps also have to be optimized for different phones and aren't quality controlled the way the iTunes store is. They're not censored so much either though.

So it comes down to the "Mac or PC" question yet this is one where Apple has had the head start and where Android, though the underdog in numbers comes out ahead in my opinion. But then as I said I was never into the iProducts before so I didn't have an investment.


As for Blackberry, it's something entirely different, IMO. If you want 'just' a BB then that's what you should get. It's optimized for it's functions. Smartphones can do everything a BB can do, but they're not 'just' designed for that so they're as inherently good at it. You have to make your phone do it.

[BluPhire]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

As for Blackberry, it's something entirely different, IMO. If you want 'just' a BB then that's what you should get. It's optimized for it's functions. Smartphones can do everything a BB can do, but they're not 'just' designed for that so they're as inherently good at it. You have to make your phone do it.

Not entirely true. But like you said before it depends on the OS. My wife has an Android 2.3 but does not do the "business" things my BB does.

At the same time there are some things the Iphone does that Blackberry should take a queue from.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by BluPhire

Not entirely true. But like you said before it depends on the OS. My wife has an Android 2.3 but does not do the "business" things my BB does.

What part isn't true? Is there something that BB can do that iPhone and Android can't?

If someone doesn't want the "business things" then they probably don't want a BB. If the DO want the "business things" they should decide if they'd rather optimize their smartphone themselves or get a BB.

ETA: I don't understand what you were disagreeing with?

[BluPhire]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

What part isn't true? Is there something that BB can do that iPhone and Android can't?

If someone doesn't want the "business things" then they probably don't want a BB. If the DO want the "business things" they should decide if they'd rather optimize their smartphone themselves or get a BB.

ETA: I don't understand what you were disagreeing with?

BB can run apps in the background, Iphone can't.
BB calendar allows for conference calling without you having to remember the phone number and the conference password. Just type it into your calendar and when your meeting notice pops up, press run and it will take care of the rest.

I didn't disagree with your premise, I disagreed with your statement that a Smartphone can do "everything" a BB can't. They can't. Yet I still qualified because since the Android is more like Linux (where it is user driven) no two Androids are alike.

Since I haven't played with all, I can say just because my wife's phone can't doesn't mean another Android can't.

That is all. At the end of the day it really is about your primary use. As a fun phone the BB trails behind the Droid and Iphone.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by BluPhire

BB can run apps in the background, Iphone can't.
BB calendar allows for conference calling without you having to remember the phone number and the conference password. Just type it into your calendar and when your meeting notice pops up, press run and it will take care of the rest.

I didn't disagree with your premise, I disagreed with your statement that a Smartphone can do "everything" a BB can't. They can't. Yet I still qualified because since the Android is more like Linux (where it is user driven) no two Androids are alike.

Since I haven't played with all, I can say just because my wife's phone can't doesn't mean another Android can't.

That is all. At the end of the day it really is about your primary use. As a fun phone the BB trails behind the Droid and Iphone.

Ah I see, I used "smartphone" in general so I didn't clarify the differences between iPhone and Android phones there. But I'd argue that an Android phone - I can speak for the Droid2 specifically - is capable of both things you mentioned, although I'd have to find an app, or investigate Google Calendar's app, for the conference call thing.